NewsBlur
American software company, founded 2009
NewsBlur is commercial RSS reader software made by NewsBlur. NewsBlur was founded in 2009, and it is based in United States. Its English Wikipedia article has about 53 readers a month on phones.
- Made by
- NewsBlur
- Since
- 2009
- Wikipedia readers on phones
- 53 a month
- Source code
- Closed
Judgement
- What it is
- Complete system
- What it does
- 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.
- Adopt it when
- You want an independent RSS reader with story filtering and the option to self-host.
- Watch out
- Essentially a one-person operation, and the interface is busy.
- Ready for
- Production-ready
- Runs as
- Cloud service, mobile app and self-hosted server
- Built with
- Python, Django, MongoDB and PostgreSQL
- What the license allows
- Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Judged on 2026-11-03 from the maker's description and Wikipedia. The license and age lines are worked out directly.
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Under it
Every program, NewsBlur included, runs on a microchip.
Facts come from Wikipedia and refresh weekly. Readers are counted on Wikipedia's mobile site only, because automated traffic that Wikimedia does not flag inflates desktop counts.