Disclosure: Hushread is our app. We’ve tried to be fair, and we say where the others are the better choice.
Inoreader is the more powerful reader, and its free plan is far more generous: 150 ad-free feeds against Hushread’s 5 sources. Hushread is the better fit if you mostly read news and want each event shown once, as one story built from all your outlets, with push notifications, social sources and rules included, for $14.99 a year instead of $89.99. Below: a feature table, where each app wins, how to move your feeds in about five minutes, and a verdict by type of reader.
Hushread vs Inoreader at a glance
Inoreader figures come from its official pricing page. Prices are as of September 2026; Hushread’s regional pricing may differ.
| Feature | Hushread | Inoreader |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Up to 5 sources | 150 feeds, ad-free |
| Paid plan | Pro: unlimited sources, $14.99/year | Pro: 2,500 feeds, $89.99/year or $9.99/month |
| Same event from different outlets | Grouped into one story with a day-by-day timeline | Separate articles (no story-grouping feature found) |
| Duplicates, copies, rewrites | Collapsed on every plan | Duplicate filters by URL or title, Pro only |
| Push notifications | On Free; Pro covers every feed | Pro only |
| Rules | Keyword rules on Free, sentiment rules on Pro | 30 rules and 50 filters, Pro only |
| Facebook, Reddit, YouTube | Facebook pages, subreddits, YouTube channels on every plan | Facebook (30, Pro), YouTube sync (Pro), Reddit via Reddit’s own RSS |
| Search | Everything you’ve seen, every plan | Your own feeds on Free, global search on Pro |
| AI | Two-sentence quick take inside articles you open, every plan | Inoreader Intelligence on Pro; reports and digests are paid add-ons |
| Listen to articles | Natural-voice narration, every plan | 5 text-to-speech a day on Free, unlimited on Pro |
| Newsletters, page monitoring, podcasts | Not offered (sites without a feed are supported) | Pro: 20 newsletter feeds, 20 web feeds, 30 monitoring feeds; also follows podcasts |
| Integrations and API | None | IFTTT, Zapier, n8n, API, Readwise and Raindrop export |
Where Inoreader wins
On raw capability, Inoreader is ahead. Here is where it is plainly the stronger choice.
A much bigger free plan. Inoreader Free gives you 150 feeds with no ads (Inoreader dropped ads from the free plan in October 2024, so older reviews that mention them are out of date). You also get search inside your own feeds, Google News alerts, 10 translations a day and 5 text-to-speech listens a day. If you follow 30 blogs and don’t care about notifications, Inoreader Free costs nothing and Hushread Free simply won’t hold them. Hushread Free stops at five sources.
Power tools on Pro. Inoreader Pro includes 30 rules, 50 filters (duplicate filters and content filters share one pool since April 2026), 30 monitoring feeds, 20 web feeds that track pages for changes, 20 newsletter feeds, offline reading and global search. Pro feeds refresh at least hourly, and up to 100 “boosted” feeds refresh every 10 minutes, per Inoreader. Users who pay for it tend to pay for exactly this: “the filters alone are worth it,” one wrote in July 2026. Another said it “Handles hundreds of feeds without breaking. The monitoring of non RSS pages is what keeps me there” (Reddit, May 2026).
More kinds of sources. Inoreader follows podcasts, and on Pro newsletters, Bluesky, Telegram and VK as well as Facebook and YouTube sync. Hushread has no newsletter inbox and no podcasts, and Bluesky, Telegram and VK are not on its source list.
Integrations and deeper AI. Inoreader connects to IFTTT, Zapier and n8n, has an API, and exports to Readwise and Raindrop. Its AI layer, Inoreader Intelligence, launched in March 2025 with article summaries and has since added podcast and video transcripts, suggested tags and a Mentions feature (September 2026). Since Q2 2026 you can choose OpenAI, Anthropic or Mistral models. Hushread has no integrations, no public API and no browser extension.
Scale and maturity. Pro holds 2,500 feeds. Inoreader’s iOS app is rated 4.68 from 4,423 ratings, and there are teams plans (from $44.99 a month for 3 members). Hushread is newer, smaller and built by one developer, with no team features.
One Reddit user summed it up: “For pure feature count, Inoreader Pro is hard to beat” (source). We agree.
Where Hushread wins
Hushread does fewer things, aimed at one job: reading the news from sources you chose without seeing the same event a dozen times.
One story per event, across different outlets. Inoreader’s duplicate filters match by URL, exact title or near-identical title, looking back anywhere from 6 hours to a month. That catches copies. It won’t connect a wire report and a local paper’s own write-up of the same event, because their headlines differ, and we found no story-clustering feature in Inoreader. Hushread groups coverage from different outlets into one story as articles arrive. Tap “See whole story” and you get a day-by-day timeline of every outlet’s coverage with a summary of how it developed, and long-running stories chain into chapters. Hushread isn’t the only reader that groups stories (NewsBlur clusters popular feeds, with full control on its $99 a year Premium Archive plan), but Hushread does it for all your own sources on every plan, including Free. Separately, cross-feed duplicates, syndicated copies and rewrites collapse under the freshest version. You can see live grouped stories here, and our guide to RSS readers that remove duplicates explains the difference between copy-level filtering and grouping. The honest caveat: grouping is automatic and occasionally imperfect, so two pieces about one event can sometimes land in separate stories.
