Feedly vs NewsBlur

Feedly

• Following many news sites, blogs and publications in one reader
• Professionals who track topics or companies and want AI filtering
• Teams that need shared feeds, boards and intelligence tools

NewsBlur

• Readers who want to train their own filters rather than rely on an algorithm
• People who prefer open-source software or want to self-host
• Professionals who need feeds polled every few minutes

Feedly

• The free plan stops at 100 feeds and 3 folders.
• Search, notes and highlights need Pro; newsletters, RSS Builder and Feedly AI need Pro+.
• Pro+ is listed with yearly billing only, while Pro can also be paid monthly at $8.99.
• There is no desktop app: Feedly runs in a browser and on iOS and Android, with Chrome and Firefox extensions.

NewsBlur

• The free plan is limited to 64 sites.
• Search, River of News and text view start at Premium; web feeds, Ask AI and the archive need Premium Archive.
• Premium and Premium Archive are priced per year only, while Premium Pro is priced per month.
• Native apps are listed for iOS and Android; desktop use is through the web app or third-party clients.

Feedly

Feeds and folders

Follow news sites, blogs, publications, YouTube channels, podcasts and Reddit feeds in one reader. The free plan allows 100 feeds in 3 folders.

Boards, notes and highlights

Save articles to personal boards to come back to later. Adding notes and highlighting sentences is part of the Pro plan.

Search

Search across the sources you follow to find an article again. Search is listed as a Pro feature on the pricing page.

Feedly AI

On Pro+, Feedly AI Feeds track topics across the web, mute filters hide unwanted subjects and deduplication removes repeated stories.

Newsletters and RSS Builder

Pro+ can receive email newsletters and Google News feeds inside Feedly, and RSS Builder creates feeds for websites that do not offer RSS.

Sharing and team tools

Pro saves to Evernote and OneNote and shares to LinkedIn, Buffer, IFTTT and Zapier. Enterprise adds team boards, newsletters, Slack and Microsoft Teams.

NewsBlur

Intelligence Training

Mark authors, tags and title keywords with a thumbs up or down to highlight matching stories or fade them out. Full-text training needs Premium Archive.

Web Feeds

On Premium Archive, NewsBlur builds a feed for a web page that has no RSS by monitoring the page for changes.

Search and story archive

Premium adds full-text search across subscriptions. Premium Archive keeps every story indefinitely and back-fills the history of newly added feeds.

Ask AI and Daily Briefing

Premium Archive can ask questions about a story using Claude, GPT, Gemini or Grok, and receives an AI-written daily summary of top stories.

Email newsletters

Forward newsletters to a personal NewsBlur email address and they appear as a feed that can be trained, tagged and searched like any other.

Open source and open API

The server and both mobile apps are open source on GitHub, and the API supports third-party clients such as Reeder, ReadKit and Unread.

Feedly

• Free$0

  Follow up to 100 feeds and organize them into 3 folders, on the web and in the mobile apps.

• Pro$6.99

  per month, billed annually ($83.88), or $8.99 billed monthly

  1,000 feeds, notes and highlights, search, saving to Evernote and OneNote, sharing to LinkedIn, Buffer, IFTTT and Zapier, and no sponsored ads.

• Pro+$12.37

  per month, billed annually ($148.45); no monthly option listed

  Everything in Pro, plus up to 2,500 feeds, Feedly AI Feeds, mute filters, deduplication, newsletter and Google News feeds, and RSS Builder.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Up to 7,500 feeds, team feeds and boards, newsletters, Slack and Microsoft Teams, API access, SSO/SAML, and market and threat intelligence.

NewsBlur

• Free$0

  Follow up to 64 sites, with real-time updates, training by author, tag and title, saved stories, a public blurblog, and the mobile apps.

• Self-Hosted$0

  The open-source code from GitHub, run on your own server with a single Docker command. Hosting is your own responsibility.

• Premium$36

  per year

  1,024 sites, feeds updated up to 5x more often, River of News, search, text view, tagged saved stories, and blurblog privacy options.

• Premium Archive$99

  per year

  4,096 sites, web feeds for sites without RSS, a permanent searchable archive, Ask AI, daily briefing, story clustering, and the MCP server and CLI.

• Premium Pro$29

  per month

  10,000 sites, every feed fetched every 5 to 15 minutes, training with regular expressions, and priority support.

Feedly

• Annual discount

  About 22% off Pro with annual billing

  Pro costs $83.88 a year on annual billing, shown as $6.99 a month, against $8.99 billed monthly. That works out to about 22% less.

• Other savings

  Pro+ discounted for the first year

  The pricing page shows Pro+ at $8.93 a month billed annually ($107.17) instead of $12.37 ($148.45), labels it a 30% saving and puts the first-year saving at $41.

• Nonprofit

  Nonprofit and academic discounts on Enterprise

  Feedly's help center says discounts for nonprofit and academic organizations are available on the Enterprise plan only, on request by email.

NewsBlur

No public discounts listed.