NewsBlur
Personal news reader that brings people together to talk about the world. A new sound of an old instrument.
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Still maintained? Yes: 1,586 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v0.2.2 (Aug 2026).
Comparisons in Feed Readers: Feedly alternatives.
At a glance
NewsBlur quick facts
- Health score
- 86/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 7,674
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v0.2.2, Aug 2026
- Licence
- MIT
Top alternatives to NewsBlur
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
NewsBlur scores 86/100, #8 of 26 in Feed Readers: 1,586 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v0.2.2, 3 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 7,674 stars add 15.5 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
1586 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v0.2.2 released 3 months ago
- Stars 15.5 / 20
7.7k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 1586
- Last 90 days
- 3,882
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #8 of 26 tools in Feed Readers by health , between Goeland (#7) and Yarr (#9) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Python |
| Latest release | v0.2.2 · 3 months ago |
| Stars | 7,674 |
| Open issues | 122 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | samuelclay/NewsBlur ↗ |
NewsBlur vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with NewsBlur (Feed Readers), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miniflux | 96 | 9.9k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| NewsBlur (this tool) | 86 | 7.7k | MIT | today |
| Tiny Tiny RSS | 67 | 871 | GPL-3.0 | 5 days ago |
| Feeds Fun | 43 | 397 | BSD-3-Clause | 8 days ago |
| Readflow | 37 | 476 | AGPL-3.0 | 18 days ago |
| JARR | 30 | 129 | AGPL-3.0 | 1 month ago |
NewsBlur: common questions
Is NewsBlur still maintained?
NewsBlur had 1,586 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, v0.2.2, is from 3 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.