Folo vs NewsBlur

Folo

• Readers who want AI summaries and translation inside their feed reader
• People following sites that have no feed through RSSHub routes
• Anyone who needs one reader across web, desktop and mobile, Linux included
• People who prefer open-source software

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

Folo

• The Free plan allows 150 feed subscriptions and 3 AI summaries a day, with no AI translation.
• Integrations, private subscriptions and the secure image proxy start on Basic; AI model selection, bring your own key and AI tasks start on Plus.
• Paid plans offer a free trial, but the pricing page does not say how long it lasts.
• The download page offers Linux only as a direct AppImage download.

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.

Folo

Feeds, RSSHub routes and inboxes

Subscribe to any RSS, Atom or JSON feed, or follow sites without a feed through RSSHub routes. OPML import and export are supported, and an inbox with its own email address receives newsletters.

AI summaries and translation

Summarizes an article on demand or automatically and shows a translation in English, Chinese, Japanese or French beside the original. Daily caps apply on the Free and Basic plans.

Folo AI

Ask questions about one article, a feed, a folder or everything you follow, and connect MCP services. Choosing the AI model and bringing your own API key start on the Plus plan.

Timeline summary and AI tasks

A timeline summary condenses new entries into one digest. Scheduled AI tasks write daily or weekly briefings and deliver them to chat or email; they are included from Plus.

Layouts for each format

Articles, social posts, pictures, videos and podcasts each get their own layout, a reader view fetches full article text, and text-to-speech reads articles aloud.

Actions and integrations

Rule-based Actions filter, star, rewrite, notify or summarize new entries. Articles can be sent to Obsidian, Readwise, Instapaper, Zotero and other tools on paid plans.

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.

Folo

• Free$0

  150 feed subscriptions, 30 RSSHub subscriptions, 1 list, 1 inbox, 1 action, 3 AI summaries and 1 text-to-speech a day.

• Basic$4.17

  per month, billed yearly ($49.99); $4.99 billed monthly

  1,000 feed subscriptions, 5 lists, 10 inboxes, 5 actions, 30 AI summaries and 300 AI translations a day, private subscriptions and integrations.

• Plus$8.33

  per month, billed yearly ($99.99); $9.99 billed monthly

  2,500 feed subscriptions, unlimited AI summaries, translations and text-to-speech, curated AI models, bring your own key, AI tasks and 5M AI credits.

• Pro$83.33

  per month, billed yearly ($999.99); $99.99 billed monthly

  25,000 feed subscriptions, 100 lists, 200 inboxes, 100 actions, all high-end AI models and 50M AI credits.

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.

Folo

• Annual discount

  Save 17% with yearly billing

  Folo's pricing page labels yearly billing as saving 17%: Basic is $49.99 a year against $4.99 a month, and Plus is $99.99 a year against $9.99 a month.

NewsBlur

No public discounts listed.