selfoss vs Tiny Tiny RSS (2026): which should you pick?

Pick selfoss if

• Fits if you already run a PHP server and want your feeds on it
• Works for someone who wants to own their reading data

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you do not want to install and update software yourself
• Skip it if you want a hosted service: there is none
• Watch out: it needs a PHP web server and a database
• Watch out: the Android app is third party, not from the selfoss project

Pick Tiny Tiny RSS if

• Fits if you already run services with Docker and want your reader alongside them
• Works for people with a heavy feed load who'll write regex filters and scoring rules to sort it

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you don't run Docker, as the site says support may be limited any other way
• Not for you if you don't want to run, back up and update a server, since there's no hosted version
• Not for you if you want a phone app: the Android client is no longer maintained and its APKs are gone
• Watch out: the original project was retired on 1 November 2025, and the current code is a fork by a long-time contributor
• Too light for linking up other apps, as the listing names no integrations beyond a JSON API

selfoss

• There is no hosted service: you install, configure and update it yourself.
• It needs a PHP web server and a database.
• The Android app is third party, not from the selfoss project.

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• The Android client is no longer maintained and its APK downloads are gone, so reading happens in the web interface.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.

selfoss

Universal aggregator

Collects feeds, tweets and other posts into a single stream.

Light install

A PHP application of around 25 MB that you upload and run, with MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite as the database.

Plug-in sources

An open plug-in system lets you write your own data connectors, called spouts.

OPML import and export

Bring feeds from other readers by importing an OPML file.

JSON API

A RESTful JSON API for developers; the site also lists a third-party Android app.

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.

selfoss

• Self-hosted$0

  Download the release and run it on your own PHP server; there is no hosted version.

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.