RSS Guard is an open-source cross-platform multi-protocol desktop feed reader. It is able to fetch feeds in RSS/RDF/ATOM/JSON formats. RSS Guard is developed on top of the Qt library.
RSS Guard is a cross-platform application, and at this point it is known to work on:
- Windows 7+
- GNU/Linux (including PinePhone and other Linux-based phone operating systems)
- BSD (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc.)
- macOS 10.13+
- OS/2 (ArcaOS, eComStation)
Supports online feed synchronization with these services:
- Tiny Tiny RSS,
- Inoreader,
- Nextcloud News,
- Gmail API,
- FreshRSS,
- The Old Reader,
- Bazqux,
- Reedah,
- Feedly.
RSS Guard is written in C++. It is pretty fast even with tons of messages loaded. The core features are:
- 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:
- Existing read/unread state is respected when some article gets "updated" (infamously happens for YouTube feeds). (#1279)
- NSIS installer was bit tweaked to warn about MSVC runtime. (#1306)
- iCalendar files (*.ics, *.ical) are now supported. Note that the support is rather basic.
- Added more ways of limitting amount of articles in each feed. (#1270, #1267)
- Added way to use old legacy article formatting in "lite" version. (#1286)
- New way of fetching articles - new "Source" -> "Built-in web browser with JavaScript support" which allows user to use built-in Chromium-based network stack to fetch feeds and other data. It allows even fetching of majority of JavaScript-powered websites. (#1313)
- More date/time strings for parsing some dates and times in articles.
- "Title" column in article list is not directly resizable too. Last visible column auto-stretches to fit remaining space. (#1319)
Fixed:
- Fix freezing when feed uses crazy crazy loooong URL.
- Fix crash when forwarding e-mail via Gmail plugin.
- Add forgotten restriction when cleaning data. (a975714)
- ETag conditional loading of feeds was semi-broken. (#1314, #1296)
- All Unicode characters in feed URLs are now supported. (#1310)
- Reader mode was changing content for all opened browser tabs. (#1300)
- Some articles were displayed with broken HTML. (#1293)
- Size/position of all windows (including modal dialogs) is now guarded to not be out-of-screen-bounds. (#1281)
- No more crashes when adding some discovered feeds. (#1280)
- Main window pesky splitters saved with 0 position. (#1271)