Host Miniflux without installing anything
A feed reader that does one thing: show your articles, fast, with nothing else on screen.
Starting at €2.99/month
Introduction
Miniflux installed, updated and backed up by us, on a machine in France. You install nothing and configure no server: the application is online a few minutes after you order, under your own name.
The plan that suits it is App Découverte at €2.99/month incl. VAT — 1 GB of memory. Miniflux is a single Go binary backed by PostgreSQL, and its interface is a handful of HTML pages with no scaffolding of scripts: that is where the speed comes from. The only moment it truly works is the refresh, when it fetches several hundred feeds in parallel. 512 MB is enough; 1 GB leaves room for the database and the search index.
Moving from Feedly, Inoreader or The Old Reader is done through an OPML file — the universal format for subscription lists — which keeps your categories. Once in place, Miniflux exposes a Google Reader compatible API and a Fever API: Reeder, NetNewsWire, Readrops and FeedMe connect with your instance address, and you read on the phone in the app of your choice.
What Miniflux does
OPML in, OPML out
Your subscription list imports and exports in the format every reader understands, categories included. You are never captive: leaving takes as long as a download.
The mobile apps you already know can connect
Miniflux speaks the Google Reader API and the Fever API. Reeder, NetNewsWire, Readrops, FeedMe and Fluent Reader connect with the instance address and a dedicated password.
It fetches the whole article
When a feed publishes only a summary, a rule with a CSS selector lets Miniflux pull the full text from the site and put it back into the entry. Filter rules can also drop articles whose title matches a pattern.
An article travels onward in one click
Wallabag, Linkding, Shaarli, Pocket, Nextcloud, Telegram, Matrix or ntfy: Miniflux can push the article to the tool where you will actually read or archive it.
Who uses it, and what for
A professional who has to follow a sector
Official journals, specialist blogs, press releases: sixty sources read every morning in ten minutes, in chronological order, with no algorithm deciding what deserves to be seen.
A developer watching releases
A repository's releases page publishes a feed: Miniflux warns you when one appears, which replaces an email alert and one more sign-up.
A team that wants less noise
Filter rules drop everything containing a given word in the title, or on the contrary keep only that. A general-purpose feed becomes a targeted source.
Someone reading on the commute
The native app of their choice connects to the instance; read articles are read everywhere, and reading resumes on the desktop where the phone left off.
Someone who has left social timelines
The sites followed remain the ones you chose. Nothing floats up, nothing vanishes, nothing is promoted: chronology is the only sorting rule.
Hosted in France
In our own datacentre in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, which we operate ourselves. What you read says a great deal about you: the list stays where you put it.
Frequently asked questions
Through an OPML file, the standard format for feed lists: you export it from the old service, upload it to Miniflux, and the subscriptions are recreated with their categories. One thing to know: OPML carries subscriptions only. The history of read articles and the starred items stay with the old reader — that is true of every reader, not just this one.
Yes. Miniflux exposes a Google Reader compatible API and a Fever API, which makes it recognisable to the readers on the market: Reeder, NetNewsWire, Readrops, FeedMe, Fluent Reader. You enter the instance address and a password dedicated to that use. The web interface also installs as an app on the phone, and it is already very light.
Both are in our catalogue and the choice comes down to temperament. Miniflux fits in one binary, accepts no extensions, and its interface is deliberately bare: that is where its speed comes from. FreshRSS has extensions, themes, more flexible category handling and an active community. If you enjoy tuning your tools, take FreshRSS; if you only want to read, take Miniflux.
App Découverte, at €2.99/month incl. VAT. It provides 1 GB of memory where the application asks for 512 MB at minimum: the headroom serves the system, not the decor. You can change plan later without reinstalling.
Yes, they are part of the service. A self-hosted application left un-updated is a security risk, not a saving.