NewsBlur
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13.0for iPhone, iPad and more
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About NewsBlur
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.
Let's 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.
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.
Let's 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.
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What's New in the Latest Version 13.0
Last updated on Dec 5, 2023
Old Versions
Introducing the Grid view. Large thumbnails in a magazine-like format, where you can see a customizable number of story previews at once. Works beautifully for both iPhone and iPad.
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Version History
13.0
Dec 5, 2023
Introducing the Grid view. Large thumbnails in a magazine-like format, where you can see a customizable number of story previews at once. Works beautifully for both iPhone and iPad.
12.1.0
Oct 6, 2023
- Feed icons are preserved between app launches, helping get you to stories quicker
- Opening a folder on startup no longer occasionally fails to open the full folder
- Notifications will now reliably open the story you select
- Opening a folder on startup no longer occasionally fails to open the full folder
- Notifications will now reliably open the story you select
12.0.6
Jan 24, 2023
- Restored double-tapping on stories on iPhone opens the original story
- Fixed an issue where accidentally double-tapping on story titles would open the original story when you intended to open the feed text
- Deleting and moving top-level feeds now works again
- Fixed a crash when opening notifications for sites that are also top-level
- Fixed an issue where accidentally double-tapping on story titles would open the original story when you intended to open the feed text
- Deleting and moving top-level feeds now works again
- Fixed a crash when opening notifications for sites that are also top-level
12.0.5
Dec 2, 2022
- Images are no longer blown up out of proportion if not wide enough to fill the screen
- Fixed a performance issue for people with a lot of feeds in subfolders
- Fixed a performance issue for people with a lot of feeds in subfolders
12.0.4
Nov 22, 2022
Fixes crashes when marking feeds as read and automatically moving to the next Unread Stories feed.
12.0.3
Nov 17, 2022
This version fixes all of the known issues around the v12 upgrade. This includes fixes for the feed list showing a blank line for read feeds after reading them and a fix for double tapping story titles sometimes opening the original story instead of the feed story.
12.0.1
Nov 8, 2022
The 2022 redesign comes to iOS with tons of tweaks and adjustments that improve the reading experience. This update also fixes a broken hostname error upon load.
12.0
Nov 8, 2022
The 2022 redesign comes to iOS with tons of tweaks and adjustments that improve the reading experience.
11.2.1
Jun 2, 2022
- Fixed an issue when opening notifications loading the feed twice
- Fixed issues around premium upgrades not being recognized by the server immediately
- Fixed scrolling performance issues on iPad
- Fixed issues around premium upgrades not being recognized by the server immediately
- Fixed scrolling performance issues on iPad
11.2
Apr 26, 2022
Building on the redesigned iPad layout, this release has new preferences as well as fixes for issues we heard from your generous feedback.
A nice feature we added is a new preference for which folder to automatically open when opening NewsBlur, so you can start the app right where you want to be. You can combine this with the preference to auto-open the first unread story, and you can open the app directly to what you want to read.
A substantial number of issues were fixed:
- Returning to the app should no longer cause a story to be offset
- The feed bar no longer intermittently disappears
- An odd 1px white border found at the bottom the story list was removed
- The full screen button now works when story titles are on the top/bottom on iPad
- Toggling fullscreen now preserves your position in a story
- Stories are no longer cut off when in iPad multi-app mode
- Loading notifications and having them open the story in a timely manner should now be more reliable
- A number of issues were found and fixed around state restoration when returning back to the app
- No longer losing story position on interactive edge swipe that gets canceled early
- The “when opening a site” preference on iPad now shows the first story by default
A nice feature we added is a new preference for which folder to automatically open when opening NewsBlur, so you can start the app right where you want to be. You can combine this with the preference to auto-open the first unread story, and you can open the app directly to what you want to read.
