NewsBlur vs feeder.co
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
feeder.co
This app aggregates content from any online source into a single, customizable feed. It offers notifications for new content, filtering options to find specific topics, and tools to organize and share articles. Users can personalize their reading experience with different themes and modes.
- Customizable news feeds
- Push notifications for new content
- Keyword filtering and exclusion
- Organize, label, and share posts
- Light and dark themes
- Compact and simple reading modes
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Keep up with everything you care about in one place with Feeder (www.feeder.co). Feeder is the news manager that tracks any online source you choose and bundles it into an easy-to-digest reading experience. Add content sources to get your very-own customized news feed. Through advanced RSS integrations, we connect to almost any source on the web – blogs, news, weather, government databases, job boards, Twitter, newsletters and more. Just pick and mix. We check for updates faster than you ever could manually. With notifications, we let you know that there's new content you care about available, allowing you to know what happens, right when it happens. Add filters to your feeds to find keywords or specific topics in posts. You can also exclude certain keywords to remove noise. Filters combined with notifications allow you to get notified for even more specific content. Sort, label and share. When you find something important, share it with your friends or colleagues. We have all the tools to optimize your information intake and spread it to relevant parties. Whether you use Feeder for large consumption or casual browsing. Read content in the way that suits you. Light theme for the day, dark theme during the night. Use compact mode to maximize content or simple mode to remove all clutter. Feature list: - Browse your feeds in a great experience - Star posts and mark them as unread with simple swipe gestures - View your unread posts in one consolidated list - Receive push notifications when a new post appears, globally or per feed - With the intuitive scroll experience you can browse your posts in an beautifully - Edit feeds and folders - Share posts - Integrates seamlessly with your Feeder account, web extensions, and the web service - Podcast player - Available in 30+ languages FEEDER PRO Collect and organize content like a Pro Unlock a range of essential features. Filter content. Create rules to automatically order incoming posts and do it all with rocket-speed. - 1 minute updates - Ad-free - Filters, rules and collection FEEDER BUSINESS Become a smarter team with Feeder Business Keep up with everything that matters to your business in one place. Feeder Business can be tailored to your specific needs. Customise what sources your team follows. Automate the manual process of checking for updates. Our crawlers are awake and working 24/7. - Everything in Feeder Pro - Invite your team - Shared feeds and folders You can choose to upgrade your account whenever you want. Payment will be charged to your iTunes account, and your account will be charged for renewal 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Auto-renewal may be turned off at any time by going to your settings in the iTunes Store after purchase.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: NewsBlur at weekly against feeder.co's every 2 months. NewsBlur also leads on review sentiment (57% vs 42%). feeder.co's advantage is iOS requirement (15 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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 feeder.co sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for NewsBlur against 4.7 for feeder.co. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 511 and 1K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 57% of NewsBlur's written reviews are positive against 42% of feeder.co's.
NewsBlur ships an update weekly, feeder.co every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 23, 2026.
| Parameter | NewsBlur | feeder.co |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (511 ratings) — better | 4.7 (1K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 56.7% of reviews — better | 41.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 511 | 1K — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | NewsBlur, Inc. | Really Simple AB |
Customer experience
NewsBlur
feeder.co
User reviews
NewsBlur
From 511 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast and reliable
- 👍 Excellent news reader
- 🔒 Great privacy policy
- 💡 Useful training and filtering features
- 👍 Seamless sync across devices
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and bugs, especially on iPad
- 👎 Paywall for basic features
- 👎 Outdated and cluttered UI
- 👎 Difficult to manage feeds and folders
feeder.co
From 1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast and responsive
- 💡 Useful for freelance translators
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- 🚀 Syncs well across platforms
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and glitchy
- 💰 Expensive subscription
- 🔒 Difficult to sign up/login
- 🤔 Missing key features
- 🤔 Cluttered UI
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
feeder.co
Reported bugs
5 issues- Feeds stop syncing
- App crashes when reaching low unread count
- Issues with adding/deleting feeds
- Login/sign-up problems
- UI bugs and glitches
Requested features
5 requests- Add read-aloud function
- Improve article reading experience
- Allow sign-in/import from Feedly
- Add more customization options
- Improve feed management and organization
In-app purchases
NewsBlur
- NewsBlur Premium Pro$29.991 Month
- NewsBlur Premium Subscription$35.991 Year
- NewsBlur Premium Archive$99.991 Year
feeder.co
- Feeder Pro$5.991 Month
- Feeder Plus (Monthly)$9.991 Month
- Feeder Professional (monthly)$14.991 Month
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- Feeder Pro$59.991 Year
- Feeder Plus (yearly)$95.901 Year
- Feeder Professional (Yearly)$179.991 Year






