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NewsBlur vs Feeds Fun: catalog facts
NewsBlurFeeds Fun
Freemium

A limited free tier is available. Premium is a paid subscription. Self-hosting is free.

Free

Open source and free to self-host.

Android, iOS, Web, Self-hosted Web, Self-hosted
  • Training on tags, authors and phrases genuinely reduces the noise
  • The entire service is open source and self-hostable
  • Automatic tagging of feed entries
  • User-defined scoring rules for sorting news
  • The free tier is limited to a small number of feeds
  • Self-hosting the full stack is a substantial undertaking
  • Tagging relies on language models
  • More setup than a simple feed reader
Hosted service, Self-hosted Self-hosted, Hosted service
Open source Open source
License: MIT License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked September 22, 2026

Checked September 24, 2026

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