NewsTap (Usenet Newsreader)5.6.3 - App Store

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.

Version History Bugfix: it could happen that articles which were encoded via "quoted-printable" were decoded twice 5.6.3 Jan 20 An issue of iOS 26 prevented that "X-Face" images could be displayed on the iPhone. This will now work again. 5.6.2 11/23/2025 Bugfix: Under the latest iOS release the options to open links in web browsers did no longer work 5.6.1 06/10/2025 - The maximum age of articles is no longer limited, so you can now go back to the 1980s or 1970s and read the articles from the beginning of the Usenet era (for example when connecting to "archive" servers which do still have such old articles). 5.6 05/28/2025 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. 5.5 03/19/2021 Fixes an issue with the keyboard which is sometimes covering the text when editing postings. 5.4.1 01/05/2020 - Adds support for the dark mode of iOS 13
- Fixes a rare crash when processing links in postings 5.4 12/29/2019 Fixes an issue with the iCloud sync 5.3.5 08/15/2019 - There are a few usenet servers which send the groups list in an invalid or malformed format. NewsTap is now able to get the groups list from these servers as well.
- Fixes an issue where additional text could be interpreted as link, if the link was not delimited properly. 5.3.4 05/02/2019 Fixes an issue when trying to save a photo into the album 5.3.3 11/12/2018 - Added support for new iPhones (XS, XS Max, XR) 5.3.2 11/02/2018 Fixes several glitches in the User Interface on an iPad running iOS 11. 5.3.1 11/27/2017 - Support for the new iPhone X added
- Solves a few issues under iOS 11
- When writing a new article the text editor will now use the font size that is configured in the settings.
- On the iPad the tree view for the threads will now adapt correctly when enabling/disabling the splitview. 5.3 11/19/2017 Fixes an issue when syncing the newsrc file if the clock of server and device are too far apart. 5.2.6 03/02/2017 - Fixes an issue with the read counter when syncing with multiple servers.
- Certain malformed UU-encoded binaries can be decoded now as well. 5.2.5 02/23/2017 - Fixes an issue with the attachments of articles which use a certain Chinese text encodings.
- Supports a lot of old DOS text encodings as well, in order to read articles from old Usenet archives. 5.2.2 01/05/2017 - Fixes and issue with the Dropbox Sync 5.2.1 10/24/2016 - Fixes an issue where the App could crash when messages contain invalid or damaged references information. 5.2 10/19/2016 - Solves an issue when processing an article with an invalid MIME structure
- Fixes an issue with the scrolling when composing a new post on the iPhone
- Added an option for displaying articles with an extra large text size 5.1.8 04/19/2016 Better support for HTML messages without text section. 5.1.7 03/09/2016 Fixes an issue where sometimes deleting old articles could take too long 5.1.6 02/18/2016 Solves an issue under iOS 9.2 on the iPad where the article view would become slower over time 5.1.5 01/19/2016 - Fixes an issue when an articles includes a corrupt or invalid „References“ header. This could result in articles not being included in a thread correctly.

- Fixes an issue with parsing „yEnc“ encoded data which could result in the App „hanging"

- Fixes a few minor issues 5.1.3 01/13/2016 The App can now also load messages which do not follow the standards to encode the header lines. You need to set the correct text encoding in the settings before you can load these messages. 5.1.2 12/08/2015 - A new option allows to encode attachments either via base64 or via UU encode
- Fixes an issue when posting attachments. 5.1.1 12/03/2015