news — independent software & tools

56 independent news listings the big search engines bury.

• Folio

  fdroid · Free · by Alan Huang

  A reader for your self-hosted FreshRSS server

• Materialistic Nouveau

  fdroid · Free · by Andrew Rowson

  Material design Hacker News client for Android

• RSS Reader

  fdroid · Free · by immerzu

  Compact RSS reader with offline storage and background updates.

• Volksverpetzer

  fdroid · Free · by Volksverpetzer

  Read Volksverpetzer fact checks, analysis and articles on your mobile phone.

• StudiPassau

  fdroid · Free · by Nico Mexis

  Access to the Online Portal for Students at the University of Passau

• Trending AI

  fdroid · Free · by HarlonWang

  Global tech trends, fast-picked by AI.

• telegram-ai-monitor

  github · Free · by carvedinstone-heartbreaker804

  Track Telegram messages with AI, classify them in real time, and view alerts and insights in a React dashboard.

• telegram-ai-scope

  github · Free · by enzosantana-mv

  AI-Powered Telegram Monitor 2026: Real-Time Message Classification & Insights Dashboard

• uNews

  github · Free · by sunpole

  Telegram-бот и система публикации новостей, патчноутов и отчётов разработки по U-проектам: uSugar, uDream, uChurch и другим проектам.

• news-daily-bot

  github · Free · by VIDAKHOSHPEY22

  📰 Automated news bot | 48+ daily commits | 7+ news sources | GitHub Actions

• google-news-url-decoder

  npm · Free · by zindont

  A Node.js library to decode Google News URLs to their original source URLs.

• MobileInpact

  fdroid · Free · by Bhasher

  MobileInpact is an unofficial client for NextInpact.

• Reader for Selfoss

  fdroid · Free

  A new RSS reader for selfoss (http://selfoss.aditu.de/)

• News

  fdroid · Free

  Feed reader and podcast player for Android

• Thud

  fdroid · Free · by Samuel Bazaga

  News without the fuss.

• HomeFeed - RSS Widget

  fdroid · Free · by Mohsin Shaikh

  HomeFeed is a customizable RSS feed widget

• Capy Reader

  fdroid · Free · by jocmp

  A smallish RSS reader

• Equipe RSS

  fdroid · Free · by damiengo

  A RSS reader for l'équipe website.

• Geekttrss

  fdroid · Free

  A Tiny Tiny Rss reader with transparent offline mode

• RSSAid

  fdroid · Free · by LeetaoGoooo

  RSSAid is a RSSHub assist tool built with flutter.

• Hacki for Hacker News

  fdroid · Free · by Jiaqi Feng

  An open-source Hacker News client.

• HN

  fdroid · Free · by Manuel Maly

  Read and comment on tech news

• NewsBlur - News reader

  fdroid · Free · by Samuel Clay

  News reader

• Lobsters App

  fdroid · Free

  This is an app for <a href="https://lobste.rs/">lobste.rs</a> and its sister sites. Contributions are welcome.

• Feeder (Play version)

  fdroid · Free · by Space Cowboy

  An awesome Libre and Open Source RSS feed reader

• Nunti

  fdroid · Free · by Ondřej Foltýn & Richard Klapáč

  Finally a smart RSS reader which doesn't suck ass or your data.

• Next Actualités informatiques

  fdroid · Free

  Check out french Next computer news (even without an Internet connection)!

• FeedFlow - RSS Feed Reader

  fdroid · Free · by Marco Gomiero

  Minimal RSS reader with offline reading, reader mode & flexible sync options.

• Readrops

  fdroid · Free

  multi-services RSS client

• PodAura

  fdroid · Free · by SkyD666

  All-in-one Android podcast app for RSS, media dl & play

• Flux News

  fdroid · Free · by Kevin Fechtel

  Newsreader for miniflux backend

• AntennaPod - Podcast Player

  fdroid · Free

  Easy-to-use, flexible and open-source podcast manager and player

• Unofficial Golem.de Reader

  fdroid · Free · by Soenke Huster

  Unofficial app for German site golem.de with videos, dark mode and additional fe

• Hamburger

  fdroid · Free · by livodeu

  An open client app for the news by the oldest German TV station.

• Nextcloud News

  fdroid · Free · by Nextcloud GmbH

  Android App for Nextcloud News App (requires own Nextcloud instance)

• taz

  fdroid · Free

  reader for the german newspaper "taz. die tageszeitung".

• Flare

  fdroid · Free · by Dimension

  Browse Mastodon, Bluesky, X, Misskey, Nostr and RSS all in one app.

• Marxist Tamil

  fdroid · Free · by CPIM Puducherry

  Read & Listen to essays from Marxist tamil magazine

• Raven

  fdroid · Free · by KshitijB

  This app uses APIs and web scraping to fetch news articles.

• News Reader

  fdroid · Free · by Livio

  Minimalistic yet powerful news reader with text to speech capability

• News Provider

  fdroid · Free · by rh-id

  A simple and easy to use RSS aggregator that deliver news to your smartphone

• Read You

  fdroid · Free · by Ashinch

  A modern and elegant RSS reader with Material You design

• FeedWatcher

  fdroid · Free · by Zouroboros

• Glider for Hacker News

  fdroid · Free · by Mosc

  Glider is an opinionated Hacker News client. Ad-free, open-source, no-nonsense.

• Flym DecSync

  fdroid · Free · by Aldo Gunsing

  Sync RSS without a server using DecSync

• spaRSS DecSync

  fdroid · Free · by Aldo Gunsing

  Sync RSS without a server using DecSync

• LeMondeRssReader

  fdroid · Free · by mbach

  Reads RSS feed from the website LeMonde.fr and fetch articles inside the App

• TTRSS-Reader

  fdroid · Free · by Nils Braden

  An RSS reader for Tiny Tiny RSS

• Handy Reading

  fdroid · Free

  Feature-rich, pure (offline) reading experience on all Your interests.

• RSS-AI

  github · Free · by byasincirakoglu

  📡 Automate RSS feeds, summarize articles using AI, and push updates to Telegram with a simple web interface and powerful backend.

• hobbytp.github.io

  github · Free · by hobbytp

  Peng Tan's AI Blog

• linkedin-ai-autoposter

  github · Free · by SahilKumar9315

  🤖 Transform breaking news into engaging LinkedIn posts with AI-driven insights and historical context for impactful professional content.

• Ada-LK-Blogger-Automation

  github · Free · by sh13y

  Automated news scraper and poster that fetches articles from Ada LK and publishes them to Blogger. Features include duplicate prevention, automatic formatting, and GitHub Actions automation.

• ai-news

  github · Free · by tianyaxiang

  Zero-cost AI-powered daily news aggregator. Fetches from 20+ sources, generates bilingual (EN/CN) summaries, and publishes automatically.

• bot-news-it-discord

  github · Free · by watchakorn-18k

  📑 Bot updates news about IT and programming with Update every hour

• api-qasim

  npm · Free · by GitHub Actions

  Universal SDK for QasimDev Rest API - Supporting CJS, ESM, TypeScript, and Browser