Alternatives to Tiny Tiny RSS

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

  • 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 PHP self-hosted reader for shared hosting with mobile API support and XPath scraping, under AGPL-3.0 instead of GPL-3.0.

  • 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 single Go binary with PostgreSQL, tracker stripping and a clean API, but offers far fewer filtering features.

  • Nextcloud News

    RSS reader that runs inside a Nextcloud instance.

    FreeOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted

    Nextcloud News runs inside an existing Nextcloud with a mobile-client API, but depends on Nextcloud background jobs for feed updates.

  • CommaFeed

    Google Reader-inspired self-hosted RSS reader.

    FreeOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted

    CommaFeed is a Java and SQLite self-hosted reader with a Google Reader interface, with fewer filtering and automation features.

  • NewsBlur

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

    FreemiumOpen sourceAndroidiOSWebSelf-hosted

    NewsBlur is an open-source reader with learning-based filtering and official mobile apps, available hosted or as a substantial self-hosted stack.

  • selfoss

    Web-based aggregator that mashes up RSS and other sources.

    FreeOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted

    selfoss is a small PHP and SQLite reader with spout plugins for non-RSS sources, though its interface is basic and development slow.

  • yarr

    Read web feeds through a compact self-hostable application.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    yarr is a single-executable reader with a browser interface on Windows, macOS and Linux, much simpler to run but without scoring rules.

  • Stringer

    Deliberately anti-social self-hosted RSS reader.

    FreeOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted

    Stringer is a simple Rails self-hosted reader, but it lacks filtering, tagging and mobile apps and is largely dormant.

Also worth comparing

These listings name Tiny Tiny RSS as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • FeedHQ

    Minimal hosted feed reader with an open-source server.

    FreemiumOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted

    Tiny Tiny RSS is a free GPL self-hosted aggregator with plugins, filtering and scoring rules, and an API for third-party mobile clients, requiring PHP and a database.

  • Inoreader

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

    FreemiumProprietaryAndroidiOSWeb

    Tiny Tiny RSS is free GPL self-hosted software whose filtering and scoring rules few readers match, requiring PHP and PostgreSQL or MySQL.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.