Open-source Feedly alternatives

FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator written in PHP. It is described as lightweight, easy to work with and customizable, has been translated into many languages, and works for several users at once while also offering an anonymous reading mode. Articles can be organized with custom tags, and there is a demo to try.

It supports the WebSub standard, so compatible sources can push new articles instantly instead of waiting for polling. For sites that offer no feed, it has basic web scraping using XPath, and it can also read JSON documents. Selections of articles can be reshared as HTML, RSS or OPML. An API serves mobile clients, and a command line interface is included, and several login methods are supported, including a web form with an anonymous option, HTTP authentication that works with proxy delegation, and OpenID Connect. Extensions allow further tuning.

FreshRSS is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and run on your own server. It suits individuals, families or small teams who want a private feed reader that works with the usual mobile RSS apps and does not depend on a commercial service.

NetNewsWire is a free and open-source feed reader for macOS and iOS. It reads RSS, Atom, JSON Feed and RSS-in-JSON formats, letting people follow blogs, news sites and other sources in one place without algorithmic feeds.

The project accepts bug reports and feature requests on GitHub and publishes change notes for current and previous releases. A community forum lets users talk to each other and help with testing, coding, writing and feedback. Contributors are asked to follow the code of conduct and to ask before starting any pull request, because the Contributing page describes a process that begins with a conversation.

NetNewsWire is written in Swift and licensed under the MIT license. It can be built and tested without a paid Apple developer account, using a local DeveloperSettings.xcconfig file for code-signing overrides, either created by the included setup.sh script or manually. The project asks supporters to help in ways other than sending money.

Fluent Reader is a modern desktop RSS reader built with Electron, React and Fluent UI. Its interface is inspired by the Fluent Design System and has full dark mode support. It can be used purely locally or connected to online services.

Sync works with self-hosted services compatible with the Fever or Google Reader API and with RSS services such as Inoreader, Feedbin, The Old Reader and BazQux Reader. Users can import and export OPML files, back up and restore application data, read the full content in a built-in article view, search with regular expressions, group subscriptions into folders, use single-key shortcuts, and apply regex rules that hide, star or mark articles as read. Articles can be fetched in the background with push notifications.

Windows 10 users are advised to install it from the Microsoft Store and macOS users from the Mac App Store, while Linux and older Windows versions use GitHub releases. A separate repository holds the mobile app. The code is TypeScript under the BSD-3-Clause license, with translations handled through react-intl-universal.

Miniflux 2 is a minimalist and opinionated feed reader. It is designed to be simple, lightweight and easy to install, and it reads Atom, RSS and JSON Feed formats. Users can import and export OPML files, organize articles with categories and bookmarks, share individual articles publicly and search the full text through PostgreSQL.

A strong focus is placed on privacy and security. It removes pixel trackers and tracking parameters from URLs, opens external links with no-referrer attributes, proxies media to avoid tracking, plays YouTube videos through the privacy-focused youtube-nocookie domain or alternative players such as Invidious, blocks external JavaScript, sanitizes content and enforces content security and Trusted Types policies.

The interface is available in about 20 languages, and articles can be saved to third-party services. Miniflux is written in Go, uses PostgreSQL, and is released under the Apache-2.0 license. More information is on miniflux.app, and the repository slug v2 refers to the second major version of the project.

NewsBlur is a personal news reader that combines an RSS feed reader with a social news network. It shows stories on the original site while offering filtering tools, and you can train it by marking what you like and dislike so it highlights and hides stories automatically.

Features include real-time RSS, full text search across subscriptions, story tagging, saved searches, expanded text for truncated feeds, change tracking for edited stories and email newsletter reading. Stories can be shared on a public or friends-only blurblog. Multiple layouts such as grid, list, split and magazine are available per site, along with dark mode on web, iOS and Android, YouTube channel support and compatibility with third-party apps like Reeder.

NewsBlur is written in Python with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis and Elasticsearch, and the code is licensed under MIT. The hosted service at newsblur.com is free for up to 64 sites and also has premium plans; alternatively you can run your own instance from the repository.

yarr, short for yet another rss reader, is a web-based feed aggregator. It ships as a single binary with no dependencies, runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, and can be used either as a desktop app or as a self-hosted server.

