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Inkline is an RSS reader for iOS, built for people who track the news for a living: comms professionals, journalists, and analysts who need to follow a lot of sources without the bloat, the paywalls, or an algorithm standing between them and what they choose to read.
Download Inkline on the App Store →
£14.99 a year, 7-day free trial.
Here is what that means in practice, feature by feature, and how it holds up against the readers people default to.
It follows the journalist, not just the publication
Most readers let you subscribe to a publication. Inkline lets you subscribe to a byline. Follow a specific reporter and every piece they write. No major competitor does this. NetNewsWire, Feedly, and Inoreader all stop at the publication level. You can follow the FT. You cannot follow one FT reporter across the FT and their bylines elsewhere. Inkline can.
It catches what has no RSS feed at all
RSS only tells you about sites that publish a feed. A huge amount of coverage, trade press, regional outlets, forums, does not. Inkline’s alerts monitor the wider web for a name, company, or topic and notify you the moment something appears, closer to a Google Alert built into your reading app than a reader waiting on a feed to update.
Feedly and NetNewsWire offer nothing like this. Inoreader has a version of web monitoring, but it sits behind its automation rules as something you configure, not something built into the core reading experience the way it is in Inkline.
Apple Intelligence, kept on your device
Inkline uses Apple Intelligence to build a personalised reading list from what you actually read, draft a daily brief, and summarise an article on request. Because it runs on-device, none of that reading data is shipped off to a third-party model to generate it.
Feedly’s AI layer, Leo, and Inoreader’s newer prompt-based tools both require a paid tier and route your content through their own cloud AI. Inkline includes its Apple Intelligence features without an upsell, and without your reading habits leaving your phone.
A notebook, not just a feed
Swipe on any article in Inkline and a note opens against it, searchable and exportable later. Capturing a line or a thought while it is fresh is part of the actual job for anyone writing a report or a story off the back of what they read.
None of the major readers, NetNewsWire, Feedly, Inoreader, or Reeder, build this in. You would need a separate app for it.
Shares where the conversation already happens
Sending an article from Inkline drops it cleanly into WhatsApp, Slack, or Teams, the tools where the actual discussion about a story takes place, rather than a generic system share sheet.
Built for actually reading, not just scrolling
A choice of typefaces including Newsreader, Inter, and OpenDyslexic. Five-step text sizing with independent line spacing. Four colour modes, Light, Sepia, Dark, and High Contrast. Accessibility sits on the same footing as every other feature, not bolted on afterward.
No caps, no upsell games
Feedly caps free accounts at 100 sources and puts its AI behind a $12.99-a-month tier. Inoreader caps free accounts at 150 sources. Inkline is £14.99 a year, one price, unlimited feeds, every feature included from day one.
Get it
Inkline costs £14.99 a year, with a 7-day free trial. Read the fuller story of why it exists, and how it got through App Store review, in the original launch piece.