Yarr
Yarr (yet another rss reader) is a web-based feed aggregator which can be used both as a desktop application and a personal self-hosted server.
Actively maintained with regular releases.
Commit activity more than 52% of tracked projects; popularity more than 63%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 4.1k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v2.9 · 7 Sept 2026 |
| Repo updated | 23 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | MIT |
| Built with | Go |
Is Yarr actively maintained?
Over the last 11 months the project absorbed 294 commits, of which 248 arrived in the most recent quarter — roughly 83 commits a month.
Activity is accelerating: the last quarter carried 727% more commits than the one before it.
The most recent tagged release, v2.9, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Of the 26 projects we track in Feed Readers, Yarr ranks #6 by health score — in the top quarter of its category.
What Yarr actually does
Yarr is a web-based feed aggregator designed to collect and display content from various web feeds. It functions as a standalone desktop application or as a self-hosted server accessible via a browser.
Best fit: Users who want a lightweight, self-hosted feed reader with minimal resource consumption that can be accessed from multiple devices.
Worth knowing: The software occupies a crowded space alongside mature alternatives, meaning it may lack advanced filtering or third-party syncing integrations found in larger projects.
Deployment notes
Being built with Go, it typically compiles into a single binary that requires persistent storage for your feed database and a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination.
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