Unread vs Feed Viewer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Unread
Access diverse news from curated feeds, custom keywords, and your favorite RSS sources. Enjoy a clean, ad-free reading experience with smart summarization and full topic coverage. Personalize your news sections and discover featured publications.
- Curated Google News feeds
- Ad-free smart reading mode
- Full topic story coverage
- Customizable RSS reader
- Keyword-based news sections
- Featured global news sites
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Stay on diversity! Stories are divergently collected from curated feeds by Google News, your customisable keywords and RSS of your favorite sites. All delivered in smart clean UI. KEY FEATURES: + Google News : curated news on an infinity headlines view. You have options to choose categories, editions to read news in your languages. + Smart Reader: stories are presented in smartview reading mode. No ads from source sites, save 3G data and zero time loading. + Story Coverage: need to dive deep in a topic? Reader view also offers real-time and full coverage on stories, all articles on the topic. + RSS Reader: If we miss your favorite sites, then you have a chance to add them by rss links. + Customised Section: search any keywords and create your own section, that's all easy. + Featured Sites: this pre-built collection offers most popular news publications around the world, for quick subscribing your daily papers. Lovely comments from users: Smart News "Finally an app giving and finding me the news I care about. It's filtering well, better than other apps, across media. A helper against information overload." Very Useful "I love this app it's very useful for reading newspapers. The stories are very interesting and I can read whenever and wherever I want. Would definitely recommend it to other users!" + It would love to hear your voices of needs. Please use feedback button in the app for any feature request!
Feed Viewer
This app aggregates news from your chosen RSS feeds and converts them into daily podcasts. It functions as a full-text reader, even when offline, and offers synchronization across multiple Apple devices and Windows.
- Full-text RSS reader
- Offline reading capability
- News podcasts from feeds
- Cross-device synchronization
- RSS feed search
- OPML import
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Feed Viewer is an RSS reader with a news widget for iPhone/iPad/Mac and a personal podcast news app. It is perfect for daily news delivery or as an offline reader for traveling. You’ll have a podcast compiled from your chosen sources, ready for you to listen to every day. Product features: • Full-text RSS reader, even offline • News podcasts from the content of your RSS feeds • iOS ↔ iPadOS ↔ macOS ↔ Windows synchronization • RSS feed search • OPML import Terms of use (EULA): https://www.feedviewer.app/termsofuse
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Verdict
Unread and Feed Viewer both sit at 2.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 87% of Unread's written reviews are positive against 0% of Feed Viewer's. Unread also leads on ratings volume (6 vs 2) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.0). Feed Viewer's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Unread sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Feed Viewer sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Feed Viewer holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 87% of Unread's written reviews are positive against 0% of Feed Viewer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Unread ships an update every 2 months, Feed Viewer every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Unread | Feed Viewer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (6 ratings) | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 86.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Ha Nguyen | Vaclav Dajbych |
Customer experience
Unread
Feed Viewer
Bugs and requests
Unread
Reported bugs
21 issues- Takes ages to load any page
- App wants you to sign in or join something
- Badly designed and very user unfriendly
- App needs major work! Maybe start over?
- Won't work with IOS 8.4 despite description
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- Major memory hog
- Bloats itself up to 70+ Mb without being able to open/save articles
- Ads are too intrusive
- Imposed green bar
- Difficulty navigating b/w options
- Struggles touching other options before succeeding
- At times VOA is not responding
- App keeps stalling a lot
- Notification from the app just launches the app, doesn't deep link
- Widget restored, but app keeps stalling a lot
- Old fashioned media blocks access after just ten articles per month
- Failure to select only a part of the story
- Image of each header should have a better resolution
- Ads :( And no way to remove them
- Broken, simply doesn't load
- Search section doesn't load anything
Requested features
19 requests- Instructions would be helpful
- Ability to sort stories by 'most recent'
- Reduce sizes of top and lower bars for better vision
- Optional setting for iPad to read title plus first few sentences
- Ability to choose and add news blogs by typing site name
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- More subscriptions available
- Deep link to actual story from notification
- Option to select specific topics (politics, sports, economy, etc.)
- Merged Google News app with this app
- Add to home screen for sources and topics
- Better navigation on the highlight section
- More positive news sections
- Fully downloading articles in background while phone is idle
- Manual updating of headlines in each topic in background
- iPad view needed
- Change the icon to be more elegant
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
- Better resolution for header images
Feed Viewer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Unread
- Ads Removal$1.99
Feed Viewer
- Essential3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Basic3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Advanced$19.991 Month
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- Premium$24.991 Month
Questions
Is Unread free?
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