FLAT RSS Reader vs AllNews
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FLAT RSS Reader
This app offers a streamlined way to follow your favorite news sources. Easily manage your RSS feeds, discover new ones from website URLs, and save interesting articles for later access.
- Manage registered RSS information
- Get RSS from website URLs
- Register favorite news content
- Simple outlook
- Useful functions
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'FLAT RSS Reader' — Only what matters, beautifully. Stay focused on the articles you actually want to read, free from ads and noise. Add your favorite blogs and news sites, and catch up on everything in one place. [Features] · Latest - See the newest articles from all your feeds in one unified list. Never miss a thing. · Feeds - Easily add, remove, and reorder feeds. Browse articles by feed at a glance. · Bookmarks - Save articles to read later. Access them instantly, even offline. [Perfect for you if…] · You want a clean, simple experience without cluttered features. · You'd rather have fewer ads and unnecessary notifications. · You like reading news in a browser with a content blocker (ad blocker) enabled. · You prefer reading in Dark Mode for a gentler experience on your eyes. · You want one place to manage your personal news feed.
AllNews
This app allows users to read news from multiple RSS feeds simultaneously. Instead of scrolling through lists, news headlines scroll automatically, and users can tap on any headline to read the full story in a web browser. It offers customization for scrolling speed, update frequency, and source selection.
- Scroll multiple news feeds simultaneously
- Read news in portrait or landscape mode
- Automatic or manual news updates
- Tap to read full story in browser
- Select from 100+ RSS sources or add your own
- Adjust scrolling speed and update frequency
- Share news via social media and other apps
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- Read scrolling news from multiple sources at a time - Personally, I don't watch TV at all. I don't even own a TV set. It's not that I'm poor. I just feel that watching TV is a waste of time. Yet, I visit one web site to anther to read news. Yes, I'm a news junkie. Wouldn't it be nice if you could read news from multiple sources at a time instead of visiting one web site to another? That's what AllNews is for. AllNews is a mobile app for iPhone and iPad users who would like to read multiple RSS news feeds at a time instead of visiting one news web site after another. With this app, you don't scroll a list of news captions. Even a teenager could make an app like that. Rather, AllNews will scroll each line of news captions for you. So just watch them and tap a news caption that catches your eyes so that you can read the entire story with a web browser. The app comes with a built-in library of 100+ RSS links. So just pick one or more and get lines of news captions rolling. - Features - 1. Let the application roll multiple lines of news captions from right to left. Right, you don’t have to scroll a list of stories. 2. Read news in the portrait or landscape mode. 3. Let the application automatically update news or tap the force-update button to manually update news. 4. Tap an interesting news caption that catches your eyes so that you can read the entire story with a web browser. 5. Select a news source from 100 URLs that comes with the app or create a news source with a URL of your own. 6. Adjust the scrolling speed. 7. Adjust the frequency of updating news between 600 seconds (10 minutes) and 3600 seconds (60 minutes). 8. Change the order by which lines of news captions appear. 9. Add-on: Be notified of new captions that have been added since the last update. 10.Add-on: Share news stories through social media (Facebook, Twitter, Weibo, TencentWeibo) or other apps (Message, Mail, Notes). 11.The app comes with a 14-page user's guide. 12.Languages: English and Japanese only. 13.Application file size: 32.5 MB. - System requirements - 1. iOS 9.0 or above 2. iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPhone 5S, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone SE, iPod Touch, iPad mini, iPad 2, iPad Air, iPad Pro. - Limitations - 1. A WiFi or WWAN connection is required to pull RSS news feeds. 2. The user can tap the menu button to go to other screens only when they hold the device in the portrait mode. 3. This app may be deprived of promised features if the device is jailbroken.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: FLAT RSS Reader at 50% against AllNews's 0%. FLAT RSS Reader also leads on rating (4.4 vs 3.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). AllNews's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence and device support 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
Both are free to download. AllNews sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. FLAT RSS Reader asks for nothing beyond the download.
FLAT RSS Reader holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FLAT RSS Reader has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of FLAT RSS Reader's written reviews are positive against 0% of AllNews's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FLAT RSS Reader | AllNews |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (8 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nobuhide Uzawa | Tomoyuki Okawa |
Customer experience
FLAT RSS Reader
AllNews
In-app purchases
FLAT RSS Reader
No in-app purchases
AllNews
- New story indicator$0.99
- Sharing news$0.99









