lire Downloads & Revenuelire: RSS Reader · App Store
lire: RSS Reader is #1 in News Paid in Japan and charting in 15 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 12 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperKunal Sood
CategoryNews
Price9.99 USD
Released
Rating★ 4.4 (158)
Version7.1.2
Age rating17+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)10k+ worldwide
🚀Now shown next to RSS News Reader Бесплатная, Fiery Feeds: RSS Reader, ワイヤー: RSS ニュースリーダー +1 more📦Updated to version 7.1.2📈Hit #1📈Entered the top 100✏️New iPad screenshots✏️New screenshots📦Updated to version 7.1.1🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 31 events
- 🚀lire: RSS Reader: now shown next to RSS News Reader Бесплатная, Fiery Feeds: RSS Reader, ワイヤー: RSS ニュースリーダー +1 morethe store's “similar apps” for it changed: who it's seen as competing with
- 📦lire: RSS Reader updated to version 7.1.2Version 7.1.2
FIXED:
- A bug that could cause intermittent crashes while automatic full-text caching was in progress.
- Other minor bug fixes.
Previously in Version 7.1.1
FIXED:
- A bug that prevented videos inside embedded X (formally Twitter) & Instagram content from playing.
- A bug that caused a crash in some cases while syncing with some sync services.
- A bug that caused certain HTML entities to show up in some articles.
- Other minor bug fixes.
Version 7.1.0
NEW:
- Support for iPhone Duo.
- Extra Large Widgets (that occupy an entire page on the home screen) on iPhones running iOS 27 or later.
- Resizing when running iPhone Mirroring on Mac, on devices running OS version 27 or later (available in supported countries and regions).
- Modernised article filter control, that feels more at home with the newest version of iOS and iPadOS.
- Tons of minor UI tweaks.
FIXED:
- A bug that could cause the app to crash during caching.
- Other minor bug fixes.
Version 7.0.2
FIXED:
- A bug that could cause the app to crash during caching.
- Other minor bug fixes.
Version 7.0.1
FIXED:
- A bug that could cause the app to crash during caching.
- A bug that prevented the options menu from being visible when using the app with VoiceOver.
- Other minor bug fixes.
Version 7.0.0
NEW:
- Updated for the iOS/iPadOS 27.
- On iOS/iPadOS 27, Summarization of articles using Apple Intelligence now uses Private Cloud Compute if available.
- On-device/Offline Translation of articles using Apple's translation models, available on iOS 18 and above. To translate an article you're reading, use the 'Aa' button on the top bar in the article reading view, and select 'Translate'. Tap & hold 'Translate' there to change the translation language. You can also change the translation language in Settings > Article > Translation Language.
- Log in to walled sites to get full-text of walled articles. Log in/Manage in Settings > Caching > Manage/Log in. You can also login to walled a site from the article reading view, by using the View Mode button (i.e. the page icon in the top), and selecting 'Log in' (only available in Full Text View).
- Overhauled text-extraction/caching engine. It should now work better on some sites where it previously failed.
- New 'Modern' layout style for each item in article lists. Configure style in Settings > Article > Layout > Style.
- Ability to disable swipe navigation in article reading view. You can set this up in Settings > Article > Navigation, there select 'Buttons only'.
- 9 new modern app icons. Configure in Settings > Appearance > Icon.
If you enjoy using lire, please leave a review, or tell a friend about it. That helps a lot!… more - 📈lire: RSS Reader hit #1Top Paid · News · ID
- 📈lire: RSS Reader entered the top 100Top Grossing · News · ID
- ✏️lire: RSS Reader: new iPad screenshots· 7 countries
- ✏️lire: RSS Reader: new screenshots9 screenshots (was 9) · 7 countries
- 📈lire: RSS Reader new best rank in the overall chart: #73Top Paid · All Apps · TH
- 📈lire: RSS Reader entered the top 100Top Paid · All Apps · TH
- 📈lire: RSS Reader charting in a new countryThailand
- ✏️lire: RSS Reader: new iPad screenshots· 8 countries
- ✏️lire: RSS Reader: new screenshots9 screenshots (was 9) · 8 countries
- 📦lire: RSS Reader updated to version 7.1.1Version 7.1.1
FIXED:
- A bug that prevented videos inside embedded X (formally Twitter) & Instagram content from playing.
- A bug that caused a crash in some cases while syncing with some sync services.
- A bug that caused certain HTML entities to show up in some articles.
- Other minor bug fixes.
Previously in Version 7.1.0
NEW:
- Support for iPhone Duo.
- Extra Large Widgets (that occupy an entire page on the home screen) on iPhones running iOS 27 or later.
