RSS readers in 2026
4 commercial products, ranked by how many people read about each, or about its maker, on Wikipedia's mobile site. Of those with an article of their own, Feedly has the most readers, about 478 a month. 30 open-source projects, ranked by GitHub stars and how recently each was worked on. Folo leads with 39k stars, ahead of FreshRSS. 30 had code pushed in the last three months. Most common licenses: GPL-3.0 (9), AGPL-3.0 (8) and MIT (8).
Commercial RSS readers
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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 -
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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 -
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NewsBlur NewsBlur
American software company, founded 2009
Complete system Production-ready You want an independent RSS reader with story filtering and the option to self-host.
53 readers a month Since 2009 Commercial -
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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
Open-source RSS readers
Complete systems you can adopt 10
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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
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Open-source licenses
- Permissive: 13. Use it anywhere, including in closed products. You keep the copyright notice; Apache-2.0 also grants patent rights.
- Strong copyleft: 9. If you distribute the program or anything built on it, you must release the whole source under the same license.
- Network copyleft: 8. Like GPL, and running a changed version as a web service counts as distributing it, so its users get the source too.
Languages
TypeScript 6, Go 4, Kotlin 4, PHP 3, Swift 2, HTML 2, Java 2, Python 2, Ruby 1, C++ 1, Objective-C 1, Dart 1 and JavaScript 1.
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