RSS Monster
Easy to use web-based RSS aggregator and reader compatible with the Fever API (alternative to Google Reader).
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 460 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v2.3.0 (Sep 2026).
Comparisons in Feed Readers: Feedly alternatives.
At a glance
RSS Monster quick facts
- Health score
- 81/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 571
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v2.3.0, Sep 2026
- Licence
- MIT
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "A modern, self-hosted RSS reader that turns information overload into organized, explainable reading."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
RSS Monster scores 81/100, #13 of 26 in Feed Readers: 460 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v2.3.0, 2 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 571 stars add 11.0 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
460 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v2.3.0 released 2 months ago
- Stars 11.0 / 20
571 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 460
- Last 90 days
- 1,344
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #13 of 26 tools in Feed Readers by health , between reader (#12) and Fusion (#14) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | PHP |
| Latest release | v2.3.0 · 2 months ago |
| Stars | 571 |
| Open issues | 4 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | pietheinstrengholt/rssmonster ↗ |
RSS Monster vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with RSS Monster (Feed Readers), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CommaFeed | 94 | 3.6k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Yarr | 84 | 4.1k | MIT | yesterday |
| RSS Monster (this tool) | 81 | 571 | MIT | today |
| Fusion | 72 | 2.2k | MIT | 23 days ago |
| Tiny Tiny RSS | 67 | 871 | GPL-3.0 | 5 days ago |
| JARR | 30 | 129 | AGPL-3.0 | 1 month ago |
RSS Monster: common questions
Is RSS Monster still maintained?
RSS Monster had 460 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, v2.3.0, is from 2 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.