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Liferea

Liferea is an RSS reader, available on Linux.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

At a glance

All of Liferea is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-2.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Liferea is a feed reader/news aggregator that brings together all of the content from your favorite subscriptions into a simple interface that makes it easy to organize and browse feeds. Its GUI is similar to a desktop mail/news client, with an embedded web browser. Distinguishing features: Read articles when offline Force fetch full article text using HTML5 extraction Subscribe to HTML5 websites that do not even have a feed! Synchronizes with Google Reader API including TheOldReader, FreshRSS, FeedHQ, Miniflux etc. Synchronizes with Reedah Synchronizes with TinyTinyRSS Permanently save headlines in news bins Match items using search folders Play Podcasts

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Sources and checks

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  • Last technical check: 8 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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