With OpenReader, any EPUB, PDF, Word document, Markdown file, or plain text book transforms into an interactive reading workspace paired with natural text-to-speech playback and multi-chapter audiobook export. Documents render natively in their original page layout rather than flattening into plain text, using layout-aware block detection and cross-page stitching so multi-column academic papers, technical manuals, and textbooks flow in the right reading order while skipping headers and footnotes. As narration plays, word-level forced alignment highlights each spoken word directly on the page in real time, and progressive background generation starts audio playback on the first segment while synthesizing upcoming pages ahead of your cursor. Readers can connect local speech engines such as Kokoro, KittenTTS, and Orpheus or cloud voice providers, select language-aware voices for multilingual books, adjust playback speed, and switch among thirteen light and dark reading themes. Cached audio segments persist across seeks and browser reloads, allowing the background worker to assemble complete M4B or MP3 audiobooks for offline listening on mobile devices while syncing reading progress, queues, and library imports across sessions. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Folivox turns an ebook sitting on your server into a finished audiobook read aloud in a voice you choose, cloned from a short sample, or performed by a whole cast of characters. Drop in an FB2, EPUB, DOCX, PDF, or TXT file and the studio detects the book language, restores chapters, poems, and epigraphs, cleans page furniture away, and spells numbers, dates, money, and abbreviations out in full for nine fully supported languages. Narration runs locally through CosyVoice 3 or the multi-speaker Fish Audio Drama 3, which can give each character their own voice like a radio play, or through ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Gemini, or Cartesia with your own key after a cost estimate you approve. A markup editor finds the dialogue, assigns lines to speakers, and lets you fix mistakes and listen before committing to a ten-hour render. Every fragment is listened back to with Whisper and re-read until the best take survives, while a crash-safe journal means a stopped render resumes where it left off and edited chapters redo only what changed. The finished book arrives as one chaptered M4B with cover and metadata, or one MP3 per chapter, loudness-normalised and ready for any player. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.

Eliminating repetitive sponsor reads and dynamic mid-roll commercials before an episode even reaches your headphones, MinusPod operates as a self-hosted podcast ad-removal server and RSS feed manager. You subscribe to shows inside the web dashboard using PodcastIndex search or OPML import, and the server generates clean replacement RSS feeds compatible with Pocket Casts, Overcast, Apple Podcasts, and Audiobookshelf. When a new episode drops via scheduled polling or instant Podping notifications, the pipeline transcribes the audio locally with faster-whisper or Parakeet, or routes it through a remote transcription API. Your choice of LLM provider, including Ollama, Anthropic Claude, OpenRouter, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, scans overlapping transcript windows to pinpoint sponsor reads, cross-promotions, and intros. Programmatic audio analysis reinforces AI detection by measuring EBU R128 loudness jumps, Chromaprint acoustic fingerprints, show jingles, and dynamically inserted ad transitions before FFmpeg splices the audio or marks segments as skippable Podcasting 2.0 chapters. A browser-based Ad Editor lets you audition pre-cut and post-cut audio, nudge start and end timestamps, and confirm detections that train global, network, and show-specific sponsor patterns. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

PinePods delivers a centralized, self-hosted podcast ecosystem that liberates personal listening histories, audio files, and show subscriptions from commercial streaming walled gardens. Users can discover new shows through built-in search connectors across Podcast Index, iTunes, and YouTube, streaming audio and video episodes with variable playback speed, chapter markers, and synchronized transcripts. A persistent queue and custom playlist builder keep media sequences orderly across web browsers, desktop installations, and mobile clients with native CarPlay and Android Auto support. Built-in gPodder server synchronization enables seamless cross-device progress tracking with third-party podcast apps like AntennaPod. Automatic episode downloader engines monitor subscribed feeds, archiving new releases to local server storage according to customizable retention rules and storage quotas. Multi-user authentication secures household access through OIDC single sign-on and two-factor TOTP verification, while an integrated terminal client lets command-line enthusiasts manage queues directly over SSH. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Podcast enthusiasts and homelab archivers automate digital episode preservation and stream personal audio feeds using PodFetch, an open-source self-hosted podcast manager that combines scheduled RSS downloads, Podcasting 2.0 transcript indexing, and browser playback into a modern listening platform. Listeners can subscribe to international podcast channels through direct feed URLs, Apple Podcasts directory searches, or bulk OPML subscription imports, configuring background polling timers to download new releases automatically upon publication. The integrated audio player supports variable speed playback, episode bookmarks, listening histories, and fullscreen visualization modes directly inside responsive desktop and mobile browser sessions. Advanced search capabilities leverage Podcasting 2.0 synchronized transcripts and automated speech-to-text generation via OpenAI-compatible Whisper APIs, allowing collectors to run full-text keyword searches across every spoken phrase in their audio archive. Built-in GPodder API synchronization maintains subscription lists and playback positions across popular smartphone apps like AntennaPod and native companion clients without relying on commercial cloud accounts. Server operators can assign multi-user accounts with private favorites lists, export customized RSS aggregation streams, and route storage paths between fast solid-state drives and large secondary mechanical hard disks. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.

