Stringer
Work-in-progress self-hosted, anti-social RSS reader.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 61 commits in the last 90 days.
Comparisons in Feed Readers: Feedly alternatives.
At a glance
Stringer quick facts
- Health score
- 59/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 4,126
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- No tagged release
- Licence
- MIT
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Stringer has no external dependencies, no social recommendations/sharing, and no fancy machine learning algorithms."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Stringer scores 59/100, #18 of 26 in Feed Readers: 61 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, 4,126 stars add 14.5 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
61 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency biggest shortfall 0.0 / 25
No tagged release found
- Stars 14.5 / 20
4.1k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 61
- Last 90 days
- 262
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #18 of 26 tools in Feed Readers by health , between Selfoss (#17) and Upvote RSS (#19) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Ruby |
| Latest release | No tagged release |
| Stars | 4,126 |
| Open issues | 24 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | stringer-rss/stringer ↗ |
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Stringer: common questions
Is Stringer still maintained?
Stringer had 61 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday. Repoly recomputes this nightly.