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              NewsBlur
              A personal news reader bringing people together to talk about the world
              Try out NewsBlur

              A new sound of an old instrument

              RSS and web feeds, synced on every platform you use.

              Web
              The full experience,
              right in your browser
              Every layout, every theme, every keyboard shortcut. Train your feeds to surface what matters.
              iPhone & iPad
              Built for iOS
              from the ground up
              Swipe through stories, train with a tap, read offline. A native app that feels right at home.
              Android
              Native on Android
              Every feature from the web, built natively for Android. Free on the Play Store.

              Full-featured news reader

              Keep the signal, lose the noise.

              Read Your Way

              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
              Read the Full Story
              The original story from truncated RSS feeds is seamlessly expanded
              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
              River of News
              Read all your feeds by folder in one scrollable stream
              Keyboard Shortcuts
              Navigate everything without touching the mouse

              Stay Smart

              Intelligence 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
              Saved Searches
              Regularly used searches are conveniently given their own feeds
              Ask AI
              Ask questions about any story and get answers powered by AI
              Daily Briefing
              A summary of your top stories, customizable and delivered every day
              Track Changes
              See how a story evolved since it was first published
              Notifications
              Get alerted the moment a feed publishes, on web, iOS, or Android

              Share & Organize

              Shared Stories
              Reading news is better with friends. Share stories on your public blurblog
              Blurblog Privacy
              Share stories with the world or only with your friends
              Story Tagging
              Save stories with custom tags for fast references
              Email Newsletters
              Read your email newsletters where they belong, in a news reader

              Works Everywhere

              Third-party Apps
              Supports Reeder, ReadKit, Unread, and loads more
              IFTTT & Zapier
              Hook NewsBlur up to nearly every service on the web
              YouTube
              Even sites that don't publish RSS feeds can be followed
              Web Feeds
              A creative feed for any website, even without RSS
              See all 30+ features →

              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.

              New accounts start with a 30 day trial premium subscription — no credit card required.
              Premium
              $36 /year
              • Everything in Free, plus:
              • Follow up to 1,024 sites
              • Sites updated up to 5x more often
              • River of News (reading by folder)
              • Search sites and folders
              • Save stories with searchable tags
              • Privacy options for your blurblog
              • Custom RSS feeds for saved stories
              • Text view extracts the story
              • Discover related stories and sites
              Premium Archive
              $99 /year
              • Everything in Premium, plus:
              • Follow up to 4,096 sites
              • Choose when stories are marked as read
              • Customize auto-read by site or folder
              • Every story archived and searchable forever
              • Feeds back-filled for complete archive
              • Train stories on full text content
              • Discover related stories across your archive
              • Export trained stories from folders
              • Stories can stay unread forever
              • Ask AI questions about stories
              • Filter stories by date range
              • Apply training across a folder
              • Apply training globally
              • Web Feeds from any website, even without RSS
              Premium Pro
              $29 /month
              • Everything in Archive, plus:
              • Follow up to 10,000 sites
              • All feeds fetched every 5-15 minutes
              • Train stories with regular expressions
              • Priority support
              • Coming soon:
              • Natural language filters
              • Natural language search
              Free
              • Follow up to 64 sites
              • Real-time RSS updates
              • Train stories by author, tag, title
              • Public blurblog sharing
              • Save stories for later
              • iOS & Android apps
              DIY
              Self-Hosted
              • Run your own NewsBlur
              • Complete data ownership
              • Single command install on Docker
              • Customize with Claude Code
              View on GitHub
              Feed Lyric, NewsBlur's hungry hound
              Premium subscribers help feed Lyric home cooked meals of green beans, sweet potatoes, carrots, and brown rice.
              Compare plans and FAQ →

              Common Questions

              Is there a free trial?

              Every new account gets a free 30-day premium trial. No credit card required. When it ends, you keep your feeds and training on the free tier.

              Can I import feeds from another reader?

              Yes. Upload your OPML file and NewsBlur imports all your subscriptions and folders in seconds. Works with Google Reader exports, Feedly, Inoreader, and more.

              Is NewsBlur open source?

              Fully open source under the MIT license. Run your own instance with Docker, contribute on GitHub, or just read the code. No lock-in, ever.

              What happens if I cancel?

              Your account reverts to the free tier. You keep all your feeds (up to 64), training, and saved stories. No data is deleted. Upgrade again anytime and everything is restored.

              Does NewsBlur work with other apps?

              Yes. Full sync with Reeder, ReadKit, Unread, NetNewsWire, and many more. Your read state, saved stories, and training sync across every app.

              Do I need RSS feeds to follow a site?

              No. Web Feeds let you follow any website, even without RSS. NewsBlur monitors the page for changes and delivers new content to you automatically.

