FreshRSS
Self-hostable RSS feed aggregator.
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Fetched · June 5, 2026 ★ 15,221 Latest: 1.29.1 Updated: June 5, 2026
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[](https://liberapay.com/FreshRSS/donate) * Read this document on [github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/blob/edge/README.md) to get the correct links and pictures. * [Version française](README.fr.md) # FreshRSS FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator. It is lightweight, easy to work with, powerful, customizable, and has been [translated](#internationalization-20-languages-translation-progress) into many languages. It is a multi-user application with an anonymous reading mode. It supports custom tags. There is an API for (mobile) clients, and a [Command-Line Interface](cli/README.md). Thanks to the [WebSub](https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/users/WebSub.html) standard, FreshRSS is able to receive instant push notifications from compatible sources, such as [Friendica](https://friendi.ca), [WordPress](https://wordpress.org/plugins/pubsubhubbub/), Blogger, Medium, etc. FreshRSS natively supports basic [Web scraping](https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/users/11_website_scraping.html), based on [XPath](https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-10/), for Web sites not providing any RSS / Atom feed. Also supports JSON documents. FreshRSS offers the ability to [reshare selections of articles by HTML, RSS, and OPML](https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/users/user_queries.html). Different [login methods](https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/admins/09_AccessControl.html) are supported: Web form (including an anonymous option), HTTP Authentication (compatible with proxy delegation), OpenID Connect. Finally, FreshRSS supports [extensions](#extensions) for further tuning. * Official website: <https://freshrss.org> * Demo: <https://demo.freshrss.org> * License: [GNU AGPL 3](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html)  ## Feedback and contributions Feature requests, bug reports, and other contributions are welcome. The best way is to [open an issue on GitHub](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/issues). We are a friendly community. To facilitate contributions, the [following option](.devcontainer/README.md) is available: [](https://github.com/codespaces/new?hide_repo_select=true&ref=edge&repo=6322699) ## Screenshot  ## Disclaimer FreshRSS comes with absolutely no warranty. # [Documentation](https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/) * [User documentation](https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/users/02_First_steps.html), where you can discover all the possibilities offered by FreshRSS * [Administrator documentation](https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/admins/01_Index.html) for detailed installation and maintenance related tasks * [Developer documentation](https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/developers/01_Index.html) to guide you in the source code of FreshRSS and to help you if you want to contribute * [Contributor guidelines](https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/contributing.html) for those who want to help improve FreshRSS * Check [`AGENTS.md`](AGENTS.md) for coding conventions (both for humans and AI agents). # Requirements * A recent browser like Firefox / IceCat, Edge, Chromium / Chrome, Opera, Safari. * Works on mobile (except a few features) * Light server running Linux or Windows * It even works on Raspberry Pi 1 with response time under a second (tested with 150 feeds, 22k articles) * A Web server: Apache2.4+ (recommended), nginx, lighttpd (not tested on others) * PHP 8.1+ * Required extensions: [cURL](https://www.php.net/curl), [DOM](https://www.php.net/dom), [JSON](https://www.php.net/json), [XML](https://www.php.net/xml), [session](https://www.php.net/session), [ctype](https://www.php.net/ctype) * Recommended extensions: [PDO_SQLite](https://www.php.net/pdo-sqlite) (for export/import), [GMP](https://www.php.net/gmp) (for API access on 32-bit platforms), [IDN](https://www.php.net/intl.idn) (for Internationalized Domain Names), [mbstring](https://www.php.net/mbstring) (for