NewsBlur
newsblur.comSummary
NewsBlur is a personal news reader that aggregates content from RSS feeds. It allows users to organize, read, and filter stories, and interact with content through social sharing and comments. It offers web, iOS, and Android applications for content consumption.
Features9/13
See allMust Have
3 of 5
Distribution & Recommendation Engine
Reader Engagement Metrics
Community Feedback Tools
Rich Text Editor
Membership & Monetization
Other
6 of 8
User Profiles & Following
Tags & Topics
Email Newsletter Integration
Mobile App Access
Social Sharing & Embedding
Search & Discovery
Publication Management
Audio Story Playback
PricingFreemium
See allFree Account
- Up to 64 sites
- Only 3 stories at a time in River of News
- No search
- Discover only related sites
- No custom RSS
- 1X site updates
- Only save stories
- Public shares only
- Only what's in the feed
Premium Subscription
- 1,000 sites
- Every story from every site
- Search for recent stories, your saved stories, and shared stories
- Peek into related stories and sites
- Only saved stories
- Up to 10X as often site updates
- Tag saved stories
- Public, protected, and private shares
- Full text of each story
Premium Archive Subscription
- Unlimited sites
- Plus every story ever published in the archive
- Search the entire history of every site
- Entire archive of related stories and sites
- Saved stories + folders
- Same as premium site updates
- Same as premium saved story tagging
- Same as premium privacy
- Same as premium full text
Rationale
NewsBlur is primarily an RSS reader that allows users to subscribe to feeds, read content, and train the system to show more of what they like. It has features for social sharing and community interaction, and offers mobile apps. While it has a 'training' system that acts as a recommendation engine, and allows for sharing and commenting, it lacks a rich text editor for original content creation and a direct monetization model for writers, which are core to the 'Medium' concept. It focuses on consuming and curating existing content rather than publishing new content.
