NewsTap Lite (Usenet Reader) User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience32.9% of reviews
Neutral11.4% of reviews
Negative experience55.7% of reviews

~ Based on 70 written reviews from the US App Store.

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Top reviews

Decent overall

As others have said it’s the best USENET reader available. It has many good functions and works well overall. Honestly it’s one of the main reasons I’m not switching from iOS to Android at this time.

I would like to see a few enhancements though:
— quote selected text. This is a vital function of newsreaders which helps trim down long messages.
— the internal browser has stopped working reliably. It will bring up a website but never complete rendering it.
— an Android version.
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Limited but useful free version

Free version is limited but still does what I need.

Can’t see articles

The app does a ton of work downloading groups and showing how many articles are in them, but it stops there. I’d like a simple way to see a list of those articles and then read some. Those areas do not populate.

Good news reader

Works pretty well. The author has done a fine job. It’s not perfect though. And it’s very limited. Below comments are intended to be constructive not negative.

The limit of one server and two groups is pretty stingy, even for a trial version. I would suggest 2 servers and 6 groups would be less scrooge-like.

The help function is fairly good but a nice touch would be a downloadable tutorial. This is a complicated app so takes a little study to master.
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Buon reader per newsgroup Usenet

Quest versione gratuita permette di caricare max due gruppi per volta.

Decent overall

As others have said it’s the best USENET reader available. It has many good functions and works well overall. Honestly it’s one of the main reasons I’m not switching from iOS to Android at this time.

I would like to see a few enhancements though:
— quote selected text. This is a vital function of newsreaders which helps trim down long messages.
— the internal browser has stopped working reliably. It will bring up a website but never complete rendering it.
— an Android version.
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Mal programmato

È incredibile come il livello della batteria cominci a scendere quando si scaricano i messaggi.

Photo Album?

where is that? I can’t save any pics now, have to save via other app.
Having brought back saving to photos this update has removed that function and even the view full screen.
still have no idea how to view/save a picture that is too large to post as single file and is split in multiple parts eg …jpgA[1/2],…jpgA[2/2]
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This is not spam!

That dude who wrote it's spam, I tell y'all it is not! It is lite version, it displays some ads on the bottom, I don't mind that. Small space.

Again, it's lite version so you can use only two news groups. I just use two so what evs, but if you use more then you have to pay for it :)

The app. Fast, lightweight, no problems, works like all usenet readers should work. I recommend, 5 stars.
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Switching apps causes all entered text to disappear

Makes it hard to set up servers and connections. Not user-friendly, cannot recommend.

Posting not working

Please fix

Spam spam spam adver

Not install ! Spam on aplication !!

Cannot get it working

Loaded groups list for my newsgroup provider and entered settings. But after clicking Connect it disconnects almost at once.

Ne fonctionne plus

Depuis la dernière mise a jour, impossible de récupérer les articles avec iPad sous iOs 7.

Hangs, sort not working

Used to work great.
Now, hangs often when viewing messages, cannot multi-task properly: download and viewing articles cause hangs.

Threads not sorted properly...

Latest Version is broken

I used NewsTap for several years and found it a solid nntp news client. Then a major update came out, and since then it has not worked at all for me.It would connect to servers, download group lists, and subscribe to groups, but it would never download any news.

I deleted and reinstalled the latest version (updated within the past week) and now it won’t even download the group list. Just sits and spins trying to connect to the server, and finally gives up. I’ve tried multiple servers and ports that work fine with my Mac news client.
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Broken

After upgrading to the new version, the app doesn't show any messages in the group I'm reading. Tried everything. No errors in the log. It's just broken.

Considerably improved

Ver 5 appears to have fixed the IOS9 problems, & is much nicer to use too.

I can't find the rot13 coder though.

Best free newsgroup reader app

I tried every one I could find and this is best by far. If I hadn't tried so many, I might have only given 3 or 4 stars. Apparently, it is hard to make one works worth a $h1t. This one is rock solid. Or at least it was until I upgraded to iOS 9. Please fix it!

Does the job

The best free newsgroup app available on App Store. Setup can be a bit complicated, but the additional options are welcome.