Best self-hosted feed readers

A [news aggregator](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_aggregator), also termed a feed aggregator, feed reader, news reader, [RSS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS) reader, is an application that aggregates web content such as newspapers/blogs/vlogs/podcasts in one location for easy viewing.

We track 26 self-hosted feed readers projects. The median health score in this category is 52, against 7 projects rated healthy or better and 8 showing little recent activity. The table below is ordered by health score, not popularity — the most starred project in a category is frequently not the best maintained one.

#	Project	Health	Stars	Built with	Last release
1	FreshRSS Self-hostable RSS feed aggregator.	Thriving · 82	16k	PHP, Docker	9 Sept 2026
2	CommaFeed Google Reader inspired self-hosted RSS reader.	Thriving · 82	3.6k	Java, Docker	22 Aug 2026
3	RSSHub Easy to use, and extensible RSS feed aggregator capable of generating RSS feeds from pretty much everything ranging from	Healthy · 81	46k	Nodejs, Docker	—
4	NewsBlur Personal news reader that brings people together to talk about the world. A new sound of an old instrument.	Healthy · 78	7.6k	Python	11 Aug 2026
5	RSS Monster Easy to use web-based RSS aggregator and reader compatible with the Fever API (alternative to Google Reader).	Healthy · 77	557	PHP	9 Sept 2026
6	Yarr Yarr (yet another rss reader) is a web-based feed aggregator which can be used both as a desktop application and a perso	Healthy · 73	4.1k	Go	7 Sept 2026
7	Miniflux Minimalist news reader.	Healthy · 70	9.7k	Go, deb	24 Jul 2026
8	Glance Highly customizable dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place.	Steady · 65	37k	Docker, Go	3 Sept 2026
9	Tiny Tiny RSS Web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) reader and aggregator.	Steady · 63	850	Docker, PHP	—
10	bewCloud File sharing + sync, notes, and photos (alternative to Nextcloud and ownCloud's RSS reader).	Steady · 58	1.2k	Docker	13 Aug 2026
11	RSS-Bridge Generate RSS/ATOM feeds for websites which don't have one.	Steady · 56	9.3k	PHP, Docker	5 Aug 2025
12	Fusion Lightweight RSS aggregator and reader.	Steady · 56	2.2k	Go, Docker	28 Jul 2026
13	Stringer Work-in-progress self-hosted, anti-social RSS reader.	Steady · 52	4.1k	Ruby	—
14	Goeland Turns any RSS/Atom feed into a beautiful email digest.	Slowing · 51	207	Go, Docker	30 Aug 2026
15	reader Feed reader web app and library (so you can use it to build your own), with only standard library and pure-Python depend	Slowing · 50	558	Python	24 Jun 2026
16	Leed Leed (for Light Feed) is a Free and minimalist RSS aggregator.	Slowing · 45	236	PHP	18 Aug 2026
17	Selfoss New multipurpose rss reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application.	Slowing · 44	2.5k	PHP	12 Oct 2022
18	Feeds Fun News reader with tags, scoring, and AI.	At risk · 33	395	Python	—
19	Kriss Feed Simple and smart (or stupid) feed reader.	At risk · 31	293	PHP	—
20	TinyFeed Generate a static HTML page from a collection of feeds with a simple CLI.	At risk · 25	377	Go, Docker	6 Apr 2026
21	Upvote RSS Generate rich RSS feeds from Reddit, Hacker News, Lemmy, Mbin, and more.	At risk · 22	501	Docker, PHP	13 Mar 2026
22	Readflow Lightweight news reader with modern interface and features: full-text search, automatic categorization, archiving, offli	At risk · 22	475	Go, Docker	4 Mar 2024
23	RSS2EMail Fetches RSS/Atom-feeds and pushes new content to any email-receiver, supports OPML.	At risk · 10	457	Python, deb	—
24	JARR JARR (Just Another RSS Reader) is a web-based news aggregator and reader (fork of Newspipe).	At risk · 7	129	Docker, Python	25 Jul 2016
25	Bubo Reader Irrationally minimal RSS feed reader.	At risk · 4	234	Nodejs	3 Jun 2023
26	Newspipe Web news reader.	Unrated	—	Python	—

Which one should you run?

If you want the safest bet on longevity, FreshRSS is the best-maintained project in this category right now at 82/100. CommaFeed is the closest runner-up (82/100) — see the side-by-side comparison.

A health score measures whether a project is alive and shipping. It does not measure whether it has the feature you need. Use it to rule options out, then compare on features.