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selfoss vs Nextcloud News: catalog facts
selfoss	Nextcloud News
Free Free and open source under the GPL. Hosting is separate.	Free Free and open source under the AGPL. Hosting is separate.
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	Reuses an existing Nextcloud install, users and backups Well-supported API with several good mobile clients
Development is slow and version 2 has been in progress a long time Interface is basic compared with newer readers	Only useful if you already run Nextcloud Feed updating depends on Nextcloud's background job configuration
Self-hosted, Web application	Self-hosted, Web application
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: AGPL-3.0
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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