Miniflux

Name: Miniflux
Price: 15 USD

Minimalist and opinionated feed reader.

Miniflux is a self-hosted feed reader written in Go that aggregates Atom, RSS, and JSON feeds into a single interface focused on readability and privacy. It removes pixel trackers and tracking parameters from URLs, blocks external JavaScript, and uses a media proxy to limit third-party tracking, with no telemetry or advertising.

Features include OPML import/export, categories and bookmarks, full-text search, attachments and YouTube playback, a local Readability parser with custom scraper and rewriting rules, and regex filters for articles. It offers keyboard shortcuts, themes, touch gestures, and custom stylesheets, plus integrations with services such as Slack, Telegram, Notion, Wallabag, and Instapaper, webhooks, a REST API with Go and Python clients, and Fever and Google Reader API compatibility. Authentication supports local credentials, passkeys, Google OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and reverse-proxy methods. It runs as a single static binary, Debian/RPM package, or Docker image, and requires PostgreSQL.

Minifreeze is aimed at users who want to host their own reader. It is free and open source under the Apache 2.0 License, with an optional paid hosting service offered through a 15-day trial account.

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Key facts

Starts at: $15/mo
Free plan: Yes
Free trial: No
Open source: Yes

What it does

Supports atom 0 3 1 0 rss 1 0 2 0 and json feed 1 0 1 1 formats
Opml file import export and url import
Multiple attachments support podcasts videos music images
Plays youtube videos directly inside the application
Organizes articles using categories and bookmarks
Public sharing of individual articles
Fetches website icons favicons
Saves articles to third party services
Full text search powered by postgres
Available in 20 languages
Removes pixel trackers and strips tracking parameters from urls
Media proxy to avoid third party tracking
Blocks external javascript
Custom user agent and proxy configuration
Fetches original article content using a local readability parser with custom css selector scraper rules and regex filters for content inclusion exclusion disabled by default for self signed certificates and youtube scraping via api or website duration extraction as read time the system also supports custom rewriting rules for content manipulation optional http 2 disabling to mitigate fingerprinting and custom cookies for specific use cases additionally it retrieves original links when feeds are sourced from feedburner opens external links with rel noopener noreferrer referrerpolicy no referrer attributes implements the referrer policy no referrer http header and plays youtube videos via youtube nocookie com or alternative players like invidious the application sanitizes external content before rendering enforces a content security policy allowing only application javascript while blocking inline scripts and styles uses native lazy loading for images and iframes and is compatible only with modern browsers it adheres to the twelve factor app methodology and provides official debian rpm packages pre built binaries and docker images published to docker hub github registry and quay io registry with arm architecture support the system is written in go golang compiled as a single static binary without dependencies works only with postgresql does not use an orm or complicated frameworks uses modern vanilla javascript only when necessary bundles all static files into the application binary using the go embed package supports the systemd sd notify protocol for process monitoring configures https automatically with let s encrypt allows custom ssl certificates supports http 2 when tls is enabled updates feeds in the background using an internal scheduler or traditional cron job and provides a rest api with client libraries available in go and python authentication options include local username and password passkeys webauthn google oauth2 generic openid connect and reverse proxy authentication the user interface features an optimized stylesheet for readability responsive design for desktop tablet and mobile devices a minimalistic and distraction free interface no requirement to download an app from apple app store or google play store home screen access wide range of keyboard shortcuts optional touch gesture support custom stylesheets and javascript for personalization and six themes light sans serif light serif dark sans serif dark serif system sans serif which automatically switches between dark and light themes based on system preferences and system serif integrations include 25 plus third party services such as apprise betula cubox discord espial instapaper linkace linkding linktaco linkwarden matrix notion ntfy nunux keeper pinboard pushover raindrop readeck readwise reader rssbridge shaarli shiori slack telegram wallabag and others plus a bookmarklet for subscribing to websites directly from any web browser webhooks for real time notifications or custom integrations and compatibility with existing mobile applications using the fever or google reader api

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