NewsBlur review
A capable RSS reader for archiving, filtering, and offline access.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
NewsBlur is a personal RSS and web-feed reader for people who follow many publications and want more control than a basic chronological feed. It combines subscriptions, story filtering, full-text search, text extraction, saving, tagging, sharing, notifications, and offline reading in its web and mobile apps. The free hosted plan supports up to 64 sites, while the paid tiers extend feed capacity and add deeper archive and discovery tools. Its audience is information-focused readers, researchers, and anyone building a personal reading queue—not readers looking for phonics, comprehension practice, or fluency training.
Pricing is organized around progressively larger feed collections and more advanced processing. Premium costs $36 per year and adds up to 1,024 sites, River of News, full-text search, searchable story tags, text view, and notifications. Premium Archive costs $99 per year and raises capacity to 4,096 sites while adding a full story archive, web feeds from any website, story clustering, daily briefings, and Ask AI. Premium Pro costs $29 per month for up to 10,000 sites, feeds fetched every 5–15 minutes, regular-expression training, and priority support. The plan structure makes Premium a reasonable fit for everyday feed management, while Archive is aimed at readers who need historical retrieval and AI-assisted review.
NewsBlur also fits varied reading setups. It supports web, iOS, Android, an API, and self-hosted deployment, with integrations including IFTTT, Zapier, Reeder, ReadKit, Unread, an MCP Server, and a CLI Tool. Its filtering can be trained around authors, tags, titles, and full text, giving readers a way to shape large feed collections. Choose NewsBlur if RSS organization, archiving, offline mobile access, and feed-level control are central to your workflow. Choose another reading app if the primary goal is structured literacy development or age-specific reading practice.
NewsBlur pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Full-text search, text view, archiving, tagging, and story saving
- Web, iOS, and Android access with offline mobile reading
- Self-hosted open-source edition with Docker installation
- Where it doesn't
- Its core focus is feed management rather than literacy development
- Advanced archives, AI, and larger feed limits require paid plans
- Premium Pro is billed monthly rather than annually
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