Comparison

NewsBlur vs Feedibus

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

NewsBlur

Consolidate all your favorite news sources, blogs, and newsletters into one personalized feed. Customize your reading experience with themes, text adjustments, and offline access. Train the app to highlight important stories and hide irrelevant ones.

Highlights
  • Personalized RSS news feed
  • Offline reading
  • Customizable themes and text
  • Story filtering and training
  • Home screen widgets
  • Article summarization with AI
  • Text-to-speech for articles
Features
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Follow the sites you care about with NewsBlur, a personal RSS news reader that brings your reading together. Keep up with news, blogs, newsletters, and more, with your subscriptions and reading progress synced across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and the web. READ YOUR WAY Browse stories from individual sites or bring a folder together in one reading list. Choose a comfortable theme, adjust the text, and use gestures to move through your stories. Download stories for offline reading and pick up where you left off. STORIES AT A GLANCE Add widgets to your Home Screen. Each widget can show All Site Stories, a folder, or one site. Choose its source with Edit Widget. FIND YOUR FOCUS Train NewsBlur on authors, tags, and words in headlines to highlight stories you want and hide ones you don't. You decide what matters. DISCOVER AND KEEP Find new sites, preview their latest stories, and try reading before subscribing. Save stories for later, organize them with tags, and search your reading. Share stories with comments on your NewsBlur blurblog and follow what friends are reading. LISTEN TO YOUR STORIES Turn articles into audio with voices in 21 languages. Follow highlighted paragraphs, tap to jump ahead, adjust playback speed, and queue stories in Up Next. Keep listening with the screen locked. Full listening is included with Premium Archive and Premium Pro. Free and Premium accounts can try 30-second previews. GO DEEPER Use Text view to read an extracted article. Ask AI for a summary, background, or answers to questions about a story. Availability and usage limits depend on your account plan. IN YOUR LANGUAGE Use NewsBlur's interface in 21 languages, including right-to-left layouts for Arabic and Hebrew. Choose your language in Preferences or follow your device settings. Stories stay in the language they were published in. A NewsBlur account is required. Free accounts and optional paid subscriptions are available. Some features require a paid plan. SUBSCRIPTIONS If you purchase a subscription through the App Store, payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Terms of use: https://www.newsblur.com/tos Privacy policy: https://www.newsblur.com/privacy

About

Feedibus

This newsreader app aggregates content from RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds into a beautifully organized interface. It uses on-device AI to summarize articles, deduplicate content, and learn user interests for a personalized reading experience.

Highlights
  • AI-powered article summaries
  • Content deduplication
  • Personalized interest learning
  • Cross-device iCloud sync
  • Customizable reading view
  • Background updates
  • OPML import/export
Features
Currently charting
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Read News & Articles Feedibus is a newsreader app. It supports Atom, RSS, and JSON feeds. All techno-gibberish to you? Don’t worry. Many news websites and blogs offer this service for free so that you can read all your loved and trusted sources in a beautiful interface, organized automagically. Key Features, Making Feedibus Unique: - Magic Content: Enjoy full articles in a beautiful reading experience, even for feeds with just summaries. - Magic Deduplication: Streamline your timeline, grouping duplicates and similar content. - Magic Interests: Discover more, automagically learning your interests. - Magic Summaries: Automatically summarizes articles and displays them in a beautiful liquid glass card. All on-device powered by Apple Intelligence. What makes Feedibus so magical? We could tell you that it uses machine learning and other state-of-the-art computational methods to offer you this awesome experience — but that wouldn’t sound so cool, would it? What else? - iPad/iPhone Support: Read on all your devices. - iCloud Sync: Keeps your devices in sync, including all machine learning data. - Notifications: Define trigger phrases to retrieve local notifications during background refreshes. - Widget Support: Add your favorite news source right to your home screen. - Customizable Reading View: Pick your favorite font, size, and appearance. - Background Updates: Keeping your content fresh, effortlessly. - OPML-Import & Export - Bookmarking: Save articles for later. - Switch between Reading Experiences: Decide for yourself how to read articles, including Embedded Safari Reader Mode. - Favorite Feed Groups: Organize your feeds thematically & focus on what matters in the moment. - Sharing with Friends & Social Networks - Dark Mode / Light Mode … and much more. Design Philosophy We believe that reading your favorite news & articles should be fun, engaging, and informative. Some newsreaders seem to make this a chore, treating it like your email inbox. Feedibus presents all content in a chronological timeline. It highlights what it thinks is interesting and groups duplicate content for you just scroll through, discover and enjoy what you like. We want to go the extra mile for you — for instance, we even analyze the images within an article to detect faces and interesting content so that we can crop them to minimize required space while maintaining essential parts of the image. All powered by the amazing chips in your device! Privacy No sign-up required. All machine learning and processing happens locally on your device. We don’t know what you read, and we don’t want to. Please review our privacy policy for more details. Pay once, own forever Since 2.0 Feedibus requires a one-off payment if you download it from the app store. All functionality included. Only for customers of previous versions we maintain legacy in-app purchase options. — * The Fine Print Magic Content works for many websites; Feedibus supports its machine learning features for most languages, even if you subscribe to feeds of different languages simultaneously. Feedibus’ user interface is currently available in English & German, but more localization is on our to-do list. Magic Summaries only works on devices that have Apple Intelligence enabled and only for supported languages.

Screenshots

NewsBlur4 screens
Feedibus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: NewsBlur at Free against Feedibus's $3.99. NewsBlur also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.7) and update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). Feedibus's advantage is chart position (#63 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

NewsBlur is free to download; Feedibus costs $3.99 up front. NewsBlur sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per month and Feedibus sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

NewsBlur holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NewsBlur has 513 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of NewsBlur's written reviews are positive against 39% of Feedibus's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NewsBlur ships an update weekly, Feedibus every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
NewsBlur versus Feedibus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNewsBlurFeedibus
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.7 (513 ratings) — better3.7 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews56.7% of reviews — better39.4% of reviews
Number of ratings513 — better12
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#63 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB22 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperNewsBlur, Inc.Nicolas Neubauer

Customer experience

NewsBlur

All ratings513 ratings
Positive92.8%
Neutral2.9%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews194 reviews
Positive56.7%
Neutral9.8%
Negative33.5%

Feedibus

All ratings12 ratings
Positive58.3%
Neutral25.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive39.4%
Neutral30.3%
Negative30.3%

Bugs and requests

NewsBlur

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes on launch for some users
  • Incorrect feed display and article loading issues
  • Syncing problems between web and mobile apps

Requested features

4 requests
  • Customizable font sizes
  • Offline reading mode
  • Improved sharing options
  • Ability to delete feeds and folders

Feedibus

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

NewsBlur

Subscriptions3
  • NewsBlur Premium Pro$29.991 Month
  • NewsBlur Premium$35.991 Year
  • NewsBlur Premium Archive$99.991 Year
2 purchases

Feedibus

Subscriptions1
  • Unlock Feedibus7 Days trial$0.991 Month
One-time1
  • Unlock Feedibus One-Time Fee$3.99

Questions

Is NewsBlur free?
NewsBlur is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Feedibus free?
Feedibus costs $3.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, NewsBlur or Feedibus?
NewsBlur is rated higher. NewsBlur averages 4.7 out of 5 from 513 ratings, while Feedibus averages 3.7 from 12 ratings.
Do NewsBlur or Feedibus have ads?
Neither NewsBlur nor Feedibus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NewsBlur or Feedibus?
NewsBlur ships an update weekly, and Feedibus every 5 weeks. Most recently, NewsBlur was updated on November 1, 2026 and Feedibus on November 3, 2026.

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