NewsBlur vs Circa News

NewsBlur has a discovery algorithm that users can "train" to show stories they are interested in and hide ones they don't care about.

By default arrow keys and spacebar are used to quickly navigate stories, but they can be rebound for premium accounts.

NewsBlur allows users to customize the font size, line spacing, story layout, and type faces.

Very fast to navigate around the UI and load articles.

NewsBlur offers an option of reading articles just like they are displayed on the original site.

Works on iOS, Android, and as a webapp.

Feeds can be grouped into folders for easier management and to allow users to separate feeds for work, comics, research, etc.

Burblog is a simple, customizable website for sharing stories with comments that people can subscribe to.

You can forward email newsletters to a user-specific email address to have them aggregated in your feed reader along with your RSS content.

NewsBlur is FOSS, so it can be freely modified & redistributed.

Free version has a limit of 64 sites. Upgrading to unlimited sites costs $1/month.

Circa lets users follow a selected story and get alerts to breaking news.

Everything displayed on Circa News is meant to be clear, concise, and easy to navigate.

Circa News uses curators to provide summaries of stories, not fluffy narratives.

This app pushes breaking news to Android Wear devices so alerts are never missed. Colors and animations can be chosen to make the notifications interesting.