CommaFeed
Google Reader inspired self-hosted RSS reader.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 324 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 7.4.1 (Oct 2026).
Also an alternative to Feedly.
At a glance
CommaFeed quick facts
- Health score
- 94/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 3,640
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 7.4.1, Oct 2026
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
Top alternatives to CommaFeed
Full rankings: Feedly alternatives
In its own words
The project's README opens: "Google Reader inspired self-hosted RSS reader, based on Quarkus and React/TypeScript."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
CommaFeed scores 94/100, #5 of 26 in Feed Readers: 324 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (7.4.1, 8 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 3,640 stars add 14.2 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 5.8 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
324 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
7.4.1 released 8 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 14.2 / 20
3.6k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 324
- Last 90 days
- 1,230
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #5 of 26 tools in Feed Readers by health , between Miniflux (#4) and TinyFeed (#6) .
Details
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Platforms | Java, Docker |
| Latest release | 7.4.1 · 8 days ago |
| Stars | 3,640 |
| Open issues | 43 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | Athou/commafeed ↗ |
CommaFeed vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with CommaFeed (Feed Readers), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miniflux | 96 | 9.9k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| CommaFeed (this tool) | 94 | 3.6k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Fusion | 72 | 2.2k | MIT | 23 days ago |
| Tiny Tiny RSS | 67 | 871 | GPL-3.0 | 5 days ago |
| Selfoss | 59 | 2.5k | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Feeds Fun | 43 | 397 | BSD-3-Clause | 8 days ago |
CommaFeed: common questions
What does CommaFeed replace?
Repoly lists CommaFeed as an open-source alternative to Feedly. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where CommaFeed stands against the others.
Is CommaFeed still maintained?
CommaFeed had 324 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, 7.4.1, is from 8 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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