NewsBlur is a personal news reader that combines feed subscriptions with filtering, searching and social reading facilities. It offers a browser-based interface and applications for mobile devices, keeping reading activity synchronised across different platforms.
An important feature is its intelligence training system. Users can identify authors, subjects and other characteristics they find interesting or unhelpful. NewsBlur then highlights preferred stories and reduces the prominence of material they do not want to read.
The reader provides different ways to display articles, including the original website and extracted text. Stories can be saved, tagged, searched and shared through a public or private blurblog. It can also follow certain websites that do not publish conventional RSS feeds.
NewsBlur is available as a hosted service with different subscription tiers. Its source code also enables users to operate their own installation.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Aggregates RSS feeds and tracks new stories as they become available.
- Intelligence training highlights preferred stories and suppresses unwanted material.
- Original Site View displays articles in the context of their publisher’s website.
- Full-text extraction provides a cleaner reading experience for abbreviated feeds.
- Full-text search locates stories across subscriptions.
- Saved searches can be revisited as customised reading streams.
- Tags and saved stories support personal article collections.
- Multiple layouts include grid, list, split and magazine views.
- River of News combines articles from several subscriptions into a single stream.
- Blurblogs enable public or private sharing of selected stories.
- Tracks changes to articles after their initial publication.
- Supports following email newsletters and YouTube channels.
- Web Feeds can monitor selected websites without conventional RSS feeds.
- Native mobile applications synchronise articles and reading status.
- Third-party reader integration supports compatible external applications.
- Dark mode and keyboard shortcuts provide additional reading options.
Website: github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur
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Developer: Samuel Clay
License: MIT License
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