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