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24 alternatives to Sismics Reader

Free and open source feeds reader ☕

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Sismics Reader launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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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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    RSS/Atom feed reader for your desktop.

    2025 · rahuldshetty.github.io · its alternatives →

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    FeedRiv▲97

    A simple open source feed reader to tag and rate items

    2024 · feedriv.com · its alternatives →

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    Winds 1.0▲278

    Open source & beautiful RSS reader

    2016 · getstream.io · its alternatives →

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    Go Terminal Feed Reader. Contribute to Lallassu/gorss development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    RSS feeds for arbitrary websites, using CSS selectors.

    2021 · feed-me-up-scotty.vincenttunru.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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    A modern RSS newsreader, powered by machine learning

    2021 · feedibus.app · its alternatives →

  10. 10FA

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

    2013 · geekuillaume.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Winds 2.0▲355

    Open source podcast & RSS desktop app

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Elytra▲102

    Simple RSS Reader for iOS

    2018 · elytra.app · 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 →

  14. 14FP

    2013 · rsspusher.eu01.aws.af.cm · its alternatives →

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    I developed a small tool to find RSS feeds for websites. You can try it out here: https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/feed-finder In >90% of cases the standard way of checking meta tags is enough to find the feeds. But my goal for this tool is that it finds feeds regardless if they're linked somewhere or not. That if this feed finder doesn't find a feed, no feed exists. It's a big goal and admittedly not there yet, but it does a few things that are a step in that direction. * Checks meta tags of parent pages (sometimes the article itself doesn't have the meta tag, but the main…

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Partially inspired by recent discussions on HN and other places. I've made a single-focus site to introduce your friends/colleagues/neighbours/family to RSS and web feeds. https://www.youneedfeeds.com/ The site is meant to give the elevator pitch for feeds, show a newbie what feeds are and how to use them, set them up with a reader, and give them some nice starter content if they want it. So much tastemaking and newsmaking power is concentrated in the hands of Facebook/Reddit/Twitter, but I'm convinced it's because much of the general populace doesn't…

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Rufus - fetches the paper for you! Contribute to jtanza/rufus development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.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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    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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    Modern, open-source desktop RSS reader

    2020 · hyliu.me · its alternatives →

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    2021 · linklonk.com · its alternatives →

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    Parse RSS, Atom and JSON feeds in Go. Contribute to mmcdole/gofeed development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

  23. 23AS

    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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    Feed reader for the command line. Contribute to radulucut/cleed development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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