Quick verdict
- What it is
- Store information collected; independent summary not yet available.
- At a glance
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- Free to download
- In-app purchases
Categories and search queries
Official categories
- News
- Productivity
AppCorpus categories
Key functions
| Function | Availability | Access | Scope | Evidence |
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| Free app | Yes | Free | — | Store published |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Limited free | — | Store published |
Screens
No screenshots collected yet.
Pricing & paywalls
App Store
- Free to download
- In-app purchases
Ratings & reviews
App Store
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1/5Update the App!
If you are going to charge for premium subscriptions then you should be updating the app on a regular basis. It’s been 8 months. The article list with thumbnail generation works on half the feeds. This app and images don’t mix well. The thumbnails that are generated are to small to even see on the left or right. There needs to be an under title option. Also, there must be some sort of size limitation on images. On other rss readers all the article images come through but not on this app. This app needs work..
harleydavid96 · 31 Jul 2026
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5/5The best one out there!!
When Google discontinued its newsreader I downloaded a ton of others trying to find one with a similar interface. This one is almost exactly like the old Google app but with more functionality. I liked it so much I paid for the premium service level even though I don't really need it.
gotechnow · 31 Jul 2026
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4/5Great with a few bugs…
Not sure if it’s just me, but frequently when I’m clicking into a feed, another feed will load in the requested one’s place. Also, when scrolling through feed items, clicking or swiping one will frequently mess with an incorrect one and occasionally will align halfway down the screen.
Chris3393 · 31 Jul 2026
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3/5As bad as the iOS App
I LOVE Newsblur (been paying for it for like 10 years), but both the iOS and the MacOS app are worse than reading it in Firefox. I lack the patience to reconfigure everything to make the interface usable. The fact that I cannot just backup my preferences from my Newsblur account (the same way I can save my OPML file) and load them in one of the native apps, to get the same visual experience, is unacceptable.
Irv72 · 31 Jul 2026
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4/5Functionality is kind of nuts?
WHY do I have to tap twice on add feed, once to collapse the keyboard and once for it to actually search? HOW can I make it give me more than five suggestions? UI is either not enough space in the list so it feels like nine stories are really one… or ACRES of space in the card layout, scrolling past a mile of empty space to see like 6 stories. I paid for this thing and I really want to like it; it’s my fourth feed trial this week and it does some things really well, but… some frustrations. Anyway, thanks for not collecting identifier data and look forward to updates.
88heyitsmeagain · 31 Jul 2026
Privacy & accessibility
App Store
Privacy
- Data Not Collected Developer declared
Accessibility
No accessibility labels collected yet.
Versions
App Store
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12.1.0
- Feed icons are preserved between app launches, helping get you to stories quicker - Opening a folder on startup no longer occasionally fails to open the full folder - Notifications will now reliably open the story you select
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13.0
Introducing the Grid view. Large thumbnails in a magazine-like format, where you can see a customizable number of story previews at once. Works beautifully for both iPhone and iPad.
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13.1
- Updates to the widget, theme colors, loading of icons when offline, and backend work in prep for the macOS app
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13.1.1
- Updates to the widget, theme colors, loading of icons when offline, and backend work in prep for the macOS app - Fixes a crash on iOS 16
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13.1.10
- Fixed the All Shared Stories section appearing when not following anyone. - Fixed site contextual menu icons being too large.
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13.1.11
- Fixed unexpected blank space at the top of the screen on iPhone SE. - Fixed an unnecessary divider after the last story in the widget.
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13.1.3
- Fixed the feeds list leaving a space after all stories read. - Fixed swiping to mark story as read/unread right after loading marking a different story. - Fixed saved searches not appearing. - Fixed the icon for the Delete Saved Search command. - Tweaked the position of the unread indicator when selecting a story title.
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13.1.4
- Fixed the top of the first story sometimes being scrolled off the top of the feed list on iPhone.
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13.1.5
- Fixed cached story images not rendering on iOS 18.
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13.1.6
- Fixed the wrong story sometimes being selected when first opening the app.
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13.1.7
- Fixed images in stories sometimes appearing too large.
