RSS Guard 3.5.0

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:

  • support for online feed synchronization via plugins,
  • Tiny Tiny RSS (from RSS Guard 3.0.0).
  • multiplatform,
  • support for all feed formats,
  • simplicity,
  • import/export of feeds to/from OPML 2.0,
  • downloader with own tab and support for up to 6 parallel downloads,
  • message filter with regular expressions,
  • feed metadata fetching including icons,
  • simple Adblock functionality,
  • customized popup notifications,
  • Google-based auto-completion for internal web browser location bar,
  • ability to cleanup internal message database with various options,
  • enhanced feed auto-updating with separate time intervals,
  • multiple data backend support,
  • SQLite (in-memory DBs too),
  • MySQL.
  • is able to specify target database by its name (MySQL backend),
  • “portable” mode support with clever auto-detection,
  • feed categorization,
  • drap-n-drop for feed list,
  • automatic checking for updates,
  • ability to discover existing feeds on websites,
  • full support of podcasts (both RSS & ATOM),
  • ability to backup/restore database or settings,
  • fully-featured recycle bin,
  • printing of messages and any web pages,
  • 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.

Changes in RSS Guard v3.5.0:

Added

  • All application resources (skins, icons, ...) are now compiled into the executable file. This allows for easier deployment.
  • "Add account" dialog is displayed when app is launched and no accounts exist so far.
  • New plugin for Inoreader. This is supported only in full RSS Guard "web-engine" version, because of web OAuth 2.0. The new plugins is in EXPERIMENTAL phase, expect errors and report them.
  • NextCloud plugin now allows to persistently set max number of messages to get downloaded per feed.
  • Added support for arbitrary external tools (settings category "Web browser & e-mail & proxy") which can open URLs of selected messages.
  • Standard account is now automatically added if RSS Guard is started with empty database.
  • Menu action "Select next unread message" in "Messages" menu now works across all feeds, so user can navigate through all unread messages with a sigle keyboard shortcut.
  • Added two bindable menu actions (in menu "Web browser & tabs") which allow to cycle among tabs.

Fixed

  • Fixed build on some Unit-like operating systems.

Download: RSS Guard 3.5.0 (64-bit) | Portable | ~50.0 MB (Open Source)
Link: RSS Guard Home Page

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