NewsBlur
Ranked 8 of 15 RSS readers by recommenders
People recommend NewsBlur as a web-based RSS reader for a feed of only chosen sources, with filters for users and words.
People recommend NewsBlur as a web-based RSS reader for a feed of only chosen sources, with filters for users and words.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Filters for users and words
“You just need a reader which has features to filter out certain users and words”
Comment from 8 Jun 2026 in “Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds” “has a nice training/filtering facility”
Comment from 15 Aug 2026 in “Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?” Classic web-based RSS reader styling
“if you're looking for a web-based RSS reader, I can also highly recommend newsblur”
Comment from 11 Feb 2026 in “NetNewsWire Turns 23” “I do like how it has that classic Newsblur styling”
Comment from 27 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Hacker Smacker – spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance” Satisfied long-term users
“I used Newsblur for a while, and found it quite good”
Comment from 8 Mar 2026 in “The web is bearable with RSS” “happy customer for many years”
Comment from 25 Sep 2026 in “I'm tired of being on the network”
Other RSS readers people recommend
The four most recommended other RSS readers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NetNewsWire | 79 | 7 | 92% | 10 | 4 yrs5 owners | Approved |
| Miniflux | 27 | 0 | 100% | 8 | 1 mo5 owners | Approved |
| FreshRSS | 26 | 0 | 100% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Inoreader | 20 | 1 | 95% | 9 | — | Approved |
| NewsBlurThis page | 9 | 0 | 100% | 7 | — | — |
What people said
12 of the 13 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“happy customer for many years”
“has a nice training/filtering facility”
“it's open source and so are the apps”
“It has some social tools that remind me of Google Reader at its peak.”
“You just need a reader which has features to filter out certain users and words”
“NewsBlur attempts to download a blog's entire backlog to backfill stories”
“Personally I use newsblur, and I like having a feed that contains only sources I've chosen.”
“multiple feed formats provided (RSS, Atom, JSON, etc)”
“I used Newsblur for a while, and found it quite good”
“it's even more enjoyable now with all those AI features built in”
“I do like how it has that classic Newsblur styling”
“if you're looking for a web-based RSS reader, I can also highly recommend newsblur”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.