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

First-class iOS App

The NewsBlur iOS app is free and is 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

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

Twitter & 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 Account
Number of Sites	Up to 64 sites	Unlimited sites
River of News	Only 5 stories at a time	All stories at once
Site updates	1X	Up to 10X as often
Search	-	Search feeds, saved, and shared stories
Saved story tagging	Only save stories	Tag saved stories
Privacy	Public shares only	Public, protected, and private shares
Custom RSS	-	Folders (filtered), saved stories
Instant Access	Wait in a queue	Immediate
Feed poor Shiloh	She goes hungry	Home cooked meals of green beans, sweet potatoes, carrots, and brown rice

What's New

New Features

Jul 28, 2020	Waking your laptop up from sleep should now automatically reconnect real-time updates (used to take up to 10 minutes).
Jul 17, 2020	Highlight passages and add private notes to saved stories.
Jun 24, 2020	Turn the lights down, dark mode has come to NewsBlur.

Community Feedback

14 hours ago	idea Train based on text in body
23 hours ago	problem Language Log does not show new entries
1 day ago	problem Own Blurblog Unfollowed / Not Visible
2 days ago	problem Android notifications resent when app is opened and story isn’t marked read

Real-time Stats

Site Statistics

Past day

5,193

Premium Users

4,836

Standard Users

5,219,598

Feeds fetched

Past day by hour

73,153

66,046

64,524

61,557

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48,694

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Avg. load time

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