FreshRSS
Self-hostable RSS feed aggregator.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 203 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 1.30.4 (Oct 2026).
Also an alternative to Feedly.
At a glance
FreshRSS quick facts
- Health score
- 97/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 16,454
- Last commit
- 4 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 1.30.4, Oct 2026
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
Top alternatives to FreshRSS
Full rankings: Feedly alternatives
In its own words
The project's README opens: "It is lightweight, easy to work with, powerful, customizable, and has been translated into many languages."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
FreshRSS scores 97/100, #3 of 26 in Feed Readers: 203 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (1.30.4, 9 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 16,454 stars add 16.9 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 3.1 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
Health over time
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
203 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
1.30.4 released 9 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 16.9 / 20
16k 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
- 203
- Last 90 days
- 739
- Last 12 months
- 4 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #3 of 26 tools in Feed Readers by health , between Glance (#2) and Miniflux (#4) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | PHP, Docker |
| Latest release | 1.30.4 · 9 days ago |
| Stars | 16,454 |
| Open issues | 574 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | FreshRSS/FreshRSS ↗ |
FreshRSS vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with FreshRSS (Feed Readers), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FreshRSS (this tool) | 97 | 16k | AGPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| Miniflux | 96 | 9.9k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| CommaFeed | 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 |
FreshRSS: common questions
What does FreshRSS replace?
Repoly lists FreshRSS as an open-source alternative to Feedly. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where FreshRSS stands against the others.
Is FreshRSS still maintained?
FreshRSS had 203 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 4 days ago; the latest tagged release, 1.30.4, is from 9 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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