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
- 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.
RSS Guard 4.4.0 changelog:
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Added
- Read/unread state is now also shown by coloured dot in article list, inspired by similar feature of QuiteRSS. The behavior is switchable in settings. (#948)
- Details of selected feed list item are now enhanced with new information. (#962)
- Item (feed) ID is now visible in item details and in tooltips of feed list. (#965)
- "nudus" skin is bit tweaked. (#942)
- Added option to reorganize any folder in feed list alphabetically even in manual sorting mode. (#918)
- Added shortcuts to scroll article up/down. (#408)
- Added global option to open all hyperlinks by default in external web browser. (#386)
- Email editor for Gmail now supports rich-text.
- Added support for very fast feed fetching intervals.
- Added button to clear web cache and storage.
- Added some missing icons.
Fixed
- Application performance is now hugely improved when using big number of labels and/or article filters. There are some possibilities for extra performance fine-tuning which might be addressed in the future. (#952)
- Behavior and visual representation of "article highlighter" and "article list filter" tool buttons is now fixed. (#943)
- Newly created label is now placed in correct sort position in feed list. (#978)
- Fixed html/plain auto-detection for "https://blog.torproject.org/blog/feed". (#979)
- Modal dialogs are also taken into account for feature "do not fetch feeds when main window is unfocused". (#973)
- Hamburger menu did not work in fullscreen mode in some cases. (#953)
- Resizing of feed import dialog is now better. (#945)
- Unwanted application restarts. (#940)
- Main window fade-in effect on Windows OS is now consistent. (#933)
- Many other smaller fixes.
Download: RSS Guard 4.4.0 (64-bit) | 86.9 MB (Open Source)
Link: RSS Guard Home Page | Other Operating Systems