RSS Guard

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 XP and newer,
• GNU/Linux,
• OS/2 (eComStation),
• Mac OS X,
• xBSD (possibly),
• other platforms supported by Qt.

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,
• simplicity,
• feed metadata fetching,
• multiple data backend support (SQLite + MySQL),
• “portable” mode support,
• feed categorization,
• feed authentication (Digest-MD5, BASIC, NTLM-2),
• handles tons of messages,
• sweet look & feel,
• KFeanza-based default icon theme + ability to create your own icon themes,
• fully skinnable user interface + ability to create your own skins,
• “newspaper” view,
• ability to hide list of feeds/categories,
• open-source development model based on GNU GPL license, version 3,
• tabbed interface,
• integrated web browser + external browser support,
• desktop integration via tray icon,
• Qt library is the only dependency,
• no ads, no hidden costs.

Installation

You need to compile RSS Guard if binary distribution is not available for your platform. Basic steps are really simple:

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="C:\Program Files\rssguard"
make install

This compiles and installs RSS Guard using Qt 4 on Windows machines. Qt 5 can be used too.