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Fluent Reader vs Liferea: catalog facts
Fluent Reader	Liferea
Free Free and open source under a BSD 3-clause licence. The Microsoft Store and Mac App Store…	Free Free and open source under the GPL.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Linux
Works fully locally, or syncs with Inoreader, Feedbin, Fever and Google Reader API services Regular expression rules that hide, mark read or star articles automatically as they arrive	Offline reading with locally cached articles Syncs with several self-hosted and hosted reader accounts
Electron, so it is heavy for a feed reader The Microsoft Store version is recommended for auto-update; GitHub builds update manually	Linux only Interface follows an older three-pane convention
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: BSD-3-Clause	License: GPL-2.0
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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