
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 Vista and newer,
- GNU/Linux,
- Mac OS X,
- Android (buildable and running).
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:
- Feedly support. (#105)
- https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/blob/master/resources/docs/Documentation.md#feedly
- Google Reader API support, tested with many services like The Old Reader, Bazqux, Reedah, FreshRSS. (#349)
- https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/blob/master/resources/docs/Documentation.md#google-reader-api
- Liferea-like Website scraping and feed post-processing. (#265)
- https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/blob/master/resources/docs/Feed-formats.md#websites-scraping-and-related-advanced-features
- Internal web browser now offers a button which opens loaded webpage in external web browser. (#320)
- Per account proxy support. (#334)
- RSS Guard ported to OS/2 (ArcaOS, eComStation).
- Display feed’s icon in “is read” message list column. This is switchable in settings. (#346)
- User now can sort via “id” column in a numeric way in message list. (#348)
- Minimum interval for feed auto-updates is now 1 minute, not 3 minutes like before. (#355)
- Added some new localizations, “pt_BR” and others. Thank you, translators, for your hard work.
Fixed/changed:
- This CHANGELOG is now written in Markdown.
- Simplified “account” dialogs.
- Use DuckDuckGo online favicon source as fallback when fetching feed icons. (#363)
- Properly disable adding/editing/deleting of synchronized tags/labels on some accounts.
- RSS Guard can now be added to “favorites” on Linux/Gnome. (#340)
- Remove “feed auto-update started” notification.
- Some improvements of network behavior in Inoreader plugin.
- OAuth listeners now has default post “14488”.
- Fix some deployment issues on Windows. (#337)
- Follow HTTP/301 redirection more properly for some feeds. (#341)
- Fixed some weird behaviors of OAuth listener.
- All dirty account’s not synchronized data are now synchronized when editing account.
- All console output now sent to “std:err”. Also new “-n” switch to disable all console outputs.
- Some refactoring for deployment process, build packages now have all names according to RSS Guard installers naming convention.
- Some major refinements for AdBlock which now has:
- fixed of adding of custom rules,
- better UX in some dialogs,
- fully working site-wide blocking with proper error pages,
- working element hiding rules,
- removed some redundant and obsolete code.
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