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NewsBlur vs Nextcloud News: catalog facts
NewsBlurNextcloud News
Freemium

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

Free

Free and open source under the AGPL. Hosting is separate.

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
  • Reuses an existing Nextcloud install, users and backups
  • Well-supported API with several good mobile clients
  • The free tier is limited to a small number of feeds
  • Self-hosting the full stack is a substantial undertaking
  • Only useful if you already run Nextcloud
  • Feed updating depends on Nextcloud's background job configuration
Hosted service, Self-hosted Self-hosted, Web application
Open source Open source
License: MIT License: AGPL-3.0
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 22, 2026

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