Miniflux

Miniflux is a self-hosted RSS feed reader built around a single principle: reading should be fast and uninterrupted. The interface has no JavaScript, no recommendations, no follower counts, and no sidebar noise. You open it, you read your feeds, and you close it. The content loads quickly because there is almost nothing else on the page.

The privacy handling is more thorough than most readers. Miniflux automatically strips pixel trackers from article content, removes tracking parameters from URLs, and routes all media through a built-in proxy so external servers cannot log which images you loaded and when. There is no telemetry in the application.

For users who read on mobile, Miniflux exposes both a Fever-compatible and a Google Reader-compatible API. This means it works as a backend sync server for established RSS clients like Reeder on iOS and macOS, NetNewsWire, and others that support these protocols. You get the clean Miniflux storage and sync with whatever reading interface you prefer.

Content scraping handles feeds that only publish summaries. Enable it per feed and Miniflux fetches the full article from the source and stores it locally, so you can read the complete text without switching to a browser tab.

The deployment is a single Go binary or a Docker container with a PostgreSQL database. Resource usage is low. The tool is developed and maintained by a single developer, Frédéric Guillot, who has kept it actively updated for years. A hosted version at $15/year is available if you prefer not to self-host.

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