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Bubo Reader vs Miniflux: catalog facts
Bubo Reader	Miniflux
Free Free to use; the source is published on GitHub.	Freemium Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence to self-host. A paid hosted version is…
Web, Self-hosted	macOS, Linux, Self-hosted, Web
Output is a single static page with nothing to maintain at runtime Reads RSS, Atom and JSON feeds	One small Go binary plus PostgreSQL, and nothing else to run Strips pixel trackers and tracking parameters from every article
No read or unread tracking, folders or search Needs a Node.js build step to refresh feeds	PostgreSQL is required; there is no SQLite option Deliberately few features, which some people will find too few
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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