Alternatives to NewsBlur in 2026

Folo RSSNext

🧡 Folo is the AI RSS Reader

Complete system Usable You want a modern feed reader that also pulls in sites without native RSS and offers AI summaries.

★ 39k AGPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed today

FreshRSS FreshRSS

A free, self-hostable news aggregator…

Complete system Production-ready You want your own feed server that syncs read state across phone and desktop apps, on cheap PHP hosting.

★ 16k AGPL-3.0 PHP Active, pushed today

NetNewsWire Ranchero-Software

RSS reader for macOS and iOS.

Complete system Production-ready You use Apple devices and want a fast, free, privacy-respecting feed reader.

★ 10k MIT Swift Active, pushed 9 days ago

V2 miniflux

Minimalist and opinionated feed reader

Complete system Production-ready You want a fast, low-maintenance feed server and do not need visual frills.

★ 9.9k Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed yesterday

Fluent Reader yang991178

Modern desktop RSS reader built with Electron, React, and Fluent UI

Complete system Usable You want a clean desktop feed reader, especially on Windows.

★ 9.8k BSD-3-Clause TypeScript Active, pushed 4 days ago

NewsBlur samuelclay

NewsBlur is a personal news reader that brings people together to talk about the world. A new sound of an old instrument.

Complete system Production-ready You want a mature hosted feed reader with filtering, or want to study or self-host the full stack.

★ 7.7k MIT HTML Active, pushed today

ReadYou ReadYouApp

An Android RSS reader presented in Material You style.

Complete system Usable You want a good-looking free feed reader on Android.

★ 7.6k GPL-3.0 Kotlin Active, pushed 3 months ago

PlainApp plainhub

🔥 PlainApp is an open-source app that lets you securely manage your phone from a web browser. Access files, media, contacts, SMS, calls, and more through a simple, easy-to-use interface on your desktop.

Complete system Usable You want to move files and handle messages on your Android phone from your computer without cloud services.

★ 7.1k AGPL-3.0 Kotlin Active, pushed today

Stringer stringer-rss

A self-hosted, anti-social RSS reader.

Complete system Usable You want a plain personal feed reader and are comfortable deploying a Rails app with Postgres.

★ 4.1k MIT Ruby Active, pushed yesterday

Yarr nkanaev

yet another rss reader

Complete system Usable You want a lightweight personal feed reader with no database server.

★ 4.1k MIT Go Active, pushed today

CommaFeed Athou

Google Reader inspired self-hosted personal RSS reader.

Complete system Production-ready You want a familiar three-pane feed reader on your own server with low setup effort.

★ 3.6k Apache-2.0 Java Active, pushed today

Emacs-application-framework emacs-eaf

EAF, an extensible framework that revolutionizes the graphical capabilities of Emacs

Framework or platform Usable You live in Emacs and want graphical apps inside it.

★ 3.5k GPL-3.0 Python Active, pushed 2 months ago

Rssguard martinrotter

Feed reader (podcast player, basic XMPP client and also Gemini protocol client) which supports RSS/ATOM/JSON and many web-based feed services.

Complete system Production-ready You want a native desktop reader that connects to many sync services and supports scripting and filters.

★ 2.8k GPL-3.0 C++ Active, pushed 4 days ago

MrRSS DevXDojo

A modern, cross-platform, and free AI RSS reader. 一个现代化、跨平台且免费的 AI RSS 阅读器.

Complete system Usable You read feeds in several languages and want built-in AI translation and summaries on the desktop.

★ 2.6k GPL-3.0 Go Active, pushed today

Selfoss fossar

multipurpose rss reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application

Complete system Usable You want a light feed reader on basic PHP hosting and like mixing feeds with other sources in one stream.

★ 2.5k GPL-3.0 HTML Active, pushed yesterday

Twine msasikanth

Twine: A multiplatform RSS reader built using Kotlin and Compose

Complete system Usable You want one good-looking feed reader that works the same on Android, iPhone and desktop.

★ 2.4k GPL-3.0 Kotlin Active, pushed today

Fusion 0x2E

A lightweight, self-hosted friendly RSS reader

Complete system Usable You want the simplest possible self-hosted feed reader with low memory use.

★ 2.2k MIT TypeScript Active, pushed 26 days ago

RSS-to-Telegram-Bot Rongronggg9

A Telegram RSS bot that cares about your reading experience (calling for new maintainers: https://github.com/Rongronggg9/RSS-to-Telegram-Bot/issues/747)

Integration Usable You or your community read news in Telegram and want feeds delivered there.

★ 2.2k AGPL-3.0 Python Active, pushed 3 days ago

ViennaRSS ViennaRSS

Vienna is a free and open-source RSS/Atom/JSON feed newsreader for macOS.

Complete system Production-ready You use a Mac and want a classic, free desktop feed reader.

★ 2k Apache-2.0 Objective-C Active, pushed 8 days ago

Lettura zhanglun

another rss reader

Complete system Experimental You want a lightweight cross-platform desktop reader and do not need sync.

★ 1.8k GPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed 22 days ago

Fluent Reader Lite yang991178

Simplistic mobile RSS client built with Flutter

Complete system Usable You already use a feed sync service and want a minimal mobile client for it.

★ 1.8k BSD-3-Clause Dart Active, pushed today

Dynacat Panonim

Dynacat is a dashboard focused on dynamic reloading and easy integration with external applications.

Complete system Experimental You want a homelab start page that refreshes widgets without page reloads and can pull data from other apps.

★ 1.6k AGPL-3.0 Go Active, pushed yesterday

RSS parser rbren

A lightweight RSS parser, for Node and the browser

Building block Production-ready Your JavaScript app needs to read feeds and you want a small, widely used parser.

★ 1.5k MIT JavaScript Active, pushed 2 months ago

Capyreader jocmp

A smallish Android RSS reader

Complete system Usable You want a tidy, actively maintained Android reader that works with your own feed server.

★ 1.4k GPL-3.0 Kotlin Active, pushed today

FeedKit nmdias

FeedKit is a Swift library for Reading and Generating RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds.

Building block Production-ready You are writing an Apple-platform or server-side Swift app that handles feeds.

★ 1.4k MIT Swift Active, pushed 4 days ago

News nextcloud

📰 RSS/Atom feed reader

Integration Production-ready You already run Nextcloud and want feeds synced there rather than in a separate service.

★ 1k AGPL-3.0 PHP Active, pushed today

Glean LeslieLeung

A self-hosted RSS reader and personal knowledge management tool.

Complete system Experimental You want to keep and search what you read and let an AI assistant query it.

★ 877 AGPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed today

Tt-rss tt-rss

A free, flexible, open-source, web-based news feed (RSS/Atom/other) reader and aggregator.

Complete system Production-ready You want a feature-rich, plugin-extensible feed server and are comfortable running PHP with PostgreSQL.

★ 874 GPL-3.0 PHP Active, pushed 2 days ago

News-android nextcloud

📱🗞️ Android client for the Nextcloud news/feed reader app

Complete system Production-ready You read feeds through Nextcloud News and want an Android app for it.

★ 769 AGPL-3.0 Java Active, pushed yesterday

FeedMe Seanium

😋 AI-powered, Lightweight RSS Reader. Supports: GitHub Pages | Vercel | Alibaba Cloud ESA Pages | Docker

Complete system Usable You want a free, serverless personal feed page with AI summaries and are fine editing a config file in Git.

★ 747 MIT TypeScript Active, pushed today

Feedly Feedly

News aggregator

Complete system Production-ready You follow many sources and want a polished reader, or a team needs topic monitoring with AI filtering.

478 readers a month Since 2008 Commercial

Inoreader Innologica

RSS feed reader

Complete system Production-ready You are a heavy RSS user who wants rules and search to manage hundreds of feeds.

135 readers a month Since 2013 Commercial

Readwise Reader Readwise

Complete system Production-ready You read a lot online and want highlights and notes from everything flowing into your note-taking system.

Commercial