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Best RSS Reading Apps for iPhone (2026)

9 apps tiered S through F · Ranked by AppTierList, computed, never sold · JSON

Quick answer

Feedly - Smart News Reader is the top-ranked of the 9 tiered RSS reading apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.6/5 from 81,370 ratings.

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Top 5

  1. 1
    ★ 4.6 · 81.4K ratings · Free + IAP
    Best overall
  2. 2
    ★ 4.6 · 18.7K ratings · Free + IAP
  3. 3
    ★ 4.6 · 13.7K ratings · Free + IAP
  4. 4
    ★ 4.8 · 2.5K ratings · Free download
    Best free
  5. 5
    ★ 4.6 · 591 ratings · Free + IAP

Key takeaways

  • Feedly ranks #1 of the 9 tiered RSS reading apps, S tier with a score of 95 out of 100.
  • The highest-ranked free app with no in-app purchases is feeeed (#4).
  • Feedly has the most App Store ratings here: 81,370, averaging 4.6/5.
  • 5 of the 9 tiered apps reach S or A tier.

What belongs in this list

Subscribe to RSS and web feeds and read all my sources in one place.

Not here: A fixed set of built-in news sources alone; A web browser alone; PDF or document reading alone; Bookmarking links alone; A news app with no way to add feeds alone

How we pick

For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Apps whose maker has verified ownership get a small score component, because an active maker is a sign the app is kept up to date. It never decides a tier on its own. Updated daily. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. Read the full method →

Compare every app

Every ranked RSS reading app: tier, score, App Store rating, rating count, price and last update
#AppTierScoreRatingRatingsPriceUpdated
1S95.34.681,370Free + IAP
2S93.24.618,688Free + IAP
3S92.84.613,748Free + IAP
4S92.64.82,484Free download
5A86.74.6591Free + IAP
6C60.05.01Free download
7
ReadKit - Reading HubMost recently updatedprovisional
D59.84.3127Free + IAP
8D58.64.4112$9.99
9F30.73.8146Free download

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Questions people ask

What is the best RSS reading app for iPhone?

Feedly - Smart News Reader, S tier, ranked #1 of 9, rated 4.6 by 81,370 people.

Which RSS reading apps are free?

8 of 9 are free to download: Feedly - Smart News Reader (S), Inoreader: News & RSS reader (S), Newsify: RSS Reader (S), feeeed: rss reader and more (S) and more. 5 of them sell in-app purchases. 3 report no in-app purchases.

Which RSS reading app has the best App Store rating?

feeeed: rss reader and more at 4.8 from 2,484 ratings.

How many RSS reading apps reach S or A tier?

5 of 9.