- Resizing when running iPhone Mirroring on Mac, on devices running OS version 27 or later (available in supported countries and regions).
- Modernised article filter control, that feels more at home with the newest version of iOS and iPadOS.
- Tons of minor UI tweaks.
FIXED:
- A bug that could cause the app to crash during caching.
- Other minor bug fixes.
Version 7.0.2
FIXED:
- A bug that could cause the app to crash during caching.
- Other minor bug fixes.
Version 7.0.1
FIXED:
- A bug that could cause the app to crash during caching.
- A bug that prevented the options menu from being visible when using the app with VoiceOver.
- Other minor bug fixes.
Version 7.0.0
NEW:
- Updated for the iOS/iPadOS 27.
- On iOS/iPadOS 27, Summarization of articles using Apple Intelligence now uses Private Cloud Compute if available.
- On-device/Offline Translation of articles using Apple's translation models, available on iOS 18 and above. To translate an article you're reading, use the 'Aa' button on the top bar in the article reading view, and select 'Translate'. Tap & hold 'Translate' there to change the translation language. You can also change the translation language in Settings > Article > Translation Language.
- Log in to walled sites to get full-text of walled articles. Log in/Manage in Settings > Caching > Manage/Log in. You can also login to walled a site from the article reading view, by using the View Mode button (i.e. the page icon in the top), and selecting 'Log in' (only available in Full Text View).
- Overhauled text-extraction/caching engine. It should now work better on some sites where it previously failed.
- New 'Modern' layout style for each item in article lists. Configure style in Settings > Article > Layout > Style.
- Ability to disable swipe navigation in article reading view. You can set this up in Settings > Article > Navigation, there select 'Buttons only'.
- 9 new modern app icons. Configure in Settings > Appearance > Icon.
If you enjoy using lire, please leave a review, or tell a friend about it. That helps a lot!… more - 📈lire: RSS Reader charting in a new countryTaiwan
- 📈lire: RSS Reader hit #1Top Paid · News · GB
- 📈lire: RSS Reader hit #1Top Paid · News · US
- 📈lire: RSS Reader new best rank in the overall chart: #116Top Paid · All Apps · FR
- 📈lire: RSS Reader hit #1Top Paid · News · JP
- 📈lire: RSS Reader entered the top 10Top Paid · News · AU
- ✏️lire: RSS Reader: new iPad screenshots· 15 countries
- ✏️lire: RSS Reader: new screenshots9 screenshots (was 9) · 15 countries
- 📦lire: RSS Reader updated to version 7.1.0Version 7.1.0
NEW:
- Support for iPhone Duo.
- Extra Large Widgets (that occupy an entire page on the home screen) on iPhones running iOS 27 or later.
- Resizing when running iPhone Mirroring on Mac, on devices running OS version 27 or later (available in supported countries and regions).
- Modernised article filter control, that feels more at home with the newest version of iOS and iPadOS.
- Tons of minor UI tweaks.
FIXED:
- A bug that could cause the app to crash during caching.
- Other minor bug fixes.
Previously in Version 7.0.0
NEW:
- Updated for the iOS/iPadOS 27.
- On iOS/iPadOS 27, Summarization of articles using Apple Intelligence now uses Private Cloud Compute if available.
- On-device/Offline Translation of articles using Apple's translation models, available on iOS 18 and above. To translate an article you're reading, use the 'Aa' button on the top bar in the article reading view, and select 'Translate'. Tap & hold 'Translate' there to change the translation language. You can also change the translation language in Settings > Article > Translation Language.
- Log in to walled sites to get full-text of walled articles. Log in/Manage in Settings > Caching > Manage/Log in. You can also login to walled a site from the article reading view, by using the View Mode button (i.e. the page icon in the top), and selecting 'Log in' (only available in Full Text View).
- Overhauled text-extraction/caching engine. It should now work better on some sites where it previously failed.
- New 'Modern' layout style for each item in article lists. Configure style in Settings > Article > Layout > Style.
- Ability to disable swipe navigation in article reading view. You can set this up in Settings > Article > Navigation, there select 'Buttons only'.
- 9 new modern app icons. Configure in Settings > Appearance > Icon.
