Feedly vs NewsBlur
Feedly and NewsBlur are both RSS reader software. Feedly is a commercial product from Feedly. NewsBlur is a commercial product from NewsBlur.
Which to pick
- Pick Feedly when
- You follow many sources and want a polished reader, or a team needs topic monitoring with AI filtering.
- Pick NewsBlur when
- You want an independent RSS reader with story filtering and the option to self-host.
Side by side
An RSS and news reader that gathers sites, blogs and newsletters into feeds, with AI filtering sold to market and threat intelligence teams.
An RSS reader that shows stories in the site's original layout and learns which stories you like through training filters; the code is open source.
The company now focuses on paid threat and market intelligence, and the free tier is limited.
Essentially a one-person operation, and the interface is busy.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service and mobile app
Cloud service, mobile app and self-hosted server
Not published
Python, Django, MongoDB and PostgreSQL
Closed source, sold by Feedly
Closed source, sold by NewsBlur
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code. (both)
478 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
53 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Other comparisons
More RSS readers
Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.