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selfoss vs Tiny Tiny RSS: catalog facts
selfossTiny Tiny RSS
Free

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

Free

Free and open source under the GPL. 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
  • Filtering and scoring rules that few other readers match
  • API support means third-party mobile clients work against your own server
  • Development is slow and version 2 has been in progress a long time
  • Interface is basic compared with newer readers
  • Official distribution is Docker-first and upstream is famously blunt about support
  • Requires PHP and PostgreSQL or MySQL
Self-hosted, Web application Self-hosted, Web application
Open source Open source
License: GPL-3.0 License: GPL-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

Checked September 22, 2026

Checked September 22, 2026

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