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NewsTap (Usenet Newsreader) 17+
Alexander Clauss
Designed for iPad
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- £3.99
Screenshots
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
Version 5.5
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.
Ratings and Reviews
Essential
Have had this application on the iPhone for some time now and been entirely happy with it as a quick and easy means to keep up with Usenet groups while out and about. The iPad upgrade has made a great application simply superb - the larger screen is perfectly suited to in-depth article reading across multiple groups. Very very pleased indeed and I'd have no hesitation in recommending this to anyone wanting a good and capable Usenet article reader.
Drawbacks, if there are any at all, are entirely minor and hopefully would be looked at in future versions. It would be nice to be able to switch off the animated page turn transition between articles. Plus the window doesn't keep up with the highlight bar in the articles list at the top right and can tend to move off the bottom if you're working your way through a number of articles using the 'next' arrow button rather than by clicking on each article in the list individually. Small points which don't distract in any way from what is a superb application.
Killfiles need attention
As a usenet application it’s ok but the filters (killfiles) need the option to Delete posts. As it is, simply marking them as read still leaves them cluttering up the timeline.
A kill filter should do just that, kill the posts, ie delete them.
By definition they are not wanted, not just marked as read.
It's great this exists
Having not read news for several years, I'm really glad to find that NewsTap still exists and is supported: thanks!
App Privacy
The developer, Alexander Clauss, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Provider
- Alexander Clauss
- Size
- 5.4 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 10.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 10.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 10.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, German
- Age Rating
- 17+ Unrestricted Web Access
- Copyright
- © 2021 Alexander Clauss
- Price
- £3.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.