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RSS Guard

Cross-platform desktop feed reader with plugin support

RSS & News Readers ★ 2.8k stars Easy setup GPL-3.0

RSS Guard is a simple but powerful desktop feed reader supporting RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds. It synchronizes with Tiny Tiny RSS, Nextcloud News, FreshRSS, Google Reader API, and more.

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Key features

  • Supports many sync backends
  • RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds
  • Cross-platform Qt app

Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-3.0 license
  • Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
  • Active community (2.8k GitHub stars)
  • Written in C++

Is RSS Guard secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for RSS Guard's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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