Feedly vs FreshRSS
Feedly and FreshRSS are both RSS reader software. Feedly is a commercial product from Feedly. FreshRSS is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 16k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Feedly when
- You follow many sources and want a polished reader, or a team needs topic monitoring with AI filtering.
- Pick FreshRSS when
- You want your own feed server that syncs read state across phone and desktop apps, on cheap PHP hosting.
Side by side
An RSS and news reader that gathers sites, blogs and newsletters into feeds, with AI filtering sold to market and threat intelligence teams.
A self-hosted RSS and Atom aggregator in PHP with multi-user support, WebSub, extensions and APIs that mobile reader apps can sync with.
The company now focuses on paid threat and market intelligence, and the free tier is limited.
You run and update the server yourself, and the default UI looks dated.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service and mobile app
Self-hosted server
Not published
PHP, SQLite, PostgreSQL and MySQL
Closed source, sold by Feedly
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
478 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
16k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 14 years ago, latest release 1.30.4.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.