- CategoryNews
- First releasedOctober 8, 2008
- Versions2 archived
- Installable2 of 2
- AvailabilityStill on the App Store
- SellerAlexander Clauss
- Bundle IDde.icab.NewsTap
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone and iPod touch.
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Report an issueNewsTap 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.
Chart History
Archived Reviews
8 of 25I 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.
Connection keeps closing without retrieving any articles.
All the features they list work well, except one, viz., "Filters (also known as "Killfile") can automatically mark articles as read or mark them with a certain color.” This is not quite right: every article filtered to be marked as read must also be color labeled. I would rather not have articles that I want to ignore stand out in the list of articles. I wish it weren’t necessary to have articles marked as read automatically color marked; but I also wish there were an option to have certain articles automatically deleted.
Does not work correctly or use multiple connects. It should function like pan but doesn't.
Disconnects without loading articles.
Nice try ... 'sometimes' it loads, other times it does not and MOST TIME IT WILL NOT ... save the money ... not worth the time, the effort or the money!
There are things I find missing from newstap (such as not tracking crossposts as read), but the thing that keeps me from using it much is how annoying the synching of a newsrc file is. Despite request from many people on news.software.readers and comp.sys.mac.apps, developer refuses to add support for Dropbox (or anything else). Instead, you must go through several annoying hoops. The inability to easily sync the newsrc really does make this software useless unless you ONLY read on one device.
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.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.