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Self-hosted alternatives to The Balanced News

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

Top picks

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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

    Open 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

    Open sourceSelf-hosted

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    Linkwarden

    Launch

    Collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters. Open-source, self-hostable bookmark manager with full-page archival.

    Open sourceSelf-hosted

  4. W

    Wallabag

    Launch

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

    Open 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

    Open sourceSelf-hosted

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    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,

    Open sourceSelf-hosted

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Kavita

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

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Komga

Media server for comics/mangas/BDs

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Calibre Web Automated

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

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F

Feedbin

Feedbin is an RSS reader with a beautiful reading experience

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Stump

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

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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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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
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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
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Tiny Tiny RSS

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

Launch
20
Y

Yarr

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

Launch
21
S

Shelfmark

Interface for searching and requesting book downloads

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
R

Readflow

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

Launch
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TT RSS

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

Launch
27
S

Superdesk

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

Launch
28
J

Jelu

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

Launch
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J

Jelu

Self hosted read and to-read list book tracker

Launch
30
R

RSS-to-Telegram-Bot

A Telegram RSS bot that cares about your reading experience

Launch
31
L

LinguaCafe

Self-hosted software that helps language learners acquire vocabulary through

Launch
32
G

Gmail Cleaner

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

Launch
33
P

Postmarks

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

Launch
34
R

RSS Monster

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

Launch
35
H

Homehost

self-hosted, Netflix-like app made for streaming

Launch
36
C

Chaptarr

An audiobook and eBook collection manager

Launch
37
K

kiwix-serve

HTTP daemon for serving wikis from ZIM files

Launch
38
B

BookLogr

Self-hosted service for tracking personal libraries

Launch
39
R

RSSMonster

RSS reader with local semantic processing

Launch
40
A

Ackify

Proof of Read. Compliance made simple

Launch
41
A

Atsumeru

Manga/comic/light novel media server

Launch
42
S

Shelfarr

Self hosted Ebook and Audiobook management system

Launch
43
B

Bindery

Automated book download manager for Usenet

Launch
44
B

Bubo Reader

Irrationally minimal RSS feed reader

Launch
45
L

Leed

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

Launch
46
N

Newspipe

A self-hosted news reader

Launch
47
L

LetoReader

A free self-hostable speed reader

Launch
48
R

RSS2EMail

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

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J

JARR

JARR (Just Another RSS Reader) is a web-based news aggregator and reader

Launch
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M

Minne

Read-later and personal knowledge management

Launch

About The Balanced News

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The Balanced News

See political bias and sentiment in every news story

The Balanced News is India’s first news platform designed to help readers cut through bias, misinformation, and echo chambers by comparing how different media houses report the same story — side by side. At its core, the app blends smart technology with a journalistic mission: to restore context, transparency, and trust in the news we consume every day.

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Category
Reading
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