QuiteRSS is an open-source RSS/Atom news feeds reader available for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OS/2. It’s written in Qt/С++, aims to be quite fast and comfortable.

QuiteRSS has below features:

• Feed and news filters: new, unread, starred, deleted (for news until restart application)
• User filters
• Proxy configuration: automatic or manual
• Feed import wizard: Search feed URL if site URL was entered
• Embedded browser (Webkit core)
• Mark news starred
• Automatic update feeds: on startup, by timer
• Automatic cleanup on close using criterias
• Enable/Disable images in news preview
• Ability to quickly hide feed tree (for comfortable viewing)
• Open feed or news in own tab
• Quick news filter and quick search in browser
• Sound / Popup notification on new news
• Show new or unread news counter on tray icon
• Minimize on system tray: on start, on close, on minimize
• Import/Export feeds (OPML-files)
• Portable (Windows)
• Free working set (Windows)
• Shortcuts
• Open-source

So far, this latest release is QuiteRSS 0.14.2 (30 Dec 2013), which contains below changes:

• Added: Option “Options->Browser->Load images”
• Added: Feed option “Disable update”
• Added: Shortcuts for main browser actions
• Added: Setting for text and background colors of focused feed
• Added: Language: Finnish
• Changed: Load feed’s favicon from main webpage
• Changed: Process “dc:date” while parsing feed
• Changed: Mouse gestures. Jump to news description if there is no previous page on back-action
• Changed: Address bar appearance
• Changed: Send whole new’s text when share news by e-mail
• Fixed: Adding feeds that contains “amp;”
• Fixed: Parsing of some feeds
• Fixed: Action “Next unread news”
• Fixed: Recounting and displaying counters in categories tree
• Fixed: Manual run of filter when option “Store DB in memory” is disabled
• Fixed: Displaying focused feed, while switching tabs with enabled filter
• Fixed: Taking account of filter text when switching news filter

Install QuiteRSS:

For Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint and their derivatives, we can easily install QuiteRSS from PPA.

To do so, press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal and run commands below one by one:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:quiterss/quiterss

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install quiterss

For Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty LTS, you can search & install this app in Ubuntu Software Center.

For Windows, FreeBSD, other Linux and source code, go to QuiteRSS Download page