Updated August 2026
    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    2.5k

    Selfoss: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

    New multipurpose rss reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application.

    TL;DR • Selfoss • as of August 2026

    Selfoss is an open-source feed readers project, with 2.5k GitHub stars and a health score of 79/100. It committed 195 times in the last twelve months across 11 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: GPL-3.0. It has real momentum, so treat it as a live competitor rather than a stale repository.

    2.5k
    GitHub stars
    79/100
    Health score
    195
    Commits (12 mo)
    11/12
    Active months

    Maintenance health

    Status Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days.
    Last commit 2026-08-14
    Days since last commit 3
    Commits, last 3 months 50
    Commits, last 12 months 195
    Months with activity 11 of 12
    Last release 2022-10-12
    Archived No
    Licence GPL-3.0
    Category Feed Readers

    Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.

    What the licence lets you do

    GPL-3.0

    Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.

    This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.

    What Selfoss means for your idea

    Contested · 59/100
    Feed Readers category →

    Selfoss is shipping code consistently, so a buyer comparing your product will find a maintained free option. Price and position against the total cost of self-hosting it, not against the paid incumbent's list price.

    Winnable, but differentiation is not optional. Pick one underserved segment and be visibly better for it rather than competing feature-for-feature with a free tool.

    Selfoss: common questions

    Is Selfoss still maintained in 2026?

    Actively maintained. Selfoss recorded 195 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 11 of those months and 50 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-14. Last release: 2022-10-12. Committed within the last 45 days.

    Can I use Selfoss commercially?

    Selfoss is published under GPL-3.0. Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.

    How crowded is the Feed Readers category?

    24 open-source implementations, 11 of them actively maintained, led by RSSHub at 46k stars. Saturation score 59/100 — Contested. Several maintained alternatives exist, but no one owns the category.

    Selfoss alternatives in Feed Readers

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    Easy to use, and extensible RSS feed aggregator capable of generating RSS feeds from pretty much everything ranging from social media to university departments.

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
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    FreshRSS

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    16k

    Self-hostable RSS feed aggregator.

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    AGPL-3.0

    Miniflux

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    9.6k

    Minimalist news reader.

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    Apache-2.0

    NewsBlur

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    Personal news reader that brings people together to talk about the world. A new sound of an old instrument.

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
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