Snownews Alternatives

Snownews is described as 'Text mode RSS newsreader for Linux and Unix' and is an app in the news & books category. There are eight alternatives to Snownews for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Linux, Web-based, iPhone and BSD apps. The best Snownews alternative is FreshRSS, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Snownews are CommaFeed, Alligator, KrISS feed and Feeds - All the Web, One Feed.

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  1. FreshRSS icon
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    FreshRSS is a free, self-hosted RSS aggregator. It is quite lightweight, fast (it can manage +100k articles without complaining) and powerful (e.g. shortcuts, filters, responsive design, multi-views, multi-themes, multi-users, statistics, provides a Google Reader API, etc.)

    126 FreshRSS alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
     
  2. CommaFeed icon
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    Google Reader inspired self-hosted RSS reader, based on JAX-RS, Wicket and AngularJS.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker Hub
    • YunoHost
     
  3. Alligator icon
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    Alligator is a mobile RSS feed reader for mobile Linux devices. It is part of the Plasma Mobile app collection.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Linux Mobile
    • Flathub
    • Plasma Mobile
     
  4. Feeds is a new type of Feed-reader that learns what you like using an on-device AI. It can generate feeds from most news-like websites, and updates when there are new articles. It also supports RSS, Atom and JSON-feed. Also has widget!

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  5. Feedbunch icon
     4 likes

    A simple and elegant feed reader.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. Journalist icon
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    journalist is a lightweight daemon and CLI written in Go, focused on simplicity and integrability. As usually, I chose GO because it’s simply the quickest way to put things like these together, and it gives a statically-linked, single a.out in the end.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  7. Open source planet framework blog aggregator RSS in PHP.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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