RSS Guard is a customizable, skinnable feed reader with a tabbed interface. It can fetch the most known feed formats, including RSS/RDF and ATOM and store them in a nested list, keyboard shortcuts, notification settings, gesture support and more.
Only available for 64-bit Windows. Cross-platform, supporting a wide array of operating systems (Linux, OS X, *BSD, and more).
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Runs on: | Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Dependencies: | All custom dependencies are packed in the archive. If user wants to use MySQL backend, then he/she has to have MySQL server running. |
Stealth: ? | No |
Unicode support: | Yes |
Path portability: | Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc) |
License: | GNU GPLv3 |
How to extract: |
Download the 7z package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch rssguard.exe. Optionally, delete unnecessary translations to save space. |
Similar/alternative apps: | QuiteRSS, GreatNews, FeedReader, NFReader |
What's new? | See: https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/releases |
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rbon
on 2019-08-19 16:52
I suggest specifying that the file to download to get the portable version is:
kowcop
on 2023-01-13 17:06
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Has anyone found a way to auto mark feeds or articles as read? In most other readers, there is an option to mark as read when you navigate away from the feed |
SideSlide is a desktop extension that docks to any screen edge. It allows you to store your favorite RSS feeds, shortcuts to files/folders/URLs, notes, reminders etc. in "containers" that you can arrange, shrink and fold in the workspace. You can also drag-and-drop text/images from your web browser to the workspace to create web snippets.
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Runs on: | Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Path portability: | Automatic compensation for dynamic drive letter in removable storage devices |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the "Portable version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch SideSlide.exe. |
What's new? | See: https://northglide.com/sideslide_changelog.html |
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hamasaki
on 2021-12-21 06:21
The latest update has killed it. At least on Win 11. It just crashes on start.
pkl9kpl
on 2022-02-24 09:23
the same -it crashes on W7
normeus
on 2022-03-28 00:47
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New version fixes problem of crashing on startup when you have an odd text zoom; I had 110% and now it does not crash. |
Desktop Ticker is a web feed aggregator program that is RSS and Atom-compatible, allowing you to keep an eye on the latest news from your favorite websites.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Dependencies: | Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0+ |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch DesktopTicker.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | RSS Guard |
What's new? | See: http://www.battware.co.uk/desktopticker_changelog_win.htm |
QuiteRSS is an RSS/Atom news feeds reader with an easy-to-use, multi-tabbed layout and embedded browser. The program includes the ability to tag feeds with different labels, share via social networks, perform search operations, delete the selected news, as well as import/export feeds (OPML-files). Views are filtered by date, unread, read, or starred items.
The program has a Webkit core that includes Adblock and ClickToFlash (manual Flash controls).
Cross-platform with clients available for Mac, Linux and BSD. Alternatively, QuiteRSS Portable is also available.
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Runs on: | Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | GNU GPLv3 |
How to extract: | Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch QuiteRSS.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | RSS Guard |
What's new? |
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wagner reatto
on 2017-01-02 12:18
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Excellent app, very easy to set up. I use it instead of feedly now. |
NFReader is a simple newsfeed reader with text or HTML view, ability to minimize to tray, and open news items in a default or specified browser. Supports RSS, Atom and RDF, as well as import/export of OPML files.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | No |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the RAR package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch NFReader.exe. |
What's new? |
Last known official changelog:
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Anonymous
on 2010-11-17 16:54
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I really dislike the way it forces you to only update feeds every 15 mins, and keeps nagging to set the update period to an hour. I follow many feeds which update quickly and 15 mins simply isn't fast enough. Apart from that, I'd give this program 5 stars but as it is, I give it 3 stars |
Feed Notifier displays pop-up notifications when new items arrive in your subscribed RSS or Atom news feeds. Functions from the system tray.
NOTE: Site is gone, linking to Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | BSD 3-Clause License |
How to extract: | Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch notifier.exe. |
What's new? |
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olliebean
on 2020-12-25 17:39
Further to my previous comment, the portable (.zip) download is still available from http://web.archive.org/web/20190722032722/https://www.feednotifier.com/download/
Nh
on 2020-12-28 01:48
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The version from archive.org has issues (see https://github.com/fogleman/FeedNotifier/issues/98). |
FeedRoller is a lightweight RSS and Twitter feed ticker that shows scrolling headlines from your favorite news sites, blogs and twitter accounts, directly on your desktop.
Written in AutoHotkey.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Partial |
Path portability: | Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc) |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the portable ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch FeedRoller.exe. |
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ciken
on 2010-05-10 06:41
nice, hope there will be feature to not display the feed that already shown
ikke
on 2010-09-27 22:20
Too bad, twitter support is removed for now due to changes on the twitter site. I did like that function very much and I hope the author can restore that.
Gemini Apollo Gomez
on 2013-03-30 15:29
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Alternatively, FeedRoller Portable |
GreatNews is a RSS feed reader with a special "full page" mode for easier browsing. In full page mode, news articles are assembled into a single page that displays both headlines and excerpts. You can change the number of articles per page, as well as the display style. Other features include New Watches (list all articles with matching keywords), Labels (list all articles with matching labels) and Search Channels (from Yahoo Company News, Feedster, MSN and Flickr).
NOTE: Site is down, linking to Internet Archive.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch GreatNews.exe. |
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nikkho
on 2017-10-26 17:19
Download links: https://sourceforge.net/projects/nikkhokkho/files/GreatNews/
webfork
on 2019-10-25 09:46
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@hamasaki: I retested both today and they seem to be working fine. Hopefully it was just a brief outage |
ssRSS (Super Simple RSS) is an RSS generation tool with basic functionality. It supports most of the important fields and can create feeds from scratch and load them later for editing.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | None |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | No |
License: | GPL |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch SSRSS.EXE. |
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freakazoid
on 2010-04-11 18:25
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This could be incredibly useful if the program allowed us to specify custom RSS fields (eg. enclosure, itunes) |
Fact200 is an Internet research tool that helps you find, browse and store information returned from search engines and various news sources. It is capable of prefetching result links and generating thumbnail previews so that you can view them quickly in tiled or slideshow mode. You can also store interesting web pages into a library where they are indexed and searchable.
NOTE: Main site offline -- linking to archive.org.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | No |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
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timch65
on 2009-09-18 19:30
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I installed it jsut as the instructions state, I also added a file called 'prefs.ini' just like the instructions state HOWEVER, the program doesn't write ANYTHING to the prefs.ini Instead, it still writes to the appdata\roaming folder on the C: drive. |