Read RSS feeds in a fast, single-column reader with keyboard shortcuts and full-text search. Miniflux strips pixel trackers and tracking parameters from every article, fetches the original page when a feed only carries a summary, and serves phone apps through the Fever and Google Reader APIs.
How Miniflux stacks up against other productivity apps. Add or remove apps to change the comparison.
| Requirement | Miniflux | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free | Free + Paid |
| Web UI | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Architecture | x86 + ARM | x86 + ARM | Worth checking: x86 only |
| Containers | 2Plus PostgreSQL | 1The app alone | Worth checking: 12Plus Node, imageproxy, nginx, HAProxy, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, DejaVu, MongoDB, Celery worker, MCP server |
| Database | PostgreSQL | SQLite | PostgreSQL |
| Runtime | Go | PHP | Python / Node.js |
| Docker | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Linux package | – | Yes | – |
| Debian package | Yes | – | – |
| RPM package | Yes | – | – |
| Linux binary | Yes | – | – |
| iOS | – | – | Yes |
| Android | – | – | Yes |
| macOS | – | – | Yes |
| Full comparison | This app | FreshRSS vs Miniflux | Miniflux vs NewsBlur |
Yes, through the Fever or Google Reader API. Miniflux has no official app of its own, and its feature list points at existing readers that support those APIs instead. The web interface also installs to a phone home screen.
Yes. Miniflux works only with PostgreSQL, and its Docker Compose example runs a Postgres container beside it. Full-text search uses Postgres, and the binary is compiled statically, so there is nothing else to install.
Yes. It fetches the original article and pulls out the content with a local Readability parser. CSS-selector scraper rules and content rewrite rules handle sites where that picks the wrong part.
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