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13.1.8
Some widget interaction improvements: - Fixed an occasional crash when choosing a story in a widget. - Improved reliability of finding the story. - Prevented marking the first story as read when finding a story, if the setting to select the first story is chosen.
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14.0
NewsBlur 14 is the biggest update in years! A redesigned app with powerful new features and full support for iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe. Dashboard: Your favorite feeds at a glance, right at the top of the feeds list. Add, remove, and rearrange feeds to build your own briefing. Ask AI: Ask questions about any story. Choose your preferred AI model and toggle thinking mode for deeper answers. Discover Sites: Find related sites from any feed or folder. Preview them with a try-feed banner before subscribing. List & Magazine Views: Two new story layouts. List shows compact rows; Magazine shows taller rows with larger thumbnails. Mark Story Read Options: Mark read on scroll, on selection, after a time interval, or manually. Premium Pro: A new tier with higher limits and additional features. Redesigned for iOS 26: Transparent toolbars, draggable column dividers, sidebar toggles, sheet presentations, and a scroll-to-hide toolbar that follows your reading. More new features: Custom feed and folder icons. Collapse-all/expand-all on All Site Stories. Pinch-to-zoom any image. Unmute individual feeds. Warmer Sepia theme. Default theme now follows your system appearance. Mac Catalyst: Dismiss modals with Escape, auto-hide sidebar below 900pt, and trackpad swipe gestures. Dozens of bug fixes for stability, performance, and layout across iPhone and iPad.
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14.1
New in v14.1: - Text, URL, and regex classifiers for the intelligence trainer. Train stories by matching text content, URL segments, or regular expression patterns in titles, story text, and URLs - Classifier scope support: apply training rules to a single feed, an entire folder, or globally across all feeds (Premium Archive) - Regex classifiers are gated to Pro subscribers - Scope toggle icons on trainer capsules show where each rule applies Improved - Story list separator colors now follow the active theme - Feed list toolbar buttons moved inward to avoid clipping on iPhone rounded corners - Text classifier matches are highlighted directly in the story detail view - Modernized sheet presentations for trainer, add site, friends, feed chooser, and notifications dialogs Fixed - Story detail pane on iPad and Mac now correctly updates when server stories replace cached stories on launch - Regex popover and input styling on Mac Catalyst - Ask AI popover height on Mac Catalyst
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14.2
Version 14.2: iPad Column Layout Overhaul - Completely reworked iPad story sidebar behavior across all column modes (auto, split view, fullscreen overlay) - Fixed story titles permanently hiding when tapping a story in Auto columns mode - Hardware keyboard navigation now works reliably across feeds sidebar, story list, and story detail - Portrait iPad sidebar refined for smoother transitions Keyboard Shortcuts - Added Shift+A mark-all-read across all views (previously only worked in feed detail) - New keyboard shortcuts help modal — press ? to see all available shortcuts organized by tab Notifications - Tapping a push notification now opens a river of notification-enabled feeds instead of the individual feed, making it much easier to find the story Ask AI - Fixed follow-up conversations breaking when the conversation ended with an assistant message Other Improvements - Tap the feed title gradient bar in river views to jump to that feed - Fixed folder rename for deeply nested folders (3+ levels) - Fixed case-insensitive folder deduplication and exact name matching - Fixed duplicate payment records from concurrent receipt submissions - Fixed crash from nil feed ID when saving comment replies - Fixed scene disconnection race condition - Restored discover usage tracking
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14.3
True black theme improvements - Feed cells, story cells, and the story detail webview now use absolute black backgrounds in the Black theme, eliminating any dark gray tinting for OLED screens. Fullscreen story reading mode - Tap the fullscreen button to temporarily hide the feed list and story titles, giving you a distraction-free reading experience. Available on iPad. iPad edge swipe to reveal feeds - Swipe from the left edge of the screen to bring back the feed list while in fullscreen or collapsed sidebar mode. Bug fixes: - Fixed iPhone story detail push animation regression - Fixed a crash when replying to comments from iOS - Fixed duplicate fullscreen button appearing on iPad - Fixed edge swipe triggering before sidebar state was synced
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14.4
