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Miniflux vs selfoss: catalog facts
Miniflux	selfoss
Freemium Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence to self-host. A paid hosted version is…	Free Free and open source under the GPL. Hosting is separate.
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	Spout plugins pull in sources that are not plain RSS Small PHP and SQLite install that runs on shared hosting
PostgreSQL is required; there is no SQLite option Deliberately few features, which some people will find too few	Development is slow and version 2 has been in progress a long time Interface is basic compared with newer readers
Self-hosted	Self-hosted, Web application
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: GPL-3.0
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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