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

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