              How does NewsBlur compare to Feedly?

              NewsBlur offers intelligence training, full-text search, Ask AI, Web Feeds, native apps, and is fully open source. No ads, no tracking, no algorithmic feeds.

              See the full comparison →

              How does NewsBlur compare to Inoreader?

              NewsBlur gives you personal training instead of rules, built-in AI features, story clustering, and a fully open source codebase you can self-host.

              See the full comparison →
              See all frequently asked questions →

              People ❤️ NewsBlur

              Cory Doctorow
              Author & Journalist
              I have nothing but praise for NewsBlur. The $36 I send them every year is a very good investment.
              Erez Zukerman
              PCWorld
              NewsBlur is everything Google Reader should have been.
              Ben Werdmuller
              Tech Entrepreneur
              Less interruptive, less antagonizing, and less annoying as an interface, with no upsells or user engagement hacks.
              WIRED
              Publication
              A refreshingly simple old-school RSS reader.
              Austin Frakt
              Health Economist, NY Times
              The web version is better than Google Reader. NewsBlur can pull in full content of partial feeds more reliably than other methods. I’ve never seen it fail.
              Linux.com
              Publication
              The Open Source Feed Reader with Brains.
              Diego Elio Pettenò
              Gentoo Developer
              NewsBlur is my favorite tool for reading feeds. The Intelligence Trainer is a killer feature.
              Search Engine Land
              Publication
              Easy to use, dependable, fast, and gets the job done.
              Gabe Weatherhead
              Macdrifter
              NewsBlur was the fastest feed reader tested.
              Lobsters
              Community
              NewsBlur is indie web software at its best.
              Lobsters
              Community
              Rock solid and worth far more than the paltry annual fee I pay for it.
              WebFX
              Publication
              One of our best RSS readers because it lets you read the full text of content on its web reader.
              Slant
              Community
              NewsBlur allows users to customize the font size, line spacing, story layout, and typefaces. Very fast to navigate around the UI.
              Lobsters
              Community
              A small indie developer who has written a brilliant piece of code, building a sustainable business rather than one focused on hyperscaling.
              Appmus
              Publication
              Prioritizes control, customization, and a respectful approach to online content.
              Greg Gilbert
              Developer
              I’ve been using NewsBlur for over two years, and I can’t imagine life without it.
              Lénya
              Developer
              Best RSS client, period.
              Hacker News
              Community
              The best feed reading experience of my life.
              Hacker News
              Community
              Been using and paying for NewsBlur for years. Absolutely love it. Cross-platform with an excellent Android app.
              NewsBlur Forum
              Community
              It’s literally the only service I’ve been genuinely delighted to spend money on.
              Hacker News
              Community
              It felt like the most natural successor to Google Reader.
              Trustpilot
              Review
              I moved to NewsBlur when Google Reader was shut down. Excellent styling, features, and no issues.
              NewsBlur Forum
              Community
              NewsBlur emerges as by far the best, and better designed in a lot of ways both large and small. It dominates all the Google Reader alternatives.
              NewsBlur Forum
              Community
              The site is so much faster than it has been. Thanks for running a great product!
              Hacker News
              Community
              The interface is simple and hasn’t largely changed, which to me is a win. It helps with muscle memory.
              Hacker News
              Community
              NewsBlur also lets you subscribe to YouTube channels, which is a much nicer experience than notifications.
              Lobsters
              Community
              I’ve been paying for the hosted version of NewsBlur for 12 years and am very happy with it!
              NewsBlur Forum
              Community
              NewsBlur had the poweruser features I wanted. Much better experience than I had with Feedly and Inoreader.
              BSAG
              But She’s A Girl
              The crowning feature of NewsBlur is the ability to train it with your preferences. The iOS client works extremely well and is cleanly-designed.
              Neil Patel
              neilpatel.com
              NewsBlur is deceptively sophisticated. After selecting your preferences, it becomes a super helpful tool for accessing only the content you find most valuable.
              Popular Science
              Publication
              Still got plenty to offer — from story tagging and filtering to a comprehensive search tool, and wide support for third-party integrations.
              How-To Geek
              Publication
              The best way to get started with RSS is probably to set up a cloud-based RSS reader like NewsBlur.
              Julia Evans
              Engineer & Writer
              I recently started using NewsBlur that automatically sorts my RSS feeds into ‘updates infrequently’ and ‘everything’ and it’s a lifesaver.
              Jonathan Zittrain
              Harvard Law Professor
              I still use NewsBlur and find RSS feeds to be a great way to see what others are writing while dodging slop.
              Koranteng
              Writer
