NewsBlur vs Feedspot Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NewsBlur
This app is a personal news reader that allows users to follow unlimited RSS subscriptions, share stories with friends, and discover new people with shared interests. It offers offline reading, full text extraction, and customizable reading preferences.
- Unlimited RSS subscriptions
- Offline story and image support
- Full text story extraction
- Share and comment on news
- Meet people with shared interests
- Autoscrolling for hands-free reading
- Saved stories with tagging
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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. 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
Feedspot Reader
Stay updated with your favorite news websites and blogs in one place. This app continuously monitors and delivers fresh content from your chosen sources, ensuring you never miss an update. It provides a fast, easy, and convenient way to access all your preferred content.
- Aggregate favorite news sites
- Monitor blogs and websites
- Deliver fresh content
- Fast and easy updates
- Convenient content access
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Feedspot offers a fast, easy, and convenient way to stay updated with your favorite news websites and blogs. It continuously monitors and delivers fresh content from the sources you choose, ensuring you never miss an update. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: NewsBlur at 57% against Feedspot Reader's 0%. NewsBlur also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (511 vs 4). Feedspot Reader's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. NewsBlur sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per month and Feedspot Reader sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
NewsBlur holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NewsBlur has 511 ratings behind it against 4, 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 0% of Feedspot Reader's.
NewsBlur ships an update weekly, Feedspot Reader every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | NewsBlur | Feedspot Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (511 ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 56.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 511 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NewsBlur, Inc. | Feedspot |
Customer experience
NewsBlur
Feedspot Reader
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
Feedspot Reader
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
NewsBlur
- NewsBlur Premium Pro$29.991 Month
- NewsBlur Premium Subscription$35.991 Year
- NewsBlur Premium Archive$99.991 Year
Feedspot Reader
- Pro Monthly$7.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$79.991 Year
