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24 alternatives to Rufus – a free, open source RSS reader

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Rufus is a free, open source RSS reader launched in 2018. It helps users aggregate and read content from multiple RSS feeds in one place. The software is designed for anyone who wants to stay updated on news, blogs… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Rufus – a free, open source RSS reader launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Winds 2.0▲355

    Open source podcast & RSS desktop app

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Winds 1.0▲278

    Open source & beautiful RSS reader

    2016 · getstream.io · its alternatives →

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    Fread▲150

    A microblog client that supports Mastodon and RSS

    2024 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Alternative search engines are neat, as are RSS feeds. OpenOrb is a self-hosted app which allows visitors to search over a list of blogs you love. If you put your 10 favourite blogs in there, it'll search just those blogs and not show you any sponsored content or machine-generated garbage (unless... you follow blogs written by machines?) Personal RSS feed readers can usually do this sort of thing, but RSS readers aren’t meant to be shared, so you can think of the search engine as a 'curated feed list as a public service'. I wrote a longer blog post about OpenOrb here:…

    2024 · openorb.idiot.sh · its alternatives →

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    Free and open source feeds reader ☕

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi all! Excited to share rss2newsletter after completing dev work for the initial release. The idea for this project came out of necessity, as I wanted to share my articles via email newsletter. I was looking for a super minimal, lightweight, and open source solution, and when none existed, I decided to create one. For any sizable number of email recipients, a popular platform like Mailchimp will easily cost you hundreds or even thousands per month in per-contact fees. rss2newsletter, on the other hand, allows you to use Amazon SES, so you can reach your audience at pennies on the dollar.…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    RSS/Atom feed reader for your desktop.

    2025 · rahuldshetty.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Feeder▲59

    Simple and fast RSS reader, efficient access to articles

    2022 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Howdy! RSSfeedASAP scratches my own itch. I run a regional podcasting directory which gets dozens of messy submission for podcasts. Often they don't even include an xml file and me being a good samaritan I sometimes do the manual work and find it myself. I got tired of that manual work and decided to build a microapp. RSSfeedASAP is this app and I decided to release it in case someone else finds any use in it.

    2023 · rssfeedasap.com · its alternatives →

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    A modern RSS newsreader, powered by machine learning

    2021 · feedibus.app · its alternatives →

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    Nooshub▲75

    RSS Reader with AI to cluster similar content

    2019 · nooshub.com · its alternatives →

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    The best RSS Search experience you can find. Contribute to davidesantangelo/dato.rss development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi, folks. As an RSS user, I tried Inoreader and Feedly, then ended up self-hosting a Miniflux instance on my homelab. A few months ago, I moved to another city and had to shut down my homelab for a long time, so I couldn't access my local miniflux. It was quite inconvenient. I decided to self-host my RSS aggregator on a tiny VPS or PaaS such as fly.io. However, Miniflux requires a PostgreSQL database, which may isn't suitable for a tiny VPS instance. So I built fusion with Golang and SQLite. It contains basic features such as Group, Bookmark, Search, Automatically feeds sniffing,…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Free and open source RSS reader for Mac, iPhone, and iPad

    Jan 2026 · netnewswire.com · its alternatives →

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    Whenever new content is published, we'll send you a notification. Try it now by entering an RSS/Atom feed, YouTube channel or blog URL!

    2020 · feedsub.com · its alternatives →

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    Elytra▲102

    Simple RSS Reader for iOS

    2018 · elytra.app · its alternatives →

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    convenient web rss-reader. Contribute to truerss/truerss development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    RSSence▲167

    Your modern RSS feed, reimagined.

    2025 · try.rssence.com · its alternatives →

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    Freader : A small yet powerful RSS Feed Reader working with Node.js and Angular

    2013 · geekuillaume.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN! I've been working on this new open-source project called [name-redacted]. It is a simple and powerful RSS reader for the web with a modern UI, PWA support, and a built-in article reader. Visit it at [link-redacted] View our GitHub repo at [link-redacted]

    2024 · its alternatives →

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