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The best open source News Reader alternative to Google Reader is QuiteRSS. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Google Reader and many of them are open source News Readers so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source News Reader alternatives to Google Reader are NewsBlur, FreshRSS, RSS Guard and Liferea.



NewsBlur is a personal news reader that brings people together to talk about the world. It shows you the original site and allows you to read stories directly off the site while keeping track of what you read. It also filters and highlights stories you like and dislike.




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.)


RSS Guard is simple, light and easy-to-use RSS/ATOM feed aggregator developed using Qt framework which supports online feed synchronization.


Liferea is a web feed reader/news aggregator that brings together all of the content from your favorite subscriptions into a simple interface that makes it easy to organize and browse feeds.




RSS reader shows you articles from your favorite blogs and news sites, and it keeps track of what you’ve read.




Feedbin is a modern web reader to follow websites, Twitter feeds and email newsletters in one place. It boasts a clean interface, is ad-free, and costs $5/month.






Akregator is a news feed reader. It enables you to follow news sites, blogs and other RSS/Atom-enabled websites without the need to manually check for updates using a web browser. Akregator is designed to be both easy to use and to be powerful enough to read hundreds of news...

The News app is an extension to Nextcloud. Essentially it is an RSS/Atom feed aggregator and offers a RESTful API for app developers. There are several clients, also for mobile devices.



selfoss is a multipurpose RSS reader and feed aggregation web application. It allows you to easily follow updates from different websites, social networks and other platforms, all in a single place. It is written in PHP, allowing you to run it basically anywhere.



Vienna is an RSS and Atom newsreader, packed with powerful features that help you make sense of the flood of information that is distributed via these formats today.




Small, quick, cross-platform (including BSD!!!)