To listen to your favorite YouTube channels, video playlists, and Bilibili creators during a commute without keeping a browser tab open, PigeonPod converts video subscriptions into private, standard podcast RSS feeds for any podcast player. Paste a channel URL, playlist link, or single video address to preview uploads and generate a protected feed for Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or AntennaPod. You can select audio-only or video output, customize bitrates and formats, and generate Podcasting 2.0 chapter markers for topic scrubbing. Scheduled background sync jobs fetch new releases automatically while on-demand history backfill queues older catalog episodes in bulk. Per-feed keyword rules, duration thresholds, and retention limits keep storage clean by filtering out shorts or marathon livestreams. Upload YouTube or Bilibili cookies for member-only streams, route traffic through custom proxies, and update the yt-dlp engine directly inside the web dashboard. A built-in web player, one-click public episode share pages, and OPML export let you stream in the browser or migrate subscriptions. Media files store on local disk or S3-compatible buckets such as Cloudflare R2 and MinIO, accompanied by YouTube API quota monitors and failure alerts. Multi-user role permissions support shared accounts across eight interface languages. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

When shuffle algorithms start feeling sterile, Subwave transforms your self-hosted Navidrome or Subsonic music library into a live 24/7 personal internet radio station hosted by AI DJ personas. Every listener tunes into a single shared Icecast broadcast simultaneously. Curated tracks play alongside spoken station idents, local weather reports, news briefings, time checks, and track introductions. Want to hear something specific? Listeners submit plain-language song or mood requests directly from the web player, native mobile and desktop apps, or an MCP client, and the on-air DJ weaves those selections into the rotation. Operators staff up to 24 distinct DJ personas with guest co-hosts, programme a 24x7 weekly show grid with multi-hour episode arcs, and customize between-track skills from the browser admin console. Acoustic analysis measures BPM, musical key, loudness, vocal ranges, and track endings so crossfades and voice ducking sound like a studio broadcast across MP3, Opus, AAC, and lossless FLAC streams. An interactive Library Observatory maps every analyzed track by genre and energy. Runtime-swappable LLM providers (Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, and OpenRouter) and six local or cloud TTS engines keep voices flexible. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Most RSS readers hand you a pile of headlines and make you do the reading; FeedMe reads first and hands you the pile already digested. It aggregates every feed you configure into one clean, ranked stream, and for each article an LLM writes a short summary you can scan in seconds, with the full original text one tab away when a story earns a deeper look. Sources organize into categories like Tech News, Finance News, Personal Blogs, Company Blogs, Open Source, Research, and Podcasts, and a global search finds stories across all of them. The reader never sleeps on stale content: a built-in cron refreshes feeds and regenerates summaries on your schedule (every three hours by default in Docker), so the page you open in the morning already covers the night. Summaries answer to you, not a vendor: point FeedMe at any OpenAI-compatible endpoint and tune the prompt, input truncation, temperature, and token budget, with output in the languages you choose. There are no accounts, no forced logins, and no app to install; the responsive page works on phone and desktop in light or dark themes. Because the whole application is a static site, it stays fast and cheap to run, and the same build can live on GitHub Pages or Vercel if you ever want a public edition next to your private one. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Excerpt-only feeds, truncated teasers, and articles in languages you do not read make RSS feel broken; FeedCraft sits between the source and your reader and fixes the feed itself. Pick from more than twenty single-step crafts: extract the full article text, even from JavaScript-rendered pages through a headless browser, translate titles or whole articles, add AI introductions and summaries, strip ads and clutter, or filter items by keyword, embedding similarity, or a natural-language prompt to your own LLM. Chain crafts into FlowCraft pipelines, so one pass can limit a feed to ten items, fetch every full text, drop the advertorials, and summarize what survives. Save the result as a recipe and FeedCraft hands you a permanent crafted feed URL that drops straight into the reader you already use, while portable mode transforms any feed on the fly from a single crafted URL prefix. When a site has no feed at all, the visual generators build one from a webpage with CSS selectors, from a JSON API with curl import, or straight from search results. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

