Selfoss
New multipurpose rss reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application.
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Still maintained? Yes: 74 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 2.19 (Oct 2022).
Also an alternative to Feedly.
At a glance
Selfoss quick facts
- Health score
- 59/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 2,473
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 2.19, Oct 2022
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
Top alternatives to Selfoss
Full rankings: Feedly alternatives
In its own words
The project's README opens: "selfoss is a multipurpose RSS reader and feed aggregation web application. It allows you to easily follow updates from different web sites, social networks and other platforms, all in single place. It is written in PHP, allowing you to run it basically anywhere."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Selfoss scores 59/100, #17 of 26 in Feed Readers: 74 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (2.19, 4.1 years ago) earns 0.0 of 25, 2,473 stars add 13.6 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is release recency, worth 25.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
74 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency biggest shortfall 0.0 / 25
2.19 released 4.1 years ago
- Stars 13.6 / 20
2.5k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 74
- Last 90 days
- 238
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #17 of 26 tools in Feed Readers by health , between Leed (#16) and Stringer (#18) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | PHP |
| Latest release | 2.19 · 4.1 years ago |
| Stars | 2,473 |
| Open issues | 156 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | fossar/selfoss ↗ |
Selfoss vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with Selfoss (Feed Readers), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 (this tool) | 59 | 2.5k | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Feeds Fun | 43 | 397 | BSD-3-Clause | 8 days ago |
Selfoss: common questions
What does Selfoss replace?
Repoly lists Selfoss as an open-source alternative to Feedly. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where Selfoss stands against the others.
Is Selfoss still maintained?
Selfoss had 74 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, 2.19, is from 4.1 years ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.