RSS Guard is simple (yet powerful) feed reader. It is able to fetch the most known feed formats, including RSS/RDF and ATOM. RSS Guard is developed on top of the Qt library and it supports these operating systems:
- Windows Vista and newer,
- GNU/Linux,
- Mac OS X,
- Android (buildable and running).
RSS Guard is written in C++. It is pretty fast even with tons of messages loaded. The core features are:
- support for online feed synchronization via plugins,
- Tiny Tiny RSS (from RSS Guard 3.0.0),
- ownCloud News (from RSS Guard 3.1.0),
- Inoreader (from RSS Guard 3.5.0),
- Gmail with e-mail sending (incoming).
- multiplatformity,
- support for all feed formats,
- simple internal Chromium-based web viewer (or alternative version with simpler and more lightweight internal viewer),
- 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,
- very fast parallelized feed updates,
- feed metadata fetching including icons,
- no crazy dependencies,
- ability to cleanup internal message database with various options,
- ability to tweak columns in displayed list of messages,
- enhanced feed auto-updating with separate time intervals,
- multiple data backend support,
- SQLite (in-memory DBs too),
- MySQL.
- ability 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,
- full support of podcasts (both RSS & ATOM),
- ability to backup/restore database or settings,
- fully-featured recycle bin,
- can be controlled via keyboard,
- feed authentication (BASIC),
- 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,
- Feanza-based default icon themes,
- fully skinnable user interface + ability to create your own skins,
- newspaper view,
- 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,
- 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.
What’s New:
Added:
- Dialog for message filters management now allows you to:
- Preview your message filter by running it against COPIES of stored messages. (#266)
- Run your message filter against ORIGINALS of already stored messages. (#261)
- Create message filters based on single message data. (#278)
- Toolbars in message previewer now can be hidden. (#333)
- Number of unread messages seen in tray icon can now be disabled. (#328)
Fixed/changed:
- “Edit feed” dialog was rewritten and made modular so that it fits better all plugins. (#287)
- Users now can tweak auto-update policies for feeds of all account types. (#287)
- Tweaked logic of loading feed’s messages to make it all work with some broken feeds (Vimeo). (#309)
- RSS Guard now prefers to use desktop environment’s icon on Linux.
- Make loading of feed’s icons work better. (#310)
- Fixed repeated overwriting of same message downloaded from Nextcloud News server. (#329)
- Feed sorting is correctly case insensitive. (#319)
- Cached message states are now far more reliably pushed back to server. (#325)