Unread: An RSS Reader
Unread: An RSS Reader is #81 in News Grossing in India and charting in 1 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 24 Oct 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperGolden Hill Software
CategoryNews
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.6 (76)
Version5.1.1
Age rating17+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
Installs (est.)50k+ worldwide
Rating
4.6 ★
76 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#81
Measured
Unread: An RSS Reader on the App Store
App details
App ID
1363637349
Publisher
John Brayton
On the store since
Feb 2020
6 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 18.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
17+
1 content note below
Languages
1
EN
Size
41 MB
Also listed in
Productivity
Content notesUnrestricted Web Access
Unread: An 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. iPhone 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.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
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 |
|---|---|---|
| NewsGrossing | #81 |
Apps near Unread: An RSS Reader on the chart
News Grossing, around #81.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.6 ★
76 ratings
Measured
Ratings
76
Measured
About Unread: An RSS Reader
Rediscover the joy of reading your favorite writers and publications with Unread. Unread is an RSS reader with beautiful typography, comfortable gesture-based navigation, and a variety of color themes. Unread is available for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Unread won the MacStories Selects 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Capabilities include:
SYNCING: Our free Unread Cloud service keeps your devices in sync. Unread also syncs with Birchfeed, Feedbin, Feedly, Fever, FreshRSS, Gobbler, Inkwell, Inoreader, Miniflux, and NewsBlur.
AUTOMATIC WEBPAGE TEXT: For feeds that contain only article summaries, Unread will display the full article text from the webpage. Easily switch between feed text and webpage text for any article, and change the default for individual feeds.
WEBSITE ACCOUNTS: For news websites that require an account, sign in and get full webpage text.
SUBSCRIBE IN UNREAD: This share sheet extension lets you subscribe to a website’s feeds while visiting that website from Safari or any other web browser.
SAVE TO UNREAD: This share sheet extension creates an article in Unread with the contents of the webpage you are visiting from Safari or any other web browser. (Subscription required.)
COLOR THEMES: Unread provides a variety of color themes. Choose one theme for light mode and another for dark mode.
CACHING: Unread caches webpage text and images for instant loading and offline access. (Subscription required.)
READ-LATER SERVICES: Unread can save articles to Anybox, Flyleaf, GoodLinks, Instapaper, Matter, Pinboard, Plinky, Quick Reads, Raindrop.io, Readwise, Safari Reading List, and wallabag. On a device with a hardware keyboard, assign a custom keyboard shortcut to each. (Subscription required.)
SHORTCUTS: Perform shortcuts on articles and links inside articles. On a device with a hardware keyboard, assign a custom keyboard shortcut to each. (Subscription required.)
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“Just a gorgeous app.”
– John Gruber, Daring Fireball
“Most importantly, I should stress again how refreshing it feels to have such a great native experience with Unread. The app is really fast, even when it’s loaded up with hundreds of feeds.”
— Niléane Dorffer, MacStories
“It’s an RSS reader made with taste. It has great typography, themes, search, and compatibility with the usual suspects. I love having this app on my Mac.”
— David Sparks, MacSparky
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Unread has full VoiceOver coverage. Every screen and every feature is available to users with vision impairments:
• From any screen you can perform a magic tap, a two-finger double tap, to open a menu of options available for that screen.
• When on an article list, there are actions available for each article in the list. After selecting an article, invoke the accessibility rotor and then select “Actions”. There is an action to mark the article read or unread, an action to share the article, and many others.
• Use the VoiceOver escape gesture, a two-finger “Z”, to back out of the current screen.
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UNREAD SUBS
Unread won the MacStories Selects 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Capabilities include:
SYNCING: Our free Unread Cloud service keeps your devices in sync. Unread also syncs with Birchfeed, Feedbin, Feedly, Fever, FreshRSS, Gobbler, Inkwell, Inoreader, Miniflux, and NewsBlur.
AUTOMATIC WEBPAGE TEXT: For feeds that contain only article summaries, Unread will display the full article text from the webpage. Easily switch between feed text and webpage text for any article, and change the default for individual feeds.
WEBSITE ACCOUNTS: For news websites that require an account, sign in and get full webpage text.
SUBSCRIBE IN UNREAD: This share sheet extension lets you subscribe to a website’s feeds while visiting that website from Safari or any other web browser.
SAVE TO UNREAD: This share sheet extension creates an article in Unread with the contents of the webpage you are visiting from Safari or any other web browser. (Subscription required.)
COLOR THEMES: Unread provides a variety of color themes. Choose one theme for light mode and another for dark mode.