Feeds in Atom, RSS, RDF and JSON formats are supported, with OPML import and export, a background scheduler and full-text search across all articles. The responsive web interface works on desktop, tablet and mobile, can be installed as a home-screen app, and offers light, beige, night and automatic themes plus keyboard shortcuts. A readability engine provides a local reading view and enclosures such as podcasts and videos can play inside the reader.

Storage can be SQLite or Postgres. A Fever-compatible API lets third-party mobile apps connect, and a REST API supports scripting. Privacy and security features include basic auth for remote access, HTTPS with custom TLS certificates, strict referrer policies and content sanitization. yarr is written in Go and licensed under MIT.

Newsboat is an RSS and Atom feed reader for the text console, maintained as a fork of Newsbeuter. A feed reader pulls updates from sites such as blogs and news agencies and lets you read them in a single interface, often with the full text, so a browser may not be needed.

Notable features include a built-in HTML renderer for text-only entries, bookmarking scripts that send links or whole articles to other services, filters based on title, author or content, and meta-feeds that aggregate articles by arbitrary criteria. Feeds can be transformed before they reach Newsboat, macros run sequences of actions with two keystrokes, and there is rudimentary podcast support.

It integrates with services like The Old Reader, NewsBlur and FeedHQ. Newsboat is written in C++ and Rust, licensed under MIT, and builds with GNU Make, a C++17 compiler, stable Rust, STFL, SQLite3 and libcurl. Downloads and documentation are on newsboat.org.

Feedbin is a web-based RSS reader with a simple, fast and nice-looking interface and a REST-like API that clients can connect to. The main project is a Ruby on Rails application, with several optional services that add extra functionality.

Support is provided to Feedbin customers by email, and installation of the open-source code is not supported. The author states that the goal is a great web-based RSS service, which conflicts with being a great self-hosted reader, so running the full stack in production is not recommended without plenty of time for configuration. People who want a self-hosted reader are pointed to yarr, Tiny Tiny RSS and FreshRSS.

Optional extras include Privacy Please, an HTTPS image proxy that avoids insecure-content warnings and adds privacy, and extract, a Node.js service that pulls the full content of articles from pages when a feed only gives a summary. A Docker version of the full stack exists, and anyone can sign up for an account to try the hosted service. The code is MIT-licensed.

CommaFeed is an open-source RSS reader whose interface takes its cues from Google Reader. You subscribe to feeds, read articles in a clean web interface and keep track of what you have already read. It can be self-hosted for personal use, and a free public instance is also available for people who would rather not run anything themselves.

The reader offers four layouts, light and dark themes, a responsive design for phones and desktops, keyboard shortcuts for most actions and support for right-to-left feeds. It imports and exports OPML, exposes a REST API plus Fever and Google Reader compatible APIs for native mobile apps, and can mark articles as read automatically using rules you define. Custom CSS and JavaScript allow further tweaking.

The backend is built on Quarkus with a React and TypeScript front end, and it stores data in H2, PostgreSQL, MySQL or MariaDB. You can deploy it with Docker, with a precompiled package for Linux or Windows, or through a one-click cloud host such as PikaPods. It is released under the Apache-2.0 license, and the public instance is funded by donations.

Oksskolten is an AI-native RSS reader that aims to show every article in full, inside the app. Instead of relying on the title and summary a feed provides, it fetches each original article, extracts the main text with Mozilla's Readability plus a large set of noise-removal patterns, converts it to clean Markdown and stores it locally. The README contrasts this with readers such as Miniflux and FreshRSS, where full-text fetching is an opt-in per-feed setting.

Because complete text is always available, the AI features work on real articles rather than excerpts. Summarization and translation can be run on demand through Anthropic, Gemini or OpenAI with streaming responses, and an interactive chat supports multi-turn conversations with MCP tooling to search articles and ask questions about your feeds. Meilisearch powers full-text search across the archive. Smart fetching includes adaptive per-feed schedules, conditional HTTP requests, content deduplication, exponential backoff and tracking-parameter removal.

The app is a progressive web app with offline reading, and supports password, passkey and GitHub OAuth sign-in. It is self-hosted, licensed under AGPL-3.0, written in TypeScript with React, and has a live demo.