RSS Guard

What is RSS Guard?

RSS Guard is a simple, lightweight, and user-friendly RSS/ATOM feed aggregator developed using the Qt framework. It supports online feed synchronization, allowing users to access their feeds across multiple devices. This versatile application offers a range of features to enhance the feed-reading experience

Highlights

• Support for online feed synchronization via plugins, including Tiny Tiny RSS, Nextcloud News, Inoreader, and Gmail with email sending
• Compatibility with all feed formats (RSS/RDF/ATOM/JSON) and full support for podcasts
• Import/export of feeds to/from OPML 2.0, and the ability to use custom third-party feed synchronization services
• Fetch feed metadata, including icons, and provide a simple internal Chromium-based web viewer or a lightweight alternative viewer
• Scriptable message filtering, a dedicated downloader tab with support for up to 6 parallel downloads, and options to clean up the internal message database
• Enhanced feed auto-updating with separate time intervals, "portable" mode support, feed categorization, and feed authentication (BASIC)
• Ability to handle a large number of messages and feeds, backup/restore database or settings, and utilize a fully-featured recycle bin
• Support for multiple data backends, including SQLite (in-memory DBs too) and MySQL, with the ability to specify the target database by name (MySQL backend)
• Integration with the feed:// URI scheme
• The user interface offers a range of features, including message list filtering with regular expressions, drag-and-drop for the feed list, the ability to show unread feeds/messages only, keyboard control, fully adjustable toolbars, hideable main menu and list headers, bundled icon themes, a fully skinnable interface, a newspaper view, a tabbed interface, desktop integration via a tray icon, localization to various languages, and the ability to customize the columns in the message list display.