If you enjoy using lire, please leave a review, or tell a friend about it. That helps a lot!… more - 📈lire: RSS Reader hit #1Top Paid · News · FR
- 📈lire: RSS Reader hit #1Top Paid · News · IT
- 📈lire: RSS Reader hit #1Top Paid · News · IN
- 📈lire: RSS Reader hit #1Top Paid · News · DE
- 📈lire: RSS Reader entered the top 10Top Paid · News · IT
- 📈lire: RSS Reader entered the top 10Top Paid · News · JP
- 📈lire: RSS Reader hit #1Top Paid · News · BR
- 🆕lire: RSS Reader first spotted by AppInsider#1 in Top Paid · News · Canada
- 📦lire: RSS Reader version 7.0.1No release notes
- 🆕lire: RSS Reader released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.4 ★
158 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#1
News PaidMeasured
New ratings a week
1
App Store, 4-week average
Measured
lire: RSS Reader at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-10. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
A paid RSS reader that automatically fetches full-text articles from partial feeds, allowing offline reading and syncing with major feed services. The app holds strong positions in the top 10 of paid news charts across diverse markets including Indonesia, Brazil, Australia, and the US, indicating consistent global demand for its specific utility.
Similar apps: Reeder, NetNewsWire, Feedly
lire: RSS Reader on the App Store
App details
App ID
1531976425
Publisher
Kunal Sood
On the store since
Sep 2020
6 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 15.6+
iPhone 6s and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
17+
1 content note below
Languages
8
CS EN FR DE EL IT ZH ES
Size
177 MB
Also listed in
Utilities
Content notesUnrestricted Web Access
App privacy Measured
lire: RSS Reader declares it collects no data at all — the rarest and most private label on the App Store.
Declared label
Data Not Collected
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
lire: RSS Reader downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where lire: RSS Reader's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | NewsPaid | #1 |
 United Kingdom | NewsPaid | #1 |
 France | NewsPaid | #1 |
 United States | NewsPaid | #10 |
 Brazil | NewsPaid | #2 |
 Germany | NewsPaid | #6 |
| Japan | NewsGrossing | #51 |
 Australia | NewsPaid | #8 |
 India | NewsPaid | #9 |
 South Korea | NewsPaid | #16 |
 Indonesia | NewsPaid | #6 |
 Italy | NewsPaid | #13 |
 Russia | NewsPaid | #13 |
| Canada | NewsPaid | #18 |
 United Arab Emirates | NewsPaid | #11 |
 Saudi Arabia | NewsPaid | #18 |
| United Kingdom | All AppsPaid | #196 |
| Indonesia | NewsGrossing | #45 |
Apps near lire: RSS Reader on the chart
News Paid, around #1.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.4 ★
158 ratings
Measured
Ratings
158
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
1
4-week average
Written reviews a week
under 1
US App Store
Lifetime rating
4.3★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
63/100
faster than 71% of News apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about lire: RSS Reader
From the 53 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users praise the app's clean design, one-time pricing model, and effective full-text extraction capabilities. However, recent updates have introduced severe stability issues, including frequent crashes on iOS 26, excessive storage consumption, and broken accessibility features.
Mixed but leaning positive (64% 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
Love RSS feeds? So do we!!
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.
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.
Latest updates
7.1.2
Version 7.1.2
FIXED:
- A bug that could cause intermittent crashes while automatic full-text caching was in progress.
- Other minor bug fixes.
Previously in Version 7.1.1
FIXED:
- A bug that prevented videos inside embedded X (formally Twitter) & Instagram content from playing.
- A bug that caused a crash in some cases while syncing with some sync services.
- A bug that caused certain HTML entities to show up in some articles.
- Other minor bug fixes.
Version 7.1.0
NEW:
- Support for iPhone Duo.
- Extra Large Widgets (that occupy an entire page on the home screen) on iPhones running iOS 27 or later.
- Resizing when running iPhone Mirroring on Mac, on devices running OS version 27 or later (available in supported countries and regions).
- Modernised article filter control, that feels more at home with the newest version of iOS and iPadOS.
- Tons of minor UI tweaks.
FIXED:
- A bug that could cause the app to crash during caching.
- Other minor bug fixes.
Version 7.0.2
FIXED:
- A bug that could cause the app to crash during caching.
- Other minor bug fixes.
Version 7.0.1
FIXED:
- A bug that could cause the app to crash during caching.
- A bug that prevented the options menu from being visible when using the app with VoiceOver.
- Other minor bug fixes.
Version 7.0.0
NEW:
- Updated for the iOS/iPadOS 27.
- On iOS/iPadOS 27, Summarization of articles using Apple Intelligence now uses Private Cloud Compute if available.
- On-device/Offline Translation of articles using Apple's translation models, available on iOS 18 and above. To translate an article you're reading, use the 'Aa' button on the top bar in the article reading view, and select 'Translate'. Tap & hold 'Translate' there to change the translation language. You can also change the translation language in Settings > Article > Translation Language.
- Log in to walled sites to get full-text of walled articles. Log in/Manage in Settings > Caching > Manage/Log in. You can also login to walled a site from the article reading view, by using the View Mode button (i.e. the page icon in the top), and selecting 'Log in' (only available in Full Text View).
