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
Feed poor Lyric	She goes hungry	Home cooked meals of green beans, sweet potatoes, carrots, and brown rice

What's New

New Features

May 28, 2025	Readwise support has been added to third-party services, add it under Preferences > Stories.
Feb 03, 2025	Discover related sites (free+premium) and stories (premium archive only). Read the blog post.
Nov 05, 2024	Premium archive subscriptions now backfill all of your YouTube subscriptions, so you can search, save, and share links to all of your favorite YT videos.

Community Feedback

3 hours ago	problem Can’t access NewsBlur on iOS due to SSL error
4 hours ago	problem Android hanging on refresh
1 day ago	question Hide “All Shared Stories”
1 day ago	question Self Hosted: Variability in number of stories per feed

Real-time Stats

Past day

4,005

Premium Users

4,218

Standard Users

4,660,951

Feeds fetched

Past day by hour

18,312

15,994

14,932

15,330

14,514

13,759

13,554

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14,467

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21,331

25,958

26,707

26,981

25,001

25,431

26,283

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451,601

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Avg. load time

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