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 5.2.2 changelog:
Added
- Splash screen displayed during application startup can now be enabled in the general settings and is disabled by default. (#2329)
Fixed
- Enhanced contrasts for colors in "minimal-dark" skin. (#2343)
- Unselecting highlighter in article list did not properly propagate the change. (#2342)
- Feed list now correctly applies the restored column and sort order to accounts and feeds loaded during application startup.
- Custom notifications no longer crash when an article-list notification is removed after exceeding the available screen space.
- Article filters no longer crash the application when attempting to remove an attachment with an invalid index.
- Update dialog no longer crashes when the server returns no releases.
- Localization settings no longer crash when translation contributor metadata is empty or malformed.
- Preview scrolling actions no longer crash when a media player tab is active.
- WebEngine callbacks no longer access destroyed browser tabs after asynchronous page operations finish.
- Fix marking articles read with delay. (#2315)
- Starting another RSS Guard instance no longer risks freezing the already running application.
- Closing a tab while a Gemini page is loading no longer risks crashing the application.
- Invalid folder relationships no longer cause RSS Guard to freeze while loading accounts or imported data.
- Accounts can no longer be deleted while their feed tree is being synchronized.
- Fixed a possible crash while synchronizing XMPP chat rooms with missing names.
- Feed saving and importing errors no longer cause the application to crash.
- Feed and folder deletion now uses the correct database connection.
- Article labels are now correctly preserved when importing from QuiteRSS.
- Feed and folder descriptions are now correctly preserved when importing from RSS Guard 4.x.
- Fixed discovery of gzip-compressed sitemap feeds.
- Nextcloud feeds referencing missing folders no longer crash account synchronization.
- Account saving errors no longer cause the application to crash.
- Failed Tiny Tiny RSS synchronization no longer replaces the local feed tree with an empty one.
- Tiny Tiny RSS article attachments now use the correct URL and media type.
- Failed Gmail account synchronization no longer leaves the account permanently busy.
- Forwarding a Gmail message no longer crashes when its details cannot be downloaded.
- GReader-compatible accounts no longer expose sensitive login details in the debug log.
- Release debug logs no longer expose values stored in the database.
- Newly downloaded articles now receive correct database identifiers when using MariaDB.
- Feed updates can now be cancelled more reliably.
- Authentication details are no longer forwarded to other websites during redirects.
Download: RSS Guard 5.2.2 (64-bit) | Portable | ~ 200.0 MB (Open Source)
Link: RSS Guard Home Page | Other Operating Systems | Screenshot
