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FreshRSS
A free, community-built, self-hostable feed aggregator (PHP) with extensions, web scraping, and Fever and Google Reader APIs that many mobile apps use.
Release 1.30.4 on 2026-10-21; last push 2026-10-26 (gh api). (checked 2026-10-25)
In RSS readers
Where it stands apart
- How is the main thing licensed? copyleft or source-available with restrictions (11% of 19 others)
- How is it mainly sustained? community, foundation, or research (11% of 19 others)
- Who is it for? both (16% of 19 others)
- How does it mainly sync your reading between devices or apps? it serves a common sync API (Fever or Google Reader) that other apps use (0% of 19 others)
- Can you move your subscriptions in and out with OPML? import and export (13% of 15 others)
- Where do you mainly use it? web app you host yourself (11% of 19 others)
- Does the maker collect analytics on how you read? not applicable (it runs on your own device or server; nothing reaches the maker) (11% of 18 others)
What it shares with most of the community
- Is it actively maintained? active (95% of 19 others)
- What does a regular reader pay? nothing, and no ads (50% of 18 others)
- Is reading private, or shared with other readers? private (63% of 19 others)
- Where do you mainly read the article itself? in its own clean reader view (63% of 19 others)
Nearest neighbors
- NetNewsWire 65% of 17 shared answers match
- Sunred 65% of 17 shared answers match
- Gotcha RSS Feed 47% of 17 shared answers match
Every answer
| Question | Answer | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Is it actively maintained? | active | source 2026-10-26 |
| How is the main thing licensed? | stands apart copyleft or source-available with restrictions AGPL-3.0. | source 2026-10-26 |
| How is it mainly sustained? | stands apart community, foundation, or research Community project, sponsored on Liberapay. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Can it run entirely on your own device or infrastructure, without the maker's servers? | yes | source 2026-10-26 |
| Do you need an account to use it? | account required Login on your own or a public instance. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Who is it for? | stands apart both | source 2026-10-26 |
| Which shared standard or format does it mainly build on? | RSS, Atom, or JSON Feed A feed aggregator first; it also serves the Google Reader and Fever APIs other apps use. | source 2026-10-26 |
| What does a reader put into it? | feeds or sites to follow | source 2026-10-26 |
| What decides which items you see first? | newest first (chronological) | source 2026-10-26 |
| What's the most AI does to what you read? (pick the first that applies) | no AI No AI in core features; third-party extensions may add it. | source 2026-10-26 |
| How does it mainly sync your reading between devices or apps? | stands apart it serves a common sync API (Fever or Google Reader) that other apps use Google Reader-compatible and Fever APIs. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Can you move your subscriptions in and out with OPML? | stands apart import and export | source 2026-10-26 |
| Where do you mainly use it? | stands apart web app you host yourself | source 2026-10-26 |
| What does a regular reader pay? | nothing, and no ads Free; some third-party hosts charge. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Is reading private, or shared with other readers? | private Can share to outside services and publish filtered feeds; no reader-to-reader social. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Does the maker collect analytics on how you read? | stands apart not applicable (it runs on your own device or server; nothing reaches the maker) Self-hosted; nothing reaches the maker. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Where do you mainly read the article itself? | in its own clean reader view 'Read your articles directly in FreshRSS.' | source 2026-10-26 |
Sources
This page was derived from:
- GitHub · github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/users/06_Mobile_access.html · collected 2026-10-26
- Web page · freshrss.org/index.html · collected 2026-10-26
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