Alternatives to russ
A terminal RSS and Atom reader written in Rust with vim-style controls and offline storage. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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russ
A terminal RSS and Atom reader written in Rust with vim-style controls and offline storage.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as russ.
Newsboat
Terminal RSS and Atom reader with heavy keyboard control.
Newsboat is an MIT-licensed terminal reader with query feeds, macros and sync with several reader back ends, at the cost of a configuration file to learn.
Newsraft
Small terminal feed reader with section-based navigation.
Newsraft is a very small, fast terminal reader with section-based feed grouping and no runtime dependencies, with a smaller community than Newsboat.
nom
A terminal RSS feed reader with a simple TUI, Vim-style keys and Markdown-styled articles.
nom is a terminal reader with Vim-style keys and Markdown rendering that adds Miniflux and FreshRSS backends, though it is not listed as open source.
Elfeed
An extensible web feed reader for GNU Emacs supporting Atom, RSS and JSON Feed.
Elfeed moves feed reading into GNU Emacs, extensible in Emacs Lisp and running on Windows, macOS and Linux, but requires Emacs.
sfeed
Suckless RSS and Atom parser that outputs plain text.
sfeed is a small ISC-licensed C parser that outputs plain text, so you assemble your own reading workflow from Unix tools instead of using a reader interface.
Offpunk
An offline-first command-line browser and feed reader for Gemini, Gopher, Spartan and the web.
Offpunk is an offline-first command-line browser that doubles as a feed reader and also covers Gemini, Gopher and Spartan, with a command-driven interface.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
