What is GreatNews?
GreatNews is an open-source web-based news aggregator and RSS reader application. It allows users to subscribe to RSS and Atom feeds from a variety of online news sources, blogs, podcasts, and more. GreatNews takes all of the content from a user's subscribed feeds and aggregates it into a single scrollable view for easy browsing and reading.
Some key features of GreatNews include:
- Simple and intuitive interface for managing feed subscriptions
- Support for organizing feeds into user-defined categories/folders
- Adjustable feed update intervals
- Saving articles for offline reading
- Full-text search across all articles
- Exporting subscriptions and saved articles
- Responsive design that works well on mobile and desktop
- Open source (MIT license) codebase written in PHP/MySQL
GreatNews is designed to be easy to install and use while also being customizable and extensible. It can be self-hosted on one's own server or deployed on shared/cloud hosting. The simple codebase allows developers to easily enhance and expand the software to their needs. For those seeking an open-source, self-hosted alternative to services like Feedly or Inoreader, GreatNews is a great option to consider.
Feedly, Flipboard, Inoreader, Reeder , NetNewsWire, Liferea, QuiteRSS, Tiny Tiny RSS, Fluent Reader, NewsBlur, Feedbro, Feeder RSS feed reader, Rantt are some alternatives to GreatNews.