Want to keep up to date with all the latest interesting articles from your favorite websites and don’t want to rely on social media? If that’s the case, you most probably already know about feed readers.
Feed readers are apps that provide you with a quick and easy way to access the feeds of various websites and platforms, as well as allowing you to thoroughly organize them and even save them for future reading.
RSS Guard Lite is one such app, a free and open-source, multi-protocol feed reader that works on all major desktop platforms including Windows, macOS, and Linux.
One of the most important aspects of RSS Guard Lite is that it’s written in C++ and Qt. Generally, apps developed on top of the Qt library are not exactly the most stylish apps out there, and this is also RSS Guard Lite’s case.
The app boasts a typical menubar with a toolbar underneath, and a split view section for the feeds (one that allows you to organize them, and a reader section which displays the articles). You also get various options to customize the app’s behavior and looks in the Settings section, but really nothing to write home about.
We mentioned before that RSS Guard Lite is a multi-protocol desktop feed reader which means that it is able to fetch feeds various formats. These include RSS, RDF, ATOM, and JSON.
Since it works with a plethora of feed formats, it means that RSS Guard Lite works well with most web-based feed services such as Feedly, Gmail, Google Reader API (Bazqux, FreshRSS, Inoreader, Miniflux, Reedah, The Old Reader, and so forth), as well as Next Cloud News, and Tiny Tiny RSS.
RSS Guard Lite is by no means the best feed reader out there and, even though it doesn’t impress in one particular area, it gets the job done nicely.
It provides a simple and approachable GUI, decent format support, as well as a few nice customization option, and all in all, it’s a good and honest little feed reader that can be used by everyone regardless of the preferred OS.
