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daily-briefvsFreshRSS

Two self-hosted Feed Reader projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

daily-briefFreshRSS
Score50/10079/100
Rank in category#27 of 85 in Feed Reader#2 of 85 in Feed Reader
GitHub stars38316 435
Stars, last 30 days—+309
Stable releases, 12 months09
Latest release—1.30.4 · 21 Oct 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptPHP

Which one should you pick?

FreshRSS scores 79/100 against 50/100 for daily-brief, so it is the safer default.

FreshRSS ships more often: 9 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for daily-brief.

If you want the quickest setup, FreshRSS is easier to run; daily-brief needs more configuration.

FreshRSS is growing faster right now (+309 stars in 30 days).

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