Miniflux
Miniflux is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Feed Readers category, licensed Apache-2.0 and written mainly in Go. It is a self-hosted alternative to Feedly and ships a Docker image. It has 9,836 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 9,836
- Forks
- 953
- Open issues
- 265
- Commits, last 12 months
- 513
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- 2.3.4Oct 20, 2026
- Created
- Nov 20, 2017
- License
- Apache-2.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 513 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 513 |
| Latest release | 2.3.4 (Oct 20, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 83 |
| Open issues | 265 |
| Open pull requests | 15 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Nov 20, 2017 |
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About Miniflux
Minimalist news reader.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/miniflux/v2.
Topics
- feed
- rss
- atom
- jsonfeed
- rdf
- opml
- go
- golang
- postgresql
- letsencrypt
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Is Miniflux free and open source?
Yes. Miniflux is open-source software released under the Apache-2.0 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 Miniflux with Docker?
Yes. Miniflux 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 Miniflux?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Miniflux include RSSHub, Glance and FreshRSS. Miniflux itself is a self-hosted alternative to Feedly.
Is Miniflux actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Miniflux was on Oct 26, 2026 with 513 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is 2.3.4, published Oct 20, 2026. It had 265 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.