Bubo Reader
Irrationally minimal RSS feed reader.
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Still maintained? Slowing: no commits in the last 90 days, last push Jan 2026.
Comparisons in Feed Readers: Feedly alternatives.
At a glance
Bubo Reader quick facts
- Health score
- 19/100 STALE
- Stars
- 236
- Last commit
- 10 months ago (Jan 2026)
- Latest release
- v2.0.2, Jun 2023
- Licence
- MIT
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Bubo Reader is a hyper-minimalist feed reader (RSS, Atom, JSON) you can deploy on your own server or Netlify in a few steps. The goal of the project is to generate a webpage that shows a list of links from a collection of feeds organized by category and website. That's it."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Bubo Reader scores 19/100, #25 of 26 in Feed Readers: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v2.0.2, 3.4 years ago) earns 0.0 of 25, 236 stars add 9.5 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 35.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35
0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 0.0 / 25
v2.0.2 released 3.4 years ago
- Stars 9.5 / 20
236 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 1
- Last 12 months
- 10 months ago
- Last push
Ranked #25 of 26 tools in Feed Readers by health , between Kriss Feed (#24) and Newspipe (#26) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Nodejs |
| Latest release | v2.0.2 · 3.4 years ago |
| Stars | 236 |
| Open issues | 4 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | georgemandis/bubo-rss ↗ |
Bubo Reader vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Bubo Reader (Feed Readers), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RSSHub | 99 | 47k | MIT | today |
| Yarr | 84 | 4.1k | MIT | yesterday |
| reader | 81 | 559 | BSD-3-Clause | 8 days ago |
| Tiny Tiny RSS | 67 | 871 | GPL-3.0 | 5 days ago |
| Kriss Feed | 20 | 292 | CC0-1.0 | 3 months ago |
| Bubo Reader (this tool) | 19 | 236 | MIT | 10 months ago |
Bubo Reader: common questions
Is Bubo Reader still maintained?
Bubo Reader had 0 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 10 months ago; the latest tagged release, v2.0.2, is from 3.4 years ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.