Comparison

RSS Widget vs beanviz

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
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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

beanviz

Features
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BeanViz turns your Beancount ledger into beautiful, instant insights — right on your iPhone or iPad. Built for people who already trust plain-text accounting (Beancount, double-entry bookkeeping), BeanViz adds the one thing that's been missing: a fast, native, gorgeous mobile visualizer. No web server. No syncing your finances to someone else's cloud. Just open the app and see your money. WHAT YOU GET • Dashboard — Net worth at a glance, with month-over-month change, asset/liability breakdown, cash flow trend, and top expenses for the year. • Assets — Sunburst chart showing your full asset allocation, plus a per-account bar chart that drills down to leaf accounts. • Expenses — Pie chart by category, monthly and daily trend bars, transactions grouped by day, and a "By Tag" view for project- or trip-based tracking. • Income — Income vs. expenses, savings rate, and a breakdown of income sources. • Multi-currency — Auto-converts using the price directives already in your ledger. Switch your base currency between USD, CNY, and SEK on the fly. PRIVACY-FIRST BY DESIGN BeanViz truly values your privacy. Your ledger never leaves your device. There is no account to create, no analytics SDK, no remote logging. The only network calls the app makes are the ones you explicitly trigger, to the data sources you choose: • Your own iCloud Drive folder • A private GitHub repository, using a Personal Access Token you control Everything else stays in the app's sandboxed storage. Your originals are never modified. GETTING STARTED New to BeanViz? Tap "Try Demo Ledger" on the welcome screen to load a sample ledger from GitHub. It shows exactly how a valid Beancount folder is structured — main.bean as the entry point, include directives for splitting files, and standard double-entry transactions. When you're ready, re-import your own ledger anytime from the Settings tab. LEDGER REQUIREMENTS • A main.bean file as your entry point. • Standard Beancount syntax is supported, including include directives, price directives, account hierarchies, transactions, and tags. WHO IT'S FOR If you already use Beancount, Ledger CLI, hledger, or any plain-text double-entry accounting tool, you know the trade-off: total control over your data, but no good way to glance at it on the go. BeanViz fixes that. Open it, see your numbers, close it. No friction. Made by a fellow Beancount user. Feedback and feature requests welcome — tap Contact in Settings.

Screenshots

RSS Widget4 screens
beanviz4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: RSS Widget at 3 against beanviz's 1. RSS Widget also leads on price ($0.99 vs $1.99) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 beanviz $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
RSS Widget versus beanviz: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRSS Widgetbeanviz
Price$0.99 — better$1.99
Rating4.6 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB2 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperFrancis Bonnin怀峰 张

In-app purchases

None

RSS Widget

No in-app purchases

None

beanviz

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RSS Widget free?
RSS Widget costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is beanviz free?
beanviz costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do RSS Widget or beanviz have ads?
Neither RSS Widget nor beanviz shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RSS Widget or beanviz?
RSS Widget ships an update every 3 months, and beanviz every 3 months. Most recently, RSS Widget was updated on October 3, 2026 and beanviz on October 1, 2026.

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