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SourceNewsBlur is a personalized news reader
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
NewsBlur is an independent, open-source personal news reader and social RSS aggregator that helps users train what they read, follow websites and newsletters, and use AI-powered filtering, summaries, and story analysis.
Primary product
Personal news reader / RSS feed reader with intelligence training, AI features, and native web, iOS, Android, and Mac apps.
Founded
2009
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
RSS feed reader / news aggregation
Offices
835 Cole St Apt 1, San Francisco, CA 94117, United States
Business model
freemium subscription
paid premium subscription
open-source self-hosted service
usage-based AI add-ons
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$20K
Latest round
Seed · Aug 2012
Latest amount
$20K
Aug 2012 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Leadership
Founder / CEO
David Sinclair
iOS Developer
Andrei Dan
Android Developer
Lyric
Chief Morale Officer
Investors
Work & culture
Product-led, indie, open-source, community-driven, and shipping-focused; the company emphasizes no ads, no tracking, self-hosting, and frequent feature releases informed by forum feedback.
Product & market
Pricing
Freemium with a free tier, annual premium plans, a monthly premium-pro tier, and a self-hosted open-source option.
Differentiators
- —MIT-licensed open source codebase
- —Intelligence Training with thumbs up/down feedback
- —AI-powered Ask AI and daily briefing features
- —Web feeds for pages without RSS
- —Story archive searchable forever
- —Native web, iOS, Android, and Mac apps
- —No ads or tracking
- —Self-hostable via Docker
Technology
Django
Python
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Redis
Elasticsearch
Backbone.js
JavaScript
HTML
CSS
Docker
Docker Compose
Objective-C
Swift
Kotlin
Java
Customers
individual readers
power users
RSS users
newsletter readers
people who want a customizable news-reading workflow
Competitors
Feedly
Inoreader
Reeder
NetNewsWire
Flipboard
The Old Reader
Scale & contact
Signals & risks
Latest news
NewsBlur Blog · Jul 2026
Introduced a redesigned Global Shared Stories feed and a new Good Reads feed, both using AI-assisted ranking and reading-based signals.
NewsBlur Blog · May 2026
Added premium custom app icons with multiple colors and light/dark variants across major platforms.
NewsBlur Blog · Apr 2026
Announced the Premium Pro tier with higher-frequency fetching for professional monitoring use cases.
NewsBlur Blog · Apr 2026
Launched usage-based AI classifiers that let users train feeds with plain English descriptions for text and images.
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