9,682 stars · Apache-2.0 (stated in the README and shown on the repository page) · 2.3.3 — 24 Jul 2026 on GitHub /releases/latest and 23 Jul 2026 on pkg.go.dev; the one-day difference is printed rather than resolved silently · Track this in Scout
A feed reader you run yourself, built as one small program plus a PostgreSQL database.
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What it is
A reader for RSS, Atom and JSON Feed, which are the standard formats a website uses to publish a machine-readable list of its new articles. It is written in Go and ships as one static file, meaning the whole program is a single download with nothing to install alongside it.
What it is good for. Anyone who wants to follow fifty sites without fifty browser tabs, and anyone who has noticed that a social feed shows them a fraction of what they asked to see. It suits people who care about being tracked: it strips trackers out of article content and can fetch the full text of an article itself. It is also the right size for a small machine, which matters if you are paying for it monthly.
- Plain Apache-2.0, which is permissive and puts no condition on how you use it.
- Its own README states that it uses "a couple of MB of memory and a negligible amount of CPU, even with several hundreds of feeds." That is a published figure, not a claim about being lightweight.
- Official Debian and RPM packages, pre-built binaries and container images on three registries, so there is an install route for almost any machine.
- PostgreSQL only. Its README says so plainly. There is no SQLite option, so a database server is part of the job even for one person.
- It is deliberately plain. There are no recommendations, no social features and no clever grouping, and some people want those.
- Release 2.3.3 is dated 24 July 2026 on GitHub and 23 July 2026 on the Go package index. The one-day difference is almost certainly a time-zone edge, and we print it rather than pick one silently. The newest code is 12 September 2026.
- FreshRSS/FreshRSS
15,838 stars, a PHP application with more features and more settings, and it will run on ordinary shared web hosting where this one will not.
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3,920 stars and one downloaded file with the database inside it, so it is far easier to start and does not scale to many readers.
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rss-bridge/rss-bridgeCovered in Edition 28. It solves the other half of the problem by making a feed for a site that removed its own, then you read it in something like this.
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docker run -d \ -p 80:8080 \ --name miniflux \ -e "DATABASE_URL=postgres://miniflux:*password*@*dbhost*/miniflux?sslmode=disable" \ -e "RUN_MIGRATIONS=1" \ -e "CREATE_ADMIN=1" \ -e "ADMIN_USERNAME=*username*" \ -e "ADMIN_PASSWORD=*password*" \ docker.io/miniflux/miniflux:latest
