RSS Guard 5.0.4

RSS Guard is a simple (yet powerful) feed reader. It is able to fetch the most known feed formats, including RSS/RDF and ATOM.

Razvan Serea News Reporter Neowin · Mar 13, 2026 11:04 EDT with 0 comments

RSS Guard

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 5.0.4 changelog:

Added

Hiding article counts is now optional for labels and important articles. (#2111)
Articles are automatically marked as ready when opened in external browser or new internal tab. (#2090)
Updated default Accept headers according to feed type and also updated default User-Agent header. (#2122)
Official AppImages now should support delta-updates. (#2138)
Nextcloud plugin now uses version 1.3 of the API.

Fixed

Custom external browser was sometimes ignored. (#2102)
Search icon was low-quality. (#2104)
Some article list filtering options were not working. (#2106)
Article-extractor now respects custom feed HTTP headers and proxy settings. (#2108)
Configurable alignment of article counts in feed list now properly vertically aligns to center.
Some QoL updates for the installer.
Article previewer now also supports dragging of text. Note that dragging of URLs and text can only be done with middle mouse button/wheel press.
Article-extractor was completely missing from installers. Jesus. (#2121)
Sort order was not properly remembered for some columns. (#2127)
Some images were distorted in internal article browser. (#2128)
Expanding of items in feed list was bit fixed, particularly when filtering with some search phrase.
Some fixes for QuiteRSS import. (#2119)