NewsBlur

NewsBlur is a personal news reader
bringing people together to talk about the world

Web

iPad & iPhone

Android

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Real-time RSS

Stories are pushed directly to you, so you can read news as it comes in

Original Site

Read the content in context, the way it was meant to be seen

Shared Stories

Reading news is better with friends. Share stories on your public blurblog

Training

Hide the stories you don't like and highlight the stories you do

Full Text Search

Quickly find stories across all of your subscriptions

Story Tagging

Save stories with custom tags for fast references

Blurblog Privacy

Share stories with the world or only with your friends

Third-party Apps

Supports Reeder, ReadKit, Unread, and loads more

Saved Searches

Regularly used searches are conveniently given their own feeds

Native iOS/macOS Apps

The NewsBlur iOS and macOS apps are free and jam-packed with features

Read the Full Story

The original story from truncated RSS feeds is seamlessly expanded

First-class Android App

The NewsBlur Android app is free and has it all

Track Changes

See how a story evolved since it was first published

IFTTT Support

Hook NewsBlur up to nearly every service on the web

Email Newsletters

Read your email newsletters where they belong, in a news reader

Grid, List, Split, Magazine

Every site has its own story layout, so you can mix and match

Dark Mode

Easy on the eyes and built into the web, iOS, and Android

YouTube

Even sites that don't publish RSS feeds can be followed

Pricing

NewsBlur is free on the web, iPad, iPhone, and Android. By subscribing to a
premium account, you support a growing service and unlock a few restrictions.

	Free Account	$36 / year Premium Subscription	$99 / year Premium Archive Subscription
Number of sites	Up to 64 sites	1,000 sites	Unlimited sites
River of News	Only 3 stories at a time	Every story from every site	Plus every story ever published in the archive
Search	-	Search for recent stories, your saved stories, and shared stories	Search the entire history of every site
Related stories	Discover only related sites	Peek into related stories and sites	Entire archive of related stories and sites
Custom RSS	-	Only saved stories	Saved stories + folders
Site updates	1X	Up to 10X as often	Same as premium
Saved story tagging	Only save stories	Tag saved stories	Same as premium
Privacy	Public shares only	Public, protected, and private shares	Same as premium
Full text	Only what's in the feed	Full text of each story	Same as premium
Ask AI	10 uses total	3 per day	50 per day
Feed poor Lyric	She goes hungry	Home cooked meals of green beans, sweet potatoes, carrots, and brown rice

What's New

New Features

Jan 11, 2026	Purge old saved and shared stories in the Manage > Account dialog. You’ll see the number of stories before a specified date.
Jan 09, 2026	New preference to disable all social sharing features under Preferences > Feeds. Never see comments or shares from others by turning off social features.
Jan 07, 2026	Pick and choose among hundreds of custom icons for your folders and feeds, or upload your own. Read the blog post.

Community Feedback

4 hours ago	idea Purge (clean out) Blurblog
11 hours ago	idea My iPhone 8 doesn’t make a sound when notifications arrive; I want notifications to make sound audible
14 hours ago	problem Tag filters are mostly broken since early Nov
1 day ago	updates Disable social features for a distraction-free reading experience

Real-time Stats

Past day

3,596

Premium Users

3,556

Standard Users

4,531,136

Feeds fetched

Past day by hour

12,792

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