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 4.5.0 changelog:
Added
- List of article filters assigned to feed is now visible in feed details pane. (#1045)
- Right-to-left optional layout for feeds/articles. You can switch this in each feed properties.
- Gmail: Labels are now fetched from the service too and they are synchronizable.
- New feature called "regex queries" allowing users to have (persistent) regular expression based article list filters. See your feed list for "Regex queries" item and right click to add one.
- "reader mode" feature now uses skin-based format & colors.
- All features which generate random colors now use better HSV-based algorithm.
- Added application-wide and feed-wide ability to limit articles based on article date/time. This can be changed in application settings in "Feed fetching" section and in feed properties dialog in "Articles" section.
- JavaScript code of article filters now has syntax highlighting.
- Use non-standard "url" element as fallback for article URLs in RSS format.
- Percentages of localization progres for each translation is now shown in "Localization" settings section.
- "clang-format" updated.
- User CSS styles can now be supplied via file /web/user-styles.css.
- When fetching metadata during OPML import, there is now option to NOT fetch icons. (#1009)
Fixed
- Icons in feed list are now correctly vertically centered. (#999)
- Fixes related to word-wrap of long texts in article list and feed details pane. (#1033)
- Multi-column sorting is now correctly persistent. (#1039)
- Fixed a problem where article filters are sometimes not applied correctly when feed is fetched.
- Skin"s pallete (dark) are now applied depending on slightly enhanced logic.
- Skin"s custom colors are now applied depending on slightly enhanced logic.
- HTTP redirection was not working sometimes, breaking some feeds.
- Docs updated.
- Feedly: Fix errors when some feeds did not have titles.
- Almost all localizations refreshed.
- Fixed multiple crashes.
- Correctly show numeric badge on Windows if RSS Guard starts in tray/minimized mode.
Download: RSS Guard 4.5.0 (64-bit) | 90.9 MB (Open Source)
Link: RSS Guard Home Page | Other Operating Systems