MSN vs Feather
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MSN
Stay informed, productive, and entertained with a personalized feed of news, weather, stock updates, and short videos. Access quality content from trusted publishers and track your favorite stocks with real-time market data.
- Tailored content feed
- Real-time weather forecasts
- Financial news and stock tracking
- Personalized video feed
- Content from trusted publishers
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The MSN app keeps you informed, productive, and entertained with tailored content, real-time weather, stock tracking, short videos and more. Key features Your tailored feed, with you on the go. Quality content from thousands of trusted publishers. Weather report Get hourly and 10-day forecasts, air quality, UV index and more. Financial news hub See the latest on the market, trends and your favorite stocks. Your personalized video feed Scroll short clips of the latest news, trending stories and viral moments.
Feather
Save articles from any source for offline reading in a clean, formatted experience. Enjoy text-to-speech narration, customizable fonts, and iCloud sync across your devices. Organize and share your saved content with ease.
- Offline reading
- Clean reading experience
- Text-to-speech narration
- Customizable font editor
- iCloud Sync
- Quick save option
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Feather allows you to save articles from any source and read them later offline, anywhere in a formatted way. Feather makes reading much easier by removing clutter from webpages and formatting it into a way that is native on iOS across all devices. Main features: - Clean reading experience. - Offline reading. - Quick save option to save articles from other iOS apps. - Text-to-speech. - Dark/light mode. - iCloud Sync Additional features: - Search articles by title or content. - Highlight a specific word. - Font editor, edit your text to your liking by editing font size, style, color, brightness and more. - Driving? No problem. Feather can have articles be narrated to you with it's text-to-speech feature. - Read/unread folder for better organization. - Share articles with your friends. GET IN TOUCH: If you have any questions or feedback, don't hesitate to contact me via email me@donbytyqi.com or on my Twitter account @donbytyqi. Terms and Conditions: https://www.donbytyqi.com/feather/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.donbytyqi.com/feather/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: MSN at 4.6 against Feather's 3.0. MSN also leads on ratings volume (124K vs 6) and monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). Feather's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs every 2 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. MSN sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $20.00 per month and Feather sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
MSN holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MSN has 124K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two.
MSN ships an update every 2 weeks, Feather daily. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MSN | Feather |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (124K ratings) — better | 3.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 38.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 124K — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #91 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 262 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Microsoft Corporation | Don Bytyqi |
Customer experience
MSN
Feather
Bugs and requests
MSN
Reported bugs
5 issues- Inability to comment on articles
- Inconsistent behavior when clicking back button
- News articles not loading properly
- Personalization settings not saving
- Compatibility issues on older devices
Requested features
5 requests- Customizable news feed and interests
- Offline reading mode
- Dark mode option
- Improved article sharing capabilities
- Better integration with other Microsoft services
Feather
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
MSN
- Microsoft Copilot Pro$20.001 Month
Feather
- Feather Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- Feather Lifetime Pro$18.99
