RSS Guard is a simple, light and easy-to-use RSS/ATOM feed aggregator developed using the Qt framework. The program supports online feed synchronization.
The software is released under an open source license.
RSS Guard is looking for a new leading developer/maintainer.
Key Features
- Accounts supported: Gmail, Inoreader, NextCloud News, Tiny Tiny RSS, and standard online feeds (RSS, RDF and ATOM). All cached online service data are synchronously saved when any feed is updated.
- Newspaper view.
- Tabbed interface.
- Various styles, icon themes, and skins are available.
- Message filter with regular expressions.
- Feed metadata fetching including icons.
- Supports SQLite and MySQL/MariaDB.
- Enhanced feed auto-updating with separate time intervals,
- Backup database.
- Full screen mode.
- Ad-Block feature for internal web browser. It’s based on Qt examples and QupZilla.
- Downloader with own tab and support for up to 6 parallel downloads.
- Integrated web browser with adjustable behavior, text searching, and external browser support.
- Option to launch the application on operating system startup.
- Keyboard shortcuts.
- Import/export of feeds to/from OPML 2.0.
- Recycle bin.
- Desktop integration via tray icon.
- Feed authentication (Digest-MD5, BASIC, NTLM-2).
- Support for arbitrary external tools.
- Feed updates are parallelized.
- Internationalization support – translations available for Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian.
- Available as an AppImage.
Website: github.com/martinrotter/rssguard
Support: Documentation
Developer: Martin Rotter and many contributors
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
RSS Guard is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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