Alternatives to Feeds Fun

A self-hostable news reader that tags feed entries and ranks them with your own scoring rules. 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 Feeds Fun.

  • Tiny Tiny RSS

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

    FreeOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted

    Tiny Tiny RSS offers self-hosted filtering and scoring rules without relying on language models, and needs PHP with PostgreSQL or MySQL, distributed Docker-first.

  • NewsBlur

    Open-source cloud RSS reader that learns what you like.

    FreemiumOpen sourceAndroidiOSWebSelf-hosted

    NewsBlur trains on tags, authors and phrases to reduce noise, is open source with a hosted freemium service, and offers Android and iOS apps.

  • Inoreader

    Power-user cloud RSS reader with rules, filters and full-text search.

    FreemiumProprietaryAndroidiOSWeb

    Inoreader provides rules, filters and full-text search as a hosted closed-source service with mobile apps, with rules and search requiring a paid tier.

  • 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 lighter self-hosted reader under AGPL-3.0 that works with existing mobile apps through its API, but has no tag-based scoring rules.

  • Feedly

    Cloud RSS reader with apps, newsletters and AI topic filtering.

    FreemiumProprietaryAndroidiOSWeb

    Feedly offers AI topic filtering in a hosted closed-source service with mobile apps, but the AI filtering requires its more expensive paid tiers.

  • 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 minimal self-hosted Go reader with PostgreSQL, full-text search and tracker stripping, but drops automatic tagging and custom scoring altogether.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.