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Liferea vs Newsboat: catalog facts
Liferea	Newsboat
Free Free and open source under the GPL.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Linux	macOS, Linux, Command line
Offline reading with locally cached articles Syncs with several self-hosted and hosted reader accounts	Query feeds and macros make it scriptable in a way graphical readers are not Runs over SSH and syncs with several reader back ends
Linux only Interface follows an older three-pane convention	Terminal only, with a configuration file to learn No image or rich content rendering
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-2.0	License: MIT
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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