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selfoss vs Feeds Fun: catalog facts
selfossFeeds Fun
Free

Free and open source under the GPL. Hosting is separate.

Free

Open source and free to self-host.

Web, Self-hosted Web, Self-hosted
  • Spout plugins pull in sources that are not plain RSS
  • Small PHP and SQLite install that runs on shared hosting
  • Automatic tagging of feed entries
  • User-defined scoring rules for sorting news
  • Development is slow and version 2 has been in progress a long time
  • Interface is basic compared with newer readers
  • Tagging relies on language models
  • More setup than a simple feed reader
Self-hosted, Web application Self-hosted, Hosted service
Open source Open source
License: GPL-3.0 License not stated
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

Checked September 22, 2026

Checked September 24, 2026

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