Comparison

Simple RSS Push+ · Feed Reader vs Views 4

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Simple RSS Push+ · Feed Reader

Stay informed with real-time news and updates from your favorite websites delivered directly to your device via push notifications. Customize your reading experience with widgets, themes, and powerful filtering options. Organize your content with folders and bookmarks.

Highlights
  • Push notifications for new articles
  • Customizable home and lock screen widgets
  • Discover curated feeds across 20 categories
  • Two-column layout for wider screens
  • Multiple beautiful themes and app icons
  • Feed organization with folders and bookmarks
  • Built-in ad-blocking browser
Features
Currently charting
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Simple RSS Push+ Your feeds, delivered. Stop refreshing. Start reading. Simple RSS+ brings your favorite websites directly to you with push notifications. Never miss breaking news, blog posts, or updates again. Why Simple RSS Push+? Widgets Put your headlines on the Home Screen and Lock Screen. Choose Headlines for a list, or Spotlight for one story shown large with its image. Pick which feeds, folders, bookmarks or saved searches each widget draws from, set its background color and text size, and choose how often it rotates through your articles. Tap any headline to open that article. Widgets are a one-time in-app purchase. Push Notifications Get alerted about new articles. Customize alerts per feed - choose which sources notify you and which stay quiet. Tap a notification to open the article it is about. Discover Not sure where to start? Discover is a hand-picked catalog of feeds in twenty categories - News, Technology, Science, Design, Gaming, Retro Computers and more. Tap as many as you like and add them in one go. The catalog is published in 19 languages, and each one is its own set of feeds rather than a translation of the same list, so you can switch to the Japanese, German, Korean or Brazilian catalog and find what people there actually read. Two Columns on a Wide Screen Open an iPhone Duo, or turn an iPhone Air on its side, and the article opens beside its list - tap a headline on the left, read on the right, and tap another to swap it in place. Your feeds, your bookmarks and your saved searches all work this way, and one button sends the article full screen when you want the whole page. Settings and Find Articles use both columns too. Beautiful Themes Three themes to read in: Aqua, Classic, and Terminal in green, amber or chrome. Aqua and Classic follow your system's light and dark setting, or stay on the one you prefer. The app icon changes to match your theme, or keeps the default if you would rather it did not. Stay Organized Group feeds into folders. Save articles to bookmarks. Create bookmark folders for your research, recipes, or reading list - whatever you need. Ignore Filters Tired of a topic? Hide or delete articles by a word in the title or author, feed by feed, with case-sensitive and whole-word matching. A review screen shows you exactly what is being hidden before anything is deleted. Import and Export Take your subscriptions with you as OPML - custom feed names, folders, saved searches and your own ordering all come across. Smart Search Search across all your feeds or just specific ones. Save searches to instantly find new matching articles every time you open them. Share Anywhere Share articles or open them in your preferred browser - all without leaving the app. Built-in Browser Read full articles in-app, with ad blocking that clears banners, pop-ups and the video players that follow you down the page. One tap to open externally when you need it. Read Faster Mark all as read with one tap. Auto-hide read articles. Touch and hold any feed or folder for quick actions. Spend less time managing, more time reading. Languages: English, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese RSS is not dead - it is the best way to take control of your news. No algorithms. No ads. Just the content you chose, delivered when it is published.

About

Views 4

Stay informed with personalized news articles and podcasts. This app offers AI-powered summaries, offline saving, and a natural language search to help you digest information without distractions. Enjoy a clean, ad-free experience.

Highlights
  • Personalized news feed
  • AI-powered article summaries
  • Offline article saving
  • Integrated podcast player
  • Podcast episode downloads
  • Natural language search
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Welcome to Views 4! It's the best news app for iOS and macOS! Skeptical? Read on! The mission of Views 4 is to keep you informed in our fast paced world. In order to accomplish this, we start at the very root: the design! We believe in delivering the best viewing experience which is why we have absolutely no ads! We also pride ourselves on our minimal design, obstructing all distraction. Most importantly, we believe in delivering experience possible so you can digest information with no interruptions at all. Next comes the information. We ask you to tune your interests so that you can see news articles based on your interests. However, Views isn't just another news reading application. In order to help you stay up to date in your busy lives, we utilize artificial intelligence to analyze a news article and present you with an informed summarized version. Of course, not all of us have the time to read at our own pace which is why we give you the option of saving articles offline so you can read them at a later date. Another great way to stay updated is to tune in to your favorite podcasts. WIth Views 4, we introduce an all-new podcast player designed only for you. You can save your favorite podcasts and download individual episodes for offline listening. Whether you're driving or simply prefer an auditory experience over a visual experience, we've made sure to help you. Finally, all this information means we need a great way to organize and search through it. Once again, we've relied on machine learning for this task. Rather than fine-tune every aspect of your search, simply search using natural language. For example: "Search all podcasts for latest news" or "Display the top technology news" gives you just that. Nothing that you wouldn't expect. ------------------------------- There's a lot of noise in today's social medias and it can be hard to determine what's true and what's fake. We decided we had enough of the shouting matches online so we take very great care in sourcing our articles from reliable sources (powered by NewsAPI). In a world where the news we receive can be questionable and sometimes opposing, Views 4 wants to present information with beautiful clarity, both visually and audibly, so what are you waiting for? Download the best news app today!

Screenshots

Simple RSS Push+ · Feed Reader4 screens
Views 44 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Views 4 at Free against Simple RSS Push+ · Feed Reader's $9.99. Views 4 also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (8 vs 1). Simple RSS Push+ · Feed Reader's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.9) and chart position (#36 vs unranked). On review sentiment, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Views 4 is free to download; Simple RSS Push+ · Feed Reader costs $9.99 up front. Simple RSS Push+ · Feed Reader sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Views 4 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Simple RSS Push+ · Feed Reader holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Views 4 has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 36% of Simple RSS Push+ · Feed Reader's written reviews are positive against 43% of Views 4's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Simple RSS Push+ · Feed Reader versus Views 4: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple RSS Push+ · Feed ReaderViews 4
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better3.9 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews36.1% of reviews42.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings18 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#36 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB17 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperAlexandre FabriSai Kambampati

Customer experience

Simple RSS Push+ · Feed Reader

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive36.1%
Neutral2.8%
Negative61.1%

Views 4

All ratings8 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive42.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative57.1%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Simple RSS Push+ · Feed Reader

One-time1
  • Widget Access$2.99
None

Views 4

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simple RSS Push+ · Feed Reader free?
Simple RSS Push+ · Feed Reader costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Views 4 free?
Views 4 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Simple RSS Push+ · Feed Reader or Views 4?
Simple RSS Push+ · Feed Reader is rated higher. Simple RSS Push+ · Feed Reader averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Views 4 averages 3.9 from 8 ratings.
Do Simple RSS Push+ · Feed Reader or Views 4 have ads?
Neither Simple RSS Push+ · Feed Reader nor Views 4 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Simple RSS Push+ · Feed Reader or Views 4?
Simple RSS Push+ · Feed Reader ships an update every 4 days, and Views 4 every 4 days. Most recently, Simple RSS Push+ · Feed Reader was updated on November 6, 2026 and Views 4 on November 3, 2026.

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