Unicode strings), [iconv](https://www.php.net/iconv) (for charset conversion), [ZIP](https://www.php.net/zip) (for import/export), [zlib](https://www.php.net/zlib) (for compressed feeds) * Extension for database: [PDO_PGSQL](https://www.php.net/pdo-pgsql) or [PDO_SQLite](https://www.php.net/pdo-sqlite) or [PDO_MySQL](https://www.php.net/pdo-mysql) * PostgreSQL 10+ or SQLite or MariaDB 10.6+ or MySQL 8.0+ # [Installation](https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/admins/03_Installation.html) The latest stable release can be found [on GitHub](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/releases/latest). New versions are released every two to three months. If you want a rolling release with the newest features, or want to help testing or developing the next stable version, you can use [the `edge` branch](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/tree/edge/). ## Automated install | | | | |-|-|-| | [<img src="https://www.docker.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/horizontal-logo-monochromatic-white.png" width="160" alt="Docker" />](./Docker/) | [<img src="https://install-app.yunohost.org/install-with-yunohost.png" width="160" alt="YunoHost" />](https://install-app.yunohost.org/?app=freshrss) | [<img src="https://elest.io/images/logos/deploy-to-elestio-btn.png" width="160" alt="Elestio" />](https://elest.io/open-source/freshrss) | | [<img src="https://cloudron.io/img/button.svg" width="160" alt="Cloudron" />](https://cloudron.io/button.html?app=org.freshrss.cloudronapp) | [<img src="https://www.pikapods.com/static/run-button-34.svg" width="160" alt="PikaPods" />](https://www.pikapods.com/pods?run=freshrss) | [<img src="https://zeabur.com/button.svg" width="160" alt="Zeabur" />](https://zeabur.com/templates/MD4TRW) | | [<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ClawCloud/Run-Template/refs/heads/main/Run-on-ClawCloud.svg" width="160" alt="ClawCloud" />](https://template.run.claw.cloud/?openapp=system-fastdeploy%3FtemplateName%3Dfreshrss) | [<img src="https://assets.hostinger.com/vps/deploy.svg" width="160" alt="Hostinger" />](https://www.hostinger.com/vps/docker-hosting?compose_url=https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/blob/edge/Docker/freshrss/docker-compose.yml) | | ## Manual install 1. Get FreshRSS with git or [by downloading the archive](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/archive/latest.zip) 2. Put the application somewhere on your server (expose only the `./p/` folder to the Web) 3. Add write access to the `./data/` folder for the webserver user 4. Access FreshRSS with your browser and follow the installation process * or use the [Command-Line Interface](cli/README.md) 5. Everything should be working :) If you encounter any problems, feel free to [contact us](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/issues). 6. Advanced configuration settings can be found in [config.default.php](config.default.php) and modified in `data/config.php`. 7. When using Apache, enable [`AllowEncodedSlashes`](https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/core.html#allowencodedslashes) for better compatibility with mobile clients. More detailed information about installation and server configuration can be found in [our documentation](https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/admins/03_Installation.html). # Advice * For better security, expose only the `./p/` folder to the Web. * Be aware that the `./data/` folder contains all personal data, so it is a bad idea to expose it. * The `./constants.php` file defines access to the application folder. If you want to customize your installation, look here first. * If you encounter any problem, logs are accessible from the interface or manually in `./data/users/*/log*.txt` files. * The special folder `./data/users/_/` contains the part of the logs that are shared by all users. # FAQ * The date and time in the right-hand column is the date declared by the feed, not the time at which the article was received by FreshRSS, and it is not used for sorting. * In particular, when importing a new feed, all of its articles will appear at the top of the feed list regardless of their declared date. # Extensions FreshRSS supports further customizations by adding extensions on top of its core functionality. See the [repository dedicated to those extensions](https://github.com/FreshRSS/Extensions). # Internationalization: 20+ languages. Translation progress <translations> <!