NewsBlur vs Sift
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Sift
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Siftは、購読したRSS/Atomフィードを「短時間で読み切る」ことに寄せたリーダーです。 名前のとおり、情報をふるいにかけて要点だけを残します。 ■ 読むかどうかを一覧で決められる 記事カードには、タイトル・画像に加えて、結論まで入った短い要約とキーワードが並びます。 一覧を眺めるだけで「自分に関係あるか」を判断でき、本文を開く回数そのものが減ります。 ■ 流し見 1記事ずつ全画面で表示し、縦フリックで次へ送るモードです。 各記事は箇条書きに整理されるので、移動中や待ち時間に要点だけを追えます。 右下の操作から、保存・共有・既読・本文表示にそのまま進めます。 ■ 読みやすい本文表示 記事はリーダーモードで、本文だけを抽出して表示します。 広告やナビゲーションが混ざらないので、そのまま読み進められます。 元のページを開きたいときは、ワンタップで切り替えられます。 ■ 購読の管理 ・サイトのURLを入れるだけでフィードを自動で探します(フィードURLを直接入れてもOK) ・OPMLの読み込みと書き出しに対応。他のリーダーからの乗り換え、他への持ち出しができます ・フィードごとのON/OFF、並び替え、削除 ・新着があるフィードは一覧で目印が付き、新しいものから左に並びます ■ 読み逃さないための機能 ・新着通知(頻度の変更、オフにすることもできます) ・保存(あとで読む)。保存した記事は本文から検索できます ・ミュートワード。指定した語を含む記事をフィードから隠します ・発見枠。購読中のサイトから辿れる範囲で、まだ知らない記事を少しだけ混ぜます(オフにできます) ■ 端末の中で完結する要約 要約・翻訳・キーワード抽出は、Apple Intelligenceの言語モデルを使い、すべて端末内で処理します。 記事の内容が要約のために外部へ送信されることはありません。 フィードの要約と流し見の箇条書きは、それぞれ個別にオン/オフを切り替えられます。 ※ この機能はiOS 26以降かつApple Intelligence対応端末でのみ動作します。 非対応の端末では、フィードが配信する抜粋をそのまま表示します。アプリの他の機能はすべてお使いいただけます。 ■ その他 ・iPhone / iPad 対応 ・ダークモード対応 ・文字サイズの変更 ・保存済み記事の全文検索 ・古い記事とキャッシュの自動整理。使用量の確認と手動削除も可能 Siftは特定のサービス専用のクライアントではありません。購読するフィードはすべて利用者が追加します。 本アプリは広告を表示します。
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sift at none against NewsBlur's 3. Sift also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly) and iOS requirement (18.1 vs 26.0). NewsBlur's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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
Both are free to download. NewsBlur sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per month. Sift asks for nothing beyond the download.
NewsBlur ships an update weekly, Sift daily. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NewsBlur | Sift |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (514 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 56.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 514 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | NewsBlur, Inc. | Kentaro Iwata |
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
Sift
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
NewsBlur
- NewsBlur Premium Pro$29.991 Month
- NewsBlur Premium$35.991 Year
- NewsBlur Premium Archive$99.991 Year
Sift
No in-app purchases









