NewsTap (Usenet Newsreader)
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Description
NewsTap is a powerful Usenet Newsreader for the iPad, iPhone and the iPod Touch. Features: - Optimized for offline usage, so you can read and write news articles without an internet connection - It's easy and simple to subscribe, manage and read news groups. - Filters (also known as "Killfile") can automatically mark articles as read or mark them with a certain color. - The application fully supports the portrait and landscape mode. - Support for binary groups (photos and other files). Photos and pictures can be displayed directly. It's possible to add photos into the photo album or open them in other Apps. - Quotes are displayed in different colors. Colors are also used to distinguish between read and unread articles, filtered articles. - Hyperlinks are automatically detected and can be opened in a web browser. - Optimized article layout for the small iPhone display. The original article layout is also available. - Navigate within the articles from within the thread view or simply by flipping to the next/previous article with your finger. - A graphical „tree view“ visualizes a complete discussion and makes it super-easy to follow and participate discussions. - It's possible to hide articles that are already read and to hide quotes. - Sync the read/unread states of the articles using a „newsrc“ file with other usenet client. The sync can be done via SFTP, WebDAV, Dropbox and iCloud. - Post new articles or send followups. - Build-in help, which explains all the application features. For more screenshots please look at the developers web site.
What's New
Bugfix: it could happen that articles which were encoded via "quoted-printable" were decoded twice
Details
- Developer
- Alexander Clauss
- Main Category
- News
- Version
- 5.6.3
- Version Release
- 2026-01-20
- Initial Release
- 2008-10-08
- Size
- 4 MB
- Age Rating
- 17+
- Price
- USD 3.99
- Languages
- EN, DE
- Bundle ID
- de.icab.NewsTap
- Version Rating
- ★ 3.42 (19)
- First Seen
- 2026-05-28
Metadata updated 2026-07-19
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Competitive Benchmark — News Top 10
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User Reviews
Unfortunately, it lumps EVERY message on the server into EVERY group. Example: I subscribed to only 3 or 4 groups. Every single message on the server shows up in each of the groups I subscribed to. Kinda pointless.
After that articles won’t load again, tried following steps in the support section and no luck. Wish I could get my money back.
I have no idea what others are complaining about. Possibly setup wrong. Anyways, I use this every day now, after being away from Usenet for many years. It’s fast, the layout is fine on the iPad screen and it is easy to navigate. A bargain at $4.
So reliable, very happy it works on the M1.
Connection keeps closing without retrieving any articles.
Been using this app for a while now as my usenet reader. Never had any of the problems mentioned in other reviews. Works as advertised for me.
After downloading all the newsgroups, program disconnects while downloading the descriptions. I’ve tried several times and waisted many, many minutes in the process. It does this EVERY time! Very frustrating! At this point, it’s unusable.
So you cannot save photos. At least it crashes each time i try to save a photo. Which makes this not useful at all. For me
Disconnects without loading articles.
I have no idea, I have never been able to do anything with this app. I will have to take other's word that it actually does something. If you are stupid, like me, give a pass on this app and find another app which doesn't require a PhD to operate.
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