The Best RSS Feed Readers that You Can Host Yourself

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2021-05-15 08:29:54

It aims to be an open standard for the open web, where applications can get updates from websites. This runs against the current closed off portions of the web like Facebook that keep content behind their account login - i.e. the internet's 'walled gardens'. For a while, a lot of people used the popular Google Reader RSS application - unfortunately, as with many loved Google projects it got killed off because of declining usage and it didn't generate revenue.

There's a bunch of open source Feed Readers listed on the Feed Reader section of Awesome Self-Hosted. My criteria to filter the list were:

This is what I was left with. Which I then filtered based on my UI and tech preferences i.e. don't be ugly and don't use PHP/Java.

The kitchen sink reader Github Stars: 7.5k Built With: JavaScript (React + Express) Test Website: No, but free account creation Features:

Stringer is simple... 'has no external dependencies, no social recommendations/sharing, and no fancy machine learning algorithms.' Github Stars: 3.2k Built With: Ruby Test Website: No, but has a click to deploy to Heroku option Features: