NewsTap (Usenet Newsreader)

Name: NewsTap (Usenet Newsreader)
Rating: 3.4 (19 reviews)
Author: Alexander Clauss

by Alexander Clauss

iPhone · iPad

Active Last checked 31 Jul 2026

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Quick verdict

What it is: Store information collected; independent summary not yet available.
At a glance: $3.99

Categories and search queries

Official categories

News
Social Networking

AppCorpus categories

Key functions

Function	Availability	Access	Scope	Evidence
Family Sharing	Yes	Unknown	App Store	Store published

Screens

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Pricing & paywalls

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Price: $3.99

Last verified 31 Jul 2026

Ratings & reviews

App Store

3.4 19 ratings · App Store

5/5Works just fine
I have no idea what others are complaining about. Possibly setup wrong. Anyways, I use this every day now, after being away from Usenet for many years. It’s fast, the layout is fine on the iPad screen and it is easy to navigate. A bargain at $4.

naddy6969 · 31 Jul 2026
5/5Works for me
Been using this app for a while now as my usenet reader. Never had any of the problems mentioned in other reviews. Works as advertised for me.

MJH-! · 31 Jul 2026
2/5Well, it works at least
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.

WYCowboy911 · 31 Jul 2026
2/5App cant request permissions to save photos
So you cannot save photos. At least it crashes each time i try to save a photo. Which makes this not useful at all. For me

xyz_ · 31 Jul 2026
1/5Loaded articles once, then they disappeared
After that articles won’t load again, tried following steps in the support section and no luck. Wish I could get my money back.

TheShok · 31 Jul 2026

Privacy & accessibility

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Privacy

Data Not Collected Developer declared

Accessibility

No accessibility labels collected yet.

Versions

App Store

5.1.1
- A new option allows to encode attachments either via base64 or via UU encode - Fixes an issue when posting attachments.
5.1.2
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.
5.1.3
- 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
5.1.5
Solves an issue under iOS 9.2 on the iPad where the article view would become slower over time
5.1.6
Fixes an issue where sometimes deleting old articles could take too long
5.1.7
Better support for HTML messages without text section.
5.1.8
- 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
5.2
- Fixes an issue where the App could crash when messages contain invalid or damaged references information.
5.2.1
- Fixes and issue with the Dropbox Sync
5.2.2
- 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.
5.2.5
- Fixes an issue with the read counter when syncing with multiple servers. - Certain malformed UU-encoded binaries can be decoded now as well.
5.2.6
Fixes an issue when syncing the newsrc file if the clock of server and device are too far apart.
5.3
- 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.
5.3.1
Fixes several glitches in the User Interface on an iPad running iOS 11.
5.3.2
- Added support for new iPhones (XS, XS Max, XR)
5.3.3
Fixes an issue when trying to save a photo into the album
5.3.4
- 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.
5.3.5
Fixes an issue with the iCloud sync
5.4
- Adds support for the dark mode of iOS 13 - Fixes a rare crash when processing links in postings
5.4.1
Fixes an issue with the keyboard which is sometimes covering the text when editing postings.
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.
5.6
- 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).
5.6.1
Bugfix: Under the latest iOS release the options to open links in web browsers did no longer work
5.6.2
An issue of iOS 26 prevented that "X-Face" images could be displayed on the iPhone. This will now work again.
5.6.3 · 20 Jan 2026
Bugfix: it could happen that articles which were encoded via "quoted-printable" were decoded twice

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