NewsBlur app for iPhone and iPad

4.0 ( 3360 ratings )

Productivity News
Developer: NewsBlur, Inc.

Free

Current version: 7.1.2, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 07 Oct 2011
App size: 25.16 Mb

NewsBlur is a personal news reader bringing people together to talk about the world. A new sound of an old instrument.

NewsBlur is popular for a reason. While also being the oldest surviving RSS news reader, it is used by many news organizations, popular blogs, editors, and individual readers to keep up with the world.

Lets talk about major features:

* Read an unlimited number of RSS subscriptions
* Offline support for stories and images
* Full text extracts the whole story and is sticky per-feed
* Gestures and long presses for feeds and stories
* Share and comment on the news with friends
* Meet new people who share the same interests
* Autoscrolling of text for hands-free reading
* Collapsible folders
* Saved stories with tagging
* Mark stories as unread
* Read by oldest/newest first
* Filter by unread/all stories
* Search for stories by feed or folder
* Send to Facebook/Twitter/Instapaper/Pocket/Evernote/email/etc
* Landscape view
* Customizable offline sync settings

You can also optionally subscribe with a NewsBlur Premium Subscription

* Subscribe to an unlimited number of sites
* Sites you subscribe to are updated up to 10x more often
* Read by folder with the river of news
* Search sites and folders
* Save stories with searchable tags
* Privacy options for your blurblog (shared stories)
* Custom RSS feeds for folders and saved stories
* Use the Text view which conveniently extracts the full original story

The subscription is auto-renewable which means that once purchased it will be auto-renewed every year until you cancel it 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Duration of the subscription is 1 year. Your iTunes Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Manage your Subscription and Auto-Renewal by going to your Account Settings.

You may access the privacy policy at https://www.newsblur.com/privacy, and the terms of use at https://www.newsblur.com/tos.

Pros and cons of NewsBlur app for iPhone and iPad

NewsBlur app good for

Great apps ! Is it possible to have a night mode option ? Like having white words on a black background please. Also if possible, a full screen story on portrait mode available :) At last, giving the shortcut gesture down-up (instead of only left-right) to pass to the next or previous story as an option would be perfect. Thank you :)

Really perfect if you have un account. App having for a watch Vraiment bien si vous avez un compte (cest gratuit). Je recommande pour une veille techno ou un suivi de lactualité

NewsBlur is the result of Samuel Clays hard work. Its one of those programs that surprise the user who would not give it the deserved credits - and this one takes all the credits. Its sleek, smooth and also has a training feature that learns the way you read. For those who are wanting a Zite replacement, NewsBlur might be it, also being at the same time one of the best replacements for the deceased Google Reader.

I use it to read my feeds in one place. Combination of web client, iOS App and very user friendly interface makes it perfect for me.

NewsBlur for iPhone is brilliant. Simple design makes it quick and easy to use.

I was looking for a replacement after I heard about google reader shutting down, and Im so happy with NewsBlur I bought the full version. This app is BETTER than google reader ever was! It organizes my feeds into folders, I can easily flip through them, share, save, and manage. Why did I not use this app before? Why are there no other reviews for this??? Worth every penny!!!!

Some bad moments

I have just updated the app under iOS8 to the new version and it crashes on start :-( If the new version does not work with iOS 8 it should not be proposed to the user !! What can I do now ? Is there a way ti revert back to the previous version ?

When I open the app, it shows a "Connection failure" message and simply dont work at all.

The last versions are very unstable. By taging the app crash every time.

It requires an account to even just try it. Just imagine if everything requires an account... An account to go to the grocery, an account to buy at Best Buy, one for every place you go... Too bad.

You need to make an account just to try it. Seriously? I just want an app to fetch my RSS feeds. App deleted.

Require: Night theme and own server preferences. Text reading maybe batter. I think readability and Kindle is best at this time. Im using this service and app because I love Django.

Write review