What is Akregator?
Akregator is an open-source feed reader that is part of the KDE desktop environment. It allows users to subscribe to syndicated web feeds like RSS, RDF, Atom, and podcasts to read news and content from the web in one place. Akregator is designed to be a fast, customizable, and user-friendly feed reader.
Some key features of Akregator include:
- Support for all major feed formats including RSS, Atom, RDF, podcasts
- Ability to organize feeds into folders or tags
- Unread and starred article management
- Offline reading with article archiving
- Desktop notifications of new articles
- Powerful search to find articles
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Integration with Konqueror/KHTML web browser
- OPML import/export
- Plugin support for added functionality
Akregator aims to provide an intuitive and easy-to-use interface for consuming web feeds while also offering advanced customization options for power users. It has multi-platform support across Linux and other Unix-based systems. As an open-source application, Akregator is community-driven allowing users to contribute ideas and code to enhance the project.
Feedly, Flipboard, Inoreader, Reeder , NetNewsWire, QuiteRSS, Tiny Tiny RSS, Fluent Reader, NewsBlur, Feedbro, Feeder RSS feed reader, Goodbits, ginger rss reader, Snarfer are some alternatives to Akregator.