Comparison

RSS Wear vs FeedWatch

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Apple Watch support
  • Clean reading experience
  • Over 100 top RSS feeds
  • User-friendly search
  • Add new feeds
  • Sharing options
  • Drag to reorder feeds
Features
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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

About

FeedWatch

Features
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FeedWatch is your all-in-one app to stay informed: breaking news, live radio and podcasts, all in one place. IN BETA — GROWING FAST FeedWatch is in beta and constantly expanding: we add new countries, sources and podcasts all the time. If your country or source isn't here yet, it's on the way — tell us and we'll add it. Free for now. NOW ON IPAD A newspaper-style front page: lead story, photos and the latest headlines in a column, every section as a page of its own. The full article opens in reader mode, live TV lives in a small window while you keep reading, podcasts get a page of their own. Keyboard shortcuts, dark mode, from iPadOS 16.4. FEEDWATCH ON IPAD On iPad, FeedWatch becomes a newspaper: a front page with the lead story, the latest headlines and a band for every section. Articles open in full in reader mode, live TV (37 official channels) keeps playing in a small window while you read, and Listen puts your podcasts on a shelf. Keyboard shortcuts, and support back to iPadOS 16.4 for older iPads. YOUR FAVORITE TEAM Follow your favorite team — football, basketball, F1, MotoGP, rugby, cricket and more: 543 teams across 37 countries — and its news flows straight into the Sport tab, with its own quick filter. REAL-TIME NEWS 200+ Italian and international sources: politics, business, tech, sport, culture and more. Customisable RSS feeds, instant updates, reader mode, on-device AI summaries. RADIO FROM AROUND THE WORLD Stream live radio from your favourite stations and discover thousands of broadcasts from 28+ countries, powered by RadioBrowser, the world's largest open radio directory. Add in one tap, remove with a swipe. MILLIONS OF PODCASTS Search 30 million podcasts on iTunes — add and listen free. Add any podcast via RSS, import/export OPML. ON-DEVICE AI Automatic summaries generated locally on your iPhone or iPad. No data ever sent to external servers. CUSTOM ALERTS Instant notifications for keywords you care about. APPLE WATCH AND WIDGETS Live headlines on your wrist and Home Screen. Total privacy: no account, no tracking, no data collected.

Screenshots

RSS Wear4 screens
FeedWatch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FeedWatch at none against RSS Wear's 1. FeedWatch also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. RSS Wear sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. FeedWatch asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RSS Wear ships an update every 2 months, FeedWatch every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
RSS Wear versus FeedWatch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRSS WearFeedWatch
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.8 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews46.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS26.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB9 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperEspressoft TechnologiesGiuseppe Arbia

In-app purchases

1 purchases

RSS Wear

One-time1
  • Unlimited RSS Feed$0.99
None

FeedWatch

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RSS Wear free?
RSS Wear is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FeedWatch free?
FeedWatch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do RSS Wear or FeedWatch have ads?
Neither RSS Wear nor FeedWatch shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RSS Wear or FeedWatch?
RSS Wear ships an update every 2 months, and FeedWatch every 4 days. Most recently, RSS Wear was updated on November 1, 2026 and FeedWatch on October 28, 2026.

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