NewsBlur vs Tiny Tiny RSS
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
NewsBlur
Open-source RSS reader with trainable story filters
Where they differ
- NewsBlur starts at $36 per year (Premium). Tiny Tiny RSS is free.
- Only NewsBlur lists iOS and Android apps.
- NewsBlur also covers read later.
At a glance
| NewsBlur | Tiny Tiny RSS | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free |
| Starts at | $36 per year (Premium) | Free |
| Free plan | Follow up to 64 sites with real-time updates, training by author, tag and title, saved stories, a public blurblog, and the iOS and Android apps. | Free software under the GNU GPLv3 license, run on your own server. There is no paid plan and no hosted version from the project. |
| Free trial | 30-day premium trial on every new account, no credit card required | None listed |
| Web | ||
| iOS | ||
| Android | ||
| Made by | NewsBlur, Inc. | tt-rss contributors; created by Andrew Dolgov |
| Price read from | newsblur.com | tt-rss.org |
| Checked | Oct 5, 2026 | Oct 6, 2026 |
Who each one suits
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
Tiny Tiny RSS
- Self-hosters who already run services with Docker
- Readers who want regex filters and scoring to sort a heavy feed load
- People who want to republish selections of articles as feeds
Worth knowing
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.
Tiny Tiny RSS
- The original project was retired on 2025-11-01; the current code is a fork begun on 2025-10-03 by a long-time contributor.
- Installation expects Docker, and the site says support may be limited if you run it any other way.
- The Android client is no longer maintained and its APK downloads are gone, so reading happens in the web interface.
- It is self-hosted only: you run, back up and update the server yourself.
Key features
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.
Tiny Tiny RSS
- Folders, OPML and deduplication
- Feeds are organized into folders and subfolders, imported and exported as OPML, and deduplicated, with a plugin that uses perceptual hashing for repeated images. Podcasts are supported.
- Content filters and scoring
- Filters match articles against regular expressions and then apply actions. Score-changing filters move articles up or down the headline list and can mark very low scores as read.
- Generated feeds and publishing
- Almost anything shown in the headline list, such as a feed, label or category, can be re-published as an Atom or JSON feed protected by a random key.
- Share anything
- A bookmarklet shares arbitrary web pages into your Published feed, and combined with Readability this lets tt-rss work like a read-it-later site.
- Plugins and themes
- Plugins share articles to other sites, extract full article text with Readability, change hotkeys or handle unusual feeds, and themes restyle the interface.
- Email digests and JSON API
- Users can opt into a daily email digest of unread headlines, and a documented JSON API is available for third-party clients.
Plans
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.
Tiny Tiny RSS
Tiny Tiny RSS$0
The complete reader, self-hosted from the project's Docker images and kept current from the main branch.
