CommaFeed vs FocusReader
CommaFeed
commafeed.comFocusReader
focusreader.appSide by side
| Figure | CommaFeed | FocusReader |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 2 |
| Spec score · RSS Reader Software | 8.3 (#12) | 7.5 (#22) |
| Intended users | The project describes CommaFeed as a personal RSS reader and offers both a public instance and self-hosted deployment. | The Chrome Web Store listing describes it for students, professionals, news readers, book lovers, researchers and people seeking less cluttered web reading. |
| Purpose | CommaFeed is a Google Reader inspired, self-hosted personal RSS reader. | Focus Reader turns web articles into a clean, distraction-free reading view. |
Plans
In their own words
CommaFeed
CommaFeed is a free personal RSS reader inspired by Google Reader, available through a public instance or self-hosted deployment. Its responsive interface works on mobile and desktop, with four layouts and light and dark themes. Readers can import and export OPML files and set rules to mark articles as read automatically. It supports keyboard shortcuts, right-to-left feeds, and more than 25 languages. CommaFeed provides a REST API plus Fever and Google Reader APIs for native mobile apps, and lists push notifications and a browser extension. Self-hosted installations support H2, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB; Docker images and downloadable packages include Linux and Windows builds. The public instance costs nothing and allows 1,000 feeds per account, up to 500 entries per feed retained for 365 days. Public feeds are fetched every 10 minutes to 24 hours. Feeds over 5 MB are ignored, and push notifications are disabled on the public instance. Accounts inactive for 30 days do not have feeds refreshed until the user interacts again.
FocusReader
FocusReader has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.