Inoreader vs Kill the Newsletter (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, we pick Inoreader: it is third in our ranking of read-later and bookmark apps, and they share a 3.0 GPA.
Checked Oct 9, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 · graded Oct 10, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
Inoreader grades higher on features, ease of use and platforms. Kill the Newsletter grades higher on value for money and the free plan.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Inoreader
RSS reader with rules, filters and keyword monitoring
Kill the Newsletter
Turns email newsletters into Atom feeds for your feed reader
Which one is for you
Pick Inoreader if
- Fits if you follow a lot of RSS and want rules and filters to thin the stream
- Works for people who watch a brand, topic or keyword across news and social feeds
Look elsewhere if
- Pricey if you only want newsletters in your reader, since that takes Pro at $7.50 a month
- Tight if you're staying free: 150 feeds, no rules, filters or offline reading, and translation stops at 10 articles a day
- Tight if you lean on web feeds or newsletters, as Pro caps both at 20 and monitoring feeds at 30
- Skip it if you want a desktop app, because it's browser, iPhone and Android only
- Watch out: the site says the trial is 15 days in one place and 14 in another, and team plans start at $44.99 a month
Pick Kill the Newsletter if
- Fits if you already use a feed reader and want newsletters out of your inbox
- Works for someone who wants no tracking on the newsletters they follow
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you do not have a feed reader
- Not for you if you need old issues: entries older than one month are deleted, sooner if a feed is large
- Watch out: a few newsletters cannot be subscribed to this way, and some publishers block its addresses
- Watch out: the feed address identifies your subscription, so the site says not to share it
How we grade them
| 3.0GPAInoreaderVery good | 3.0GPAKill the NewsletterVery good | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | DPro is $7.50 a month billed annually, $9.99 monthly, which is past the $6.99 dear quarter here and more than double the $3.33 middle. And Pro is where the point of Inoreader lives: rules, filters, newsletters, monitoring feeds, offline reading and the API. Team plans start at $44.99 a month. | AFree to use, with no paid plan; the site links to donations. Against the reading category's $4 a month middle, nothing is charged. |
| Free plan and trial | BA free plan one person could really live on: 150 RSS feeds, folders, tags, search in your feeds, a read-later list and no ads. The caps show in the extras, with translation stopping at 10 articles a day and text to speech at 5, and no rules or filters. | ACreating as many feeds as you want costs nothing. |
| Features | AIt covers the whole job and does what its rivals don't: RSS, newsletters, podcasts, YouTube and public Facebook, Telegram and Bluesky feeds in one place, rules acting on articles as they land, filters killing duplicates, monitoring feeds tracking keywords in 30 languages, and AI summaries. | CIt does one job fully: an email address plus a feed, with confirmation emails arriving as entries and no tracking. It is a smaller job than a reader, and it can't reply to a publisher's confirmation request. |
| Ease of use | A4.7 from about 4,400 App Store ratings, which is our top band. Reading feeds takes no setting up, and the rules, filters and monitoring feeds stay out of the way until you want them. | BNo store rating on record. You fill in a form on the home page and paste the feed address into a reader, with nothing to install. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb, iPhone, Android and a browser extension, wired into Zapier, IFTTT, n8n, Evernote, OneNote, Instapaper, Readwise and Slack, with API access on Pro. There's no desktop app, so on a computer it's the browser. | CWeb only, with no apps, and it relies on you having a feed reader. No integrations are listed. |
| Best for | heavy RSS users who want rules and filters | newsletters in a feed reader instead of your inbox |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Inoreader and Kill the Newsletter. How we grade
Price against what you get
Inoreader starts at $7.50 a month and scores 3.7 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Kill the Newsletter has no paid plan and scores 2.3.
Inoreader scores higher, and starts $7.50 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other read-later and bookmark apps on the chart, 1 scores higher than Inoreader for less, and none scores higher than Kill the Newsletter for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Kill the Newsletter is open source, according to its own site.
- Inoreader also covers read later and highlights.
