Alternatives to Bubo Reader

A minimalist static feed reader that builds your RSS, Atom and JSON feeds into one web page. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Bubo Reader.

  • sfeed

    Suckless RSS and Atom parser that outputs plain text.

    FreeOpen sourcemacOSLinuxCommand line

    sfeed is a tiny ISC-licensed C parser that outputs plain text for Unix tools, so you assemble your own workflow instead of generating a web page with Node.js.

  • yarr

    Read web feeds through a compact self-hostable application.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    yarr runs as a single MIT-licensed executable with a browser interface on Windows, macOS and Linux, giving an interactive reader instead of a rebuilt static page.

  • Miniflux

    A deliberately minimal feed reader: one Go binary, a PostgreSQL database, and no options you do not need.

    FreemiumOpen sourcemacOSLinuxSelf-hostedWeb

    Miniflux is a self-hosted Go binary with PostgreSQL that adds read state, full-text search, OPML and tracker stripping, replacing a Node.js build step with a running service.

  • FreshRSS

    A self-hosted feed reader that is light enough to run on a cheap shared host and still handles hundreds of feeds.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinuxWebSelf-hosted

    FreshRSS is a self-hosted AGPL-3.0 reader running on PHP and a database, adding read tracking, API access for mobile apps and XPath scraping, with more upkeep than a static page.

  • Stringer

    Deliberately anti-social self-hosted RSS reader.

    FreeOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted

    Stringer is a minimal MIT-licensed Rails reader that deploys to a small server, adding unread tracking, though development is largely dormant and it lacks filtering or tagging.

  • CommaFeed

    Google Reader-inspired self-hosted RSS reader.

    FreeOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted

    CommaFeed is a self-hosted Apache-2.0 Java app with SQLite and a Google Reader interface, adding read tracking and keyboard shortcuts that the static Bubo page lacks.

  • Tiny Tiny RSS

    Long-running self-hosted news aggregator with plugins and filters.

    FreeOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted

    Tiny Tiny RSS is a self-hosted GPL-3.0 aggregator with plugins, filtering and scoring rules and API support, but it needs PHP and PostgreSQL or MySQL, usually via Docker.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.