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Reviewed by Marcus Holmberg
Feeder
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Threat level
Covered
A covered pick. Anyone can use it as a private drop-in, with no setup or know-how. Enough for most people. Threat levels
Our take
Feeder is the easy Android pick for RSS: open source, on F-Droid, and built to read feeds directly on your device without an account or a sync service watching what you read. It is Android-only and deliberately simple, so do not come expecting cross-platform sync or a feature-stuffed power-user reader. For an Android user who wants a private, no-account feed reader and nothing more, it does exactly that job well.
GitHub at a glance
spacecowboy/Feeder
Stars
2,907
+ 48 this week
Last commit
19d ago
healthy
License
GPL-3.0
Latest release
2.21.1
1mo ago
Stars, last 36d
Website at a glance
play.google.com
A+ score 115
Strong website security headers
Graded by Mozilla HTTP Observatory, tested 5d ago
Inspect this site yourself
Measures the security configuration of the tool's own website, not the privacy of the product itself. A strong tool can still score low here.
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Newsboat Terminal RSS and Atom feed reader for Linux and macOS, actively maintained as a fork of the abandoned Newsbeuter. Vim-style keybindings, scriptable filters, and works well over SSH.
NewsFlash Modern GTK RSS reader for Linux desktop, designed to pair with a web-based feed service such as Nextcloud News, Miniflux, or Feedbin. Adaptive layout, fast full-text search, and desktop notifications.
Feeder license, in plain English
GPL-3.0 Strong copyleft
Free to use and modify, but anything you distribute that is built on it must also be open under the same license.
Permits
- Commercial use
- Modification
- Distribution
- Patent use
- Private use
Requires
- Disclose source
- Same license
- State changes
- License and copyright notice
Does not provide
- Liability cover
- Warranty
Why it matters: Strong copyleft keeps every distributed version open. A vendor cannot fold this into a closed product and ship it without releasing their changes.
Plain-language summary of the project's license, not legal advice. Read the full text for the exact terms.
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