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

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’15’20’25
Posts
144 from 15 Mar 2011 to 30 Oct 2026
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weekly (34 in the last year)
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project news
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2026 32

  1. Listen: NewsBlur reads your stories aloud on the web, iOS, Mac, and Android
  2. A folder picker with room for every folder
  3. NewsBlur 16 for Mac: your dashboard in widgets, your news in notifications
  4. NewsBlur in your language: native language support on the web, iOS, and Android
  5. Sign in with Apple or Google on the web, iOS, and Android
  6. A new first-time experience on iOS and Android: find your first feeds
  7. NewsBlur 15 for iOS and Mac: faster story lists, a glass toolbar, and Add + Discover Sites
  8. NewsBlur 15 for Android: faster scrolling, a tablet layout, and Add + Discover Sites
  9. Matching Stories: see every story behind a tag, author, or classifier
  10. Good Reads and a redesigned Global Shared Stories
  11. Custom app icons for iOS, Mac, and Android
  12. Introducing Premium Pro: high-frequency fetching for instant notifications
  13. Widely Read Stories and Long Reads: surfacing stories worth your time
  14. Quote and share highlighted text from any story
  15. Natural language text and image classifiers: Train your feeds with plain English
  16. The NewsBlur CLI Tool, AI Skill, and MCP Server
  17. NewsBlur v14 for Android: Redesigned reading experience, Ask AI, Discover, Daily Briefing, and more
  18. Hide what you hate, track what you love: super dislikes and per-classifier notifications
  19. Refer friends, gift subscriptions, and never pay for NewsBlur premium again
  20. Daily Briefing: A personalized summary of your news, delivered on your schedule
  21. Story clustering: automatically group duplicate stories across your feeds
  22. Mute feeds for a set amount of time
  23. Web Feeds: Turn any website into an RSS feed
  24. NewsBlur iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe updates: Major redesign, discover related sites, new story toolbar, and much, much more
  25. Add + Discover Sites: YouTube, Reddit, podcasts, newsletters, and thousands of feeds to explore
  26. A mini media player for podcasts, audio, and video
  27. Global and folder-scoped intelligence training: Train once, apply everywhere
  28. Premium Archive: Per-feed and per-folder auto-mark-as-read settings
  29. Intelligence Trainer Overhaul: URL classifiers, regex mode, and manage all training in one place
  30. Ask AI to make sense of the news
  31. Disable social features for a distraction-free reading experience
  32. Custom icons for folders and feeds

2025 4

  1. Auto-enable captions on YouTube videos
  2. Full-text filtering lets you train on any phrase
  3. Filter stories by date range
  4. Discover related stories and sites

2024 1

  1. NewsBlur's native macOS App offers news notifications directly on your desktop

2023 1

  1. Introducing the Grid view on iOS

2022 4

  1. NewsBlur Premium Archive subscription keeps all of your stories searchable, shareable, and unread forever
  2. 2022 redesign: new dashboard layout, refreshed stories and story titles, and entirely redrawn icons
  3. New gesture-based layout for the NewsBlur iPad App
  4. Magazine view offers a new perspective

2021 2

  1. Redesigning NewsBlur on the web, iOS, and Android
  2. How a Docker footgun led to a vandal deleting NewsBlur's MongoDB database

2020 6

  1. Android app update: premium subscriptions, saved searches, in-app browser, auto-dark mode
  2. Customizable grid view story layout
  3. Highlight passages and add private notes to saved stories
  4. Turn the lights down, dark mode has come to NewsBlur
  5. See the news on your Android dashboard with the new home screen widget
  6. Catch the news in a glimpse with the new NewsBlur Today View widget on iOS

2019 3

  1. Secure images for everybody
  2. NewsBlur iOS v9: full screen, autoscroll, customizable story titles, story change highlighter, and return to last read story
  3. Updates to the Android app and a new addition to the team

2018 3

  1. The NewsBlur iOS app also hits version 8.0
  2. The NewsBlur Android app hits version 8.0 with a new Grid view
  3. Moving to a better support forum at forum.newsblur.com

2017 14

  1. Intelligence training comes to NewsBlur’s Android app
  2. NewsBlur for iPhone X
  3. Infrequent Site Stories is the blog reader we need
  4. Improved Text view story extraction
  5. Launching real-time filterable push notifications for iOS, Android, web, and email
  6. NewsBlur now supports the new JSON Feed spec
  7. Add your own Custom CSS and Custom JavaScript to NewsBlur on the web
  8. NewsBlur’s Twitter support just got a whole lot better
  9. Saved searches make it easy to create custom feeds
  10. Last day to back Turn Touch: NewsBlur’s beautiful remote
  11. Introducing Turn Touch, a beautiful wooden remote for lights, devices, apps, and NewsBlur
  12. Preview NewsBlur's upcoming hardware device, Turn Touch
  13. A new NewsBlur Android release for the new year
  14. The dashboard river will keep you up-to-date in real-time

