RSSOwl is a news aggregator for RSS and Atom News feeds. It is written in Java, and uses SWT as a widget toolkit to allow it to fit in with the look and feel of different operating systems while remaining cross-platform. Released under the Eclipse Public License, RSSOwl is free software.

History

RSSOwl began as small project on SourceForge at the end of July 2003. RSSOwl 1.0 was released on December 19, 2004. RSSOwl was the SourceForge Project of the Month for January 2005.

Features

Generate PDF / RTF / HTML documents from any news including aggregations

Powerful Newsfeed search engine working with keywords

Integrated Newsfeed validator

Perform a fulltext-search with result-highlight on favorites and categories

Full support for RSS & RDF versions 0.91, 0.92, 1.0, 2.0

Support for Atom Syndication Format version 1.0

Read news either in the internal browser or a Rich Text window

Aggregate news of an entire category to one newstab

Store newsfeeds in Blogrolls and share them with other people

Mail NewsTip to friends

Blog news viewed in RSSOwl with your favorite blogging tool

Huge list of sample Newsfeeds pre-saved

Save favorite newsfeeds in categories

Select an auto-update-interval for your favorites

Erroneous favorites are marked

View properties of a selected favorite

Authentication via BASE64, Digest and NTLM

Display HTTPS secure newsfeeds

Import / Export

Import / Export favorite newsfeeds using OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language)

Import / Export your settings in RSSOwl to use them on another computer.

Internationalization

RSSOwl is translated into many languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Galician, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Greek, Russian, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Swedish, Polish, Korean, Bengali, Norwegian, Finnish, Chinese (Traditional), Ukrainian, Czech, Slovenian, Turkish, Hungarian, Thai, Serbian (Cyrillic), and Serbian (Latin).