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 3.8.0 changelog:
Added:
- New bundled icon theme - Numix (https://numixproject.github.io) (Windows only).
- Numix is now default icon theme.
- Built-in web-base message viewer now uses mini.css (https://minicss.org) instead of Bootstrap. This will make viewing of messages quite faster while being more lightweight.
- Message body now has "auto" reading direction - enhances support for RTL messages.
- JSON feeds (https://www.jsonfeed.org) are now supported.
- Added basic CLI interface, run "rssguard --help" to see its API overview.
- Message view header context menu now uses non-closable menu for column show/hide operations.
- Background color of rows in feed/message list can now be alternated.
- Message titles are now properly sanitized before messages are processed by message filters.
- There is a new documentation (WIP)
Support for labels:
- Labels are even synchronizable for Inoreader and TT-RSS.
- Each message can have assigned multiple labels.
- Feed's view now offers "Labels" folder with handy per-label filtering.
- Labels assigned in message are now even available in message filtering.
- You can assign arbitrary color to each of your labels.
Fixed/changed:
- Correct icons are now downloaded when fetching metadata for RSS/ATOM/JSON feeds.
- Fixed crash when clearing contents of statusbar.
- Translations synchronized.
- Message previwers were completely overhauled to support displaying of (active) labels.
- Codebase of web-based and text-based message previwers was unified, they now share all common code.
- Some fixes for message filtering mechanism.
- Scroll position within message viewer is now remembered if message gets reloaded.
- Text-based message viewer now handles newlines better.
- Fixed OPML export/import for some feeds/categories which could be skipped due to various specific errors.
- Synchronization logic for "feeds" is now more universal, resulting in better behavior when running "Sync in" actions.
- Obsolete Qt-related code removed/replaced.
- Source code does not use hardcoded GUI colors anymore. They are fetched from active skin instead, making some texts more readable and GUI more consistent.
- Fixed various MySQL-related problems and errors which rendered MySQL DB backend unusable for many users.
- Icon themes are not bundled on Linux anymore, RSS Guard fully relies on system-wide themes now.
- Big thanks to ttrss.info for providing Tiny Tiny RSS account for testing.
Download: RSS Guard 3.8.0 (64-bit) | Portable | ~70 MB (Open Source)
Link: RSS Guard Home Page | Other Operating Systems
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