Headlines RSS vs YourPods
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Headlines RSS
Stay updated with your favorite news sources through this reader. It automatically categorizes feeds and offers a clean article view optimized for full content. Easily manage your subscriptions with import/export options.
- Automatic feed categorization
- Optimized article view
- Direct feed fetching
- Color-coded feeds
- OPML import/export
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A morning cup of latest news from your favorite feeds, categorized automatically as Trickle, Stream and Link blogs, so you can easily choose what you want to spend your reading time for. - Nice article view, optimized for feeds with full-size content. - Does not rely on any feed aggregation services, fetches feeds directly from content providers. - Each feed has a color associated with it - makes quick skimming through the lists of articles easier. - Simple to use interface. - Can import and export subscriptions using OPML files. - Plays podcasts and other audio content in the feeds
YourPods
This app offers a private and secure podcast listening experience with native playback across Apple devices. It features advanced audio controls, smart queueing, and robust data privacy, including self-hosting options.
- Trim Silence audio feature
- Smart 'Up Next' queue automation
- Per-podcast customization
- Native Apple Watch support
- Siri and CarPlay integration
- gPodder and self-hosting sync
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YourPods delivers a smooth and secure podcast experience across all your devices—even your vehicle. Native playback on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple CarPlay. No ads. No tracking. Ever. We believe your listening habits belong to you, which is why we give you total control over your data. Listen using a secure, local-only account to keep your library lightning-fast and 100% private right on your device. For self-hosters and privacy purists, YourPods offers seamless, native integration with gPodder-compatible servers (like Nextcloud gPodder Sync, NextPod, and RePod). Sync your entire library across devices on your own terms—without ever relying on Big Tech corporate clouds. Now in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Dutch. PRIVACY YOU CAN SEE P3 — Privacy Preserving Playback strips tracking redirects from episode URLs before your device ever connects. SYNC YOUR WAY Choose how your data travels — or keep it local: - Vault Mode: Everything stays on your device. No account or server required. - Nextcloud / Self-Hosted: Bring your own gPodder-compatible server for full control. - gpodder.net: Free public sync with no server setup required. - YourPods Cloud: a free account syncs subscriptions and listening positions across your devices. YourPods Pro adds the web player, queue sync, stats, and notes sync — optional, never needed to use the app you bought. POWERFUL PLAYBACK - Per-podcast Listening Profiles: playback speed, skip intro, skip outro, auto-download, and AutoPilot queue management - Chapters read straight from the audio file, with chapter artwork — plus auto-extraction from show notes - Transcripts (SRT, VTT, JSON, Markdown, RTF, plain text), with search - Notes: annotate an episode while you listen, then export to Markdown, Obsidian, or Nextcloud - Trim silence, and a sleep timer with DriftOff Mode - Download episodes for offline listening - Smart episode notifications with per-podcast controls - Hide episodes to declutter without marking them played NATIVE APPLE ECOSYSTEM • One purchase: buy it once, use it on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. • Apple Watch Freedom: a full player on your wrist — download episodes for fast, offline, phone-free workouts. • Siri & Shortcuts: a complete actions catalog for hands-free listening and your own automations. • CarPlay: a beautifully integrated CarPlay UI. • Home Screen widget, Dynamic Island, and Lock Screen: feels like an app Apple designed themselves. TECHNICAL YourPods is open source. No advertising identifiers. No third-party analytics. The Privacy Manifest declares exactly what data is collected — and in Vault Mode, the answer is nothing. View the full data transparency screen in Settings. • Private Feeds: securely add password-protected premium RSS feeds (like Patreon). Stored locally with their credentials, never sync'd to any server. • Sync Backend: optimized for the gPodder Sync Nextcloud app (apps.nextcloud.com/apps/gpoddersync). Standard gPodder services may work, but are untested. • Protocol: implements the Open Podcast Sync protocol for subscriptions (SubscriptionDelta) and actions (EpisodeAction). • Architecture: written natively in Swift and SwiftUI. Playback runs on AVQueuePlayer with gapless auto-advance and automatic stream recovery. • Podcast 2.0: many features supported today, and we keep expanding. HUGE thank you to our TestFlight testers!! Get help or request features: https://asc.is/support/ Privacy Policy: https://yourpods.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Headlines RSS at 100% against YourPods's 56%. Headlines RSS also leads on price ($1.99 vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). YourPods's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Headlines RSS costs $1.99 and YourPods $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
YourPods holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Headlines RSS's written reviews are positive against 56% of YourPods's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Headlines RSS ships an update every 2 months, YourPods every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Headlines RSS | YourPods |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 55.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #89 | #9 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | onFoot IT | A Secret Company, LLC |
Customer experience
Headlines RSS
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In-app purchases
Headlines RSS
No in-app purchases
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No in-app purchases









