Goeland
Turns any RSS/Atom feed into a beautiful email digest.
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Still maintained? Yes: 58 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v0.29.2 (Aug 2026).
Comparisons in Feed Readers: Feedly alternatives.
At a glance
Goeland quick facts
- Health score
- 89/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 205
- Last commit
- 3 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v0.29.2, Aug 2026
- Licence
- MIT
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Goeland excels at creating beautiful emails from RSS feeds, tailored for daily or weekly digests. It includes a rich set of composable filters that transform feed content along the way, and can also consume other sources such as Imgur tags."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Goeland scores 89/100, #7 of 26 in Feed Readers: 58 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v0.29.2, 2 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 205 stars add 9.3 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 10.7 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
58 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v0.29.2 released 2 months ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 9.3 / 20
205 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
- 58
- Last 90 days
- 86
- Last 12 months
- 3 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #7 of 26 tools in Feed Readers by health , between TinyFeed (#6) and NewsBlur (#8) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Go, Docker |
| Latest release | v0.29.2 · 2 months ago |
| Stars | 205 |
| Open issues | 3 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | slurdge/goeland ↗ |
Goeland vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Goeland (Feed Readers), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RSSHub | 99 | 47k | MIT | today |
| FreshRSS | 97 | 16k | AGPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| Goeland (this tool) | 89 | 205 | MIT | 3 days ago |
| Yarr | 84 | 4.1k | MIT | yesterday |
| RSS-Bridge | 83 | 9.3k | Unlicense | 2 days ago |
| Tiny Tiny RSS | 67 | 871 | GPL-3.0 | 5 days ago |
Goeland: common questions
Is Goeland still maintained?
Goeland had 58 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 3 days ago; the latest tagged release, v0.29.2, is from 2 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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