RSS Guard

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

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

    support for online feed synchronization via plugins,
    • Tiny Tiny RSS (RSS Guard 3.0.0+),
    • Nextcloud News (RSS Guard 3.1.0+),
    • Inoreader (RSS Guard 3.5.0+),
    • Gmail with e-mail sending (RSS Guard 3.7.1+).

    core:
    • support for all feed formats (RSS/RDF/ATOM/JSON),
    • full support of podcasts (RSS/ATOM/JSON),
    • import/export of feeds to/from OPML 2.0,
    • possibility of using custom 3rd-party feed synchronization services,
    • feed metadata fetching including icons,
    • simple internal Chromium-based web viewer (or alternative version with simpler and much more lightweight internal viewer),
    • scriptable message filtering,
    • downloader with own tab and support for up to 6 parallel downloads,
    • ability to cleanup internal message database with various options,
    • enhanced feed auto-updating with separate time intervals,
    • "portable" mode support with clever auto-detection,
    • feed categorization,
    • feed authentication (BASIC),
    • handles tons of messages & feeds,
    • ability to backup/restore database or settings,
    • fully-featured recycle bin,
    • multiple data backend support: SQLite (in-memory DBs too), MySQL,
    • ability to specify target database by its name (MySQL backend),
    • support for feed:// URI scheme.

    user interface:
    • message list filter with regular expressions,
    • drag-n-drop for feed list,
    • able to show unread feeds/messages only,
    • can be controlled via keyboard,
    • fully adjustable toolbars (changeable buttons and style),
    • hideable main menu, toolbars and list headers,
    • bundled icon themes (Numix & Papirus),
    • fully skinable user interface + ability to create your own skins,
    • newspaper view,
    • tabbed interface,
    • ability to hide list of feeds/categories,
    • desktop integration via tray icon,
    • localizations to some languages,
    • ability to tweak columns in displayed list of messages.
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    RSS Guard

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    Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about RSS Guard, and it has gotten 19 likes

    • Developed by Martin Rotter
    • Open Source and Free product.
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    RSS Guard was added to AlternativeTo by Kahlil88 on Mar 21, 2013 and this page was last updated Dec 4, 2020. RSS Guard is sometimes referred to as RSSG.

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    Comment • over 2 years ago • 1 reply
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    RSS Guard is currently looking for a new developer as the founder has lost interest. Proceed with caution.

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    Not true, anymore. I am still leading RSS Guard to glory and I will for years coming.

    Reply written 5 months ago

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    X-platform, often updated, simple but with advanced features, fast.
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    • inoreader
    • news-reader
    • atom
    • News
    • gmail-client
    • inoreader-client
    • tiny-tiny-rss-client
    • scriptable-message-filtering
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    RSS Guard

    Summary and Relevance

    Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about RSS Guard, and it has gotten 19 likes

    • Developed by Martin Rotter
    • Open Source and Free product.
    • 217 alternatives listed

    Popular alternatives

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    RSS Guard was added to AlternativeTo by Kahlil88 on Mar 21, 2013 and this page was last updated Dec 4, 2020. RSS Guard is sometimes referred to as RSSG.

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