FreshRSS is currently available in 22 languages. After confirming your choice, the interface will be displayed in your preferred language. Depending on the language chosen, parts of the interface may not be not translated yet. If you’re willing to help translate the missing bits or would like to add a new language, please take a look at how you can contribute to the project.
Some parts of FreshRSS are not translated and are not intended to be translated either. For now, this includes the logs visible in the application as well as the log generated by automatic update scripts.
Available languages are:
| Language (English name) | Language (Endonym) | Ordered by language code (ISO-639-1) |
|---|---|---|
| Czech | Čeština | cs |
| German | Deutsch | de |
| Greek | Ελληνικά | el |
| English | English | en |
| English (United States) | English (United States) | en-US |
| Spanish | Español | es |
| Farsi | فارسی | fa |
| Finnish | Suomi | fi |
| French | Français | fr |
| Hebrew | עברית | he |
| Hungarian | Magyar | hu |
| Indonesian | Bahasa Indonesia | id |
| Italian | Italiano | it |
| Japanese | 日本語 | ja |
| Korean | 한국어 | ko |
| Latvian | Latviešu | lv |
| Dutch | Nederlands | nl |
| Occitan | Occitan | oc |
| Polish | Polski | pl |
| Brazilian Portuguese | Português (Brasil) | pt-BR |
| Portuguese | Português (Portugal) | pt-PT |
| Russian | Русский | ru |
| Slovak | Slovenčina | sk |
| Turkish | Türkçe | tr |
| Ukrainian | Українська | uk |
| Chinese (Simplified, People’s Republic of China) | 简体中文 | zh-CN |
| Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) | 正體中文 | zh-TW |
Note for regional languages, we are following the recommendations of ISO-639-1 and ISO-3166-1 alpha-2.
There’s no accounting for tastes, which is why FreshRSS offers 13 official themes:
| Theme | designed by | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Alternative Dark | Ghost | |
| Ansum | Thomas Guesnon | |
| Mister aiR | Was removed with FreshRSS V1.22.0 | |
| Dark | AD | |
| Dark pink | Miicat_47 | |
| Flat design | Marien Fressinaud | |
| Mapco | Thomas Guesnon | |
| Nord theme | joelchrono12 | |
| Origine | Marien Fressinaud | (default theme) |
| Origine-compact | Kevin Papst | |
| Pafat | Plopoyop | |
| Mister aiR | Was removed with FreshRSS V1.22.0 | |
| Swage | Patrick Crandol |
To select a theme, simply scroll through the themes and select one that strikes your fancy. After confirmation, the theme will be applied to the interface.
If you can’t find any themes you like, it’s always possible to create your own and install it. For small theme changes, the official CustomCSS extension is recommended.
Some people prefer short lines of text, while others prefer to maximize the available screen space. To satisfy the maximum number of people, it’s possible to customize the width of the displayed content. There are four settings available:
Please note that this section only affects normal view.
Each article is rendered with a header (top line) and a footer (bottom line). In that section, you can choose what will be displayed in those.
If you disable every item in the top line, you’ll still be able to see it since it contains the feed name and the article title. But if you do the same thing for the bottom line, it will be empty.
After automatically updating the feeds, FreshRSS can pop up a notification using the HTML5 notification API.
The duration of this notification can be set. By default, the value is 0.
By default, FreshRSS displays buttons to ease the article navigation when browsing on mobile. The drawback is that they eat up some precious space.
If you don’t use those buttons because you never browse on mobile or because you browse with gestures, you can disable them from the interface.
By default, the sidebar is visible when opening FreshRSS. If you prefer to have more reading space on load, you can hide it by default.
When this option is enabled, the sidebar will be hidden at the start of each new session in the normal and reader views. You can still toggle it at any time using the sidebar button in the navigation bar.
This setting defines the number of articles to display at once before needing to load more. In normal and reading view, more articles are loaded automatically. In global view, a button will appear at the bottom of the list.
The status of articles to display when loading FreshRSS. "Adjust showing" will display only unread articles by default, but will display all articles when there are no unread articles to show.
This will set images to load as they are viewed. This can save data, but will can cause images to load in later.
These are the global options for fetching and retaining articles from feeds. They can be overridden by individual feed’s settings.
This allows for purging/optimizing the current user’s articles in the database.
To make your life easier, you can share articles straight from FreshRSS.
At the moment, FreshRSS supports 20+ sharing services, ranging from self-hosted services (Shaarli, etc.) to proprietary services (Facebook, etc.).
By default, the sharing list is empty.

To add a new item to the list, please follow the following simple steps:
✚ button to add it to the list.To remove an item from the list, follow those simple steps:
❌ button next to the share method you want to remove.To ease the use of the application, FreshRSS comes with a lot of predefined keyboard shortcuts. They allow actions to improve the user experience with a keyboard.
Of course, if you’re not satisfied with the key mapping, you can change you configuration to fit your needs.
There are 4 types of shortcuts:
It’s worth noting that the share article action has two levels. Once you press the shortcut, a menu containing all the share options opens. To choose one share option, you need to select it by its number. When there is only one option, it’s selected automatically though.
The same process applies to the user queries.
Be aware that there is no validation on the selected shortcuts. This means that if you assign a shortcut to more than one action, you’ll end up with some unexpected behavior.
You can configure your user queries in that section.
You can change your email address or password here. The authentication token is required for accessing the aggregated RSS feed for a user. A blank token will disable accessing the RSS feed without being logged in.
Extensions can be managed from this menu. Note that while extensions can be removed from the web interface, they cannot be added from it.
Some extensions have configurations and these can be changed in the manage page, which opens with the button near the name of the extension.
It gives ability to create user-specific CSS rules to apply in addition of the actual theme.
The Top Menu within the mobile view might look a little bit cluttered, depending on the theme. The following CSS rules allow to hide unnecessary top menu buttons or input boxes.
@media (max-width: 840px)
{
/* Hides "Actions" Menu in Mobile View */
#nav_menu_actions {
display: none;
}
/* Hides "Views" Menu in Mobile View */
#nav_menu_views {
display: none;
}
/* Hides "Search" Input Box in Mobile View */
.nav_menu .item.search {
display: none;
}
/* Hides the Dropdown Menu Button next to the "Mark all read" Button in Mobile View */
#mark-read-menu .dropdown {
display: none;
}
}
It gives ability to create user-specific JS.
TODO
.htaccess file..htaccess file in the ./i/ subdirectory so the API and other third party services can work.Example .htaccess file for a user "marie":
AuthUserFile /home/marie/repertoire/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "Chez Marie"
AuthType Basic
Require user marie
More information can be found in the Apache documentation.