RSS Wear vs WatchFeed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RSS Wear
Stay updated with your favorite news sources directly on your iPhone and Apple Watch. Easily search for topics, subscribe to feeds, and enjoy a clean reading experience with sharing options.
- Apple Watch support
- Clean reading experience
- Over 100 top RSS feeds
- User-friendly search
- Add new feeds
- Sharing options
- Drag to reorder feeds
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RSS Wear lets you follow all your favourite news feeds on your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Just search for a topic that interests you, subscribe, and start reading – right on your iPhone and on your wrist. It's that simple. Rebuilt from the ground up for iOS 26 and watchOS 26, RSS Wear 2.0 has a fresh Liquid Glass design and a faster, cleaner reading experience. Features: - Apple Watch app – browse your feeds and read article summaries on your wrist, even when your iPhone isn't nearby - Clean reading experience – read articles in full and share them with one tap - Side-by-side Feeds, Articles and Reader on iPad - Search for feeds by keyword, or browse suggested topics like Tech, Design, Food, Travel and Photography - Read articles are marked with a checkmark, so you always know what's new - Articles follow your iPhone's text size setting - Drag to reorder your feeds - Landscape support - Your subscriptions and read history carry over from earlier versions
WatchFeed
This app brings the Feedly RSS reader experience to your Apple Watch. Access your feeds, mark articles as read, and save them to boards directly from your wrist. It also offers customizable complications for quick access to top stories or unread counts.
- Feedly integration
- Access All and Favourites feeds
- Mark as Read functionality
- Save to Board feature
- Top Story complication
- Unread Count complication
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WatchFeed brings the beloved news reader Feedly to the Apple Watch. With many features similar to those that the iPhone app provides like Feeds, the All feed, the Favourites feed, Mark as Read and Save to Board, WatchFeed is the best RSS reader with Feedly integration available for the Apple Watch. WatchFeed also supports all complications. There is a Top Story complication that shows a popular article on the Graphic and Modular Watch faces and an Unread Count complication on all Watch faces.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: RSS Wear at Free against WatchFeed's $0.99. RSS Wear also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). WatchFeed's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 2.8) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ratings volume, ads and device support 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
RSS Wear is free to download; WatchFeed costs $0.99 up front. RSS Wear sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. WatchFeed asks for nothing beyond the download.
WatchFeed holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of RSS Wear's written reviews are positive against 67% of WatchFeed's.
RSS Wear ships an update every 2 months, WatchFeed every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RSS Wear | WatchFeed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 2.8 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.2% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #18 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Espressoft Technologies | Nienhuis Development |
Customer experience
RSS Wear
WatchFeed
In-app purchases
RSS Wear
- Unlimited RSS Feed$0.99
WatchFeed
No in-app purchases
