RSS Guard

Welcome to RSS Guard website. You can find here basic information.

RSS Guard is simple and easy-to-use RSS/ATOM feed aggregator developed using Qt framework which supports online feed synchronization.

Core features are:

support for online feed synchronization via plugins,
- Tiny Tiny RSS (from RSS Guard 3.0.0).
multiplatformity,
multiple data backend support,
- SQLite (in-memory DBs too),
- MySQL.
Adblock.

See below for more information about features and other RSS Guard aspects.

Contacts

author's e-mail,
IRC channel at freenode (My nick is #skunkos, I am not available on IRC all day long.).

Donate

You can support RSS Guard with tiny amounts of money via PayPal.

People who donated:

Zdenek S. (Sweden)
Eloi Garibaldi B.

I say "thank you" for all your support, donators.

Feeds & Videos

Thanks to

Elbert Pol - huge contrubutions, including translating and testing in OS/2 environment.
Asen Anastassov - testing, providing great feedback.
eson - rock-solid translation into Sweden language.

Downloads

Windows

all downloads.
alternative downloads

Linux

alternative downloads:
- Archlinux AUR packages - stable-qt5.

Features

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),
Android (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:

support for online feed synchronization via plugins,
- Tiny Tiny RSS (from RSS Guard 3.0.0).
multiplatformity,
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.

Philosophy

RSS Guard tends to be independent software. It's free, it's open-source. RSS Guard accepts donations but only to SUPPORT its development.

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