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Inoreader alternatives
2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.
The projects
FreshRSS/FreshRSS★15,712 GitHub starsAGPL-3.0 licenceSelf-hosted web-based RSS aggregator with feed fetching, full-text extraction, and user management.Open on GitHub ↗miniflux/v2★9,558 GitHub starsApache-2.0 licenceMinimalist self-hosted feed reader providing fetching, article storage, and a web UI/API.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Monitoring feeds (prebuilt monitoring workflows and large-language intelligence tuned for brand/market monitoring)
- Inoreader Intelligence features (summaries, transcript generation, multi-article reports, model selection)
- Guaranteed refresh SLA / boosted feeds (hourly refresh guarantees and increased refresh intervals)
- Built-in integrations and export features (pre-integrated exports to many services and mobile apps)
- Web feeds / track changes for sites without RSS (prebuilt site-change detection and visual-diff features)
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Inoreader, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.