What is moonmoon?

moonmoon is a lightweight PHP feed aggregator (planet-style) that merges articles from multiple RSS/Atom feeds into a single web page. It is designed for simplicity: no database, no background cron jobs required, and no archiving, comments, or voting features. Configuration is stored in a YAML file. It includes an administration panel for managing feeds. The project is developed by Maurice Svay and contributors, released under the BSD-3-Clause license. It runs on PHP 5.6+ (PHP 7 preferred) with the php-xml extension, and can be deployed on shared hosting via FTP, on dedicated servers using Composer, or via Docker images (though the Docker images are noted as not production-ready).

Should you self-host moonmoon?

moonmoon scores 41/100 on selfhost.directory (how scoring works) and ranks #6 of 6 in Feed Aggregator. It has 158 GitHub stars.

There was no stable release in the past 12 months, so check the repository's recent activity before you rely on it.

Setup is easy: most people get it running in one sitting. It is Other-licensed and written mostly in PHP.

Its closest alternative on selfhost.directory is Nextcloud News (61/100, 1 012 stars). It scores higher overall, so compare the two before you pick. See moonmoon vs Nextcloud News side by side.