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Self-hosted alternatives to Hacker News

50 self-hosted Reading apps to use instead, best rated first.

Top picks

  1. A

    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

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

  2. R

    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

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

  3. L

    Linkwarden

    Launch

    Linkwarden is an open-source, self-hostable bookmark manager that archives the pages you save. It keeps a full-page copy in several formats, including the full HTML, so a link still works after the original page disappears. You read saved a

    Open sourceSelf-hosted

  4. W

    Wallabag

    Launch

    wallabag is a self-hostable, open-source read-it-later app for saving web articles. It extracts the content you care about, removes distractions and keeps the article in your own archive, so you can read it later in the browser, on a phone,

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

  5. M

    MediaMTX

    Launch

    Ready-to-use, zero-dependency real-time media server and proxy to publish, read, record, playback and route video/audio streams over SRT, WebRTC, RTSP, RTMP, HLS, MPEG-TS, RTP. (Source Code, Clients) MIT Go/Docker

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

  6. C

    Calibre Web

    Launch

    Calibre-Web is a free, open-source web app for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks from an existing Calibre library. It does not replace Calibre: it reads a Calibre database you already have and offers a responsive web interface to it,

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

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K

Kavita

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

Launch
8
K

Komga

Media server for comics/mangas/BDs

Launch
9
C

Calibre Web Automated

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

Launch
10
F

Feedbin

Feedbin is an RSS reader with a beautiful reading experience

Launch
11
S

Stump

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

Launch
12
S

Selfoss

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

Launch
13
L

Librum

The Librum client application

Launch
14
R

RSS-Bridge

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

Launch
15
R

RSS Bridge

RSS feeds for websites missing them

Launch
16
S

Stringer

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

Launch
17
B

BookOrbit

Your Reading Space

Launch
18
U

Upvote RSS

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

Launch
19
O

OpenOrb

A curated search engine for Atom and RSS feeds

Launch
20
T

Tiny Tiny RSS

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

Launch
21
Y

Yarr

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

Launch
22
O

Openreads

A mobile books tracker written in Flutter that respects your privacy

Launch
23
F

Fusion

Lightweight RSS aggregator and reader

Launch
24
E

egroupware

Software suite including calendars, address books, notepad

Launch
25
M

MediaGoblin

Media hosting software

Launch
26
R

Readflow

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

Launch
27
T

TT RSS

A free, flexible, open-source, web-based news feed

Launch
28
S

Superdesk

End-to-end news creation, production, curation, distribution

Launch
29
J

Jelu

Read and to-read list book tracker. (Source Code) MIT Java/Docker

Launch
30
J

Jelu

Self hosted read and to-read list book tracker

Launch
31
R

RSS-to-Telegram-Bot

A Telegram RSS bot that cares about your reading experience

Launch
32
L

LinguaCafe

Self-hosted software that helps language learners acquire vocabulary through

Launch
33
G

Gmail Cleaner

Cleanup your gmail | delete, mark as read, unsubsribe from uncessary things u…

Launch
34
P

Postmarks

a single-user bookmarking website designed to live on the Fediverse

Launch
35
I

inkwell

A small self-hosted RSS/Atom reader for Kindles and other e-ink devices

Launch
36
R

RSS Monster

Easy to use web-based RSS aggregator and reader compatible with the Fever API

Launch
37
H

Homehost

self-hosted, Netflix-like app made for streaming

Launch
38
C

Chaptarr

An audiobook and eBook collection manager

Launch
39
K

kiwix-serve

HTTP daemon for serving wikis from ZIM files

Launch
40
B

BookLogr

Self-hosted service for tracking personal libraries

Launch
41
R

RSSMonster

RSS reader with local semantic processing

Launch
42
A

Ackify

Proof of Read. Compliance made simple

Launch
43
A

Atsumeru

Manga/comic/light novel media server

Launch
44
S

Shelfarr

Self hosted Ebook and Audiobook management system

Launch
45
B

Bindery

Automated book download manager for Usenet

Launch
46
B

Bubo Reader

Irrationally minimal RSS feed reader

Launch
47
L

Leed

Leed (for Light Feed) is a Free and minimalist RSS aggregator

Launch
48
N

Newspipe

A self-hosted news reader

Launch
49
L

LetoReader

A free self-hostable speed reader

Launch
50
R

RSS2EMail

Fetches RSS/Atom-feeds and pushes new content to any email-receiver

Launch

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