Beacon is one complete app. New subscribers can try every feature free for 14 days with Annual or Monthly. Annual, Monthly and Pay Once unlock precisely the same features; only the way you pay changes.
Everything is included
- Unlimited feeds and Smart Folders
- The full reading view, including full-text extraction and every typography setting
- Timeline and Classic reading modes
- Folders, Saved and muted words
- Mastodon and Bluesky accounts
- The Newspaper, with its editions and back issues
- Listen, and the browser on Mac
- OPML import and export
- Background refresh and feed health
- Every theme and interface font
- Widgets, Shortcuts and on-device intelligence
- iCloud sync
- Every accessibility feature
Plans
| Option | Price | How it works |
|---|---|---|
| Annual | 14 days free for new subscribers, then £11.99 a year | The complete app throughout the 14-day trial, then yearly renewal until cancelled. |
| Monthly | 14 days free for new subscribers, then £1.49 a month | The complete app throughout the 14-day trial, then monthly renewal until cancelled. |
| Pay Once | £29.99 | One payment for the complete app, with no subscription or renewal. |
Every option covers Beacon on iPhone, iPad and Mac and supports Family Sharing. Apple shows your local price and whether you can have the trial before you confirm. See Wells Code’s pricing philosophy for why there is a choice.
If a subscription ends
Nothing is unfollowed or deleted. You can continue to open and read downloaded articles, export OPML and delete your data. Following feeds, fetching new material, editing the library or syncing new changes requires a subscription or Pay Once.
See Buying, restoring and managing for the purchase itself.