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.

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
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

Premium Pro

$29 /month

Everything in Archive, plus:
Follow up to 10,000 sites
All feeds fetched every 5 minutes
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.

What's New

New Features

Jan 13, 2026	Printable invoices are now available for all payments. Find them under Manage > Account > Payments
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.

Community Feedback

3 hours ago	problem NewsBlur can get article dates wrong in JSON feeds
4 hours ago	idea Is there any free trial of premium features?
5 hours ago	problem “Mark stories as read after” not working
16 hours ago	problem Site has lots of broken JS today

Real-time Stats

Past day

4,022

Premium Users

3,967

Standard Users

4,559,160

Feeds fetched

Past day by hour

31,242

24,675

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27,647

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36,956

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639,120

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Stories Shared

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