Story Clustering: When multiple sites cover the same story, NewsBlur now groups them together. Clustered stories appear inline beneath the original, showing the feed icon, title, thumbnail, and how long ago it was published. Tap any cluster to jump straight to that version. Premium Archive subscribers see all clusters; free users see the top match. Daily Briefing: A new Daily Briefing appears at the top of your feed list, surfacing the most important stories from your subscriptions. Sections are collapsible so you can focus on what matters. Super Dislike Classifier: The intelligence trainer now supports super dislike, a stronger signal that overrides thumbs up matches. Long press the dislike button in any classifier pill to activate it. iPad Improvements: Swipe from the left edge to reveal the feed list on iPad. Fixed a duplicate fullscreen button and improved sidebar state sync. Visual Polish: Refined the sepia theme with a darker story separator and improved story header gradient. Increased score indicator opacity on read stories. Removed extra borders from story cells and cluster rows for a cleaner look. Bug Fixes - Fixed classifier highlights and scope matching - Fixed Mac Catalyst runaway pagination in grid view - Fixed story clustering preferences dismissing on iPhone - Fixed crash on Related Sites in folder view on iPhone - Fixed story titles scroll snap-back during pagination
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14.4.1
- Fixed iPad story page redrawing when scrolling the story titles list triggers pagination - Fixed story titles list jumping back to the selected story on pagination - Fixed footer row scroll-read not marking the last story as read - Fixed stale story header color after paging between stories - Fixed reader refresh causing scroll-read regressions - Fixed daily briefing notification routing - Fixed Mac app runaway pagination in grid view - Fixed crash on Related Sites button in folder view on iPhone
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14.5
Story clustering controls - New preference to choose between title-match-only clusters and title-plus-related clusters. Each clustered story now shows a color-coded tier badge so you can see why it was grouped.
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14.5.1
Fixed a bug where "All Site Stories" could show different stories depending on which feeds were visible in the sidebar. The story list now reliably includes all feeds with unread stories, regardless of scroll position or collapsed folders.
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14.5.2
Fixes All Site Stories on iPhone and iPad so it once again includes every site you subscribe to, not just the ones inside a folder. If your river looked suspiciously like one of your folders after upgrading to 14.5.1, this is the fix. Also fixes duplicate thumbs-up / thumbs-down icons appearing next to classifier highlights in the story text view.
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14.5.3
- Mark-as-read: removed the per-site override. - Mark-as-read: fixed a migration that wasn't running. - Mark-as-read: story cards now dim live as you read. - Fixed a crash when deleting a site. - Fixed story text classifier thumbs stacking up when rerun. - Fixed cycling through tag and author classifiers in the story detail trainer. - Fixed OPML export encoding declaration to UTF-8.
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14.5.4
- Added author pattern matching to the Intelligence Trainer. - Fixed the Interactions dialog so Interactions and Your Activities load normally again. - Fixed story detail author and tag training taps so they cycle through like, dislike, and neutral. - Fixed a crash when deleting a site with no active folder selected.
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14.6.0
- Added a premium app icon chooser on iOS, with 12 color flavors and matching light and dark previews. - Fixed an iOS orientation issue where returning to portrait while reading a story could take you back to the site list instead of keeping the story open.
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14.7.0
· 16 Jun 2026
- Added pull-up navigation: pull up past the last story in a feed to jump straight to the next feed with unread stories. A control fades in as you pull and can also be tapped directly. (iOS) - Premium custom app icons can now be pinned to their light or dark version instead of always following your system theme. - Added two trending story sections to the sites list: Widely Read Stories, which collects stories that multiple NewsBlur readers have spent meaningful time reading over the past week, and Long Reads, which ranks stories by average reading time to surface longer, deeper articles. - Both trending sections can be added to the dashboard as story lists. - Trained intelligence classifiers apply to trending stories, so title, author, tag, and text training carries through with the usual green and red scoring. - Added preferences to show or hide Widely Read Stories and Long Reads in the sites list. - Fixed an iPad issue where rotating back to portrait while reading a story could return you to the site list instead of keeping the story on screen.
Alternatives
- Reeder. — Same category + similar ratings
Availability by market
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- Last verified
- 31 Jul 2026
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