FreshRSS vs Tiny Tiny RSS

FreshRSS

• People who want to run their own RSS reader on a small server
• Households or groups sharing one multi-user installation
• Following sites that publish no feed, using the built-in scraping

Tiny Tiny RSS

• Self-hosters who already run services with Docker
• Readers who want regex filters and scoring to sort a heavy feed load
• People who want to republish selections of articles as feeds

FreshRSS

• You install and maintain it yourself: it needs a web server, PHP 8.1 or newer and a PostgreSQL, SQLite, MariaDB or MySQL database.
• The project runs no hosted service of its own; public and managed instances come from independent providers with their own prices.
• Reading in a native app depends on third-party clients that connect through the Google Reader or Fever API.
• The README says the web interface works on mobile browsers except for a few features.

Tiny Tiny RSS

• The original project was retired on 2025-11-01; the current code is a fork begun on 2025-10-03 by a long-time contributor.
• Installation expects Docker, and the site says support may be limited if you run it any other way.
• The Android client is no longer maintained and its APK downloads are gone, so reading happens in the web interface.
• It is self-hosted only: you run, back up and update the server yourself.

FreshRSS

Feeds, podcasts and video channels

Follows websites, podcasts and video channels in one place, imports and exports OPML, and receives instant updates from sources that support the WebSub standard.

Web scraping and generated feeds

Creates feeds for sites that offer none by scraping pages with XPath or reading JSON documents, and can generate new feeds from your own filters.

Search, saved queries and tags

Articles can be searched, searches can be saved as queries for quick access, and custom tags organize what you want to keep.

Multi-user with several login methods

One installation serves several users and offers an anonymous reading mode, with login by web form, HTTP authentication or OpenID Connect.

APIs for mobile and desktop apps

Google Reader and Fever compatible APIs let third-party apps on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS and Windows sync with a FreshRSS server. A command-line interface is included.

Themes, extensions and sharing

Themes and extensions from a dedicated repository customize the reader, and selections of articles can be reshared as HTML, RSS or OPML.

Tiny Tiny RSS

Folders, OPML and deduplication

Feeds are organized into folders and subfolders, imported and exported as OPML, and deduplicated, with a plugin that uses perceptual hashing for repeated images. Podcasts are supported.

Content filters and scoring

Filters match articles against regular expressions and then apply actions. Score-changing filters move articles up or down the headline list and can mark very low scores as read.

Generated feeds and publishing

Almost anything shown in the headline list, such as a feed, label or category, can be re-published as an Atom or JSON feed protected by a random key.

Share anything

A bookmarklet shares arbitrary web pages into your Published feed, and combined with Readability this lets tt-rss work like a read-it-later site.

Plugins and themes

Plugins share articles to other sites, extract full article text with Readability, change hotkeys or handle unusual feeds, and themes restyle the interface.

Email digests and JSON API

Users can opt into a daily email digest of unread headlines, and a documented JSON API is available for third-party clients.

FreshRSS

• FreshRSS$0

  The complete aggregator, self-hosted on a web server with PHP and a PostgreSQL, SQLite, MariaDB or MySQL database.

Tiny Tiny RSS

• Tiny Tiny RSS$0

  The complete reader, self-hosted from the project's Docker images and kept current from the main branch.