fusion

Fusion is a self-hosted RSS reader that does one job: show you your feeds. You get unread tracking, bookmarks, search, feed groups, OPML import and Google Reader-style keyboard shortcuts in a clean web app you can install on your phone as a PWA. No AI features, on purpose. It's MIT licensed and free, with no paid tier.

Setup is about as easy as self-hosting gets. It ships as a single binary with SQLite built in, or one Docker container: set a password, run it, open port 8080. It speaks the Fever API, so apps like Reeder and Unread can sync with it, and OIDC login is there if you already run an identity provider. Solo: free and nearly zero maintenance. Teams: wrong tool.

The catch: it's single-user. One password, one reading list, no accounts to hand out. Miniflux is just as lean and adds multiple users plus a Google Reader API on top of Fever; FreshRSS is multi-user too and takes extensions. Fusion is also mostly one maintainer working with coding agents, and the project asks for issues, not pull requests.