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selfoss vs Miniflux: catalog facts
selfoss	Miniflux
Free Free and open source under the GPL. Hosting is separate.	Freemium Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence to self-host. A paid hosted version is…
Web, Self-hosted	macOS, Linux, Self-hosted, Web
Spout plugins pull in sources that are not plain RSS Small PHP and SQLite install that runs on shared hosting	One small Go binary plus PostgreSQL, and nothing else to run Strips pixel trackers and tracking parameters from every article
Development is slow and version 2 has been in progress a long time Interface is basic compared with newer readers	PostgreSQL is required; there is no SQLite option Deliberately few features, which some people will find too few
Self-hosted, Web application	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: Apache-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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