Best Lightweight RSS & News Readers for Self-Hosting (2026)

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RSSHub

RSS & News Readers

Generate RSS feeds for sites that lack them

Replaces Feedly

★ 45.6k Easy setup MIT

FR

FreshRSS

RSS & News Readers

Free, self-hostable RSS feed aggregator

Replaces Feedly, Inoreader

★ 15.7k Easy setup AGPL-3.0

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Fluent Reader

RSS & News Readers

Modern desktop RSS reader with a fluent design

Replaces Feedly

★ 9.6k Easy setup BSD-3-Clause

MI

Miniflux

RSS & News Readers

Minimalist and opinionated RSS feed reader

Replaces Feedly, Inoreader

★ 9.6k Easy setup Apache-2.0

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RSS-Bridge

RSS & News Readers

Generate RSS feeds for websites that lack them

Replaces Feedly

★ 9.2k Easy setup Unlicense

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Stringer

RSS & News Readers

Anti-social, self-hosted RSS reader

Replaces Feedly, Google Reader

★ 4.1k Medium setup MIT

YA

yarr

RSS & News Readers

Yet another RSS reader as a single binary

Replaces Feedly, Google Reader

★ 3.9k Easy setup MIT

NE

Newsboat

RSS & News Readers

Terminal RSS and Atom feed reader for text consoles

Replaces Feedly

★ 3.9k Medium setup MIT

CO

CommaFeed

RSS & News Readers

Google Reader-inspired self-hosted RSS reader

Replaces Feedly, Google Reader

★ 3.6k Easy setup Apache-2.0

KI

Kill the Newsletter

RSS & News Readers

Convert email newsletters into RSS feeds

Replaces Feedly

★ 3.1k Medium setup MIT

FE

Feeder

RSS & News Readers

Lightweight offline RSS reader for Android

Replaces Feedly

★ 3k Easy setup GPL-3.0

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RSS Guard

RSS & News Readers

Cross-platform desktop feed reader with plugin support

Replaces Feedly

★ 2.7k Easy setup GPL-3.0

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selfoss

RSS & News Readers

Multipurpose RSS reader and web scraping aggregator

Replaces Google Reader, Feedly

★ 2.5k Easy setup GPL-3.0

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Fusion

RSS & News Readers

Lightweight self-hosted RSS reader with full-text fetch

Replaces Feedly, Inoreader

★ 2.1k Easy setup MIT

FE

Feed reader nono Antennapod-server-Wenholt

RSS & News Readers

Minimal self-hostable RSS reader with a JSON API

Replaces Feedly

★ 1.9k Medium setup MIT

QU

QuiteRSS

RSS & News Readers

Open-source cross-platform RSS and Atom news aggregator

Replaces Feedly

★ 1.1k Easy setup GPL-3.0

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osmos::feed

RSS & News Readers

Build an RSS reader as a static site with GitHub Actions

Replaces Feedly

★ 991 Easy setup MIT

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Liferea

RSS & News Readers

Linux Feed Reader for the GNOME desktop

Replaces Feedly, Google Reader

★ 912 Easy setup GPL-2.0

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NewsFlash

RSS & News Readers

Desktop feed reader and spiritual successor to FeedReader

Replaces Feedly

★ 900 Easy setup GPL-3.0

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RSSBox

RSS & News Readers

Generate RSS feeds for sites without native feeds

Replaces RSS-Bridge

★ 814 Easy setup MIT

MO

morss

RSS & News Readers

Get full-text and complete RSS feeds from any source

Replaces Feedly

★ 776 Medium setup AGPL-3.0

FE

FeedReader

RSS & News Readers

Modern desktop RSS client for Linux

Replaces Feedly

★ 767 Easy setup GPL-3.0

NO

Nom RSS by guyfedwards

RSS & News Readers

Terminal RSS and Atom feed reader

Replaces Feedly, Newsboat

★ 736 Easy setup MIT

RE

Readrops

RSS & News Readers

Android RSS reader that syncs with self-hosted services

Replaces Feedly

★ 572 Easy setup GPL-3.0

FE

Feed mixer nono Granary

RSS & News Readers

Convert between feed formats and social network data

Replaces Feedly

★ 516 Medium setup Public-Domain

YO

Yotter

RSS & News Readers

Privacy-friendly aggregator for social and video feeds

Replaces Feedly

★ 461 Medium setup GPL-3.0

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rss2email

RSS & News Readers

Get RSS and Atom feeds as email messages

Replaces Feedly

★ 453 Easy setup GPL-3.0

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rsspls

RSS & News Readers

Generate RSS feeds for websites that lack them

Replaces RSS-Bridge

★ 411 Easy setup Apache-2.0

NE

Newsraft

RSS & News Readers

Feature-rich terminal RSS and Atom feed reader

Replaces Feedly

★ 300 Medium setup GPL-3.0

RS

RSS aggregator nono KrISS feed

RSS & News Readers

Simple and smart RSS and Atom feed reader

Replaces Google Reader, Feedly

★ 291 Easy setup MIT

RU

Russ

RSS & News Readers

Terminal RSS and Atom feed reader

Replaces Feedly

★ 268 Easy setup MIT

FE

FeedMixer

RSS & News Readers

Aggregate multiple feeds into one combined RSS feed

Replaces RSS Mix, Feedly

★ 237 Easy setup MIT

RS

RSS reader nono Leed

RSS & News Readers

Free and minimalist self-hosted RSS feed aggregator

Replaces Google Reader, Feedly

★ 233 Easy setup CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0

GO

Goeland

RSS & News Readers

Feed aggregator that forwards items to email and webhooks

Replaces Feedly, IFTTT

★ 200 Medium setup MIT

FE

feed2toot

RSS & News Readers

Automatically post RSS feed items to Mastodon

Replaces IFTTT

★ 200 Easy setup MIT

RS

RSS Funnel

RSS & News Readers

Programmable proxy for transforming RSS feeds

Replaces Feedbin, Feedly

★ 156 Medium setup MIT

FE

Feed dashboard nono Reader-self

RSS & News Readers

PHP RSS aggregator with a Google Reader API

Replaces Google Reader, Feedly

★ 153 Easy setup MIT

CO

Coldsweat

RSS & News Readers

Web RSS aggregator and reader with a Fever API

Replaces Google Reader, Feedly

★ 146 Medium setup MIT

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rss2hook

RSS & News Readers

Lightweight personal RSS aggregator and reader

Replaces Zapier, IFTTT

★ 39 Easy setup MIT

YA

Yarrharr

RSS & News Readers

Self-hosted feed reader with a mobile-friendly interface

Replaces Feedly, Google Reader

★ 3 Medium setup GPL-3.0