Miniflux
Minimalist feed reader shipped as a single Go binary
In our rankings
Scores on the self-hosted rss readers criteria
Evaluated Nov 5, 2026- Setup and upkeep ×3 4
4/5 means: One program plus one required service, such as a database server
One static binary (or Docker image) plus one required service: a PostgreSQL server.
3 quotes - Reading tools ×3 4
4/5 means: Four of the five
Documents four of the five: full-article fetching, regex filters, keyboard shortcuts and full-text search. It does not build feeds for sites that have none.
4 quotes - App support ×2 5
5/5 means: Google Reader API, Fever API and its own API
Fever and Google Reader API compatibility, plus its own REST API.
2 quotes - Active maintenance ×2 5
5/5 means: Within the last month
Latest release 2.3.5 on 2026-11-02, within a month of this evaluation.
1 quote
Evidence (11 quotes)
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“Single binary compiled statically without dependency.”
github.com/miniflux/v2 · checked - 2
“Works only with PostgreSQL.”
github.com/miniflux/v2 · checked - 3
“Publishes a Docker image to Docker Hub, GitHub Registry, and Quay.io Registry, with ARM and RISC-V architecture support.”
github.com/miniflux/v2 · checked - 4
“Fetches the original article and extracts only the relevant content using a local Readability parser.”
github.com/miniflux/v2 · checked - 5
“Provides a regex filter to include or exclude articles based on specific patterns.”
github.com/miniflux/v2 · checked - 6
“Supports a wide range of keyboard shortcuts for efficient navigation.”
github.com/miniflux/v2 · checked - 7
“Provides full-text search (powered by Postgres).”
github.com/miniflux/v2 · checked - 8
“Compatibility with existing mobile applications using the Fever or Google Reader API.”
github.com/miniflux/v2 · checked - 9
“REST API with client libraries available in Go and Python.”
github.com/miniflux/v2 · checked - 10
“Only uses a couple of MB of memory and a negligible amount of CPU, even with several hundreds of feeds.”
github.com/miniflux/v2 · checked - 11
“tag_name: 2.3.5, published_at: 2026-11-02T04:29:21Z”