# Lire review (2026): is it worth $9.99? > Full-text RSS reader for iPhone, iPad and Mac Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Lire is an RSS reader for Apple devices that downloads the full text of articles so they can be read offline instead of sending you to the website. It works on its own or syncs with iCloud and a long list of feed services. The iOS and Mac versions are sold as separate App Store apps. - **Category:** Read Later & Bookmarks - **Made by:** Kunal Sood - **Website:** https://lireapp.com - **Runs on:** iOS, macOS - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you use Windows or Android, as there's no version for either. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Lire is a paid product, starting at $9.99 one-time per app, in-app purchases listed. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | lire for iOS and iPadOS | $9.99 one-time App Store price; in-app purchase amounts not shown | Universal purchase for iPhone and iPad, with the full-text engine and iCloud or service sync. | | lire for macOS | $9.99 one-time Mac App Store price; in-app purchase amounts not shown | Separate Mac app. A demo build is offered on the vendor's site. | Read from https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lire-rss-reader/id1531976425 on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Lire before buying. ## Key features - **Full-text articles:** Its own engine fetches the whole article for feeds that publish only a snippet, with no third-party parsing service. - **Offline reading:** Full text can be downloaded ahead of time and cached, so cached articles open without a connection. - **Standalone or synced:** Use it without an account, or sync through iCloud on current versions or a supported feed service. - **Many sync services:** Feedly, Feedbin, Feed Wrangler, FeedHQ, The Old Reader, Inoreader, NewsBlur, BazQux, FreshRSS, Miniflux, Nextcloud News and Tiny Tiny RSS. ## Good for - Apple users who want full articles cached for offline reading - People syncing a self-hosted reader such as Miniflux or FreshRSS - Readers who prefer paying once over a subscription ## Worth knowing - The Mac and iOS apps are bought separately, at $9.99 each on the US App Store. - Both listings mention in-app purchases but do not show what they cost. - No Windows, Android or web version is listed. - A demo is offered for the Mac app on the vendor's site; no demo is mentioned for iOS. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. lire is an RSS reader for iPhone, iPad and Mac that fetches the full text of articles from partial feeds and keeps them for offline reading. It costs $9.99 for each app, the iOS and Mac versions are bought separately, and both listings mention in-app purchases without saying what they cost. There's nothing for Windows, Android or the web. - **Value for money: A.** $9.99 one time for each app, under a year of the $3.99 that a middle-priced reading app charges. The in-app purchase amounts aren't shown on either listing. - **Free plan and trial: D.** No free plan. A demo of the Mac app is offered on the vendor's site and none is mentioned for iOS, and the demo limits aren't on record. - **Features: B.** Full-text articles, offline reading, standalone use or sync with Feedly, Feedbin, Inoreader, NewsBlur, FreshRSS and others. Nothing in the listing is missing from a reader's job. - **Ease of use: B.** No rating on record. Install it and read, with sync as an option rather than a requirement. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** iPhone, iPad and Mac only, which is one family of devices. No Windows, Android or web version. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from lire's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among read-later and bookmark apps - Lire's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 21 of the 52 other read-later and bookmark apps we grade, and level with 6. - It stands best on value for money (A, above 34 of 52) and worst on free plan and trial (D, above 2). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/reading ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of Lire you could make: rSS reader. What surrounds it you could not. The 3 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It costs $9.99, paid once. - You could make: RSS reader: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Apps for macOS and iOS that stay in step with each other. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Feedly, Feedbin and Inoreader among them. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Feedly, Feedbin, Inoreader, The Old Reader, NewsBlur, BazQux Reader, FreshRSS, Miniflux **Tags:** RSS reader, Works offline ## Alternatives - [Reeder](https://toolgpa.com/tools/reeder): Feed reader for Apple devices with a synced timeline. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/lire-vs-reeder) - [NetNewsWire](https://toolgpa.com/tools/netnewswire): Free, open-source RSS reader for Mac, iPhone and iPad. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/lire-vs-netnewswire) - [Unread](https://toolgpa.com/tools/unread): RSS reader for Mac, iPhone and iPad with full-text retrieval. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/lire-vs-unread) - [Fiery Feeds](https://toolgpa.com/tools/fiery-feeds): Customizable feed reader and read-later client for Apple devices. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fiery-feeds-vs-lire) - [Newsify](https://toolgpa.com/tools/newsify): RSS reader with a newspaper-style layout for Apple devices and web. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/lire-vs-newsify) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://lireapp.com - https://lireapp.com/faqs.html - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lire-rss-reader/id1531976425 - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lire/id1482527526?mt=12 Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/lire Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).