Winds vs yarr
A side-by-side comparison of two self-hosted rss & news readers options
— licensing, setup difficulty, resource needs, and what each one
replaces.
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Compare Winds with
choose an app… RSSHub Karakeep ArchiveBox Linkwarden Omnivore FreshRSS Wallabag Shiori Linkding Fluent Reader Miniflux RSS-Bridge Floccus NewsBlur Buku TagSpaces Stringer Shaarli Newsboat Feedbin CommaFeed Pinry Kill the Newsletter Tiny Tiny RSS Feeder RSS Guard selfoss Fusion Feed reader nono Antennapod-server-Wenholt bewCloud QuiteRSS Nextcloud News osmos::feed Liferea NewsFlash RSSBox morss FeedReader Nom RSS by guyfedwards FeedHQ Readrops Reader by lemon24 Feed mixer nono Granary RSS Monster Yotter rss2email rsspls Feedpushr Feeds Fun FeedCord Newsraft RSS aggregator nono KrISS feed Russ FeedMixer Bubo Reader RSS reader nono Leed feed2toot Goeland RSS Funnel Feed dashboard nono Reader-self Coldsweat JARR TrueRSS rss2hook Newspipe Yarrharr
Compare yarr with
choose an app… RSSHub Karakeep ArchiveBox Linkwarden Omnivore FreshRSS Wallabag Shiori Linkding Fluent Reader Miniflux RSS-Bridge Floccus NewsBlur Buku TagSpaces Stringer Shaarli Newsboat Feedbin CommaFeed Pinry Kill the Newsletter Tiny Tiny RSS Feeder RSS Guard selfoss Fusion Feed reader nono Antennapod-server-Wenholt bewCloud QuiteRSS Nextcloud News osmos::feed Liferea NewsFlash RSSBox morss FeedReader Nom RSS by guyfedwards FeedHQ Readrops Reader by lemon24 Feed mixer nono Granary RSS Monster Yotter rss2email rsspls Feedpushr Feeds Fun Tinyfeed FeedCord Newsraft RSS aggregator nono KrISS feed Russ FeedMixer Bubo Reader RSS reader nono Leed feed2toot Goeland RSS Funnel Feed dashboard nono Reader-self Coldsweat JARR TrueRSS rss2hook Newspipe Yarrharr
Feature Winds yarr Category RSS & News Readers RSS & News Readers License MIT MIT Language JavaScript Go Setup difficulty Hard Easy Min. RAM 1,024 MB 64 MB Deployment docker binary, docker GitHub stars ★ 9,115 ★ 3,919 First released 2017 2020 Replaces Feedly Feedly, Google Reader
Why pick each one
Choose Winds if… Released under the MIT license First-class Docker support for quick deployment Mature project with 9.1k GitHub stars Written in JavaScript Winds details Choose yarr if… Extremely simple to run Tiny footprint No dependencies yarr details
Frequently asked questions Is Winds or yarr better? Neither is universally better. Winds has the larger community, while yarr is simpler to set up (easy difficulty). Choose based on the comparison table above and your own setup.
Are Winds and yarr free and open-source? Yes. Winds is licensed under MIT and yarr under MIT. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run Winds and yarr with Docker? Winds: yes. yarr: yes.