Liferea

Name: Liferea
Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)

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 organ...

Free • Open Source
RSS Reader
News Reader
Linux
BSD

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Avg rating of 3.5 (4) 3 comments 246 alternatives

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What is Liferea?

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. Its GUI is similar to a desktop mail/news client, with an embedded web browser.

Distinguishing Features

Read articles when offline. Force fetch full article text using HTML5 extraction Synchronizes with Reedah TheOldReader TinyTinyRSS Permanently save headlines in news bins. Match items using search folders. Play Podcasts in Liferea

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Liferea Screenshots

Reading news feeds in an email client like interface.

Hide read feeds from the subscription list.

Play music enclosures with the internal player.

Customize Liferea in the preferences dialog.

Browse the web with tabs inside Liferea.

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Liferea Features

No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in Liferea without registration.
LightweightLiferea consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
Extensible by Plugins/ExtensionsLiferea can be extended with add-ons, plugins and extensions.
Dark ModeLiferea supports dark mode for comfortable usage in low light conditions.
Ad-freeLiferea doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
Privacy focusedLiferea is considered a privacy friendly alternative.
Import/Export OPML FeedsImport and export your feed subscriptions into OPML format with Liferea.

Liferea information

Developed byLars Windolf
LicensingOpen Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.
Written in
C
RatingAverage rating of 3.5
Alternatives246 alternatives listed

Supported Languages

English

GitHub repository

778 Stars
132 Forks
100 Open Issues
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Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Liferea, and it has gotten 152 likes

Liferea was added to AlternativeTo by 3F1 on and this page was last updated . Liferea is sometimes referred to as Linux Feed Reader.

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tuva-hayabi

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Liferea has been around for a long time, and it runs very stably. It has a lot of setting options. What I dislike is that you cannot change the background color and font for the reading area. You can only change the CSS file by hand as a workaround.

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Kelson V

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A nice, lightweight feed reader for Linux that does the basics: lets you subscribe to RSS and Atom feeds and read the new posts when you feel like it. Does its job, doesn't hog resources, and stays out of the way.

Downsides: Doesn't sync your subscriptions and read/unread status with anything.

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Vasily

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Looks nice, but for some stupid reason the developer implemented only support for default GNOME proxy so the program doesn't work with others.