QuiteRSS
QuiteRSS is a open-source cross-platform RSS/Atom news feeds reader written on Qt/C++
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
- Warning
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- PortableApps.com
The last version (0.19.4) is from March 2022.
Heavily based on QtWebKit, a dependacy deprecated since 2022 due to several critical security issues. QuiteRSS has slowly been abandoned since then.
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
Features
- Portable
- Filtering
- Notifications
- Feed Reader
- Import/Export OPML Feeds
- No registration required
- Multiple languages
- Integrated Web Browser
- Colored tags
- Integrated Search
QuiteRSS News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
POX added QuiteRSS as alternative to Luli Reader
ThunderPhoenix added QuiteRSS as alternative to Feed Fabrik- babsors liked QuiteRSS
endurra_ops added QuiteRSS as alternative to News Coverage
bubudrc added QuiteRSS as alternative to Newsreadeck
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What is QuiteRSS?
QuiteRSS is a open-source cross-platform RSS/Atom news feeds reader written on Qt/C++
Features:
Feed and news filters: new, unread, starred, deleted (for news until restart application) User filters Proxy configuration: automatic or manual Feed import wizard: Search feed URL if site URL was entered Embedded browser (Webkit core) Mark news starred Automatic update feeds: on startup, by timer Automatic cleanup on close using criteria Enable/Disable images in news preview Ability to quickly hide feed tree (for comfortable viewing) Open feed or news in own tab Quick news filter and quick search in browser Sound and/or Popup notification on new news Show new or unread news counter on tray icon Minimize on system tray: on start, on close, on minimize Import/Export feeds (OPML-files) Portable (Windows) Free working set (Windows) Shortcuts Check for updates Cross-platform Multilingual (English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese) Open-source ;)
QuiteRSS information
Developed by
QuiteRSS Team Licensing
Open Source and Free product.Written in
Rating
Average rating of 3.9Alternatives
237 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
AlternativeTo Category
News & BooksGitHub repository
- 1,070 Stars
- 133 Forks
- 441 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Mistakes were made on my part so I'm editing the review to reflect that.
My old review
It worked at first but then all my feeds got deleted along with every option I changed, If I pin the app all my feeds get deleted, if the app crashes all my feeds get deleted and lastly I accidentally hit the sleep key on Windows and you guessed it... All my feeds got deleted!
If that didn't happen I would've loved this app to bits... I'd pay for it since it does everything else so well... But, what's the point if all my feeds get deleted if anything at all happens?
Note
All of the comments above were made while I was using the portable version from portableapps.com. The version on the developer's website does not contain that issue, I thought they were one in the same but that was not the case.
My new review
The app works perfectly once you download the portable version from the creator's website. It has a folder structure, tags, supports Youtube channels (limited by google's RSS policy of only showing the last 15 videos, but you can use a third party feed if you requite the backlog) its behavior is quite customizable down to the sound it makes to alert you of new feeds, to how and where it open the links. It's simple usable and practical
[Edited by monnotorium, August 25]
Crap. Some feeds show error when attempting to open and some others do open but the program hangs when attempting to read articles. No updates for 3 years now, so it's obviously dead and unusable.
The most recent stable release of QuiteRSS was on March 8, 2020 –– 4 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuiteRSS
Wonderful application. Displays news feeds like it should, and is fully configurable. Doesn't require to pay for anything. Doesn't require a subscription. Doesn't require to create an account. Is not a "plugin", it is a real "program". Well done, congrats.
Simple, fast and free, but sometimes unstable. Anyway, it's still my RSS reader out of many many options.
Greatest ever RSS reader with lots of features like tags, filters, custom column sets for each feed or folder, just to name a few. However, there are lots of bugs and the program can freeze almost at any moment. And it seems to be somewhat discontinued since there were no updates in more than a year despite the problems...
A few years ago, I discovered RSS and thought that it would be useful to have feeds of information that I cared about coming in every so often. I went about looking for a suitable RSS feed reader, and the first one I found was QuiteRSS.
I don't consider myself a power user when it comes to RSS stuff. However, for basic usage, QuiteRSS has performed its job sufficiently well, which is why I give it 5 stars. A (nearly) flawless experience with QuiteRSS deserves such a rating. The only bug that I've encountered is that if QuiteRSS is running and I press "Shutdown" on my Linux Mint 19 computer, QuiteRSS will shutdown, but in the meantime will halt the shutdown process of the rest of the computer. Strange bug. I don't experience it on my MX machine. It's probably a configuration error somewhere unrelated to QuiteRSS.
Of the few times I've poked around in its settings, I have seen a variety of features: keeping your feeds organized, controlling the behavior of your RSS fetch requests, and customizing the interface of the program itself, to name a few. I'm sure that if you enjoy fine-tuning your RSS feed reading experience, QuiteRSS will let you do that.