A fast, keyboard-first RSS reader you host yourself.
Freelancers expense a dozen subscriptions — proposals, contracts, invoices, time tracking — against irregular income. Owning the tools outright removes a whole line of fixed costs.
The tool this job usually means renting is Feedly, at $8/mo — roughly $96 a year, every year. Feedloft does the job for a one-time $24 — running on infrastructure you control.
Automatic feed discovery from any webpage (), rename, move to folders, unsubscribe.
For freelancers, add feeds from any URL pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $24, not metered per month.
Import preserves your folder structure; export produces valid OPML 2.0 you can take anywhere.
For freelancers, OPML import/export pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $24, not metered per month.
Conditional GET (ETag / Last-Modified, honors 304s), per-feed interval overrides, automatic backoff for failing feeds.
For freelancers, smart polling pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $24, not metered per month.
One-time $24 for the packaged Windows desktop build — no npm install, no terminal, lifetime updates.
Desktop app for personal reading, or docker compose up on a $5 VPS. One SQLite file to back up.
Your Feedly folders come across intact. j/k through your feeds; hit / when you need something from three months ago.
Feedloft is $24, once. Feedly at $8/mo — roughly $96 a year, every year. Break-even vs Feedly Pro is 3 months. By month 12 you're $72 ahead — and it compounds forever, because there's no recurring fee.
Break-even vs Feedly Pro is 3 months. By month 12 you're $72 ahead — and it compounds forever, because there's no recurring fee. Feedloft costs $24 once; Feedly charges $8/mo — about $96 a year. For freelancers, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
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.
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.