              Hands down the best $36 I spend every year. I subscribe to 1916 feeds. It’s my platonic ideal of software.
              Federico Viticci
              MacStories
              NewsBlur keeps giving me reasons to be a very happy subscriber.
              NewsBlur Forum
              Community
              Other readers pale in comparison to NewsBlur.
              Hacker News
              Community
              It’s open source and you can self host, but for the price of the subscription it’s just not worth the hassle.
              FeedSpot
              Publication
              Highlight any phrase in article full text, mark it liked or disliked to train the intelligence to show you more of what you want.
              VPN Tier Lists
              Publication
              The intelligence trainer genuinely improves over time, learning subtle preferences that keyword filters would miss entirely.
              carla
              urban_mermaid
              We got to explain RSS to a college student and it was fun to show what you can do with this ‘old’ tech. Thanks NewsBlur! I rely on you.
              Jens Bonk-Wiltfang
              Developer
              Going through my 222 RSS subscriptions in NewsBlur every morning. Chronological, full control over what you see.
              dangerousmeta
              Blogger
              NewsBlur is your best replacement for the old Google Reader. Take it from an RSS addict.
              Alex Kharlamov
              Data Scientist
              RSS is like a longer form social media minus the vitriol. I switched to NewsBlur and still use it, it’s fantastic.
              Thomas Ingham
              Developer
              The Global Shared Stories feed is a total black-hole of joyfulness.
              Matthew Riley
              Engineer
              I’ve used NewsBlur since 2013 when Google Reader was ‘spring cleaned’. I jumped at the chance to pay the creator more.
              Andrew Montalenti
              CTO, Parse.ly
              You can still get the original Google Reader experience, living on as a hosted and open source project, in NewsBlur.
              Michael Rawdon
              Software Engineer
              I switched to NewsBlur and am happy to be supporting a product that isn’t from Google.
              Daniel Buckmaster
              Developer
              An excellent product that lets me feel like I’m on top of my news feed, rather than the other way around.
              Will Slack
              Civic Tech
              NewsBlur! Most value of a yearly payment of anything I buy.
              Bernhard Bock
              Developer
              Way better than Google Reader ever was.
              John Kiff
              Economist
              I’ve now switched to NewsBlur which is slicker and has some ability to be trained.
              Ben Sherman
              Engineer
              I was cleaning up my feeds and got an email with a backup automatically, in case I made a mistake. What amazing user experience.
              Randall Leeds
              Developer
              I deleted a folder of feeds so NewsBlur sent me an OPML backup just in case. I am smitten.
              Francis Gulotta
              Engineer
              Half the appeal was it wasn’t a fully funded tech startup and was open source. Works great, small but nice community.
              Adam Feldman
              Political Analyst
              Saves so much time by aggregating RSS feeds from everything I like to pay attention to! It’s been reliably awesome for years.
              Carol H Tucker
              Writer
              Ever since Google Reader was discontinued, I have paid for NewsBlur and it is worth every penny.
              Arkadiy Tetelman
              Security Engineer
              I love everything about this NewsBlur data breach postmortem. Clear, specific, detailed timeline. Just excellent.
              Kyle Niemeyer
              Professor, OSU
              I have been a happy subscriber to NewsBlur for almost nine years and it continues to get better. Highly recommend.
              Mary Jo Foley
              Tech Journalist
              I’d recommend NewsBlur for RSS. It’s really quite good.
              James Broadhead
              Engineer
              NewsBlur is a home of free speech, allowing users in countries with censored news outlets to bypass restrictions and get access to the world at large.
              Kevin Smokler
              Author
              The world’s greatest RSS reader now handles email newsletters too!
              Orde Saunders
              Developer
              I’ve been using NewsBlur since Google Reader shut down and this kind of attention to detail shows through.
              Chester
              Developer
              Feels like the best of the old and new webs.
              Digitalink
              Subscriber
              Years later and you are still making NewsBlur even more fancy. Love it.
              NewsBlur Forum
              Community
              I use it multiple times a day, and I’m not sure what I’d do without it.
              Hacker News
              Community
              The only non-Google reader with good keyboard support.
              NewsBlur Forum
              Community
              Thank you for not disimproving NewsBlur.
              NewsBlur Forum
              Community
              Holy crap the search feature is good.
              NewsBlur Forum
              Community
              NewsBlur is a game-changer. Sleek interface, incredibly intuitive features.
              Reddit
              Community
              I love NewsBlur — it’s the only website I pay to use.
              NewsBlur Forum
              Community
              I was so impressed I went premium without hesitation — by far the best reader out there!
              NewsBlur Forum
              Community
              I can’t praise you enough for the fast and responsive search.
              NewsBlur Forum
              Community
