Yarr
Yarr (yet another rss reader) is a web-based feed aggregator which can be used both as a desktop application and a personal self-hosted server.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 107 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v2.9 (Sep 2026).
Comparisons in Feed Readers: Feedly alternatives.
At a glance
Yarr quick facts
- Health score
- 84/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 4,080
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v2.9, Sep 2026
- Licence
- MIT
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "yarr (yet another rss reader) is a web-based feed aggregator."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Yarr scores 84/100, #9 of 26 in Feed Readers: 107 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v2.9, 2 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 4,080 stars add 14.4 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
107 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v2.9 released 2 months ago
- Stars 14.4 / 20
4.1k 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
- 107
- Last 90 days
- 366
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #9 of 26 tools in Feed Readers by health , between NewsBlur (#8) and RSS-Bridge (#10) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Go |
| Latest release | v2.9 · 2 months ago |
| Stars | 4,080 |
| Open issues | 4 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | nkanaev/yarr ↗ |
Yarr vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Yarr (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 |
| Yarr (this tool) | 84 | 4.1k | MIT | yesterday |
| reader | 81 | 559 | BSD-3-Clause | 8 days ago |
| RSS Monster | 81 | 571 | MIT | today |
| Fusion | 72 | 2.2k | MIT | 23 days ago |
Yarr: common questions
Is Yarr still maintained?
Yarr had 107 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, v2.9, is from 2 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.