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