Royal RSS Reader is a free feed reader for Windows. Using this little tiny RSS feed reader you can read your favorite website posts. It supports RSS 0.91, RSS 0.92, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 and Atom feeds. It comes with Windows notification support. You will get a Windows notification if a new post is found from your feed list.You can minimize the Royal RSS Reader to windows taskbar.
Feeds is a free and open source RSS feed reader for Linux. It is a simple and easy to use feed reader. It is written using Python 3 and GTK+ and released under the GPL3 license. You can filter the articles by feed, save article for offline read, reader mode support. It also comes with full web view and JavaScript enabled option and you can import and export your feed collection from and to OPML file.
Fluent Reader is a free and open source RSS feed reader for Windows, MacOS and Linux. It is based on Electron and React and it is released under open source BSD 3 clause License. The user interface of Fluent reader inspired by Fluent Design System. You can import and export OPML files and Fetch articles in the background. It also comes with full dark theme mode support. You can read the feed locally in your system or sync with Feedbin or self-hosted services compatible with Fever API. Fluent Reader still in beta stage but usable.
RSS Guard is a free and open source feed reader for Linux, Windows and MacOS. It is Qt based and released under open source GNU General Public License v3.0. It is lightweight feed reader. It supports RSS, RDF, ATOM and JSON feed formats. It also comes with build-in gmail plugin to send and receive mails, file downloader to download up to 6 files simultaneously, AdBlocker and command-line support. It comes with two editions with and without WebEngine. WebEngine based version comes with embedded Chromium browser and another one uses text based format to display the content.
In your WordPress site by default, it shows full post content in your RSS feed. It will help your site readers to read your post content via any RSS feed reader. But some times the website scrapers automatically fetch and scrap your post content and copy your full post articles. It will indirectly affect your google ranking. And making full text in your website feed also prevents your website RSS feed readers from visiting your website. It will decrease your website advertisement revenue.
Newsboat is a free and open source RSS and Atom terminal based feed reader for Linux, BSD or Mac OS. It is a fork of popular feed reader Newsbeuter. It is released under open source MIT License. It reads feed from text file and OPML file. In this article, i will show you how to install and use Newsboat on your Ubuntu system.
NewsFlash is a free and open source feed reader for Linux. It is specially designed for GNOME desktop and written in rust. It comes with sync, desktop notification, keyboard shortcuts, tagging and fast search and filtering support. You can also connect your online feed reader account in NewsFlash. Currently it supports feedly, Miniflus, Fever and feedbin. You can also add your local rss feeds here. It also comes with more than 5 build-in themese and dark mode support. You can set the custom fonts and feed update interval.
TICKR is a free open source RSS feed reader software for Linux and Windows. It is based GTK and available in GNU General Public License. It is highly customization feed reader ticker which displays your RSS feed in a ticker bar on your desktop. You can customized the ticker scrolling speed, update delay, ticker fonts, font sizes and colors. Also change the dimensions and location of feed ticker on your desktop. You can also display the text inside a draggable window and clock. Other important features are rss feed bookmark, open feed links with your favorite browser, play, pause, reload the current feed.
RSSOwlnix is a free open source feed reader for Windows, Mac and Linux systems. RSSOwlnix is a fork of RSSOwl a powerful RSS feed application to organize, search and read RSS, RDF & Atom news feeds. According to RSSOwl, it is unmaintained and has several known vulnerabilities. The main features of RSSOwlnix other than RSSOwl are saved searches, google reader sync, notifications, filters, fast fulltext search and a easy to use UI. interface.
Liferea is a free open source feed reader for Linux system. It supports RSS, Atom and OMPL feed formats. Just add your feed/subscription and read it offline. it supports InoReader, TheOldReader and TinyTinyRSS feed reader services. Using this you can sync your feeds between different devices. It also comes with built-in tabbed web browser with Do Not Track preference, hide read feeds and ability to fetch HTML5 and AMP content for feeds that support it.