Best Free & Open Source Alternatives to Feedly

Miniflux is a minimalist and opinionated RSS feed reader written in Go. It is intentionally simple, fast, and focused on reading — there are no endless customization options or complex UI. The philosophy is that a good reading experience requires focus, not feature bloat.

Miniflux runs as a single Go binary with a PostgreSQL database, making deployment straightforward. It supports keyboard shortcuts for power users, Fever and Google Reader API compatibility (for mobile client apps), multiple users, content scraping for full article text, and integration with services like Pocket, Instapaper, and Pinboard.

For users tired of slow, feature-heavy RSS readers like Feedly, Miniflux offers a clean, performant alternative. It is especially popular among developers and technical users who appreciate its simplicity. Miniflux can be self-hosted for free, or a hosted version is available for a one-time fee.

CommaFeed is a self-hosted RSS reader inspired by Google Reader, built on Quarkus and React/TypeScript. It offers a familiar three-pane reading experience with four layout options, light and dark themes, full keyboard shortcuts, RTL support and translations in 25+ languages. The interface is fully responsive and works equally well on mobile and desktop, making it a solid drop-in for anyone who still misses Google Reader's workflow.

Under the hood, CommaFeed packs a lot of power: OPML import and export, a REST API, a Fever-compatible API for native mobile apps, automatic mark-as-read rules, push notifications, and deep customisation through custom CSS and JavaScript. It scales to thousands of users and millions of feeds, supports H2 (embedded), PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB, and can be compiled to native code via GraalVM for fast startup and low memory usage. There is also a companion browser extension and a free public instance at commafeed.com for users who don't want to self-host.

CommaFeed is Apache 2.0 licensed, has over 3,500 GitHub stars, and is actively maintained. Docker images are published automatically, and one-click hosting is available through PikaPods.

FreshRSS is a powerful, self-hosted RSS and Atom news aggregator. It is lightweight, easy to install (just PHP + a database), and features a clean responsive web interface that works well on mobile.

FreshRSS supports multiple users each with their own feed collections, custom categories, and reading preferences. It implements the Google Reader API and Fever API, making it compatible with many existing RSS client apps for iOS and Android. It also supports Greader, Nextcloud News, and TT-RSS API protocols.

Advanced filtering, full-text search, and feed statistics help manage large numbers of subscriptions. FreshRSS also supports a WebSub/PubSubHubbub protocol for instant feed updates. For users leaving services like Feedly or Inoreader, it is an excellent self-hosted replacement that keeps all your feeds private.

Tiny Tiny RSS (tt-rss) is one of the longest-running self-hosted RSS feed readers and aggregators, originally created by Andrew Dolgov in 2005 and actively developed for over two decades. It supports RSS, Atom and a variety of other feed formats, with a flexible web-based interface that can be extended through a rich plugin ecosystem. The current codebase lives at github.com/tt-rss/tt-rss after the original tt-rss.org was retired on 2025-11-01 and the project was forked and continued by a long-time contributor.

tt-rss is built on PHP with PostgreSQL or MySQL backends and ships with a built-in article reader, full-text search, OPML import/export, keyboard shortcuts, and a Fever-compatible API for native mobile apps. Plugins add support for things like custom feed processors, rewritten and cleaned article views, and integrations with third-party services. Docker images for amd64 and arm64 are published automatically to both Docker Hub and GitHub Container Registry, and the original documentation from tt-rss.org has been preserved at tt-rss.github.io.

Tiny Tiny RSS is free software, licensed under the GNU GPL v3 or later. With hundreds of plugins, themes and a mature community, it remains one of the most feature-rich options for self-hosting your own feed aggregator.

Refeed is a modern self-hosted RSS reader focused on a clean reading experience and a thoughtful set of features that go beyond a basic feed list. It supports timed bookmarks that auto-expire, filters that strip out content by keyword, author or date, bookmark folders, in-article note-taking, fullscreen reading mode, and automatic mark-as-read on scroll. Refeed also offers a clever newsletter-to-RSS feature: each user gets a custom email address for newsletter subscriptions that are converted into RSS feeds inside the app, so newsletters never clog your personal inbox.

Built on Next.js, tRPC, React, Tailwind CSS, Prisma and Supabase (PostgreSQL), with a React Native and Expo companion app, Refeed targets a smooth developer experience as well as a pleasant end-user one. The codebase uses a Turborepo monorepo, full content fetching is supported, and self-hosting is documented via Docker.

Refeed is MIT licensed and was actively developed through 2025. A hosted instance is available at refeedreader.com in addition to a self-hosted setup.