Apple News decides what you see: approved publishers, algorithmic plus editorial curation, and ads even on the paid tier's free sibling. Muuted flips it — you pick the RSS sources, you mute what you're tired of, and no algorithm reorders your feed.
You pick the sources and mute what you're tired of — nothing gets promoted or reordered on top.
Muuted is an RSS reader: any source with a feed, in the order it published. No approved-publisher wall, no For You engine, no ads. Founding Pro is $4/mo or $36/yr against News+ at $12.99/mo. See the full nine-column breakdown on the comparison page.
Apple limits you to approved publishers.
Your sources in published order.
Apple only blocks topics and channels.
Pulled from the same fact table as our full comparison. Muuted's junk filtering is covered in depth on the Junk Filters page.
Stay with Apple News if you want a hands-off, curated magazine experience inside Apple's ecosystem and don't mind the algorithm choosing. Switch if you want your own sources, your own filters, and a feed nobody reorders. See the quick head-to-head at Muuted vs Apple News.
Export OPML from Apple News, import into Muuted.
Muting and junk filters work the moment you land.
100 sources and 10 muted words before paying anything.
Every reader we have compared, one honest page each: Feedly · Inoreader · NewsBlur · Feedbin · Readwise Reader · Google News. Or see the eight best Feedly alternatives ranked and all of them side by side. If the noise is the real problem rather than the reader, start with Junk Filters and keyword filtering.
If the publication offers an RSS feed — and most news sites do — yes. You follow the site directly instead of going through Apple's approved list.
No. Your feed is your chosen sources in published order. Muting and junk filters remove clutter; nothing gets promoted or reordered.
Yes — 100 sources and 10 muted words free. Founding Pro is $4/mo or $36/yr, later $5/mo · $50/yr.
Start with 100 sources and 10 muted words free. Founding Pro is $4/mo or $36/yr — later $5/mo · $50/yr.
Competitor prices and plan limits on this page were checked as of September 2026 and come from each provider's own public pricing page. Other companies change their pricing whenever they like — check theirs before you decide.