NewsBlur15.1 - App Store

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.

Version History SIGN IN WITH APPLE OR GOOGLE
You can now sign in with Apple or Google, or connect either one to your existing NewsBlur account. Your feeds and reading history stay with you, even if your Apple or Google email is different from your NewsBlur email. Username and password sign-in is still available.

A NEW WAY TO GET STARTED
Pick your interests and explore collections of feeds to find your first favorite sites. Preview stories before subscribing, or import your existing subscriptions from an OPML file.

SMOOTHER READING
This release improves iPhone rotation, iPad column layouts, and navigation between stories. It also includes fixes for image interactions and keeping your place while reading. 15.1 5d ago Photos now open only with a deliberate single tap, so scrolling through a story or stopping its momentum won't open the image viewer. Tapping small photos also works correctly after scrolling. This update also keeps font sizes consistent in the story settings menu. 15.0.2 Sep 30 This update fixes long pauses when swiping between stories with downloaded images, restores iPad keyboard navigation and the S shortcut for saving stories, and fixes articles staying blank when a swipe interrupts opening the reader.

You can also subscribe to a website's feed directly from Safari using the NewsBlur share extension. 15.0.1 Sep 28 NewsBlur 15 makes finding your next favorite site easier and everyday reading smoother.

DISCOVER MORE TO READ
The redesigned Add & Discover Sites lets you swipe between search, popular sites, YouTube, Reddit, newsletters, podcasts, Google News, and web feeds. Preview stories before subscribing, see how recently a site has published, and add it straight to the folder you choose. Related Sites now has the same rich previews and Try and Add controls.

A SMOOTHER READER
Faster story lists, smoother scrolling, and more reliable reading positions help you pick up where you left off. New floating toolbars keep reading controls close at hand, with a preference to place the story-list toolbar at the top or bottom. Redesigned menus make common actions easier to find.

TAKE A CLOSER LOOK
Tap an article image to open the new full-screen viewer. Pinch or double-tap to zoom, then save, copy, or share the image.

BETTER ON IPAD
Try new feeds and open story previews while keeping your three-column reader. Discovery remembers your place when you return. Layout, rotation, and popover improvements make browsing more comfortable.

