# NewsBlur

> Open-source RSS reader with trainable story filters

NewsBlur is an RSS and news reader for the web, iOS and Android. Its intelligence training lets readers highlight or hide stories by author, tag, title or text. Higher tiers add full-text search, feeds for sites without RSS, a permanent story archive, and AI features such as Ask AI and a daily briefing. The code is open source and can be self-hosted with Docker.

- **Category:** Read Later & Bookmarks
- **Made by:** NewsBlur, Inc. (since 2009)
- **Website:** https://www.newsblur.com
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 5, 2026

## Pricing

NewsBlur has a free plan. Paid plans start at $36 per year (Premium).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **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 trial:** 30-day premium trial on every new account, no credit card required.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 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. |

Read from https://www.newsblur.com/pricing on Oct 5, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with NewsBlur before buying.

## App Store prices by country

"NewsBlur Premium Subscription", as each country's App Store showed it on Oct 9, 2026. These are the app's prices, not the website's.

| Country | Price | In US dollars |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | $35.99 | |
| United Kingdom | £32.99 | about $43.57 (21% more) |
| Germany | 36,99 € | about $41.38 (15% more) |
| Canada | $44.99 | about $31.55 (12% less) |
| Australia | $50.99 | about $35.40 (about the same) |
| India | ₹ 2,749 | about $28.40 (21% less) |
| Brazil | R$ 114,90 | about $22.90 (36% less) |
| Mexico | $659.00 | about $36.59 (about the same) |
| Turkey | ₺127,99 | about $2.60 (93% less) |
| Indonesia | Rp 489ribu | about $27.29 (24% less) |
| Philippines | ₱ 1,850.00 | about $29.36 (18% less) |
| South Africa | R559.99 | about $33.63 (7% less) |

## Key features

- **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.

## Good for

- 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

## Worth knowing

- 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.

## What people say

- **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.7 out of 5 from 507 ratings in the United States, read Oct 5, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id463981119

## Works with

IFTTT, Zapier, Reeder, ReadKit, Unread, Fiery Feeds, Newsify

**Tags:** RSS reader, Open source, Self-hostable, AI features, Public API, Works offline, Read later

## Alternatives

- [Feedly](https://toolgpa.com/tools/feedly): News reader for RSS feeds, with AI filtering on paid plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/feedly-vs-newsblur)
- [Inoreader](https://toolgpa.com/tools/inoreader): RSS reader with rules, filters and keyword monitoring. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/inoreader-vs-newsblur)
- [Feedbin](https://toolgpa.com/tools/feedbin): Paid RSS reader for feeds, newsletters, podcasts and YouTube. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/feedbin-vs-newsblur)
- [The Old Reader](https://toolgpa.com/tools/the-old-reader): Web-based RSS reader with sharing among friends. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/newsblur-vs-the-old-reader)
- [FreshRSS](https://toolgpa.com/tools/freshrss): Free, self-hosted RSS and Atom feed aggregator. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/freshrss-vs-newsblur)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 5, 2026:

- https://www.newsblur.com/pricing
- https://www.newsblur.com/
- https://www.newsblur.com/features
- https://www.newsblur.com/features/native-apps
- https://www.newsblur.com/about
- https://www.newsblur.com/ios
- https://www.newsblur.com/tos

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/newsblur
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