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.
Loaded articles once, then they disappeared
After that articles won’t load again, tried following steps in the support section and no luck. Wish I could get my money back.
Works just fine
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.
Works on the M1 !!
So reliable, very happy it works on the M1.
Doesn’t work
Connection keeps closing without retrieving any articles.
Works for me
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.
Disconnects
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.
App cant request permissions to save photos
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
Mar 22, 2024
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Mar 18, 2024
Because of a bug in iOS 14 very large and deep threads could not be read properly anymore. So articles of the groups could not be accessed. The new release will include a workaround for this iOS 14 issue, so articles do no longer get lost. There was no such problem under iOS 13 or older.
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