A substantial number of issues were fixed:
- Returning to the app should no longer cause a story to be offset
- The feed bar no longer intermittently disappears
- An odd 1px white border found at the bottom the story list was removed
- The full screen button now works when story titles are on the top/bottom on iPad
- Toggling fullscreen now preserves your position in a story
- Stories are no longer cut off when in iPad multi-app mode
- Loading notifications and having them open the story in a timely manner should now be more reliable
- A number of issues were found and fixed around state restoration when returning back to the app
- No longer losing story position on interactive edge swipe that gets canceled early
- The “when opening a site” preference on iPad now shows the first story by default
11.1
Mar 15, 2022
A redesigned layout engine for the NewsBlur iOS app!
- All new UI on iPad with gesture based navigation for stories and feeds
- There's also a new homescreen widget for showing 3-6 stories on your dashboard
- New image preview and content preview options for story titles
- You can now save stories and subscribe to feeds from other apps using the NewsBlur Share extension
- Numerous improvements, subtle refinements, and assorted fixed bugs
- All new UI on iPad with gesture based navigation for stories and feeds
- There's also a new homescreen widget for showing 3-6 stories on your dashboard
- New image preview and content preview options for story titles
- You can now save stories and subscribe to feeds from other apps using the NewsBlur Share extension
- Numerous improvements, subtle refinements, and assorted fixed bugs
10.1.1
Sep 29, 2020
Version 10.1.1 fixes iOS 14 issues as well as colors for newsletters and block quotes.
10.1
Sep 21, 2020
- New: Saved searches
- Enhanced full screen viewing mode with vertical scrolling improvements
- Muted feeds now show in All Sites view
- Open in Edge browser
- Insta-fetch stories by pulling to refresh in story list
- A fair number of visual tweaks for better cohesiveness
- Fixed issue with search bar losing focus
- Fixed issue with dark mode and newsletters
- Fixed issue with dark mode and scroll indicators
- Fixed issue with muted feeds showing incorrectly
- Decluttered menus
- Enhanced full screen viewing mode with vertical scrolling improvements
- Muted feeds now show in All Sites view
- Open in Edge browser
- Insta-fetch stories by pulling to refresh in story list
- A fair number of visual tweaks for better cohesiveness
- Fixed issue with search bar losing focus
- Fixed issue with dark mode and newsletters
- Fixed issue with dark mode and scroll indicators
- Fixed issue with muted feeds showing incorrectly
- Decluttered menus
10.0.1
Feb 24, 2020
This version, 10.0.1, fixes iPad layout issues and the dark theme's colors.
Version 10.0: What a whopper of a release! Here's the major new features:
- A new iOS widget shows the latest stories in your Notification Center and on your iPad dashboard
- Statistics visualization for every site
- Automatic downloading of the original story full text for offline reading
And tons of bugs were fixed and other small improvements:
- Fixed crash on start.
- Fixed highlighting issue.
- Fixed settings with stories on bottom.
- Tweaked dark theme colors to be darker.
- Fixed wonky behavior on iPad.
- Unsubscribe feed from story.
- Clearing offline now clears the cached stories, text, and images from the database.
- Manually changing the theme now turns off the preference to follow the system appearance.
- Turning on following the system appearance immediately updates the theme appropriately.
- Fixed crash on feed load list.
- Preferences import & export.
- Fixed crash on start.
Version 10.0: What a whopper of a release! Here's the major new features:
- A new iOS widget shows the latest stories in your Notification Center and on your iPad dashboard
- Statistics visualization for every site
- Automatic downloading of the original story full text for offline reading
And tons of bugs were fixed and other small improvements:
- Fixed crash on start.
- Fixed highlighting issue.
- Fixed settings with stories on bottom.
- Tweaked dark theme colors to be darker.
- Fixed wonky behavior on iPad.
- Unsubscribe feed from story.
- Clearing offline now clears the cached stories, text, and images from the database.
- Manually changing the theme now turns off the preference to follow the system appearance.
- Turning on following the system appearance immediately updates the theme appropriately.
- Fixed crash on feed load list.
