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
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

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.

What's New

New Features

Feb 05, 2026	Global intelligence training lets you train across folders and site-wide. Now available for Premium Archive subscribers. Read the blog post.
Jan 27, 2026	Premium Archive users can now set a per-feed and per-folder auto mark as read date. Read the blog post.
Jan 26, 2026	Saved story tags can now be renamed and deleted from the Tag Settings dialog.

Community Feedback

2 hours ago	idea Global filters and ability to filter YouTube Shorts
2 hours ago	updates Global and folder-scoped intelligence training: Train once, apply everywhere
10 hours ago	idea Feature Request(s) - duplicate content, summary, popular content
1 day ago	idea Where are Global Filter settings?

Real-time Stats

Past day

4,045

Premium Users

3,716

Standard Users

4,778,446

Feeds fetched

Past day by hour

25,458

20,477

16,337

19,951

28,741

32,871

31,815

34,567

32,560

32,239

32,440

30,825

33,021

30,533

27,117

25,230

22,556

19,792

22,700

20,585

15,171

12,875

15,256

17,722

600,839

Sites loaded

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Avg. load time

256

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