Comparison

RSS Widget vs perma widget

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

Head to head
About

RSS Widget

Customize your device's Home screen and Today view with custom widgets. Display RSS feeds in a visually appealing and configurable manner, with options for refresh frequency, content layout, and article filtering. Easily access your information and actions from anywhere.

Highlights
  • Customizable Home Screen widgets
  • Today View widgets
  • RSS feed display
  • Configurable refresh frequency
  • Multiple content display options
  • Article filtering
  • Dark mode support
Features
Currently charting
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Thanks to this application (and the other Widget apps from PacoLabs), you can now customize the Home screen and the Today view of your device, by adding custom widgets for some specific purposes. From anywhere in your device, you'll have access to your own information and actions. Each RSS widget allows you to view any RSS feed in a pleasant and highly customizable way. The refresh frequency can be chosen (from every 5 minutes to every day). You can choose to display the content as a beautiful image with an overlayed text, or as an article with an icon, and the associated text. Articles without an image can be filtered. You can define the number of articles to display in a single widget (from 1 to 6). If necessary, you can also choose the first article to be displayed. Decide to hide or show the image, title, abstract, content and author. Different visual parameters can be changed (such as font name, font size and the different colors). Those Widgets are compatible with the new iOS 14 Home Screen Widgets. The application is really easy to use and is adapted to the fresh look of your device. Dark mode of iOS13 is supported. In Today view: You can add as many widgets as you want and they will be displayed in up to 3 different lists. Those same lists will be available in the Today view and in the application (although it is possible, if you want, to hide some widgets in the Today view). To avoid overloading the Today view, when too many widgets are displayed, an intuitive control will allow you to navigate from one widget to another. Even if the main purpose of the app is to view the widgets in the Today view, it can also be very handy to view them directly in the application (a long press on a widget in the Today view will open it directly in the main application).

About

perma widget

Features
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Customise your home screen! Create simple templates that contain pictures and text and have them displayed in a Widget on your home screen — permanently. You can either display a single template or all of them in a slideshow. perma widget offers you a simple yet powerful way to customise your home screen with pictures of e.g. your loved ones: - Save multiple widget templates which can have different layouts with one or more pictures and text. - Choose manually which of your templates you want to display permanently in your widget. - Use the slide show feature to let the widget on your home screen go through all your templates. - Define the time after which the next template is supposed to be shown in the slideshow. - Define whether the order of your widget templates in a slideshow is supposed to be randomised. We’re looking forward to hearing from you and to providing even more possibilities to customise your widget in future updates. Give it a try!

Screenshots

RSS Widget4 screens
perma widget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: RSS Widget at every 3 months against perma widget's every 15 months. RSS Widget also leads on chart position (#200 vs unranked) and price ($0.99 vs $1.99). On ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

RSS Widget costs $0.99 and perma widget $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RSS Widget ships an update every 3 months, perma widget every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
RSS Widget versus perma widget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRSS Widgetperma widget
Price$0.99 — better$1.99
Rating4.6 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 15 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#200 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB4 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperFrancis BonninGramse Kordylewski Group

In-app purchases

None

RSS Widget

No in-app purchases

None

perma widget

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RSS Widget free?
RSS Widget costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is perma widget free?
perma widget costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do RSS Widget or perma widget have ads?
Neither RSS Widget nor perma widget shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RSS Widget or perma widget?
RSS Widget ships an update every 3 months, and perma widget every 15 months. Most recently, RSS Widget was updated on September 10, 2026 and perma widget on September 17, 2026.

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