CACHING: Unread caches webpage text and images for instant loading and offline access. (Subscription required.)
READ-LATER SERVICES: Unread can save articles to Anybox, Flyleaf, GoodLinks, Instapaper, Matter, Pinboard, Plinky, Quick Reads, Raindrop.io, Readwise, Safari Reading List, and wallabag. On a device with a hardware keyboard, assign a custom keyboard shortcut to each. (Subscription required.)
SHORTCUTS: Perform shortcuts on articles and links inside articles. On a device with a hardware keyboard, assign a custom keyboard shortcut to each. (Subscription required.)
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“Just a gorgeous app.”
– John Gruber, Daring Fireball
“Most importantly, I should stress again how refreshing it feels to have such a great native experience with Unread. The app is really fast, even when it’s loaded up with hundreds of feeds.”
— Niléane Dorffer, MacStories
“It’s an RSS reader made with taste. It has great typography, themes, search, and compatibility with the usual suspects. I love having this app on my Mac.”
— David Sparks, MacSparky
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Unread has full VoiceOver coverage. Every screen and every feature is available to users with vision impairments:
• From any screen you can perform a magic tap, a two-finger double tap, to open a menu of options available for that screen.
• When on an article list, there are actions available for each article in the list. After selecting an article, invoke the accessibility rotor and then select “Actions”. There is an action to mark the article read or unread, an action to share the article, and many others.
• Use the VoiceOver escape gesture, a two-finger “Z”, to back out of the current screen.
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UNREAD SUBS
Latest updates
5.1.1
This update adds support for iPhone Duo.
Other recent additions include:
• Syncing with Birchfeed, FreshRSS, and Miniflux
• Improvements around hero images, article list thumbnails, and widget thumbnails
• The ability to quickly mark old articles read
• A Quick Reads article action
5.1
Unread 5.1 adds these improvements and more:
• Syncing with Birchfeed, a new web-based RSS reader and syncing service.
• A Quick Reads article Action
SYNCING WITH BIRCHFEED
This update adds the ability to sync with Birchfeed accounts. Birchfeed is a great new web-based RSS reader and syncing service by Matt Birchler.
Unread syncs with Birchfeed using its implementation of the Google Reader API. It was already possible to sync with Birchfeed using its implementation of the Fever API, but using a Birchfeed account adds these capabilities:
• The ability to subscribe to feeds, organize feed subscriptions, and unsubscribe from feeds from within Unread.
• The ability to subscribe to feeds using the Subscribe in Unread share sheet extension.
• The ability to mark read on scroll.
• The ability to mark all articles above or below a specific article in an article list as read.
QUICK READS ARTICLE ACTION
This update adds an article action for Quick Reads. Quick Reads is a read later service, also by Matt Birchler, with great capabilities such as text to speech and highlighting. Unread’s article action makes it easy to save an article or a link inside an article to Quick Reads.
Like Unread’s other premium article actions, the Quick Reads article action requires a subscription to Unread Premium.
ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS
• Unread’s Instapaper article action now uses version 2 of the Instapaper API.
• This update fixes a bug that prevented article list images from loading for some articles in FreshRSS accounts and Inoreader accounts.
• This update removes the “us.inoreader.com” and “jp.inoreader.com” options for the Inoreader Host (under Advanced Settings). Inoreader deprecated those hosts, and is going to redirect them to “www.inoreader.com”.
• Unread’s privacy policy has been updated with a link to the privacy policies of Birchfeed and Quick Reads.
5.0.1
Unread recently added:
• Huge improvements around hero images, article list thumbnails, and widget thumbnails
• Syncing with FreshRSS and Miniflux
• The ability to quickly mark old articles read
This update adds these improvements:
• This update fixes a layout bug that would occur on some newer devices.
• This update adds modest improvements to article list thumbnails. Specifically, with this update Unread will avoid zooming in on a face or another subject so far that the resulting thumbnail ends up being grainy. When zooming in on a face or another subject, Unread will include a little more of the area around that subject in the thumbnail.
• When Unread is unable to import feeds from an OPML file because of a problem with that file, Unread now shows a more descriptive error message.
• This update fixes a bug that prevented images from appearing properly in widgets on macOS when the “Dim widgets on desktop” setting was enabled.
• This update prevents Unread from offering to add a FreshRSS account from a Fever account under some specific circumstances where Unread can detect that the Fever account is not syncing with a FreshRSS server.
If you enjoy using Unread, please consider subscribing to Unread Premium.
Store changes
What Unread: An RSS Reader changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Description updated 
New screenshots 
8 screenshots (was 10)
New iPad screenshots 