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Should I use NewsBlur?

Personal news reader with intelligence training — follow RSS feeds and train stories you want more or less of. - newsblur.com

· 1 month ago

Buy it if RSS is genuinely your reading habit: it's cheap, open source, and users report it's dead reliable. Skip it if you just want a few headlines — a free Feedly tier or plain newsletters fit better.

Confidence

Medium. Based on ~9 usable public sources; many scraped search results were spam domains and were ignored.

Ratings

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Feature depth
  • Support quality
  • Security postureNo security page or public findings

Pricing

$0

Free

ModelNot disclosed
Monthly feesNot disclosed
HardwareNot disclosed
Free tierYes
Premium$36/year
Premium Archive$99/year

Best for

  • RSS power users with hundreds of feeds
  • Open-source fans who can self-host
  • Readers who hate algorithmic feeds
  • People wanting trainable keyword filters

Not for

  • Casual readers who never use RSS
  • Anyone wanting algorithmic discovery feeds
  • Teams needing shared monitoring dashboards
  • Buyers expecting enterprise support or SLAs

Gotchas - check before you buy

medium

1,024-site cap on Premium; heavy feed users should verify headroom before subscribing

medium

Guess: exporting years of training filters may be painful; test export before committing

low

Archive features cost $99/year; confirm you need story archiving before upgrading

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Open source and self-hostable
  • Intelligence training hides stories by author, tag, and keywords
  • $36/year covers up to 1,024 sites
  • Long-term paying users call native apps dead reliable
  • Active public forum where bugs and ideas get discussed

Cons

  • No security page found on official site
  • Feature bugs linger, e.g. unreliable YouTube Shorts tagging

Sources & method

- 8 sources - No known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.

official x2review x4security x1news x1

Key stats

  • Value for money: 5/5

    Rating

  • $0

    Starting price

  • 8

    Sources

  • Analyzed

  • Value for money: 5/5. $36/year for 1,024 feeds is cheap
  • Ease of use: 4/5. Praised as intuitive; training adds learning curve
  • Feature depth: 4/5. Training filters, AI, story clustering; deep but niche
  • Support quality: 4/5. Active public forum; long-term users report reliability
  • Security posture. No security page or public findings
  • $36/year Starting paid price Premium, up to 1,024 sites
  • Yes Free tier Paid unlocks 1,024 sites
  • $99/year Archive tier Premium plus archiving
  • Feedly Competitor benchmark 85 reviews on G2

Pricing

Free

$0

  • Limited feeds
  • Basic reading

Premium

$36/year

  • Everything in Free
  • Up to 1,024 sites

Premium Archive

$99/year

  • Everything in Premium
  • Story archiving

Security

No known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.

What users say

Long-time users praise reliability, the native apps, and the trainable filters, with scattered feature-bug complaints.

“The native apps are fantastic and it's been dead reliable. I feel the small amount I pay for it is totally worth it”
Hacker News
“Update: 5 stars! This app keeps getting better. It's updated for the iPhone 6+ and looks and runs great!”
Apple App Store review
“NewsBlur allows you to train the service on what you like/does not like.”
Quarter to Three forum

Alternatives

Compare NewsBlur with each alternative.

  • Feedly

    Mainstream RSS with AI features and team plans

  • Inoreader

    Power-user RSS reader with heavy automation rules

    NewsBlur vs Inoreader

  • Readwise Reader

    Paid read-later plus RSS; head-to-head comparison exists

Full analysis

Based on ~9 usable public sources; many scraped search results were spam domains and were ignored.

Cheap, reliable, open-source RSS reader for feed power users. Skip it if you don't actually follow feeds.

Methodology

Based on ~9 usable public sources; many scraped search results were spam domains and were ignored.

Read how a report is made.

Sources

  1. NewsBlur official site and pricingnewsblur.com
    official
  2. NewsBlur on GitHub (open source)github.com
    official
  3. NewsBlur security page checknewsblur.com
    security
  4. Hacker News: paying user feedbacknews.ycombinator.com
    review
  5. Apple App Store reviewsapps.apple.com
    review
  6. Quarter to Three forum discussionforum.quartertothree.com
    review
  7. NewsBlur forum: YouTube Shorts tagging bugforum.newsblur.com
    news
  8. G2: Feedly reviews (competitor)g2.com
    review

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