NewsBlur

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

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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.

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
Natural language text and image classifiers

Premium Archive

$99 /year

Everything in Premium, plus:
Follow up to 4,096 sites
Web Feeds from any website, even without RSS
Cluster duplicate stories across all your feeds
Daily briefing with your top stories and keywords
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
Notifications on trained intelligence classifiers
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
Connect AI agents with MCP server and CLI

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

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

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Feed Lyric, NewsBlur's hungry hound

Premium subscribers help feed Lyric home cooked meals of green beans, sweet potatoes, carrots, and brown rice.

Kind words people say about 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.

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.

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.

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

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What's New

New Features

Sep 15, 2026	Matching Stories: click any tag, author, or URL segment to see every story that shares it, then train it or turn on a notification from the banner. Read the blog post.
Aug 14, 2026	Long Reads, Good Reads, Widely Read Stories, and Global Shared Stories are now available in the Daily Briefing.
May 15, 2026	Make NewsBlur match your home screen. Premium subscribers can choose a custom app icon on iOS, Mac, and Android, with 12 color flavors in light and dark variants. Read the blog post.

Community Feedback

25 minutes ago	problem TMZ feed not updating for the last few days
9 hours ago	problem Android: App crashes if there are no unread items and a feed is selected
9 hours ago	problem CBC news feeds not showing past June
9 hours ago	problem Is there any way to stop any Google News Stories

Real-time Stats

Past day

3,891

Premium Users

3,662

Standard Users

5,053,933

Feeds fetched

Past day by hour

28,844

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545,180

Sites loaded

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Avg. load time

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Stories Shared

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Try out NewsBlur

A new sound of an old instrument

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Read Your Way 7

Stay Smart 7

Share & Organize 4

Works Everywhere 4

Pricing

Kind words people say about NewsBlur

Common Questions

Is there a free trial?

Can I import feeds from another reader?

Is NewsBlur open source?

What happens if I cancel?

Does NewsBlur work with other apps?

Do I need RSS feeds to follow a site?

How does NewsBlur compare to Feedly?

How does NewsBlur compare to Inoreader?

What's New

New Features

Community Feedback

Real-time Stats

Past day

Past day by hour