Trending by how many publishers cover a story. Because coverage is grouped, Hushread counts how many distinct publishers are covering each story, hour by hour, and flags the ones that are surging. There is a Local tab for your country and a tab for each section. Inoreader’s alerts and monitoring feeds watch for what you set up; Trending needs no setup.
The useful extras are on the free plan. Push notifications, Facebook pages, keyword rules (mute, mark read or notify) and repeat collapsing are all on Hushread Free, and Inoreader Free has none of those; they start at Pro. (Inoreader Free can still read subreddits through Reddit’s own RSS; its YouTube subscription sync is Pro.) The trade is real, though: 5 sources on Hushread Free against 150 feeds on Inoreader Free.
AI and listening included. Hushread shows a two-sentence quick take at the top of any article you open, and the feed itself keeps the original headlines. Natural-voice narration works on any article and keeps playing in the background, and the News section has a one-minute audio briefing. On Inoreader, AI is a Pro feature, intelligence reports and email digests are paid add-ons even on Pro, and Free is capped at 5 text-to-speech listens a day.
Price. Hushread Pro is $14.99 a year with unlimited sources. Inoreader Pro is $89.99 a year, or $9.99 a month (about $120 over a year). The Pro list price has held since at least mid-2023, though a February 2024 forum thread reported the cost doubling from $49 to $89 a year, and the Pro feed cap changed from unlimited to 2,500 between November 2024 and January 2025 (compare the Wayback snapshots from before and after). Some users now call it “good but expensive” (Reddit, April 2025) or say “the pricing is getting hard to justify” (Reddit, May 2026).
A plain chronological feed. Everything you follow arrives in order. No algorithm ranks it and nothing is injected into it.
When Inoreader is the better choice
Stay with Inoreader, or pick it, if any of these sound like you:
- You follow more than five feeds and don’t want to pay anything. Inoreader Free’s 150 feeds cover most personal reading lists.
- Your workflow depends on rules, filters, monitoring feeds, web page tracking or offline reading.
- You read newsletters, podcasts, Bluesky or Telegram in your reader and want them all in one place.
- You pipe articles into Zapier, IFTTT, n8n, Readwise or your own code through the API.
- You need a shared reader for a team.
If you are weighing other options too, our Inoreader alternatives guide covers more readers, and Inoreader vs Feedly compares the two big incumbents.
Switching from Inoreader to Hushread in 5 minutes
OPML is the standard file for moving a list of feeds between readers. It carries your subscriptions and usually your folders. Rules, filters, saved articles and newsletter addresses do not travel with it.
- Export from Inoreader. In Inoreader on the web, open your preferences, find the import/export section and export your subscriptions as an OPML file.
- Decide how many feeds to bring. Hushread Free holds 5 sources. If your file has more, either choose your five most important or use Pro for unlimited sources.
- Import into Hushread. Open Hushread on iOS, Android or at app.hushread.com, use OPML import and pick the file.
- Add what OPML can’t carry. Paste links to Facebook pages, subreddits or YouTube channels and Hushread handles the feed. You can also add a topic by name, such as “chip exports”, and matching articles will arrive. There are also 2,500+ curated sources and one-tap bundles if you want to fill gaps.
- Recreate the rules you rely on. Set keyword rules to mute, mark read or notify you.
Since Inoreader Free costs nothing, you can keep it running for a week alongside Hushread and compare them on your own feeds before you decide.
Verdict by reader type
- Casual reader with 20 to 150 feeds and no budget: Inoreader Free. It is ad-free and holds far more than Hushread Free.
- Researcher, analyst or media monitor: Inoreader Pro. Rules, monitoring feeds, web feeds, integrations and the API are what you need, and Hushread doesn’t offer most of them.
- News reader following a few dozen outlets: Hushread Pro. One story per event with a timeline, trending by publisher count, and repeats collapsed, for $14.99 a year.
- Someone with a handful of must-follow sources: Hushread Free. Five sources with push, Facebook, Reddit, YouTube, keyword rules, quick takes and narration at no cost.
- Anyone who wants AI summaries and audio without a $90 subscription: Hushread, where quick takes and narration are included on every plan.
FAQ
Is Inoreader free?
Yes. Inoreader Free allows 150 feeds and has been ad-free since October 2024. It includes search in your own feeds, Google News alerts, 10 translations and 5 text-to-speech listens a day. It does not include rules, filters, push notifications, social feeds, newsletters, web feeds or offline reading.
Is Inoreader Pro worth $89.99 a year?
It is if you use its power tools: rules, filters, monitoring, web feeds, newsletters, integrations or Inoreader Intelligence. If you mainly read news from a set list of outlets, you will pay for a lot you don’t use, and a cheaper reader may fit better.
Does Inoreader remove duplicate articles?
On Pro, yes. Duplicate filters match articles by URL, exact title or near-identical title and can look back from 6 hours to a month. They catch copies of the same article, but they don’t group different outlets’ reporting on the same event into one story.
Can I move my Inoreader feeds to Hushread?
Yes. Export an OPML file from Inoreader and import it into Hushread. Free holds 5 sources, so bring your top five or use Pro for the rest. Rules, filters and saved articles don’t transfer.
The bottom line
Inoreader is the deeper tool and the better free plan for anyone with lots of feeds. Hushread is for reading the news from your own sources as stories rather than a pile of headlines, with push, social sources and AI on demand included at a fraction of Inoreader Pro’s price. Hushread is free with up to 5 sources on iOS, Android and the web. Try Hushread.