FreshRSS
FreshRSS is a free and self-hostable RSS and Atom feed aggregator written in PHP. It lets you aggregate, read, organise and search news feeds from all your favourite websites, keeping your reading history on your own server rather than in a third-party cloud. With a lightweight interface, support for extensions and themes, and multi-user capability, it is a popular, full-featured choice for privacy-conscious readers who want to own their feed reader.
Key Features
- RSS and Atom aggregation — Subscribe to unlimited feeds and manage them in categories and tags, with support for WebSub (previously PubSubHubbub) real-time updates.
- Multi-user support — Run a shared instance with separate accounts, each with independent subscriptions, read states and settings (with or without admin registration).
- Extensions and themes — A rich extension ecosystem adds features such as inline image previews, readability, and integration with third-party services.
- Search and filtering — Powerful article search, plus custom rules and filters to automate processing of incoming articles.
- OPML import and export — Move your subscription list to and from FreshRSS, or share it with other services.
- Multiple viewing modes — Global, category or feed views, with a built-in front-end reader that minimises distraction.
- API and app compatibility — Offers an API compatible with mobile news readers such as the Android FreshRSS app.
- Anonymous access — Optionally expose a public global feed view to non-logged-in users.
Why Use FreshRSS?
FreshRSS is for people who want a complete, self-hosted feed reader without giving up their reading data to a third party. Because it runs on your own server, you control retention, privacy and who can access your instance. Its PHP base makes it easy to install on almost any web host, and the active extension ecosystem keeps it flexible enough to grow with your habits.
Use Cases
- Self-hosted reading dashboard for personal RSS and Atom subscriptions
- Shared, multi-user feed aggregator for a family, team or community
- Keeping up with news, blogs, project releases and changelogs in one place
- A privacy-respecting alternative to hosted feed readers like Feedly or Inoreader
Platform
Linux · Docker · any web server running PHP (Apache, Nginx) with MySQL/MariaDB or SQLite
Licence
GNU AGPL-3.0