- Preferences import & export.
- Fixed crash on start.
10.0
Feb 22, 2020
What a whopper of a release! Here's the major new features:
- A new iOS widget shows the latest stories in your Notification Center and on your iPad dashboard
- Statistics visualization for every site
- Automatic downloading of the original story full text for offline reading
And tons of bugs were fixed and other small improvements:
- Fixed crash on start.
- Fixed highlighting issue.
- Fixed settings with stories on bottom.
- Tweaked dark theme colors to be darker.
- Fixed wonky behavior on iPad.
- Unsubscribe feed from story.
- Clearing offline now clears the cached stories, text, and images from the database.
- Manually changing the theme now turns off the preference to follow the system appearance.
- Turning on following the system appearance immediately updates the theme appropriately.
- Fixed crash on feed load list.
- Preferences import & export.
- Fixed crash on start.
- A new iOS widget shows the latest stories in your Notification Center and on your iPad dashboard
- Statistics visualization for every site
- Automatic downloading of the original story full text for offline reading
And tons of bugs were fixed and other small improvements:
- Fixed crash on start.
- Fixed highlighting issue.
- Fixed settings with stories on bottom.
- Tweaked dark theme colors to be darker.
- Fixed wonky behavior on iPad.
- Unsubscribe feed from story.
- Clearing offline now clears the cached stories, text, and images from the database.
- Manually changing the theme now turns off the preference to follow the system appearance.
- Turning on following the system appearance immediately updates the theme appropriately.
- Fixed crash on feed load list.
- Preferences import & export.
- Fixed crash on start.
9.1
Oct 1, 2019
More iOS 13 improvements:
* Added a preference to follow the system appearance (light or dark)
* Fixed issues with the preference toggles that would mistakenly reveal other controls when toggling something.
* Fixed cosmetic issues with segmented controls in light and dark themes, especially the theme ones.
* Fixed incorrect appearance of some popovers, causing them to be truncated at the top.
* Fixed the iPad dashboard header colors.
* Fixed the premium manager trying to do UI on a background queue (StoreKit callbacks are not on the main queue).
* Widened the Preferences dialog
* Added a preference to follow the system appearance (light or dark)
* Fixed issues with the preference toggles that would mistakenly reveal other controls when toggling something.
* Fixed cosmetic issues with segmented controls in light and dark themes, especially the theme ones.
* Fixed incorrect appearance of some popovers, causing them to be truncated at the top.
* Fixed the iPad dashboard header colors.
* Fixed the premium manager trying to do UI on a background queue (StoreKit callbacks are not on the main queue).
* Widened the Preferences dialog
9.0
Jun 30, 2019
A whopper of a release with many, many new features!
* Autoscroll: Read long stories hands-free
* Full screen: Reading stories without the toolbar for a better experience
* Longer story titles: New options for longer and shorter story title and content previews in the story titles list
* Smaller image previews: New option for smaller image previews in the story titles list
* Show story changes: All stories with edits now show a "Show Changes" button at the top that lets you see the differences
* Return to last read story: When you return to the app, you will start where you left off
* Return to last read scroll position: When you return to a story, you will automatically scroll to where you left off
There's also many smaller fixes that improve the polish app:
* If you had a slow connection, some stories would take a while to draw while images were downloaded. Now they show immediately
* Support for larger iPad Pros
* Suport for iOS 13
* Fixes for split mode on iPad
* Fixes for marking stories as read while scrolling the story titles list
* Fixes for navigating stories with an external keyboard
* Fixes for scroll performance on the feed list and the story titles list
* Fixes for sharing stories accidentally having double titles in emails and messages
* Autoscroll: Read long stories hands-free
* Full screen: Reading stories without the toolbar for a better experience
* Longer story titles: New options for longer and shorter story title and content previews in the story titles list
* Smaller image previews: New option for smaller image previews in the story titles list
* Show story changes: All stories with edits now show a "Show Changes" button at the top that lets you see the differences
* Return to last read story: When you return to the app, you will start where you left off
* Return to last read scroll position: When you return to a story, you will automatically scroll to where you left off
There's also many smaller fixes that improve the polish app:
* If you had a slow connection, some stories would take a while to draw while images were downloaded. Now they show immediately
* Support for larger iPad Pros
* Suport for iOS 13
* Fixes for split mode on iPad
* Fixes for marking stories as read while scrolling the story titles list
* Fixes for navigating stories with an external keyboard
* Fixes for scroll performance on the feed list and the story titles list
* Fixes for sharing stories accidentally having double titles in emails and messages
8.1
Jan 3, 2019
This version fixes some issues around inadvertently stealing audio, scroll issues when loading feeds, better iPad Pro compatibility, and a few small layout issues.