LESS SPACE, MORE RELIABILITY
Offline storage now keeps recent stories within your chosen limit and reclaims unused space automatically. Deleting offline stories clears cached article content and images and compacts storage more thoroughly. This release also includes fixes for story selection, unread counts, themes, and offline reading. 15.0.0 Sep 22 Added Good Reads alongside Global Shared Stories, Widely Read Stories, and Long Reads. 14.7.2 Sep 1 - Updated Ask AI with Claude Sonnet 5, GPT-5.6 Luna, Gemini 3.6 Flash, and Grok 4.6.
- Fixed story navigation and scrolling reliability.
- Fixed the Interactions activity screen getting stuck while loading. 14.7.1 Aug 28 - Added pull-up navigation: pull up past the last story in a feed to jump straight to the next feed with unread stories. A control fades in as you pull and can also be tapped directly. (iOS)
- Premium custom app icons can now be pinned to their light or dark version instead of always following your system theme.
- Added two trending story sections to the sites list: Widely Read Stories, which collects stories that multiple NewsBlur readers have spent meaningful time reading over the past week, and Long Reads, which ranks stories by average reading time to surface longer, deeper articles.
- Both trending sections can be added to the dashboard as story lists.
- Trained intelligence classifiers apply to trending stories, so title, author, tag, and text training carries through with the usual green and red scoring.
- Added preferences to show or hide Widely Read Stories and Long Reads in the sites list.
- Fixed an iPad issue where rotating back to portrait while reading a story could return you to the site list instead of keeping the story on screen. 14.7.0 Jun 16 - Added a premium app icon chooser on iOS, with 12 color flavors and matching light and dark previews.
- Fixed an iOS orientation issue where returning to portrait while reading a story could take you back to the site list instead of keeping the story open. 14.6.0 May 11 - Added author pattern matching to the Intelligence Trainer.
- Fixed the Interactions dialog so Interactions and Your Activities load normally again.
- Fixed story detail author and tag training taps so they cycle through like, dislike, and neutral.
- Fixed a crash when deleting a site with no active folder selected. 14.5.4 May 3 - Mark-as-read: removed the per-site override.
- Mark-as-read: fixed a migration that wasn't running.
- Mark-as-read: story cards now dim live as you read.
- Fixed a crash when deleting a site.
- Fixed story text classifier thumbs stacking up when rerun.
- Fixed cycling through tag and author classifiers in the story detail trainer.
- Fixed OPML export encoding declaration to UTF-8. 14.5.3 Apr 27 Fixes All Site Stories on iPhone and iPad so it once again includes every site you subscribe to, not just the ones inside a folder. If your river looked suspiciously like one of your folders after upgrading to 14.5.1, this is the fix. Also fixes duplicate thumbs-up / thumbs-down icons appearing next to classifier highlights in the story text view. 14.5.2 Apr 17 Fixed a bug where "All Site Stories" could show different stories depending on which feeds were visible in the sidebar. The story list now reliably includes all feeds with unread stories, regardless of scroll position or collapsed folders. 14.5.1 Apr 16 Story clustering controls - New preference to choose between title-match-only clusters and title-plus-related clusters. Each clustered story now shows a color-coded tier badge so you can see why it was grouped. 14.5 Apr 12 - Fixed iPad story page redrawing when scrolling the story titles list triggers pagination
- Fixed story titles list jumping back to the selected story on pagination
- Fixed footer row scroll-read not marking the last story as read
- Fixed stale story header color after paging between stories
- Fixed reader refresh causing scroll-read regressions
- Fixed daily briefing notification routing
- Fixed Mac app runaway pagination in grid view
- Fixed crash on Related Sites button in folder view on iPhone 14.4.1 Apr 9 Story Clustering: When multiple sites cover the same story, NewsBlur now groups them together. Clustered stories appear inline beneath the original, showing the feed icon, title, thumbnail, and how long ago it was published. Tap any cluster to jump straight to that version. Premium Archive subscribers see all clusters; free users see the top match.

Daily Briefing: A new Daily Briefing appears at the top of your feed list, surfacing the most important stories from your subscriptions. Sections are collapsible so you can focus on what matters.

Super Dislike Classifier: The intelligence trainer now supports super dislike, a stronger signal that overrides thumbs up matches. Long press the dislike button in any classifier pill to activate it.

iPad Improvements: Swipe from the left edge to reveal the feed list on iPad. Fixed a duplicate fullscreen button and improved sidebar state sync.

Visual Polish: Refined the sepia theme with a darker story separator and improved story header gradient. Increased score indicator opacity on read stories. Removed extra borders from story cells and cluster rows for a cleaner look.

Bug Fixes
- Fixed classifier highlights and scope matching
- Fixed Mac Catalyst runaway pagination in grid view
- Fixed story clustering preferences dismissing on iPhone
- Fixed crash on Related Sites in folder view on iPhone
- Fixed story titles scroll snap-back during pagination 14.4 Apr 2 True black theme improvements - Feed cells, story cells, and the story detail webview now use absolute black backgrounds in the Black theme, eliminating any dark gray tinting for OLED screens.

Fullscreen story reading mode - Tap the fullscreen button to temporarily hide the feed list and story titles, giving you a distraction-free reading experience. Available on iPad.

iPad edge swipe to reveal feeds - Swipe from the left edge of the screen to bring back the feed list while in fullscreen or collapsed sidebar mode.

