lire: RSS Reader
lire: RSS Reader is #1 in News Paid in Brazil and charting in 15 of 24 countries we track.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 24 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 🇧🇷 Brazil | NewsPaid | #1 |
| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | NewsPaid | #4 |
| 🇺🇸 United States | NewsPaid | #11 |
| 🇩🇪 Germany | NewsPaid | #6 |
| 🇨🇦 Canada | NewsPaid | #5 |
| 🇯🇵 Japan | NewsPaid | #17 |
| 🇯🇵 Japan | NewsGrossing | #50 |
| 🇫🇷 France | NewsPaid | #11 |
| 🇮🇳 India | NewsPaid | #10 |
| 🇰🇷 South Korea | NewsPaid | #18 |
| 🇮🇹 Italy | NewsPaid | #12 |
| 🇦🇺 Australia | NewsPaid | #18 |
| 🇷🇺 Russia | NewsPaid | #14 |
| 🇧🇷 Brazil | NewsGrossing | #43 |
| 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates | NewsPaid | #12 |
| 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia | NewsPaid | #19 |
| 🇮🇩 Indonesia | NewsPaid | #24 |
Estimated downloads and revenue, ratings momentum, rank history, recent reviews per country and breakout scores for lire: RSS Reader.
lire: RSS Reader at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-09-26. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
A paid RSS reader for iOS that automatically fetches full article text from partial feeds and syncs with major services like Feedly and iCloud. The app holds strong positions in the Paid News charts, ranking #1 in Brazil and within the top five in Germany, Great Britain, the US, and Canada.
Similar apps: Reeder, NetNewsWire, Feedly
What users say about lire: RSS Reader
From the 50 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users praise the app's clean design, one-time payment model, and strong support for self-hosted RSS services like Miniflux and FreshRSS. However, recent updates have introduced severe stability issues on iOS 26, including frequent crashes, excessive battery drain, and broken accessibility features.
Mixed but leaning positive (62% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and its design. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and the design. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Features & content: “Need more options for nicer icons”
- Design: “It has a clean, usually intuitive interface”
- Connection & sync: “It syncs well with its MAC counterpart as well”
- Price & subscription: “Lire gets it right and for a reasonable one-time price”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “App is broken for VoiceOver ussers”
- Design: “UI is convoluted and non-intuitive”
- Features & content: “Good features but crashes constantly”
- Connection & sync: “I have >100 feeds and get constant iCloud sync errors”
About lire: RSS Reader
RSS feeds are a great way to follow updates on your favorite website. However, some sites set up their feeds to only show a portion of each entry, you know, to get you to click through to their actual website. We find that really annoying, and we're sure you do too.
Which is why, unlike other RSS feed readers, that either push you into a browser (in-app or otherwise), or depend on third party text parsing services and require you to be online to fetch the full text of one article at a time (which makes it no different from having to click/tap through to a website), in lire, you get your favorite RSS feeds as they should've been. You don't need to click through to any website (though, you do still have the option to, if you really wanted). It takes your favorite partial feeds, does its magic, and converts them in to full feeds, so you don't have to click/tap on those annoying 'Read more' or 'Continue reading' links.
Once they're cached, you don't even need to be connected to read your full-text feeds.
Use as a standalone feed reader, sync with iCloud,
or,
sync with any of the several services: Feedly, Feedbin, FeedHQ, The Old Reader, Inoreader, BazQux Reader, Newsblur, Feed Wrangler, FreshRSS, Miniflux, Nextcloud News, Tiny Tiny RSS.