2016 10

  1. Newsreel is a NewsBlur app for tv
  2. Newsletters in your NewsBlur
  3. Twitter’s back, baby
  4. NewsBlur goes dark ... on iOS
  5. A heavier lifting Android app
  6. Tracking story changes with NewsBlur
  7. Story thumbnails for story titles
  8. Two new third-party NewsBlur apps for iOS and Windows
  9. Search for pizza with your Android device
  10. Power users need powerful statistics

2015 10

  1. Better embeds for Twitter, Instagram, and Imgur
  2. Premium fonts, comment-less shares, in-app Safari, and way, way more in version 5.0 of the NewsBlur iOS app
  3. Join the NewsBlur iOS beta
  4. Let’s all upgrade to version 4.5.0 of the NewsBlur Android app
  5. Even the folders have RSS feeds
  6. Read Stories feed and a rewritten networking stack on v4.3.0 of the NewsBlur Android App
  7. Reply to shared stories that have no comment
  8. A real solution to the deprecated YouTube API
  9. Bigger story previews with the new Grid view
  10. Organize your subscriptions with the new Organizer

2014 20

  1. The iOS app gets search and saved story tagging
  2. Offline reading and a dark theme on the Android app
  3. A new way to use the Story view while on https (SSL)
  4. NewsBlur iOS v4.5: iPhone 6 and iOS 8, full bleed images, alt text, and more
  5. NewsBlur's 2014 t-shirt on sale for this week only
  6. A Downtime Irony
  7. Reeder and NewsBlur, sitting in a tree...
  8. Adjust the font size of feed and story titles
  9. Read what you've read recently with the new recently read stories feed
  10. Temporarily mute sites
  11. Use the new Saved Stories view to find saved stories by site
  12. Full text search across all of your subscriptions and folders
  13. Unread is a new iOS app with NewsBlur support
  14. The new font and style manager
  15. Google Reader announced its shutdown exactly a year ago
  16. NewsBlur iOS 4.0 features a new dashboard, gestures and sharing controls
  17. Connect NewsBlur to dozens of web services with IFTTT
  18. Saved story tagging
  19. Three new features for the web: syntax highlighting for source code, adjustable video widths, and footnotes
  20. Faster parallel network requests for version 3.5 of the NewsBlur Android app

2013 14

  1. Background updates and dynamic font sizing on the NewsBlur iOS app
  2. Version 3.0 of the NewsBlur Android App
  3. The NewsBlur iPhone and iPad app meets iOS 7
  4. Offline reading with the NewsBlur iOS app
  5. Upping unread stories to 30 days for premium accounts
  6. Mark as read by number of days and other improvements
  7. Simple Search for Feeds, Saved Stories, and Blurblogs
  8. NewsBlur Puzzle T-shirt 2013
  9. Text view comes to the NewsBlur iOS app
  10. Read NewsBlur on your Mac with the new ReadKit
  11. Keyboard Shortcuts Manager
  12. The NewsBlur Redesign
  13. Three Months to Scale NewsBlur
  14. A blurblog of one's own: new privacy controls

2012 13

  1. The sharing bookmarklet: bringing your online explorations to NewsBlur
  2. Time for some free NewsBlur swag!
  3. Extreme makeover: NewsBlur iOS app edition
  4. Do the robot: the official NewsBlur Android app is here
  5. Giving Life to "The People Have Spoken"
  6. Take it to the couch with the NewsBlur iPad app
  7. Introducing Blurblogs, Roy, and Y Combinator
  8. Building real-time feed updates for NewsBlur with Redis and WebSockets
  9. Knight News Challenge: NewsBlur
  10. New mobile app for NewsBlur: Web Feeds for Nokia MeeGo
  11. From project to profession: going indie on NewsBlur
  12. SSL & Stripe.js
  13. 2011: Year in Review

2011 7

  1. A Social Feed Reader
  2. Customizing the reader, step 1: story titles
  3. Blar: A new Android app for NewsBlur
  4. Make your own feed reader with NewsBlur's new API
  5. Where We Are in April
  6. Explaining Intelligence
  7. A New Logo for a New Blog