RSS Guard

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

RSS Guard is simple, light 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),
  • ownCloud News (from RSS Guard 3.1.0).
• multiplatformity,
• multiple data backend support.
  • SQLite (in-memory DBs too),
  • MySQL.

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

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Contacts

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

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Donate

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

People who donated:

• Zdenek S. (Sweden)
• Eloi Garibaldi B.
• Jacob S.

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

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Feeds & Videos

• video channel at YouTube,
• RSS channel at Google Groups,
• RSS channel at BitBucket,
• screenshots.

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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.

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Downloads

Windows

• official downloads.
• alternative downloads

Linux

• stable releases,
• development releases,

• alternative downloads:
  • Archlinux AUR packages - stable.

Note that packages from OBS are not meant to be used in production. Rely on "official" packages for you Linux distro made by your Linux distro maintainers.

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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,
• 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),
  • ownCloud News (from RSS Guard 3.1.0).
• 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,
• no crazy dependencies,
• small memory footprint,
• small installation package,
• 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,
• full support of podcasts (both RSS & ATOM),
• ability to backup/restore database or settings,
• fully-featured recycle bin,
• 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,
• 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.

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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.