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Open-source RSS readers in 2026

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 are listed separately.

All open-source RSS readers, ranked

Complete systems you can adopt 25

  1. 1
    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.

    β˜… 39k AGPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed today
  2. 2
    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.

    β˜… 16k AGPL-3.0 PHP Active, pushed today
  3. 3
    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.

    β˜… 10k MIT Swift Active, pushed 9 days ago
  4. 4
    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.

    β˜… 9.9k Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed yesterday
  5. 5
    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.

    β˜… 9.8k BSD-3-Clause TypeScript Active, pushed 4 days ago
  6. 6
    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.

    β˜… 7.7k MIT HTML Active, pushed today
  7. 7
    ReadYou ReadYouApp

    An Android RSS reader presented in Material You style.

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

    β˜… 7.6k GPL-3.0 Kotlin Active, pushed 3 months ago
  8. 8
    PlainApp plainhub

    πŸ”₯ 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.

    β˜… 7.1k AGPL-3.0 Kotlin Active, pushed today
  9. 9
    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.

    β˜… 4.1k MIT Ruby Active, pushed yesterday
  10. 10
    Yarr nkanaev

    yet another rss reader

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

    β˜… 4.1k MIT Go Active, pushed today
  11. 11
    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.

    β˜… 3.6k Apache-2.0 Java Active, pushed today
  12. 12
    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.

    β˜… 2.8k GPL-3.0 C++ Active, pushed 4 days ago
  13. 13
    MrRSS DevXDojo

    A modern, cross-platform, and free AI RSS reader. δΈ€δΈͺηŽ°δ»£εŒ–γ€θ·¨εΉ³ε°δΈ”ε…θ΄Ήηš„ AI RSS ι˜…θ―»ε™¨.

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

    β˜… 2.6k GPL-3.0 Go Active, pushed today
  14. 14
    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.

    β˜… 2.5k GPL-3.0 HTML Active, pushed yesterday
  15. 15
    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.

    β˜… 2.4k GPL-3.0 Kotlin Active, pushed today
  16. 16
    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.

    β˜… 2.2k MIT TypeScript Active, pushed 26 days ago
  17. 17
    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.

    β˜… 2k Apache-2.0 Objective-C Active, pushed 8 days ago
  18. 18
    Lettura zhanglun

    another rss reader

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

    β˜… 1.8k GPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed 22 days ago
  19. 19
    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.

    β˜… 1.8k BSD-3-Clause Dart Active, pushed today
  20. 20
    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.

    β˜… 1.6k AGPL-3.0 Go Active, pushed yesterday
  21. 21
    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.

    β˜… 1.4k GPL-3.0 Kotlin Active, pushed today
  22. 22
    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.

    β˜… 877 AGPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed today
  23. 23
    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.

    β˜… 874 GPL-3.0 PHP Active, pushed 2 days ago
  24. 24
    News-android nextcloud

    πŸ“±πŸ—žοΈ 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.

    β˜… 769 AGPL-3.0 Java Active, pushed yesterday
  25. 25
    FeedMe Seanium

    πŸ˜‹ 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.

    β˜… 747 MIT TypeScript Active, pushed today

Frameworks and platforms to build on 1

  1. 1
    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.

    β˜… 3.5k GPL-3.0 Python Active, pushed 2 months ago

Building blocks for your own system 2

  1. 1
    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.

    β˜… 1.5k MIT JavaScript Active, pushed 2 months ago
  2. 2
    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.

    β˜… 1.4k MIT Swift Active, pushed 4 days ago

Integrations 2

  1. 1
    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.

    β˜… 2.2k AGPL-3.0 Python Active, pushed 3 days ago
  2. 2
    News nextcloud

    πŸ“° RSS/Atom feed reader

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

    β˜… 1k AGPL-3.0 PHP Active, pushed today

Compared head to head

Feedly vs InoreaderFeedly vs NewsBlurFeedly vs FoloFeedly vs FreshRSSFeedly vs NetNewsWireInoreader vs NewsBlurFolo vs InoreaderFreshRSS vs InoreaderInoreader vs NetNewsWireFolo vs NewsBlurFreshRSS vs NewsBlurNetNewsWire vs NewsBlurFolo vs FreshRSSFolo vs NetNewsWireFreshRSS vs NetNewsWire

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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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