FreshRSS
FreshRSS is a free, self-hosted RSS aggregator. It is quite lightweight, fast (it can manage +100k articles without complaining) and powerful (e.g. shortcuts, filters, responsive design, multi-views, multi-themes, multi-users, statistics, provides a Google Reader API, etc.)
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Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
- Support for Themes
Features
- Feed Reader
- Import/Export OPML Feeds
- Ad-free
- Web-Based
- Self-hosted
- Dark Mode
- Cloud Sync
- No Tracking
- Integrated Search
- Multiple Account support
- No registration required
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Import from Google Reader
Tags
FreshRSS News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
- audpa33 reviewed FreshRSS
I use Freshrss for years now. It was installed at the beginning on my PI3, P4 and now on a Intel N100. Every morning I can read latest word news, tech news and some technical articles retrieved on different sites. It works perfectly.
- Endrju reviewed FreshRSS
It's easy to use even for non-tech person.
sjw7444 added FreshRSS as alternative to ElectricPants- konishchev rated FreshRSS
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What is FreshRSS?
FreshRSS is a free, self-hosted RSS aggregator. It is quite lightweight, fast (it can manage +100k articles without complaining) and powerful (e.g. shortcuts, filters, responsive design, multi-views, multi-themes, multi-users, statistics, provides a Google Reader API, etc.)
It is able to import feeds from OPML files and / or JSON files generated by Google Reader via Takeout.
To conclude, it is still a project in active development, so feel free to give a hand to help and have a look to the demo: http://demo.freshrss.org/
FreshRSS information
Developed by
Marien Fressinaud Licensing
Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
Rating
Average rating of 4.7Alternatives
126 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
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News & BooksGitHub repository
- 13,876 Stars
- 1,089 Forks
- 649 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
After some years with TinyTinyRSS I decided to switch due to the crude community (see my post for TinyTinyRSS/TT-RSS). After a closer look at all alternatives I could find I have now concluded that FreshRSS is the most mature alternative as of today.
Evaluation
This is some of the factors that has been important for me during my evaluation:
This application have 11 contributors on Github, most alternatives have 2-4. Only 3 of the comitters are very active and has been so for a long period of time.
The activity on GitHub is high and has been active for a long period of time.
I collect a lot of feeds and like the history thus it is crucial to be able to view read items, this is not the case of some of the alternatives like Selfoss.
I like to organize my feeds into groups, most alternatives can do this and FreshRSS can do as well.
Some feeds I like to keep a short history of, some I like to keep a longer history for. FreshRSS uses a default setting that can be adjusted for individual feeds. It is combined with the least number of items to save, e.g. scarp all items older than 6 month but keep at least 500 items in this feed. It can be old but will not be empty.
In TT-RSS I used tags for things I like to remember or republish. This is not possible in FreshRSS at the moment. I can mark items as favourite though and I will need to manage with that.
The installation was flawless
I want this for my family, multi user is a must
Cool thing I did not know I might like is that I can select what feeds to include in the general "all items" list. Also cool thing is that there is a visual theme selector so I can see an example of what it is going to look like. 6 themes are included by default.
The overall impression (still after a very shorty period of time) is that I am satisfied and will continue the experiment and evaluation. All other alternatives I tested was rejected and I scraped the installation quite early.
Alternatives that I rejected
The Alternatives I looked at was:
http://selfoss.aditu.de/ Installed and tested. SelfOss is nice but not complete. Seems to be for one person only. No way to view history of read items.
https://github.com/brainfoolong/nreeda Tested the demo. To simple. Does not show all items in feed if feed is long. No way to read read articles.
https://www.commafeed.com Java application which is supported on my web hotel. I never installed this one.
http://rnews.sourceforge.net/ Latest news 2009, appears to be abandoned. I never installed this one.
http://readerself.com/ Cannot pass registration screen after install. Gave up and scrapped the installation.
https://github.com/xbmcfreak/phppaper Did never try to install because the ToDo-list on the home page have some important stuff in it like Mark-read and Search. I decided that this was yet to immature for my taste.
[Edited by ErikR, March 22]
Thanks for this nice review!
I'm one of the developers of FreshRSS and I would like to know if you're still using it and what you think is missing? I see you would be able to edit tags, it's something I want to support since a long time too so maybe some day you will see that arrive ;)
Marien
I use Freshrss for years now. It was installed at the beginning on my PI3, P4 and now on a Intel N100. Every morning I can read latest word news, tech news and some technical articles retrieved on different sites. It works perfectly.
It's easy to use even for non-tech person.
super easy to host and update, great features, including being able to get full-text feeds based on websites, for pages that don't over it!
I like FreshRSS because its easy to use and selfhosted
Easily the best feed reader for my needs, installed from a quick install script via my cpanel host, easy to use, hook into via mobile apps, and runs smoothly in the mobile browser, can also run natively as a web app via mobile browser
It's nicely extensible with themes and plugins; however it would be nice for these to be accessible via a managed (curated) library through the settings panel, in the manner of WordPress for example
Still a definite 5 stars
The basic features are all working great.
The only issue I encountered was for more advanced stuff: parsing non-RSS web pages is theoretically possible but relies on an old version of XPath that has too little capabilities.