              This has to be one of the best features — that I can discover new stuff and we can all comment on articles. Excellent.
              NewsBlur Forum
              Community
              Features like this make me feel that I definitely get my money’s worth with this service.
              NewsBlur Forum
              Community
              Just wanted to thank you for all the little things and big things added over the years.
              NewsBlur Forum
              Community
              IT’S AWESOME.
              Lobsters
              Community
              A wonderful reader. It handles newsletters so you can subscribe and read them just like any other RSS feed.
              Google Play
              Review
              One of the best news apps. You can create your own feed and it saves lots of time.
              Google Play
              Review
              A great app. The fact that I can self-host if I need to makes paying for the premium subscription worth it.
              NewsBlur Forum
              Community
              The app seems to be much improved. It makes the site lightning fast.
              NewsBlur Forum
              Community
              Intelligence Trainer and the various options for Site Settings are very useful.
              Ankit Solanki
              Engineer
              It’s an indispensable tool — it’s better than Google Reader at its best! Highly recommended.
              Federico Viticci
              MacStories
              NewsBlur’s Focus view is a great way to catch up on important items only.
              Jimmie P Rodgers
              Maker
              I’ve been a paying NewsBlur user since Google Reader was dropped, and stuff like this makes me happy when my yearly subscription comes due.
              Phil Windley
              Technologist, BYU Professor
              I’m wasting less time scrolling past stuff I don’t care about and more time reading things I enjoy.
              Zapier
              Publication
              NewsBlur’s most interesting feature is its sophisticated AI filtering, which can automatically highlight or hide stories based on certain criteria.
              Linux Magazine
              Publication
              NewsBlur offers a fresh take on managing multiple RSS feeds and features clever tools for sifting through hundreds of articles.
              Bryan Quigley
              bryanquigley.com
              I decided to try NewsBlur and haven’t looked back. The premium account is very reasonable.
              Diego Elio Pettenò
              Gentoo Developer
              I cared enough about feed readers to pay for NewsBlur. Finding NewsBlur was a saviour.
              NewsBlur Forum
              Community
              I also found NewsBlur the best Google Reader successor out there.
              NewsBlur Forum
              Community
              This is marvelous, thank you so much.
              James Pain
              Subscriber
              You’ve fixed every issue I’ve had and you’re very responsive. Thanks and keep up the good work.
              Eize Basa
              Developer
              NewsBlur has filled the Google Reader-sized hole in my heart.
              Diarmaid McManus
              Writer
              I learned NewsBlur had been hacked and data wiped through an RSS feed on NewsBlur, since they had restored access before I noticed.
              Mario
              Developer
              Used to just filter all email newsletters to trash. Now I forward them all to my NewsBlur account and actually read them.
              Bernhard Bock
              Developer
              Archive is a game changer for me. Instant upgrade.
              MaggiBot
              Subscriber
              I give a million props to NewsBlur’s customer service. It’s always top notch.
              Susan Dennis
              Writer
              How fabulous the functionality of the NewsBlur newsletter feature.
              g. blekkenhorst
              Subscriber
              NewsBlur has newsletters, affordable subscription, nice layout, save to Pocket, just generally has a nice attitude.
              Boris Mann
              Tech Entrepreneur
              Nuked subscriptions. Automatically got email with backup OPML just in case.
              Nathan Taylor
              Writer
              Just upgraded to NewsBlur premium. Very happy with it. Recommended.
              Carl Lumma
              Subscriber
              NewsBlur is awesome and I’m very grateful to you for creating and running it!
              Jonah Bishop
              Developer
              I love NewsBlur. Thanks for making such a great product.
              Debra Mastaler
              SEO Expert
              I don’t know how anyone combs content without a good reader.
              Jason Gunn
              Researcher
              I’ve been saying this for 15 years. Kudos to NewsBlur keeping the RSS flame alive.
              Yura Yurchuk
              Developer
              I use NewsBlur for RSS, YouTube subscriptions, and email newsletters. Filtering is incredible.
              Sandip Bhattacharya
              Engineer
              A big NewsBlur user myself. I love the feed to email feature which lets me have both a push and pull model.
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              New Features

              Mar 07, 2026 Mute feeds for a set amount of time using a slider from 1 day to 1 year. When the timer expires, NewsBlur automatically unmutes the feed. Read the blog post.
              Mar 05, 2026 NewsBlur v14 brings full iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe support with a redesigned UI, new story views, Discover Sites, Ask AI, and the Dashboard. Read the blog post.
              Mar 04, 2026 A new full-page Add + Discover Sites experience with 50,000+ curated feeds across YouTube, Reddit, podcasts, newsletters, and more. Browse by category, search, and try any feed before subscribing. Read the blog post.

              Community Feedback

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