📰 Feedloft
A fast, keyboard-first RSS reader you host yourself.
Feedloft at a glance
| Price | $24, once — no renewal |
| Replaces | Feedly at $8/mo — roughly $96 a year, every year |
| Type | Web app — self-hosted |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Category | Productivity |
Feedloft features
📡 Add feeds from any URL
Automatic feed discovery from any webpage (), rename, move to folders, unsubscribe.
📂 OPML import/export
Import preserves your folder structure; export produces valid OPML 2.0 you can take anywhere.
⏱️ Smart polling
Conditional GET (ETag / Last-Modified, honors 304s), per-feed interval overrides, automatic backoff for failing feeds.
⌨️ Keyboard-first
Full vim-style set: j/k to move, o to open, m read, s star, / search, ? for the cheat sheet, Shift+A mark all read.
📖 Full-text extraction
Pulls the full article via Mozilla Readability when a feed only publishes summaries — per-article or always-on per-feed.
🔍 Instant full-text search
SQLite FTS5 across title + content, scoped to all feeds or just the one you're reading — instant even at tens of thousands of articles.
🗂️ 3-pane reading UI
Folders/feeds, article list, article view. Dense, dark-mode-first typography with unread counts everywhere.
🖥️ Desktop app included
The same server wrapped in Electron, auto-logged-in, no browser required — or docker compose up on a $5 VPS.
$24 once — that's the whole pricing page
Feedly charges $8/mo — roughly $96 a year, every year. Feedloft is a single payment, and it keeps working whether or not we ever sell another copy.
Or get Feedloft inside the full suite — every app in the catalog, currently $97 for the bundle. See the bundle →
Feedloft guides & pages
Honest answers
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes. The full source is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/feedloft-mvp and always will be. The self-hosted version is the complete product, not a crippled trial — $24 buys the packaged installer, 1-click setup and updates.
Is there a mobile app?
Not a native one. Feedloft is a web app plus an Electron desktop wrapper; if it's hosted on a VPS you can read it from your phone's browser. Feedly's polished iOS/Android apps are a genuine advantage if you read mostly on mobile.
What if a feed only publishes summaries?
Feedloft pulls the full article with Mozilla Readability — per-article on demand, or always-on for a given feed. Extracted content is sanitized and stored locally, so it's searchable too.