Inoreader vs Stella*
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Inoreader
Take control of your news consumption by building a personalized feed. Follow websites, newsletters, and social media, filter out noise, and discover content. Read, listen, and organize articles with advanced automation and customization options.
- Personalized newsfeed creation
- Follow websites, newsletters, and social media
- Content discovery and collection
- Automation tools for filtering
- Read or listen to articles
- Offline reading
- Customizable layouts and themes
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Take back control of your newsfeed and filter out the noise! With Inoreader, information comes straight to you the minute it’s available. Follow your favorite websites, content creators, newsletters, and social media feeds. Discover and collect articles from across the web, share and collaborate with others. No more algorithms and editorial picks – you decide what’s important to you. Read or listen on the go, mark the essential bits and customize your view for the best experience. Use our advanced features to set up powerful automation and let Inoreader do the work! ----- “Inoreader offers a well-designed interface, good search and discovery options, and a nice set of features that are beginner-friendly and offer plenty of options for advanced users.” – WIRED “If you're feeling media burnout from overfed social feeds, Inoreader is a news tool that still sparks joy. It's a research tool, intelligence briefing portal, and social media filtration system.” – CNET “Inoreader is one of the most feature-packed free RSS readers. A great tool for power users, but it's very accessible for beginners as well.” – Zapier ----- DISCOVER AND SHARE GREAT CONTENT • Follow your favorite websites, blogs, and creators • Collect articles from across the web and save them for future reading • Subscribe to newsletters with custom emails and declutter your inbox (Pro) • Explore collections curated by our team to feature the best sources • Follow Facebook pages and Telegram channels (Pro) • Subscribe to YouTube channels and listen to podcasts • Easily distribute content across social media and messaging apps • Stay up to date with breaking news and create monitoring feeds (Pro) BECOME A MINDFUL READER • Use automation tools to create rules and filter content (Pro) • Enhance your reading experience with custom layouts and themes • Curate your own content with folders and tags • Annotate the essential bits and keep them forever • Highlight keywords to speed up your reading • Translate articles in your language without additional extensions • Load and keep the full content of articles without leaving the app • Listen to the news on the go with our text-to-speech feature • Download articles for offline reading (Pro) • Save to Evernote, OneNote, Google Drive, and Dropbox ----- Features marked (Pro) need an Inoreader Pro subscription. Inoreader Pro is available with a monthly or annual subscription. You can subscribe and pay through your Apple account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Auto-renew may be turned off after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.inoreader.com/privacy_policy For questions, issues, or general feedback, you can reach us at support@inoreader.com.
Stella*
This app is a user-oriented information gathering tool that optimizes web content for easy reading on any device. It offers customizable appearance, intuitive navigation, and offline reading capabilities, allowing users to control their information sources without relying on external services.
- Optimized web content rendering
- Customizable font sizes and themes
- Intuitive and animated UI
- Offline article storage
- Extensible information sources
- One-handed operation support
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Stella News Reader is a new generation information-gathering tool that is designed to be completely "User-Oriented". Often the information you get from the web can get easily lost in annoying noise, with the character size lacking consistency from site to site and it being difficult to identify important sections, so finding what is truly necessary can be a struggle. This app is equipped with a powerful embedded optimize engine, and publicly published html contents are automatically converted to the display most appropriate for each device, to make, as it were, one unified application UI. Freed from the need to load unnecessary elements, the app operates at high speeds and as the user can freely change the outer appearance and choose the format that the user feels easiest for them to read, the focus can be purely on the content. Users completely take the initiative in relation to the information with unlimited sources of information and the user can expand the source by adding feeds in the same way as with normal readers. Moreover, the UI has been designed carefully in order to enable optimization of screen sizes and rotations for each device, and through extensive use of animation, operation is highly intuitive. Stella is a completely stand alone reader, and can be used without reliance on external services or accounts. You can use the app without divulging your personal information, receiving junk mails or being faced with the possibility of the providers stopping the service. Key Features: - iPhone 6/6 Plus & iOS 8 are fully supported. - All webpages are concurrently parsed by the app's machine learning engine and, rendered as in human-readable appearance form. - Font sizes and themes are customizable for easy reading. You can also select the same appearance as Safari. - Intuitive & animated UI. You can always keep one-handed operation even on landscape mode of iPhone 6 Plus. - No setup is required. In its initial state, the app shows news that is buzzed on major social media. - Sources are extensible as in the manner you like. The app can also be used as an ordinary RSS reader. - Article storing functionality gives you the ability for offline reading. If original pages are deleted from the net, you can keep them forever. - Folders to classify for later reading. Future Updates: We'll work on diversification of available sources and improvements of the app's in-depth customizability, etc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Inoreader at 4.7 against Stella*'s 3.5. Inoreader also leads on ratings volume (4.4K vs 18) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). Stella*'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4). On price, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Inoreader sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Stella* asks for nothing beyond the download.
Inoreader holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Inoreader has 4.4K ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 64% and 64% positive.
Inoreader ships an update fortnightly, Stella* every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Inoreader | Stella* |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (4.4K ratings) — better | 3.5 (18 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 64.1% of reviews | 64.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4.4K — better | 18 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Innologica | OwletLabs LLC |
Customer experience
Inoreader
Stella*
Bugs and requests
Inoreader
Reported bugs
5 issues- Inability to mark articles as unread after 'mark all as read'
- Inconsistent behavior when opening articles from notifications
- Rendering issues with embedded content (e.g., YouTube videos)
- Sync issues between mobile app and web version
- Frequent crashes and freezes on certain devices
Requested features
6 requests- Dark mode option
- Improved article sharing capabilities
- Customizable font and layout options
- Seamless integration with other apps
- Enhanced search and filtering tools
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- Automatic article download for offline reading
Stella*
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Inoreader
- Pro plan (monthly)$8.991 Month
- Pro plan (monthly)$9.991 Month
- Pro plan (monthly)3 Months trial$9.991 Month
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- Pro plan (annual)$89.991 Year
Stella*
No in-app purchases









