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 4.8.0 changelog:
Added
- Support for Gemini protocol and gemtext markup files. (#1550)
- It is now possible to pause feed fetching. (#970)
- Reddit URLs are now parsed during feed discovery and found feed links are processed. (#1530)
- YouTube URLs are now parsed during feed discovery and found feed links are processed. (#1532)
- Click article icon in article list now switches read/unread state, the same way as clicking "starred" icon works. (#1521)
- Some RTL-related things were added. (#1371)
- User can now manually specify custom HTTP headers to be sent when fetching individual feeds. (f1d5c7d)
- Sounds of notifications can now be individually switched off. (6fa233f)
- Image caching in built-in LITE web viewer now takes image size into account, thus providing better scaling and visual UX. (4e698c9)
- In "Discover feeds" dialog, when mouse hovering above found feeds, more info is shown in tooltips. (5664b39)
Fixed
- Compilation with MinGW compiler is now working without problems. Also MSYS2-FHS-related changes were applied. (#1540)
- Reduce number of duplicate feeds found in "Discover feeds" feature. (793cbcb, 78dc97f)
Download: RSS Guard 4.8.0 (64-bit) | 162.0 MB (Open Source)
Link: RSS Guard Home Page | Other Operating Systems