-- This section is automatically generated by `./cli/check.translation.php -g` --> | Language | Progress | | | - | - | - | | Čeština (cs) | ￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭･･ 82% | [contribute](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFreshRSS%2FFreshRSS+path%3Aapp%2Fi18n%2Fcs+%2F%28TODO%7CDIRTY%29%24%2F) | | Deutsch (de) | ￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭･ 99% | [contribute](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFreshRSS%2FFreshRSS+path%3Aapp%2Fi18n%2Fde+%2F%28TODO%7CDIRTY%29%24%2F) | | Ελληνικά (el) | ￭￭￭･･･････ 38% | [contribute](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFreshRSS%2FFreshRSS+path%3Aapp%2Fi18n%2Fel+%2F%28TODO%7CDIRTY%29%24%2F) | | English (en) | ￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭ 100% | [contribute](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFreshRSS%2FFreshRSS+path%3Aapp%2Fi18n%2Fen+%2F%28TODO%7CDIRTY%29%24%2F) | | English (United States) (en-US) | ￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭ 100% | [contribute](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFreshRSS%2FFreshRSS+path%3Aapp%2Fi18n%2Fen-US+%2F%28TODO%7CDIRTY%29%24%2F) | | Español (es) | ￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭ 100% | [contribute](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFreshRSS%2FFreshRSS+path%3Aapp%2Fi18n%2Fes+%2F%28TODO%7CDIRTY%29%24%2F) | | فارسی (fa) | ￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭･ 90% | [contribute](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFreshRSS%2FFreshRSS+path%3Aapp%2Fi18n%2Ffa+%2F%28TODO%7CDIRTY%29%24%2F) | | Suomi (fi) | ￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭･ 92% | [contribute](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFreshRSS%2FFreshRSS+path%3Aapp%2Fi18n%2Ffi+%2F%28TODO%7CDIRTY%29%24%2F) | | Français (fr) | ￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭ 100% | [contribute](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFreshRSS%2FFreshRSS+path%3Aapp%2Fi18n%2Ffr+%2F%28TODO%7CDIRTY%29%24%2F) | | עברית (he) | ￭￭￭￭･･････ 42% | [contribute](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFreshRSS%2FFreshRSS+path%3Aapp%2Fi18n%2Fhe+%2F%28TODO%7CDIRTY%29%24%2F) | | Magyar (hu) | ￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭ 100% | [contribute](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFreshRSS%2FFreshRSS+path%3Aapp%2Fi18n%2Fhu+%2F%28TODO%7CDIRTY%29%24%2F) | | Bahasa Indonesia (id) | ￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭･･ 89% | [contribute](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFreshRSS%2FFreshRSS+path%3Aapp%2Fi18n%2Fid+%2F%28TODO%7CDIRTY%29%24%2F) | | Italiano (it) | ￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭ 100% | [contribute](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFreshRSS%2FFreshRSS+path%3Aapp%2Fi18n%2Fit+%2F%28TODO%7CDIRTY%29%24%2F) | | 日本語 (ja) | ￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭･･ 88% | [contribute](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFreshRSS%2FFreshRSS+path%3Aapp%2Fi18n%2Fja+%2F%28TODO%7CDIRTY%29%24%2F) | | 한국어 (ko) | ￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭･･ 81% | [contribute](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFreshRSS%2FFreshRSS+path%3Aapp%2Fi18n%2Fko+%2F%28TODO%7CDIRTY%29%24%2F) | | Latviešu (lv) | ￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭･･ 82% | [contribute](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFreshRSS%2FFreshRSS+path%3Aapp%2Fi18n%2Flv+%2F%28TODO%7CDIRTY%29%24%2F) | | Nederlands (nl) | ￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭･ 99% | [contribute](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFreshRSS%2FFreshRSS+path%3Aapp%2Fi18n%2Fnl+%2F%28TODO%7CDIRTY%29%24%2F) | | Occitan (oc) | ￭￭￭￭￭￭￭･･･ 74% | [contribute](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFreshRSS%2FFreshRSS+path%3Aapp%2Fi18n%2Foc+%2F%28TODO%7CDIRTY%29%24%2F) | | Polski (pl) | ￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭･ 99% | [contribute](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFreshRSS%2FFreshRSS+path%3Aapp%2Fi18n%2Fpl+%2F%28TODO%7CDIRTY%29%24%2F) | | Português (Brasil) (pt-BR) | ￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭･ 99% | [contribute](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFreshRSS%2FFreshRSS+path%3Aapp%2Fi18n%2Fpt-BR+%2F%28TODO%7CDIRTY%29%24%2F) | | Português (Portugal) (pt-PT) | ￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭･･ 81% | [contribute](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFreshRSS%2FFreshRSS+path%3Aapp%2Fi18n%2Fpt-PT+%2F%28TODO%7CDIRTY%29%24%2F) | | Русский (ru) | ￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭･ 99% | [contribute](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFreshRSS%2FFreshRSS+path%3Aapp%2Fi18n%2Fru+%2F%28TODO%7CDIRTY%29%24%2F) | | Slovenčina (sk) | ￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭･･ 81% | [contribute](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFreshRSS%2FFreshRSS+path%3Aapp%2Fi18n%2Fsk+%2F%28TODO%7CDIRTY%29%24%2F) | | Türkçe (tr) | ￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭･･ 89% | [contribute](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFreshRSS%2FFreshRSS+path%3Aapp%2Fi18n%2Ftr+%2F%28TODO%7CDIRTY%29%24%2F) | | Українська (uk) | ￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭･ 99% | [contribute](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFreshRSS%2FFreshRSS+path%3Aapp%2Fi18n%2Fuk+%2F%28TODO%7CDIRTY%29%24%2F) | | 简体中文 (zh-CN) | ￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭･ 97% | [contribute](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFreshRSS%2FFreshRSS+path%3Aapp%2Fi18n%2Fzh-CN+%2F%28TODO%7CDIRTY%29%24%2F) | | 正體中文 (zh-TW) | ￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭･ 96% | [contribute](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFreshRSS%2FFreshRSS+path%3Aapp%2Fi18n%2Fzh-TW+%2F%28TODO%7CDIRTY%29%24%2F) | </translations> # APIs & native apps FreshRSS supports access from mobile / native apps for Linux, Android, iOS, Windows and macOS, via two distinct APIs: [Google Reader API](https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/developers/06_GoogleReader_API.html) (best), and [Fever API](https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/developers/06_Fever_API.html) (limited features, less efficient, less safe). | App | Platform | Free Software | Maintained & Developed | API | Works offline | Fast sync | Fetch more in individual views | Fetch read articles | Favourites | Labels | Podcasts | Manage feeds | |:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:-----------:|:-------------------------------------------------------------:|:----------------------:|:----------------:|:-------------:|:---------:|:------------------------------:|:-------------------:|:----------:|:------:|:--------:|:------------:| | [Capy Reader](https://github.com/jocmp/capyreader) | Android | [✓](https://github.com/jocmp/capyreader) | ✓✓ | GReader | ✓ | ⭐⭐⭐ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | [✓](https://github.com/jocmp/capyreader/discussions/1689) | ✓ | | [Readrops](https://github.com/readrops/Readrops) | Android | [✓](https://github.com/readrops/Readrops) | ✓✓ | GReader | ✓ | ⭐⭐⭐ | – | ✓ | ✓ | [–](https://github.com/readrops/Readrops/issues/54) | – | ✓ | | [FeedMe](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seazon.feedme) | Android | [–](https://github.com/seazon/FeedMe) | ✓✓ | GReader | ✓ | ⭐⭐ | – | – | ✓ | [✓](https://github.com/seazon/FeedMe/issues/348) | ✓ | ✓ | | [FocusReader](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=allen.town.focus.reader) | Android | – | ✓✓ | GReader | ✓ | ⭐⭐ | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | [Read You](https://github.com/Ashinch/ReadYou/) | Android | [✓](https://github.com/Ashinch/ReadYou/) | ✓✓ | GReader | ✓ | ⭐⭐ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | | [Your News](https://yournews.app/) | Android, iOS| – | ✓✓ | GReader | – | ⭐ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | | [Fluent Reader Lite](https://hyliu.me/fluent-reader-lite/) | Android, iOS| [✓](https://github.com/yang991178/fluent-reader-lite) | ✓ | GReader | ✓ | ⭐⭐ | – | – | ✓ | – | – | – | | [FeedFlow](https://www.feedflow.dev) | Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows | [✓](https://github.com/prof18/feed-flow) | ✓✓ | GReader | ✓ | ? | ? | ? | ✓ | ? | – | ✓ | | App | Platform | Free Software | Maintained & Developed | API | Works offline | Fast sync | Fetch more in individual views | Fetch read articles | Favourites | Labels | Podcasts | Manage feeds | |:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:-----------:|:-------------------------------------------------------------:|:----------------------:|:----------------:|:-------------:|:---------:|:------------------------------:|:-------------------:|:----------:|:------:|:--------:|:------------:| | [Fluent Reader](https://hyliu.me/fluent-reader/) | Windows, Linux, macOS| [✓](https://github.com/yang991178/fluent-reader) | ✓✓ | GReader | ✓ | ⭐ | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | | [RSS Guard](https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard) | Windows, GNU/Linux, macOS, OS/2 | [✓](https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard) | ✓✓ | GReader | ✓ | ⭐⭐ | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | [NewsFlash](https://gitlab.com/news-flash/news_flash_gtk) | GNU/Linux | [✓](https://gitlab.com/news-flash/news_flash_gtk) | ✓✓ | GReader | – | ⭐⭐ | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | | [Newsboat](https://newsboat.org/) | GNU/Linux, macOS, FreeBSD | [✓](https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat/) | ✓✓ | GReader | – | ⭐ | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | – | | [FluentFlame Reader](https://github.com/FluentFlame/fluentflame-reader) | Windows, Linux, macOS| [✓](https://github.com/FluentFlame/fluentflame-reader) | Work in progress | GReader | ✓ | ? | ? | ? | ✓ | – | – | – | | App | Platform | Free Software | Maintained & Developed | API | Works offline | Fast sync | Fetch more in individual views | Fetch read articles | Favourites | Labels | Podcasts | Manage feeds | |:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:-----------:|:-------------------------------------------------------------:|:----------------------:|:----------------:|:-------------:|:---------:|:------------------------------:|:-------------------:|:----------:|:------:|:--------:|:------------:| | [Vienna RSS](http://www.vienna-rss.com/) | macOS | [✓](https://github.com/ViennaRSS/vienna-rss) | ✓✓ | GReader | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | | [Readkit](https://readkit.app/) | iOS, macOS | – | ✓✓ | GReader | ✓ | ⭐⭐⭐ | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | $ | | [Reeder Classic](https://www.reederapp.com/classic/) | iOS, macOS | – | ✓✓ | GReader | ✓ | ⭐⭐⭐ | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | | [lire](https://lireapp.com/) | iOS, macOS | – | ✓✓ | GReader | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | | [Unread](https://www.goldenhillsoftware.com/unread/) | iOS | – | ✓✓ | Fever | ✓ | ? | ? | ? | ✓ | – | – | – | | [Fiery Feeds](https://voidstern.net/fiery-feeds) | iOS | – | ✓✓ | Fever | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | – | – | – | | [Netnewswire](https://ranchero.com/netnewswire/) | iOS, macOS | [✓](https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire) | Work in progress | GReader | ✓ | ? | ? | ? | ✓ | – | ? | ✓ | # Included libraries * [SimplePie](https://simplepie.org/) * [php-http-304](https://alexandre.alapetite.fr/doc-alex/php-http-304/) * [lib_opml](https://framagit.org/marienfressinaud/lib_opml) * [bcrypt.js](https://github.com/dcodeIO/bcrypt.js) * [PhpGt/CssXPath](https://github.com/PhpGt/CssXPath) * [PHPMailer](https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer) * [Chart.js](https://www.chartjs.org) # Additional credits * Based on a modified version of the [MINZ framework](https://framagit.org/marienfressinaud/MINZ). * Some [icons](https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gnome-icon-theme-symbolic) come from the [GNOME project](https://www.gnome.org/) * Fonts: [*Open Sans*](https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Open+Sans), [*Lato*](https://www.latofonts.com/lato-free-fonts/), [*Spectral*](https://github.com/productiontype/spectral) # Alternatives If FreshRSS does not suit you for one reason or another, here are alternative solutions to consider: * [Kriss Feed](https://tontof.net/kriss/feed/) * [Leed](https://github.com/LeedRSS/Leed) * [And more…](https://alternativeto.net/software/freshrss/) (but if you like FreshRSS, give us a vote!)