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Liferea

Linux Feed Reader for the GNOME desktop

RSS & News Readers ★ 925 stars Easy setup GPL-2.0

Liferea is a desktop news aggregator for online news feeds and weblogs. It supports RSS and Atom feeds, offline reading, and synchronization with services like TinyTinyRSS and TheOldReader.

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Key features

  • Long-standing GNOME reader
  • Offline feed reading
  • Sync with online services

Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-2.0 license
  • Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
  • Written in C
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 128 MB RAM

Is Liferea secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect Liferea's latest release (v2.0.2). OSV.dev lists 1 past advisory for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2023-1350, published 2023-03-11 (1313 days ago), fixed in 1.14.1

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

Liferea replaces

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