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50 free Reading apps to use instead, best rated first.

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  1. Substack

    Launch

    Discover & subscribe to independent writers, podcasters, and video creators.

    Free

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    ArchiveBox

    Launch

    📸 Save the current page with the toolbar button, keyboard shortcut, or right-click menu. 🏛 Send URLs to your own ArchiveBox server to preserve websites for later. 🏷 Search, sort, tag, and manage your saved URLs in one place. ⚙ Automatically

    FreeSelf-hosted

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    Free Programming Books

    Launch

    Free Programming Books is a long-running list of free learning resources for programmers, kept by the Free Ebook Foundation on GitHub. It gathers freely available books, courses, interactive tutorials, podcasts, screencasts and problem sets

    Free

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    RSSHub

    Launch

    Easy to use, and extensible RSS feed aggregator capable of generating RSS feeds from pretty much everything ranging from social media to university departments. (Demo, Source Code) MIT Nodejs/Docker

    FreeSelf-hosted

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    Wallabag

    Launch

    Self-hosted web article archiving tool that extracts content for comfortable reading. Import from Pocket, Instapaper. Open source with API access.

    FreeSelf-hosted

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    Koodo Reader

    Launch

    Koodo Reader is a powerful ebook reader designed to provide a simple and easy-to-use reading experience. Format support: • EPUB (.epub) • PDF (.pdf) • DRM-free Mobipocket (.mobi) and Kindle (.azw3, .azw) • Plain text (.txt) • FictionBook (.

    Free

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Readest

Readest is a modern, feature-rich ebook reader

Launch
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Fluent Reader

Modern desktop RSS reader built with Electron, React, and Fluent UI

Launch
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MediaMTX

Ready-to-use, zero-dependency real-time media server and proxy to publish, read

Launch
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Calibre Web

Browse, read and download eBooks using an existing Calibre database

Launch
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Kavita

Cross-platform e-book/manga/comic/pdf server and web reader

Launch
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MdBook

Create books with Markdown using Rust

Launch
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Komga

Media server for comics/mangas/BDs

Launch
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Koreader

An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB

Launch
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Calibre Web Automated

All-in-one solution, combining the modern lightweight web UI

Launch
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NetNewsWire

RSS reader for macOS and iOS

Launch
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Quarkdown

Markdown with superpowers: from ideas to papers, presentations, websites, books

Launch
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Omnivore

Omnivore is a complete, open source read-it-later solution

Launch
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Stump

A fast, free and open source comics, manga and digital book server

Launch
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Selfoss

New multipurpose rss reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application

Launch
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Librum

The Librum client application

Launch
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RSS-Bridge

Generate RSS/ATOM feeds for websites which don't have one

Launch
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RSS Bridge

RSS feeds for websites missing them

Launch
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Stringer

Work-in-progress self-hosted, anti-social RSS reader

Launch
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Lkmpg

The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide (updated for 5.0+ kernels)

Launch
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100 Go Mistakes

100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Launch
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Artemis

Artemis is a calm web reader

Launch
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Thorium Reader

A cross platform desktop reading app, based on the Readium Desktop toolkit

Launch
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Foliate

Read e-books in style

Launch
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You Dont Know JS Ru

Russian translation of "You Don't Know JS" book series

Launch
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BookOrbit

Your Reading Space

Launch
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Upvote RSS

Generate rich RSS feeds from Reddit, Hacker News, Lemmy, Mbin, and more

Launch
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The Brutalist Report

The day's headlines delivered to you without bullshit

Launch
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Tiny Tiny RSS

Web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) reader and aggregator

Launch
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Yarr

Yarr (yet another rss reader) is a web-based feed aggregator

Launch
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Shelfmark

Interface for searching and requesting book downloads

Launch
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KCC

KCC (a.k.a. Kindle Comic Converter) is a comic and manga converter

Launch
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Openreads

A mobile books tracker written in Flutter that respects your privacy

Launch
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Safaribooks

Download and generate EPUB of your favorite books from O'Reilly Learning

Launch
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EpubPress - Read the web offline

Create custom ebooks from your favorite blogs and websites

Launch
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Fusion

Lightweight RSS aggregator and reader

Launch
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TaskBoard

A Kanban-inspired app for keeping track of things that need to get done

Launch
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egroupware

Software suite including calendars, address books, notepad

Launch
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Textream

Textream is a free macOS teleprompter app for streamers, interviewers

Launch
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Twine

A multiplatform RSS reader built using Kotlin and Compose

Launch
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Bevy Cheatbook

Unofficial Reference Book for the Bevy Game Engine

Launch
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Everything Curl

The book documenting the curl project, the curl tool, libcurl and more

Launch
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Kiwix : offline wikipedia reader

Kiwix is an offline solution

Launch
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Readflow

Lightweight news reader with modern interface and features: full-text search

Launch
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route.bible

Bible passage links and QR codes for slides and handouts

Launch

About Emdash

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Emdash

Discover, review, and organize highlights from various literary genres

Emdash (YC W26) is a free, open-source agentic development environment: run coding agents like Claude Code and Codex in parallel, schedule agent work, and review changes in one place. Available for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

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