FreshRSS
FreshRSS is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Feed Readers category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in PHP. It is a self-hosted alternative to Feedly and ships a Docker image. It has 16,422 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 25, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 16,422
- Forks
- 1,326
- Open issues
- 574
- Commits, last 12 months
- 740
- Last commit
- Oct 25, 2026
- Latest release
- 1.30.4Oct 21, 2026
- Created
- Oct 21, 2012
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 25, 2026, 740 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases9 releases in 12 months
- Welcomes contributors85 open good-first-issue or help-wanted issues and a contributing guide
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 25, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 740 |
| Latest release | 1.30.4 (Oct 21, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 9 |
| Releases, all time | 72 |
| Open issues | 574 |
| Open pull requests | 115 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Oct 21, 2012 |
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About FreshRSS
Self-hostable RSS feed aggregator.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS.
Topics
- freshrss
- php
- feed
- rss
- rss-aggregator
- news-aggregator
- self-hosted
- rss-reader
- websub
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Is FreshRSS free and open source?
Yes. FreshRSS is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run FreshRSS with Docker?
Yes. FreshRSS provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to FreshRSS?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to FreshRSS include RSSHub, Glance and Miniflux. FreshRSS itself is a self-hosted alternative to Feedly.
Is FreshRSS actively maintained?
The most recent commit to FreshRSS was on Oct 25, 2026 with 740 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is 1.30.4, published Oct 21, 2026. It had 574 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.