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RSS Guard Lite

Simple, yet powerful news feed reader (without web browser).

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

RSS Guard Lite is a web browser, available on Linux.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Simple, yet powerful news feed reader (without web browser)” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

RSS Guard Lite is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

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
  • Commercial use allowed

About

RSS Guard Lite 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

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  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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