8.0
Oct 24, 2018
This is a huge release and it's got a lot of new features packed in it. I also want to welcome David Sinclair back to the team. He's the builder behind all the incredible features in this release. Really wonderful having you back, David, and thanks for making v8.0 of the best news reader on a phone.
Here's what's new:
- NEW: Save stories offline
- NEW: Share stories from other apps into NewsBlur with the new share extension
- NEW: Scroll vertically between stories (can be turned on while reading a story)
- NEW: 3D Touch links in stories to preview them
- NEW: search for sites directly from the feed list
- Switching themes no longer reloads the story
- iOS 12 compatibility fixes
- Upgrading to a premium subscription now handles App Store payment updates
- Fixed issue where locking the device while playing a video over Airplay would stop the video
Here's what's new:
- NEW: Save stories offline
- NEW: Share stories from other apps into NewsBlur with the new share extension
- NEW: Scroll vertically between stories (can be turned on while reading a story)
- NEW: 3D Touch links in stories to preview them
- NEW: search for sites directly from the feed list
- Switching themes no longer reloads the story
- iOS 12 compatibility fixes
- Upgrading to a premium subscription now handles App Store payment updates
- Fixed issue where locking the device while playing a video over Airplay would stop the video
7.1.3
Apr 27, 2018
- Videos now fit the viewport when playing inline
- Videos no longer play full screen automatically
- Style fixes on the feed list
- Style fixes on the login view
- Fixing crash on iPad when loading feeds
- Correcting the forgot password flow
- Videos no longer play full screen automatically
- Style fixes on the feed list
- Style fixes on the login view
- Fixing crash on iPad when loading feeds
- Correcting the forgot password flow
7.1.2
Jan 18, 2018
- Fixed a bug where marking folders as read wouldn't clear their unread count
- Marking Infrequent Site Stories as read now works as you would expect
- Marking Infrequent Site Stories as read now works as you would expect
7.1.1
Dec 20, 2017
- New preferences to hide Infrequent Site Stories and Global Shared Stories
- Rearranged Infrequent Site Stories
- Fixed a few crashes and UI glitches
- Rearranged Infrequent Site Stories
- Fixed a few crashes and UI glitches
7.1
Dec 10, 2017
- Built for iOS 11 and iPhone X
- In app purchases allow you to upgrade to a premium subscription from inside the app
- Drag-and-drop on iPad to share stories and images from NewsBlur
- New view: Infrequent Site Stories shows stories from feeds that update less than once a day (premium only)
- Theme manager in every view for quick color changes
- Adding San Francisco font choice
- Adding feed list and story list font size controls so you can change size directly from each view
- Adding in-app Safari with Reader mode option
- New mark as read button on iPad when in landscape or with story titles on bottom
- Fixing image sizing on all iPhones and iPads
- Updated many layouts for better future compatibility
- Fixing unread count badge for users without notifications turned on
- Fixing duplicate title/URL in Messages sharing (thanks Nicholas R!)
- Fixing compatibility with Firefox (thanks Joe G!)