- Overhauled text-extraction/caching engine. It should now work better on some sites where it previously failed.
- New 'Modern' layout style for each item in article lists. Configure style in Settings > Article > Layout > Style.
- Ability to disable swipe navigation in article reading view. You can set this up in Settings > Article > Navigation, there select 'Buttons only'.
- 9 new modern app icons. Configure in Settings > Appearance > Icon.
If you enjoy using lire, please leave a review, or tell a friend about it. That helps a lot!
7.1.1
Version 7.1.1
FIXED:
- A bug that prevented videos inside embedded X (formally Twitter) & Instagram content from playing.
- A bug that caused a crash in some cases while syncing with some sync services.
- A bug that caused certain HTML entities to show up in some articles.
- Other minor bug fixes.
Previously in Version 7.1.0
NEW:
- Support for iPhone Duo.
- Extra Large Widgets (that occupy an entire page on the home screen) on iPhones running iOS 27 or later.
- Resizing when running iPhone Mirroring on Mac, on devices running OS version 27 or later (available in supported countries and regions).
- Modernised article filter control, that feels more at home with the newest version of iOS and iPadOS.
- Tons of minor UI tweaks.
FIXED:
- A bug that could cause the app to crash during caching.
- Other minor bug fixes.
Version 7.0.2
FIXED:
- A bug that could cause the app to crash during caching.
- Other minor bug fixes.
Version 7.0.1
FIXED:
- A bug that could cause the app to crash during caching.
- A bug that prevented the options menu from being visible when using the app with VoiceOver.
- Other minor bug fixes.
Version 7.0.0
NEW:
- Updated for the iOS/iPadOS 27.
- On iOS/iPadOS 27, Summarization of articles using Apple Intelligence now uses Private Cloud Compute if available.
- On-device/Offline Translation of articles using Apple's translation models, available on iOS 18 and above. To translate an article you're reading, use the 'Aa' button on the top bar in the article reading view, and select 'Translate'. Tap & hold 'Translate' there to change the translation language. You can also change the translation language in Settings > Article > Translation Language.
- Log in to walled sites to get full-text of walled articles. Log in/Manage in Settings > Caching > Manage/Log in. You can also login to walled a site from the article reading view, by using the View Mode button (i.e. the page icon in the top), and selecting 'Log in' (only available in Full Text View).
- Overhauled text-extraction/caching engine. It should now work better on some sites where it previously failed.
- New 'Modern' layout style for each item in article lists. Configure style in Settings > Article > Layout > Style.
- Ability to disable swipe navigation in article reading view. You can set this up in Settings > Article > Navigation, there select 'Buttons only'.
- 9 new modern app icons. Configure in Settings > Appearance > Icon.
If you enjoy using lire, please leave a review, or tell a friend about it. That helps a lot!
7.1.0
Version 7.1.0
NEW:
- Support for iPhone Duo.
- Extra Large Widgets (that occupy an entire page on the home screen) on iPhones running iOS 27 or later.
- Resizing when running iPhone Mirroring on Mac, on devices running OS version 27 or later (available in supported countries and regions).
- Modernised article filter control, that feels more at home with the newest version of iOS and iPadOS.
- Tons of minor UI tweaks.
FIXED:
- A bug that could cause the app to crash during caching.
- Other minor bug fixes.
Previously in Version 7.0.0
NEW:
- Updated for the iOS/iPadOS 27.
- On iOS/iPadOS 27, Summarization of articles using Apple Intelligence now uses Private Cloud Compute if available.
- On-device/Offline Translation of articles using Apple's translation models, available on iOS 18 and above. To translate an article you're reading, use the 'Aa' button on the top bar in the article reading view, and select 'Translate'. Tap & hold 'Translate' there to change the translation language. You can also change the translation language in Settings > Article > Translation Language.
- Log in to walled sites to get full-text of walled articles. Log in/Manage in Settings > Caching > Manage/Log in. You can also login to walled a site from the article reading view, by using the View Mode button (i.e. the page icon in the top), and selecting 'Log in' (only available in Full Text View).
- Overhauled text-extraction/caching engine. It should now work better on some sites where it previously failed.
- New 'Modern' layout style for each item in article lists. Configure style in Settings > Article > Layout > Style.
- Ability to disable swipe navigation in article reading view. You can set this up in Settings > Article > Navigation, there select 'Buttons only'.
- 9 new modern app icons. Configure in Settings > Appearance > Icon.
If you enjoy using lire, please leave a review, or tell a friend about it. That helps a lot!
Store changes
What lire: RSS Reader changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
New iPad screenshots
New screenshots
9 screenshots (was 9)
New iPad screenshots
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