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Best Offline-First RSS & News Readers for self-hosting

The 12 best Offline-First rss & news readers you can self-host, ranked by community traction.

Fluent Reader

RSS & News Readers

Modern desktop RSS reader with a fluent design

Replaces Feedly

★ 9.6k Easy setup BSD-3-Clause

Newsboat

RSS & News Readers

Terminal RSS and Atom feed reader for text consoles

Replaces Feedly

★ 3.9k Medium setup MIT

Feeder

RSS & News Readers

Lightweight offline RSS reader for Android

Replaces Feedly

★ 3k Easy setup GPL-3.0

RSS Guard

RSS & News Readers

Cross-platform desktop feed reader with plugin support

Replaces Feedly

★ 2.7k Easy setup GPL-3.0

QuiteRSS

RSS & News Readers

Open-source cross-platform RSS and Atom news aggregator

Replaces Feedly

★ 1.1k Easy setup GPL-3.0

osmos::feed

RSS & News Readers

Build an RSS reader as a static site with GitHub Actions

Replaces Feedly

★ 991 Easy setup MIT

Liferea

RSS & News Readers

Linux Feed Reader for the GNOME desktop

Replaces Feedly, Google Reader

★ 912 Easy setup GPL-2.0

NewsFlash

RSS & News Readers

Desktop feed reader and spiritual successor to FeedReader

Replaces Feedly

★ 900 Easy setup GPL-3.0

FeedReader

RSS & News Readers

Modern desktop RSS client for Linux

Replaces Feedly

★ 767 Easy setup GPL-3.0

Nom RSS by guyfedwards

RSS & News Readers

Terminal RSS and Atom feed reader

Replaces Feedly, Newsboat

★ 736 Easy setup MIT

Readrops

RSS & News Readers

Android RSS reader that syncs with self-hosted services

Replaces Feedly

★ 572 Easy setup GPL-3.0

Newsraft

RSS & News Readers

Feature-rich terminal RSS and Atom feed reader

Replaces Feedly

★ 300 Medium setup GPL-3.0

Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Offline-First within the rss & news readers category. Compare them on the individual app pages for setup difficulty and resource requirements.