- In app purchases allow you to upgrade to a premium subscription from inside the app
- Drag-and-drop on iPad to share stories and images from NewsBlur
- New view: Infrequent Site Stories shows stories from feeds that update less than once a day (premium only)
- Theme manager in every view for quick color changes
- Adding San Francisco font choice
- Adding feed list and story list font size controls so you can change size directly from each view
- Adding in-app Safari with Reader mode option
- New mark as read button on iPad when in landscape or with story titles on bottom
- Fixing image sizing on all iPhones and iPads
- Updated many layouts for better future compatibility
- Fixing unread count badge for users without notifications turned on
- Fixing duplicate title/URL in Messages sharing (thanks Nicholas R!)
- Fixing compatibility with Firefox (thanks Joe G!)
7.0.1
Jul 27, 2017
Version 7.0.1 fixes the Add Site dialog's keyboard to allow for spaces and keyword searches. This also fixes a crash with saved story tags.
Version 7.0:
* Real-time push notifications from any website.
* A new optional app badge for unread counts. Enable under Preferences.
* Fixed issues when story titles are set to the bottom layout on iPad.
* Better image support on iPad and fixes for drag-and-dropping the story titles bar (at bottom of the story detail).
* A note on that: you can move story titles to the bottom on iPad. Just drag the bottom bar up.
* Fixed issue with sharing stories not working or disappearing on iPad.
* Fixed theme issues in the activity share sheet.
* Fixed encoding issues with push notifications.
* Fixed a crash from opening stories with no permalink.
* Fixed size of intelligence control on bottom of feed list on iPhone SE.
* Fixed issues with the interactions dialog.
Version 7.0:
* Real-time push notifications from any website.
* A new optional app badge for unread counts. Enable under Preferences.
* Fixed issues when story titles are set to the bottom layout on iPad.
* Better image support on iPad and fixes for drag-and-dropping the story titles bar (at bottom of the story detail).
* A note on that: you can move story titles to the bottom on iPad. Just drag the bottom bar up.
* Fixed issue with sharing stories not working or disappearing on iPad.
* Fixed theme issues in the activity share sheet.
* Fixed encoding issues with push notifications.
* Fixed a crash from opening stories with no permalink.
* Fixed size of intelligence control on bottom of feed list on iPhone SE.
* Fixed issues with the interactions dialog.
7.0
Jun 13, 2017
* Real-time push notifications from any website.
* A new optional app badge for unread counts. Enable under Preferences.
* Fixed issues when story titles are set to the bottom layout on iPad.
* Better image support on iPad and fixes for drag-and-dropping the story titles bar (at bottom of the story detail).
* A note on that: you can move story titles to the bottom on iPad. Just drag the bottom bar up.
* Fixed issue with sharing stories not working or disappearing on iPad.
* Fixed theme issues in the activity share sheet.
* Fixed encoding issues with push notifications.
* Fixed a crash from opening stories with no permalink.
* Fixed size of intelligence control on bottom of feed list on iPhone SE.
* Fixed issues with the interactions dialog.
* A new optional app badge for unread counts. Enable under Preferences.
* Fixed issues when story titles are set to the bottom layout on iPad.
* Better image support on iPad and fixes for drag-and-dropping the story titles bar (at bottom of the story detail).
* A note on that: you can move story titles to the bottom on iPad. Just drag the bottom bar up.
* Fixed issue with sharing stories not working or disappearing on iPad.
* Fixed theme issues in the activity share sheet.
* Fixed encoding issues with push notifications.
* Fixed a crash from opening stories with no permalink.
* Fixed size of intelligence control on bottom of feed list on iPhone SE.
* Fixed issues with the interactions dialog.
NewsBlur FAQ
NewsBlur is available in regions other than the following restricted countries:
China
NewsBlur supports English, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish
NewsBlur contains in-app purchases. Please check the pricing plan as below:
NewsBlur Premium Subscription
$35.99
Click here to learn how to download NewsBlur in restricted country or region.
Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of NewsBlur.
iPhone
Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