One statically-compiled Go binary over PostgreSQL, no ORM, no framework, static assets embedded in the executable: Miniflux is the minimalist, opinionated feed reader. The opinions are the feature: page layout, fonts, and colors are tuned for reading, and everything else is treated as noise. It consumes Atom, RSS, and JSON Feed formats with OPML import/export, organizes articles with categories and bookmarks, fetches original full-text content for summary-only feeds, and provides Postgres-powered full-text search. Privacy work happens automatically: pixel trackers are stripped, tracking parameters removed from URLs, a media proxy blocks third-party tracking, referrers are never forwarded, and there is zero telemetry. Navigation is keyboard-first - j/k through items, o to open, f to star - with touch gestures on mobile. Podcast, video, and music enclosures are supported, and YouTube videos play inline. Over 25 integrations save articles onward to Wallabag, Readwise Reader, Pinboard, Linkding, Instapaper, Notion, Telegram, Matrix, Ntfy, and more, plus webhooks and a REST API with Go and Python clients; the Google Reader API endpoint supports existing mobile reader apps. Authentication spans local passwords, passkeys (WebAuthn), Google OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and reverse-proxy headers. It is Apache 2.0 licensed, translated into 20 languages, and updates feeds on an internal scheduler.

Where Miniflux strips reading down, FreshRSS gives you knobs - the feature-rich pole of self-hosted RSS, comfortable with thousands of feeds. It's a multi-user PHP aggregator (host family and friends on one instance, with an anonymous reading mode) with the reading workflow refined over a decade: favorites, custom tags, powerful filter and search queries, three reading views, and statistics that reveal each site's publishing frequency - useful for pruning subscriptions. Two properties make it the standard choice. First, the Google Reader-compatible API (plus a Fever API) syncs with virtually every serious RSS client - Reeder, NetNewsWire, ReadYou, FeedMe, Fluent Reader - so your phone reads from your server. Second, native WebSub support means compatible sources (WordPress, Blogger, Medium, Friendica) push new articles instantly instead of waiting for polling. A 50+ extension ecosystem adds what truncated feeds omit - full-text content fetching, reading-time estimates, trending views, auto-unsubscribe for dead feeds - alongside community themes and custom CSS. OPML import/export keeps subscriptions portable, a CLI handles administration, and article sharing posts to many services. AGPL-licensed, running on SQLite, MySQL, or PostgreSQL. Feedly Pro's feature set, minus Feedly's subscription and its algorithms.

Subscribe to a feed and Oksskolten fetches the complete text of every new article, cleans it, and files it as Markdown in a library you can read without leaving the app. About 500 cleanup patterns strip ads, navigation, and tracking, with no per-feed toggles or selectors to maintain. No feed on the site? Auto-discovery goes first, then RSS Bridge, then LLM-inferred CSS selectors, while FlareSolverr gets past bot protection. Every feed is checked on its own schedule, somewhere between every 15 minutes and every 4 hours. Inbox, Read Later, Liked, and Read views keep the queue tidy. Clip any URL as a standalone article. Likes and bookmarks feed an engagement score that shapes search ranking and recommendations. One click summarizes or translates an article through Anthropic, Gemini, OpenAI, Ollama, or vLLM, with Google Translate and DeepL as translation engines. Ask the chat questions about your archive, or point Claude Code or Codex at the built-in MCP server to use the same tools. Search forgives typos and covers every stored article. Login works with a password, a passkey, or GitHub. Pick from four layouts and fourteen color themes, import custom themes as JSON, rebind keyboard shortcuts, and keep reading offline as a progressive web app. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.