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FreshRSS

Self-hosted, multi-user RSS aggregator written in PHP

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Scores on the self-hosted rss readers criteria

Evaluated Nov 5, 2026
  • Setup and upkeep ×3 3

    3/5 means: Two separate components, for example a language runtime and a web server

    Two components besides the app: PHP 8.2+ and a web server. With SQLite, no separate database server is needed.

    3 quotes
  • Reading tools ×3 4

    4/5 means: Four of the five

    Documents four of the five: full-article fetching with a CSS selector, rules that mark articles as read, feeds built from sites without one (XPath scraping), and keyboard shortcuts. Search across articles is not described in the pages we checked.

    4 quotes
  • App support ×2 4

    4/5 means: Google Reader API and Fever API

    Supports both the Google Reader API and the Fever API; no separate API of its own is documented.

    1 quote
  • Active maintenance ×2 5

    5/5 means: Within the last month

    Latest release 1.30.4 on 2026-10-21, within a month of this evaluation.

    1 quote

Evidence (12 quotes)

  1. 1
    “It is a multi-user application with an anonymous reading mode. It supports custom tags.”
    github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS · checked
  2. 2
    “FreshRSS natively supports basic Web scraping, based on XPath, for Web sites not providing any RSS / Atom feed.”
    github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS · checked
  3. 3
    “Finally, FreshRSS supports extensions for further tuning.”
    github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS · checked
  4. 4
    “A Web server: Apache2.4+ (recommended), nginx, lighttpd (not tested on others)”
    github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS · checked
  5. 5
    “PHP 8.2+”
    github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS · checked
  6. 6
    “PostgreSQL 10+ or SQLite or MariaDB 10.6+ or MySQL 8.0+”
    github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS · checked
  7. 7
    “FreshRSS supports access from mobile / native apps for Linux, Android, iOS, Windows and macOS, via two distinct APIs: Google Reader API (best), and Fever API (limited features, less efficient, less safe).”
    github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS · checked
  8. 8
    “It even works on Raspberry Pi 1 with response time under a second (tested with 150 feeds, 22k articles)”
    github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS · checked
  9. 9
    “The main one, “Article CSS selector on original website”, is a CSS selector matching the part of the article’s web page to retrieve.”
    freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/users/04_Subscriptions.html · checked
  10. 10
    “Articles can be automatically marked as read based on some search terms.”
    freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/users/04_Subscriptions.html · checked
  11. 11
    “To ease the use of the application, FreshRSS comes with a lot of predefined keyboard shortcuts.”
    freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/users/05_Configuration.html · checked
  12. 12
    “tag_name: 1.30.4, published_at: 2026-10-21T20:45:47Z”
    api.github.com/repos/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/releases/latest · checked

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