Newsboat
RSS & News ReadersTerminal RSS and Atom feed reader for text consoles
Replaces Feedly
Best Cli RSS & News Readers for self-hosting
The 4 best Cli rss & news readers you can self-host, ranked by community traction.
rss2email
RSS & News ReadersGet RSS and Atom feeds as email messages
Replaces Feedly
Newsraft
RSS & News ReadersFeature-rich terminal RSS and Atom feed reader
Replaces Feedly
Goeland
RSS & News ReadersFeed aggregator that forwards items to email and webhooks
Replaces Feedly, IFTTT
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At a glance
| App | Deploy effort | Difficulty | Min. RAM | License | ★ Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newsboat | Read-the-docs project | Medium | 32 MB | MIT | 3,925 |
| rss2email | Read-the-docs project | Easy | 64 MB | GPL-3.0 | 459 |
| Newsraft | Read-the-docs project | Medium | 32 MB | GPL-3.0 | 300 |
| Goeland | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 64 MB | MIT | 205 |
Quick picks
- Most adopted: Newsboat (3,925 GitHub stars).
- Lightest footprint: Newsboat (from 32 MB RAM, against 64 MB for the heaviest here).
- Licensing: 2 of 4 use MIT; check the rest individually if you plan to modify and redistribute.
Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Cli within the rss & news readers category. Deploy effort is graded from published container recipes, not vendor claims — see the methodology.