ThinFeeder – tiny RSS / Atom aggregator

Last Updated on October 18, 2022

ThinFeeder is an open source software that aims to provide a cross-platform, powerful and tiny RSS / Atom (currently RSS 0.9x, RSS 1.0 / RDF, RSS 2.0 and Atom 0.3) aggregator for the desktop.

ThinFeeder’s goal is to provide a cross-platform and lightweight feeder. Skins, antialiasing and multi-languages are supported, because news reading needs to be the most pleasant possible.

The software uses minimal resources, and is written in Java.

Features include:

• Basic interface for news aggregation.
• Subscribe to feed.
• Unsubscribe to feed.
• View feed properties.
• View feed items.
• View item properties.
• Remember read / unread items.
• Import OPML.
• Export OPML.
• Refresh feed by user interaction.
• Refresh all feeds by user interaction.
• Basic skin (pre-configured skins) support.
• Multi-language support (initially English and Portuguese-Brazil).
• Anti-aliasing.
• Every information cached on disk (HSQL database).
• Favicons (with enable / disable options).
• Mark all items as read.
• Mark all items as unread.
• Clear feed history.
• Find more RSS sites.
• Launch Browser.

Website: thinfeeder.sourceforge.net
Support: FAQ
Developer: Fabian Franz and contributors
License: GNU GPL

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