Downloads & Installation

Downloads

Official place to download RSS Guard is at Github Releases page. You can also download the development (beta) build, which is updated automatically every time the source code is updated (there is like 30 minutes delay because the compilation step takes some time).

RSS Guard is also available in repositories of many Linux distributions, and via Flathub.

The are two different flavors:

  • Regular: Includes an (almost) full-blown integrated web browser (built with -NO_LITE=ON).

  • Lite: Includes simpler, safer (and less memory hungry integrated web browser (built with -NO_LITE=OFF).

I highly recommend to download RSS Guard only from trusted sources.

Installation

Windows

On Windows, there are some ways of installing RSS Guard:

  • Portable-style 7z packages. Simply download, unpack and that’s it.

  • Installer (created with NSIS). These are self-contained, you simply install and you are ready to go. Note that installer is written in very clean way and is meant to behave! When you uninstall with it, it should properly remove all traces (and asks if you want to keep your data). Also, it remembers where you installed RSS Guard so upgrades are easy. Using these installers is likely recommended way.

  • Packages created with Chocolatey. These are nice, but unofficial. They work allright.

Attention

Note that some MSVC runtime libraries are bundled with RSS Guard but sometimes you might get errors like some DLL is missing. If that happens I highly recommend you to install this great All-in-One runtime DLL pack.

Simply download and launch newest available file VisualCppRedist_AIO_x86_x64.exe. It will install all up-to-date Microsoft libraries. It works great.

Linux

On Linux, you can download AppImage files which are self-contained and you simply can launch them as regular binaries. They should work just fine.

Likely even better way is to use official distribution packages if your distribution offers those.

Mac OS X

DMG packages are provided for Mac users.

KOBO Book Reader

Yes, RSS Guard was ported to KOBO. Feel free to try it and report any bugs upstream or to port author.