Software · Internet & communication

RSS Guard

RSS Guard is an RSS reader, available on Windows and Linux.

Completely free
Windows and Linux
Open source
No account

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Technical details

Pricing: Completely freeconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager), Flathub
License: GPL-3.0 — Open source (copyleft)confirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager), Flathub
Open source: Yes
Commercial use: Yesconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager), Flathub
Account required: Noconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Credit card required: Noconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager), Flathub
Watermark: Not applicable
Ads: not documented
Platforms: Windows and LinuxEstablished by Linux: Flathub · Windows: Winget
Publisher: Martin Rotter
Latest version: 5.2.5 (20 August 2026)
Latest activity: 6 November 2026
Source code: github.com/martinrotter/rssguard

At a glance

All of RSS Guard is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

Open source code
No account needed
Commercial use allowed

About

RSS Guard is a news feed reader, written in C++ and Qt. It supports many feed formats, such as: ATOM JSON (1.x) RSS (0.x, 1.x, 2.x) It also supports many web-based feed services, including: Feedly Gmail Google Reader API (Bazqux, FreshRSS, Inoreader, Miniflux, Reedah, The Old Reader, etc.) Next Cloud News Tiny Tiny RSS XMPP PubSub Gemini Protocol

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 10 November 2026
Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 7 November 2026
Last technical check: 6 November 2026
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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