# Meco review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Newsletter reader that moves subscriptions out of your inbox Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Meco is a reading app for email newsletters. You can connect a Gmail or Outlook account to pull existing newsletters out of the inbox, or subscribe with a dedicated Meco address. It runs on the web, iOS and Android, with highlights, bookmarks and AI audio roundups of your newsletters. - **Category:** Read Later & Bookmarks - **Made by:** Meco Limited - **Website:** https://meco.app - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want to follow RSS feeds, as the pages read don't describe adding them. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Meco has a free plan, and paid plans start at $39.99 per year ($4.99 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** A dedicated Meco newsletter address, groups, swipe reading, bookmarks, audio news roundups and newsletter discovery. - **Free trial:** 7-day free trial of PRO on the yearly plan; no trial on monthly. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | Meco inbox address, groups, bookmarks, swipe reading and audio roundups of news. | | PRO | $39.99 per year ($4.99 billed monthly) | Links up to three Gmail or Outlook accounts, adds highlights, offline reading, AI summaries and personalized podcasts. | Read from https://docs.meco.app/docs/meco-pro/overview on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Meco before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Yearly PRO is cheaper than monthly** (Annual discount): PRO is listed at $39.99 a year or $4.99 a month, so yearly works out to about $3.33 a month. Source: https://docs.meco.app/docs/meco-pro/overview ## Key features - **Inbox connection:** PRO links up to three Gmail or Outlook accounts and moves chosen newsletters out of the inbox into Meco. - **Meco email address:** A dedicated address for newsletters, available on the free plan, keeps new subscriptions away from your main mailbox. - **Highlights and saved links:** Highlight passages, add tags and notes, and save links and articles to revisit later. Highlights and link saving are PRO. - **AI summaries and podcasts:** PRO adds text summaries and a personalized daily audio roundup built from your newsletters. - **Groups and unsubscribe:** Sort newsletters into topic groups, and unsubscribe from one with a single tap. ## Good for - People whose inbox is crowded with newsletters - Readers who want to highlight and save from newsletters - Anyone who prefers listening to a daily newsletter roundup ## Worth knowing - Connecting Gmail or Outlook, highlights, offline reading and AI summaries need the paid PRO plan. - The vendor says prices may vary by country and platform; $39.99 a year and $4.99 a month are the USD figures it states. - It reads newsletters only; the pages read do not describe adding RSS feeds. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Meco gathers newsletters in their own space on web, iPhone and Android, with groups, swipe reading and bookmarks on the free plan. Connecting your Gmail or Outlook, highlights, offline reading and AI summaries need PRO at $39.99 a year. It reads newsletters only, so it doesn't replace an RSS reader. - **Value for money: C.** PRO is $39.99 a year, about $3.33 a month, or $4.99 billed monthly, in the middle of what reading apps charge. The vendor says prices vary by country. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Free gives you a Meco newsletter address, groups, bookmarks and audio roundups. Connecting an existing Gmail or Outlook inbox is PRO, and there's a 7-day trial on the yearly plan only. - **Features: C.** Inbox connection, groups, highlights, AI summaries and podcasts. The listing shows it reads newsletters only, with no RSS feeds. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You have to point your newsletters at the Meco address or connect an inbox before there's anything to read. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iOS and Android, plus Gmail and Outlook connections. No desktop app is listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Meco'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 - Meco's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 1 of the 52 other read-later and bookmark apps we grade, and level with 5. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 17 of 52) and worst on features (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $3.33 a month when paid by the year, against a middle price of $3.33 for the category: 15 of the 32 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 13 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/reading ## Keep it, or make your own? **Your call.** A read-later list at its plainest is saved links with tags. You could make the core of Meco for yourself: bookmarks and highlights. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. It costs $39.99 a year. - You could make: Bookmarks and highlights: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## What people say - **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.7 out of 5 from 630 ratings in the United States, read Nov 13, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1505542541 ## Works with Gmail, Outlook **Tags:** Bookmarks, Highlights, AI features, Works offline ## Alternatives - [Readwise](https://toolgpa.com/tools/readwise): Highlight library with a daily review and a read-later app. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/meco-vs-readwise) - [Matter](https://toolgpa.com/tools/matter): Read-later app for iPhone, iPad and web with audio playback. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/matter-vs-meco) - [Instapaper](https://toolgpa.com/tools/instapaper): Read-later app that strips articles down to clean text. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/instapaper-vs-meco) - [Feedly](https://toolgpa.com/tools/feedly): News reader for RSS feeds, with AI filtering on paid plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/feedly-vs-meco) - [Inoreader](https://toolgpa.com/tools/inoreader): RSS reader with rules, filters and keyword monitoring. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/inoreader-vs-meco) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://meco.app - https://docs.meco.app/docs/meco-pro/overview - https://docs.meco.app/ - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1505542541 Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/meco Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).