Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
- Warning
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- PortableApps.com



There are many alternatives to RSSOwl for Linux and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is QuiteRSS, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to RSSOwl and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to RSSOwl are RSS Guard, Liferea, Folo and Akregator.



RSS Guard is simple, light and easy-to-use RSS/ATOM feed aggregator developed using Qt framework which supports online feed synchronization.


Liferea is a web feed reader/news aggregator that brings together all of the content from your favorite subscriptions into a simple interface that makes it easy to organize and browse feeds.




As they say, your thoughts are what you read—and we’ve been consuming noisy feeds for too long! Follow organizes content into one timeline, keeping you updated on what matters, noise-free. Share lists, explore collections, and enjoy distraction-free browsing.




Akregator is a news feed reader. It enables you to follow news sites, blogs and other RSS/Atom-enabled websites without the need to manually check for updates using a web browser. Akregator is designed to be both easy to use and to be powerful enough to read hundreds of news...

RSSOwlnix is a fork of RSSOwl a powerful application to organize, search and read your RSS, RDF & Atom news feeds in a comfortable way. Highlights are saved searches, google reader sync, notifications, filters, fast fulltext search and...


Looking for a simple and open feed reader?
Free, open source, easy to use, Sismics Reader is what you need to keep your feeds under control.
Central
Access all your RSS and Atom feeds in one central easy readable place.
Easy
Sismics Reader can be installed in few steps on al.




Feeds is a desktop RSS reader for Linux. It doesn’t integrate or sync with a cloud-based service, but you can import a list of feeds via an .opml file.




NewsFox is an efficient 3-pane(email) style Atom/RSS feed reader. NewsFox allows you to group your feeds as you wish, read feed content offline, update feeds when you want, 1-click subscribe with the Firefox URL bar icon, and read other feeds while updating.

The RSS for Google Chrome with similar look to Opera's RSS in Opera Mail on Presto engine.



BlogBridge is an open source Java-based feed aggregator.
BlogBridge is aimed for those people who are subscribed to many feeds, including journalists, PR professionals and OPML enthusiasts.
BlogBridge also gives users the option to create an account with the free "BlogBr.

Like RSSOwl, QuiteRSS has options to load the full webpage for each feed item, not just the summary, making it easy to read through a blog, a webcomic, or whatever else. It also has labeling and various other useful features.