Bug fixes:
- Fixed iPhone story detail push animation regression
- Fixed a crash when replying to comments from iOS
- Fixed duplicate fullscreen button appearing on iPad
- Fixed edge swipe triggering before sidebar state was synced 14.3 Mar 26 Version 14.2:
iPad Column Layout Overhaul
- Completely reworked iPad story sidebar behavior across all column modes (auto, split view, fullscreen overlay)
- Fixed story titles permanently hiding when tapping a story in Auto columns mode
- Hardware keyboard navigation now works reliably across feeds sidebar, story list, and story detail
- Portrait iPad sidebar refined for smoother transitions

Keyboard Shortcuts
- Added Shift+A mark-all-read across all views (previously only worked in feed detail)
- New keyboard shortcuts help modal — press ? to see all available shortcuts organized by tab

Notifications
- Tapping a push notification now opens a river of notification-enabled feeds instead of the individual feed,
making it much easier to find the story

Ask AI
- Fixed follow-up conversations breaking when the conversation ended with an assistant message

Other Improvements
- Tap the feed title gradient bar in river views to jump to that feed
- Fixed folder rename for deeply nested folders (3+ levels)
- Fixed case-insensitive folder deduplication and exact name matching
- Fixed duplicate payment records from concurrent receipt submissions
- Fixed crash from nil feed ID when saving comment replies
- Fixed scene disconnection race condition
- Restored discover usage tracking 14.2 Mar 21 New in v14.1:
- Text, URL, and regex classifiers for the intelligence trainer. Train stories by matching text content, URL segments, or
regular expression patterns in titles, story text, and URLs
- Classifier scope support: apply training rules to a single feed, an entire folder, or globally across all feeds (Premium
Archive)
- Regex classifiers are gated to Pro subscribers
- Scope toggle icons on trainer capsules show where each rule applies

Improved
- Story list separator colors now follow the active theme
- Feed list toolbar buttons moved inward to avoid clipping on iPhone rounded corners
- Text classifier matches are highlighted directly in the story detail view
- Modernized sheet presentations for trainer, add site, friends, feed chooser, and notifications dialogs

Fixed
- Story detail pane on iPad and Mac now correctly updates when server stories replace cached stories on launch
- Regex popover and input styling on Mac Catalyst
- Ask AI popover height on Mac Catalyst 14.1 Mar 10 NewsBlur 14 is the biggest update in years! A redesigned app with powerful new features and full support for iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe.

Dashboard: Your favorite feeds at a glance, right at the top of the feeds list. Add, remove, and rearrange feeds to build your own briefing.

Ask AI: Ask questions about any story. Choose your preferred AI model and toggle thinking mode for deeper answers.

Discover Sites: Find related sites from any feed or folder. Preview them with a try-feed banner before subscribing.

List & Magazine Views: Two new story layouts. List shows compact rows; Magazine shows taller rows with larger thumbnails.

Mark Story Read Options: Mark read on scroll, on selection, after a time interval, or manually.

Premium Pro: A new tier with higher limits and additional features.

Redesigned for iOS 26: Transparent toolbars, draggable column dividers, sidebar toggles, sheet presentations, and a
scroll-to-hide toolbar that follows your reading.

More new features: Custom feed and folder icons. Collapse-all/expand-all on All Site Stories. Pinch-to-zoom any image.
Unmute individual feeds. Warmer Sepia theme. Default theme now follows your system appearance.

Mac Catalyst: Dismiss modals with Escape, auto-hide sidebar below 900pt, and trackpad swipe gestures.

Dozens of bug fixes for stability, performance, and layout across iPhone and iPad. 14.0 Mar 5 - Fixed unexpected blank space at the top of the screen on iPhone SE.
- Fixed an unnecessary divider after the last story in the widget. 13.1.11 11/20/2025 - Fixed the All Shared Stories section appearing when not following anyone.
- Fixed site contextual menu icons being too large. 13.1.10 11/08/2025 Some widget interaction improvements:

- Fixed an occasional crash when choosing a story in a widget.
- Improved reliability of finding the story.
- Prevented marking the first story as read when finding a story, if the setting to select the first story is chosen. 13.1.8 02/04/2025 - Fixed images in stories sometimes appearing too large. 13.1.7 01/23/2025 - Fixed the wrong story sometimes being selected when first opening the app. 13.1.6 12/28/2024 - Fixed cached story images not rendering on iOS 18. 13.1.5 12/04/2024