RSS Guard is a simple (yet powerful) feed reader. It is able to fetch the most known feed formats, including RSS/RDF and ATOM. It"s free, it"s open-source. RSS Guard currently supports Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian. RSS Guard will never depend on other services - this includes online news aggregators like Feedly, The Old Reader and others. RSS Guard is developed on top of the Qt library and it supports these operating systems:
- Windows XP and newer
- GNU/Linux
- OS/2 (eComStation)
- Mac OS X
- xBSD (possibly)
- Android (possibly)
- other platforms supported by Qt
The core features of RSS Guard are:
- multiplatform
- support for all feed formats
- simplicity
- import/export of feeds to/from OPML 2.0
- message filter with regular expressions
- feed metadata fetching including icons
- enhanced feed auto-updating with separate time intervals
- multiple data backend support SQLite (in-memory DBs too), MySQL.
- “portable” mode support with clever auto-detection,
- feed categorization,
- fully-featured recycle bin,
- can be fully controlled via keyboard,
- feed authentication (Digest-MD5, BASIC, NTLM-2),
- handles tons of messages & feeds,
- sweet look & feel,
- fully adjustable toolbars (changeable buttons and style),
- ability to check for updates on all platforms + self-updating on Windows,
- hideable main menu, toolbars and list headers,
- KFeanza-based default icon theme + ability to create your own icon themes,
- fully skinnable user interface + ability to create your own skins,
- “newspaper” view,
- plenty of skins,
- support for "feed://" URI scheme,
- ability to hide list of feeds/categories,
- open-source development model based on GNU GPL license, version 3,
- tabbed interface,
- integrated web browser with adjustable behavior + external browser support,
- internal web browser mouse gestures support,
- desktop integration via tray icon,
- localizations to some languages,
- Qt library is the only dependency,
- open-source development model and friendly author waiting for your feedback,
- no ads, no hidden costs.
RSS Guard 2.0.0.4 changelog:
Fixed
- Database is now correctly restored when using SQLite memory databases.
- When items are deleted from recycle bin then they are kept in DB and marked as "permanently deleted" (bug #95).
Changed
- Layout orientation of message list/viewer is now changeable via "View" menu (bug report #98).
- Sort order/column in message list is now persistent (bug #97).
- Inline searching in feed/message list is now case insensitive and more polished (bug report #84).
- Items in feed list (categories and feeds) now can be re-arranged via drag-drop functionality (issue report #91).
- Tray icon now displays blue number of unread messages if any of those messages is newly downloaded from online feed (enhancement #87).
- Fixed issue request #95: items are now permanently hidden (not deleted from database) when "deleted" from recycle bin.
- Issue request #95: moreover custom incremental ability to update database schema was added to keep RSS Guard 2.0.0.4+ fully compatible with previous releases. Incremental algorithm supports both database backends.
Download: RSS Guard 2.0.0.4 | 10.3 MB (Open Source)
Download: Portable RSS Guard 2.0.0.4 | 8.9 MB
Download: RSS Guard for other Operating Systems
Link: RSS Guard Home Page