RSS Wear vs Feed Drum
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
Feed Drum
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Feed Drum is a modern take on news and feed readers. With its modern and simplistic design, Feed Drum brings all your news sources to one place. You are in control of your news feed. With Feed Drum, you can select from a catalog of reputed news sources to be shown on your feed, minimizing distractions. Beyond that, Feed Drum offers you the ability to create multiple groups with sources you select so that you can create your own custom feeds on different interests and topics. With its simple and intuitive design, Feed Drum is the better way to get your news and keep up to date on topics you care about.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Feed Drum at none against RSS Wear's 1. Feed Drum also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). RSS Wear's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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
Both are free to download. RSS Wear sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Feed Drum asks for nothing beyond the download.
RSS Wear ships an update every 2 months, Feed Drum weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RSS Wear | Feed Drum |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 46.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Espressoft Technologies | Ravindu Wataketiya |
In-app purchases
RSS Wear
- Unlimited RSS Feed$0.99
Feed Drum
No in-app purchases
