Comparison

NewsBlur vs TinyTinyClient

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
Read full description

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. Premium Archive includes 1 hour of listening per week, and Premium Pro includes 10 hours per week. Allowances reset every Sunday. Auto-continue follows your chosen list order in Saved Stories and Read Stories. 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

TinyTinyClient

This app allows users to read and manage RSS feeds hosted on a tt-rss server. It offers features like browsing feeds by category, marking articles as read, and sharing content. Users can subscribe, unsubscribe, and manage labels for their feeds.

Highlights
  • Browse and manage RSS feeds
  • Organize feeds by categories and labels
  • Mark articles as read on scroll
  • View and share articles
  • Subscribe and unsubscribe from feeds
  • View server information
Read full description

TinyTinyClient is an iOS app used to communicate with a tt-rss server. TinyTinyClient (also known as TTC) is used to read and manage RSS feeds that are hosted on a tt-rss server. You can use any server you'd like, as long as you have the credentials for it. Any feature suggestions or bug reports are welcome! # Features - Browse your feeds - Hide and show special feeds - Mark as read on scroll - View feeds in categories - Subscribe and unsubscribe from feeds (requires: >= API level 5) - View articles within the app - Share articles - Browse labels (requires: >= API level 1) - View server information - Publish articles - See labels that are applied to articles

Screenshots

NewsBlur4 screens
TinyTinyClient4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: NewsBlur at 4.7 against TinyTinyClient's 4.3. NewsBlur also leads on ratings volume (514 vs 4) and update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). TinyTinyClient's advantage is iOS requirement (13.4 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 and TinyTinyClient sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. 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 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NewsBlur has 514 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NewsBlur ships an update weekly, TinyTinyClient every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
NewsBlur versus TinyTinyClient: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNewsBlurTinyTinyClient
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (514 ratings) — better4.3 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews56.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings514 — better4
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS26.013.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNewsBlur, Inc.Milo Gertjejansen

Customer experience

NewsBlur

All ratings514 ratings
Positive92.8%
Neutral2.9%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews194 reviews
Positive56.7%
Neutral9.8%
Negative33.5%

TinyTinyClient

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

TinyTinyClient

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

TinyTinyClient

One-time2
  • Small Donation$0.99
  • Medium Donation$4.99

Questions

Is NewsBlur free?
NewsBlur is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TinyTinyClient free?
TinyTinyClient is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, NewsBlur or TinyTinyClient?
NewsBlur is rated higher. NewsBlur averages 4.7 out of 5 from 514 ratings, while TinyTinyClient averages 4.3 from 4 ratings.
Do NewsBlur or TinyTinyClient have ads?
Neither NewsBlur nor TinyTinyClient shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NewsBlur or TinyTinyClient?
NewsBlur ships an update weekly, and TinyTinyClient every 5 weeks. Most recently, NewsBlur was updated on November 10, 2026 and TinyTinyClient on November 3, 2026.

Other comparisons