At a glance
| Inoreader | Kill the Newsletter | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free |
| Starts at | $7.50 per month, billed annually (Pro) | Free |
| Free plan | Free forever plan: 150 RSS feeds, folders, tags, search in feeds and a read-later list, with translation capped at 10 articles a day and text to speech at 5. | Everything: creating a feed costs nothing. The site links Patreon, PayPal and GitHub Sponsors for donations. |
| Free trial | Free trial on creating an account, no credit card required: 15 days according to the site header, 14 days according to the homepage | None listed |
| Web | ||
| iOS | ||
| Android | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Made by | Innologica Ltd | Leandro Facchinetti |
| Price read from | inoreader.com | kill-the-newsletter.com |
| Checked | Oct 9, 2026 | Nov 13, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Inoreader
- The free plan stops at 150 RSS feeds and leaves out rules, filters, newsletters and offline reading.
- Pro caps several features, such as 20 web feeds, 20 newsletter feeds and 30 monitoring feeds.
- Intelligence reports and email digests are not part of Pro; they are listed with the team plans.
- There is no desktop app: Inoreader runs in a browser, in iOS and Android apps, and has a browser extension.
Kill the Newsletter
- Entries older than one month are deleted, and older entries may be removed sooner to keep a feed under a size limit.
- It cannot reply to a publisher's confirmation request, so a few newsletters cannot be subscribed to this way.
- Some publishers block its addresses.
- The feed address identifies your subscription, so the site says not to share it.
Key features
Inoreader
- Feeds beyond RSS
- Alongside RSS feeds, Pro can follow email newsletters, websites without RSS, YouTube subscriptions, and public Facebook, Telegram and Bluesky feeds.
- Monitoring feeds
- Track people, brands, companies and keywords across publicly available sources in 30 languages. Pro includes 30 monitoring feeds.
- Rules and filters
- Rules act on incoming articles, for example by assigning tags or sending push notifications. Filters hide unwanted or duplicate items. Both need Pro.
- Inoreader Intelligence
- Generative AI summarizes articles, answers questions and runs custom prompts, with a choice of OpenAI, Mistral AI or Anthropic models. Starts on Pro.
- Read later and annotations
- Save articles and web pages to a read-later list on any plan. Pro adds highlighting and notes, which can be exported to Readwise.
- Team channels and dashboards
- Team plans share folders, tags, filters and dashboards, and team channels can post to Slack and Microsoft Teams.
Kill the Newsletter
- Email address plus feed
- Each feed comes with its own email address; mail sent there becomes an entry in the Atom feed.
- Confirmation emails arrive as entries
- Subscription confirmation messages are converted too, so you follow the confirmation link from your reader.
- No tracking
- The site says it does not track users.
- Feed settings in each entry
- Every entry ends with a link to manage the feed, including deleting it.
Plans
Inoreader
Free$0
150 RSS feeds, folders and tags, search in your feeds, a read-later list and Google News alerts, without ads.
Pro$7.50
per month, billed annually ($89.99), or $9.99 billed monthly
2,500 RSS feeds, 20 web feeds, 20 newsletter feeds, 30 monitoring feeds, rules and filters, AI article summaries, offline reading and API access.
Team$44.99
per month for 3 members; billing basis not shown
Pro for every member plus team folders, channels, tags and dashboards with shared limits. Tiers run up to 50 members at $374.99 a month.
Team Intelligence$64.99
per month for 3 members; billing basis not shown
The Team plan with AI summaries, prompts and multi-article reports for all members. The 50-member tier is $629.99 a month.
CustomCustom
A quoted plan built from add-ons such as extra web feeds, monitoring feeds and boosted feeds, or a different team size.
Kill the Newsletter
Free$0
Create as many feed addresses as you need with the form on the home page.
Ways to pay less
Inoreader
- Annual discount
About 25% off Pro with annual billing
Pro is $7.50 a month billed annually ($89.99 a year) against $9.99 billed monthly, which works out to a saving of about 25%.
Kill the Newsletter
No public discounts listed.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Inoreader or Kill the Newsletter?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Kill the Newsletter is cheaper to start with: it is free, against $7.50 a month for Inoreader. Inoreader starts at $7.50 per month, billed annually (Pro), and Kill the Newsletter is free.
Which has a free plan, Inoreader or Kill the Newsletter?
As of Nov 13, 2026, both Inoreader and Kill the Newsletter have a free plan.
Which platforms do Inoreader and Kill the Newsletter run on?
As of Nov 13, 2026, only Inoreader lists iOS and Android apps and a browser extension. Both list a web app. A platform missing from a listing is one its maker's pages did not mention.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.