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Best Single-User RSS & News Readers for self-hosting

The 14 best Single-User rss & news readers you can self-host, ranked by community traction.

Miniflux

RSS & News Readers

Minimalist and opinionated RSS feed reader

Replaces Feedly, Inoreader

★ 9.8k Easy setup Apache-2.0

Stringer

RSS & News Readers

Anti-social, self-hosted RSS reader

Replaces Feedly, Google Reader

★ 4.1k Medium setup MIT

yarr

RSS & News Readers

Yet another RSS reader as a single binary

Replaces Feedly, Google Reader

★ 4.1k Easy setup MIT

selfoss

RSS & News Readers

Multipurpose RSS reader and web scraping aggregator

Replaces Google Reader, Feedly

★ 2.5k Easy setup GPL-3.0

morss

RSS & News Readers

Get full-text and complete RSS feeds from any source

Replaces Feedly

★ 788 Medium setup AGPL-3.0

Nom RSS by guyfedwards

RSS & News Readers

Terminal RSS and Atom feed reader

Replaces Feedly, Newsboat

★ 750 Easy setup MIT

Reader by lemon24

RSS & News Readers

Self-hosted feed reader with a clean reading view

Replaces Feedly, Google Reader

★ 560 Easy setup MIT

RSS aggregator nono KrISS feed

RSS & News Readers

Simple and smart RSS and Atom feed reader

Replaces Google Reader, Feedly

★ 292 Easy setup MIT

Russ

RSS & News Readers

Terminal RSS and Atom feed reader

Replaces Feedly

★ 268 Easy setup MIT

RSS reader nono Leed

RSS & News Readers

Free and minimalist self-hosted RSS feed aggregator

Replaces Google Reader, Feedly

★ 235 Easy setup CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0

RSS Funnel

RSS & News Readers

Programmable proxy for transforming RSS feeds

Replaces Feedbin, Feedly

★ 158 Medium setup MIT

Feed dashboard nono Reader-self

RSS & News Readers

PHP RSS aggregator with a Google Reader API

Replaces Google Reader, Feedly

★ 150 Easy setup MIT

Coldsweat

RSS & News Readers

Web RSS aggregator and reader with a Fever API

Replaces Google Reader, Feedly

★ 146 Medium setup MIT

Yarrharr

RSS & News Readers

Self-hosted feed reader with a mobile-friendly interface

Replaces Feedly, Google Reader

★ 3 Medium setup GPL-3.0

At a glance

App	Deploy effort	Difficulty	Min. RAM	License	★ Stars
Miniflux	≈5-minute setup	Easy	128 MB	Apache-2.0	9,794
Stringer	Under-an-hour setup	Medium	512 MB	MIT	4,128
yarr	Under-an-hour setup	Easy	64 MB	MIT	4,070
selfoss	Under-an-hour setup	Easy	128 MB	GPL-3.0	2,474
morss	Under-an-hour setup	Medium	128 MB	AGPL-3.0	788
Nom RSS by guyfedwards	Read-the-docs project	Easy	64 MB	MIT	750
Reader by lemon24	Under-an-hour setup	Easy	128 MB	MIT	560
RSS aggregator nono KrISS feed	Read-the-docs project	Easy	64 MB	MIT	292
Russ	Read-the-docs project	Easy	64 MB	MIT	268
RSS reader nono Leed	Read-the-docs project	Easy	64 MB	CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0	235

Quick picks

Most adopted: Miniflux (9,794 GitHub stars).
Lightest footprint: yarr (from 64 MB RAM, against 512 MB for the heaviest here).
Fastest to deploy: Miniflux (verified single-container compose).
Licensing: 9 of 14 use MIT; check the rest individually if you plan to modify and redistribute.

Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Single-User within the rss & news readers category. Deploy effort is graded from published container recipes, not vendor claims — see the methodology.

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