Comparison

NewsBlur vs RSS Mobile

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

RSS Mobile

This app allows you to read news from various channels directly on your device without relying on external web services. It downloads and stores feed updates locally for offline reading and supports easy migration with OPML file import/export.

Highlights
  • RSS, Atom, and JSON feed support
  • Offline feed storage
  • OPML import/export for migration
  • Simplified linked webpage view
  • Feed grouping
  • Post flagging and hiding
  • Safari browser subscription
Features
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RSS Mobile is a standalone app for reading news channels that does not depend on any third-party web services. It downloads feed updates and stores them on your device for further reading. OPML-file import/export are supported, so you may perform migration easily. RSS Mobile is free and does not contain ads. Features: - RSS, Atom and JSON feeds support - Import / Export of OPML-files - Stores loaded posts locally - Simplified view of linked webpage in Reader - Grouping of feeds - Flagging and hiding of posts - Subscription from Safari browser - Dynamic Type - Pointer and Keyboard support for iPad - VoiceOver Any questions? Feel free to contact us: rssmobileapp@gmail.com

Screenshots

NewsBlur4 screens
RSS Mobile3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RSS Mobile at none against NewsBlur's 3. RSS Mobile also leads on review sentiment (81% vs 57%) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). NewsBlur's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (513 vs 58). On price, rating, ads and device support 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

Both are free to download. NewsBlur sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per month. RSS Mobile asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for NewsBlur against 4.6 for RSS Mobile. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NewsBlur has 513 ratings behind it against 58, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 57% of NewsBlur's written reviews are positive against 81% of RSS Mobile's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NewsBlur ships an update weekly, RSS Mobile every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
NewsBlur versus RSS Mobile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNewsBlurRSS Mobile
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (513 ratings) — better4.6 (58 ratings)
Positive reviews56.7% of reviews81.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings513 — better58
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB16 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperNewsBlur, Inc.Elias Panfilow

Customer experience

NewsBlur

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

RSS Mobile

All ratings57 ratings
Positive89.5%
Neutral3.5%
Negative7.0%
Written reviews75 reviews
Positive81.3%
Neutral6.7%
Negative12.0%

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

RSS Mobile

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
None

RSS Mobile

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NewsBlur free?
NewsBlur is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RSS Mobile free?
RSS Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, NewsBlur or RSS Mobile?
NewsBlur is rated higher. NewsBlur averages 4.7 out of 5 from 513 ratings, while RSS Mobile averages 4.6 from 58 ratings.
Do NewsBlur or RSS Mobile have ads?
Neither NewsBlur nor RSS Mobile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NewsBlur or RSS Mobile?
NewsBlur ships an update weekly, and RSS Mobile every 3 months. Most recently, NewsBlur was updated on November 1, 2026 and RSS Mobile on November 1, 2026.

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