NewsTap (Usenet Newsreader) App Reviews

Excellent offline reader. Online doesnt make sense for 3g or EDGE connection. Ratings for v 1.0 & 1.1 should be removed or at least ignored.

Barely works. Forget about it if want to get jpgs. The author should flat out say doesnt work for pics. Yenc pics are distorted beyond recognition and the filters dont work. Its the only game out there. Buyer beware!

This does a great job with syncing to one news server if your purpose is to read Usenet groups. I have heard of some problems with binaries, but I do not use it for that purpose. I sync it and read things at a later time. This app had two problems with the software keyboard with an iPhone/iPod update (3.1?) which caused posting and filter editing problems. These have recently been fixed. I wish I could add more servers. I wish I could use regex filtering. But all in all, this has been working well for me.

A must have if you own a iPhone and subcribe to newsgroups.

Nice app, handles about 99% of my needs. Very good browser integration, excellent retention/deletion control, and excellent forward/backward control interface in a thread. Would be nice to have: O ROT13 on display, even if not feasible in editor; O ability to specify multiple servers/IDs/passwords O ability to add/modify headers for, e.g., self-moderated groups O regexes in filters O article display honor newlines in text. I write code for a living, and think this is GOOD STUFF. Id like to see it just a little bit better. Mikea

It took SO long but finally we have a nice app, complete and finished! Thanks for this update. Late but excellent!

The best app for newsgroup readers. Easy to use, fast and highly configurable.

If you actually want to USE usenet, then avoid this app. Its slow, clunky, is NOT user-friendly, and is almost useless for binaries.

Thanks for the free version. A lite version of an app should be a developer requirement in my opinion. This reader comes close to doing all I use of Agent by Forte on PC. That is saying a lot as Agent outclasses all. The setup and help are clear. The user interface is great. Threading by date or subject are here. I am new so if I see any significant problems I will report.

Great idea but doesnt display images from the newsgroups. Waste of time.

Exactly what I was looking for. The free lite version (written for the iPhone) does not do this app justice! The iPad user interface allows much more flexibility.

A lot of potential, but not quite there yet. Really like the layout and it does a number of things well (thread hierarchy tree is really cool), but missing a key feature that, for me, makes it unusable. There is no ability to flag threads in a group that you want to Watch. So you have to manually scan the entire group each time you start Newstap to see if anything you are interested in has changed. I monitor a very active group with hundreds of new threads per week, and unfortunately, cant use Newstap without this feature. Had to go back to other alternatives. On the plus side, Alexander was very responsive to my queries on this subject and will hopefully consider adding a Watch function in the future.

Ipad version: With the ability to resize all the panes with just one control, this is just a killer newsreader. In fact, it may become my go-to casual newsreader, regardless of platform its that elegant and full featured, and fun to use on the iPad. Its nice to have the iPhone version always in my pocket, as well (its equally elegant and full featured). Bravo to the developer! iPhone version: Nice addition to be able to download headers/srticles in the background. Cant wait till iPad can support that functionality as well.

Works great for those few remaining nntp groups that I follow. Frankly, the interface is so nice, I prefer to use my iPad to read the newsgroups rather than my desktop machine. The ipad version makes great use of the extra screen space making it much more comfy to use than the iphone version. Nice work!

After some consternation I found that one of the multiple servers I use was dead. Thats what was causing newstap to give the connection errors. Ive re-rated the app. What I learned is that with multiple servers it will not identify the one that is not responding. Requiring one to check Each server individually.

Exactly what Ive been waiting for. If you want to follow text groups on your iDevice buy this app now.

This is a very nice app. The interface is straightforward and it supports SSL. A few things would make it even better though: - Ability to bookmark entire threads, rather than just individual posts. -A quick sync button for one tap send/receive. -Automated sync every X number of minutes. -Push notifications. But overall still very good for text based usenet browsing.

A very nice newsreader. I was without conventional internet service for over a year, and this program kept me sane :-) In fact, even though I finally have internet in my house, I still find myself using NewsTap for reading Usenet.

The program delivers a primitive newsgroup reader. This program can be made better if they provide full functionality for pictures and mp4 multimedia downloads. A thumbnail image viewer is vital and it would be nice to have an auto slideshow of newsgroup pictures. Flipping through articles to view images is somewhat annoying. The program misbehave between picture flipping and saving to the camera roll. An auto viewer would resolve this issue! Still it does exactly what it currently stated in its ad.

Loading 500 or more articles from the same server using my Mac takes but a few seconds, but with this app it takes minutes. Skipping to the next article also requires that you scroll back up to the forward/backward arrow keys. So the app is functional but not great.