Newsreader Software Reviews and Downloads

NewsReactor

NewsReactor scans, combines and downloads files from selected newsgroups. Download all the MP3,GIF,WAV,JPG,AVI,MPG etc. files that you`ve always wanted! Features include a simple user interface, high speed multi-threaded downloading with low level socket technology and error correction. This ensures (almost) no incomplete parts. You can select up to four active threads, adjust your download speed and much more.

Giganews Accelerator

The Giganews Accelerator is a software-based news proxy which will allow you to compress headers and enable 256-bit SSL encryption, regardless of whether or not SSL is supported natively by your news client. All authentication and commands are also encrypted, whether or not you have a Giganews SSL-enabled account. Encrypted authentication and commands improve your security and can help improve your download speeds when accessing Giganews. Header compression is especially helpful for users of news clients which download all headers the first time a group is accessed, such as Newsbin.

NewsMan Pro

This software is a multi-threaded newsreader that supports all Usenet text and binary newsgroups. The program handles multiple servers using server priorities or discrete "private" news servers. It uses "virtual groups" for newsgroup subscriptions allowing you to browse related newsgroups simultaneously. An expiration-based queue ensures that requested articles are retrieved in a timely fashion. Supports automation and scheduling, NZB import and export and data storage.

NewsLeecher

NewsLeecher is a brand new Usenet downloading (leeching) application. NewsLeecher can download pictures, movies,MP3 files and software applications in a snap using it's online engine to assemble and decode all the downloads. The powerful featureset and state-of-the-art user interface makes it an program "you simply can't live without" if you are a serious Usenet leecher. NewsLeecher supports a unique download system that makes it one of the absolute fastest usenet downloaders available. The combination of being able to download from multiple usenet servers at the same time, using up to 99 download threads per server, and using a sophisticated system to download file parts spread over different servers, makes NewsLeecher faster than competitors such as NewsBin, GrabIt and XNews. Try it out and make the comparison yourself.

News Rover

News Rover is a fully automatic program for downloading Usenet messages, decoding file attachments and displaying messages and pictures. News Rover scans newsgroups that you specify, downloads messages that match selection criteria (excluding spam), reconstitutes multi-part messages, decodes file attachments, and displays the received messages, attachments and picture images. News Rover runs unattended and can scan and collect hundreds of messages and files while you are at work, sleeping or using your computer for other work. In addition to collecting Usenet messages, News Rover also sends and receives e-mail.

NewsPro

NewsPro is a multitasking newsreader with advanced support for multiple news servers. NewsPro allows you to perform searches on servers in a large number of newsgroups. It includes an option for synchronizing newsgroup content with servers for downloads of multi-part binary attachments. The program can download bodies directly using header information from other servers, saving bandwidth. It has options for later and immediate download, and download with certain priority for article tasks. Several newsgroups can be joined into folders or opened in a single view. Several servers can be put into a subset to meet usenet providers' connection limits. yEnc is fully supported.

Ozum

This newsreader and file downloader is optimized for images, sound and video and features a built-in cross-group search engine. Ozum lets you preview and listen to individual parts of multi-part audio and video files before downloading and assembling the whole file. It includes a built-in viewer for images, programmable file grabbing robot and an auto-poster. It supports automatic downloading, assembling and decoding binary files, unpacking RAR files, recovery using PAR files and yEnc decoding.

NewsBin Professional

NewsBin is a multithreaded news robot that automatically downloads and decodes binary posts to usenet newsgroups. NewsBin will take full advantage of high bandwidth internet connections by allowing multiple simultaneous connections to your news server or servers. It re-assembles multi-part posts across multiple servers and includes an integrated thumbnail viewer when downloading images. NewsBin features advanced newsgroup organization and configuration options, special NZB processing modes, an automatic download mode, and Dual Core support to take advantage of high end systems. The AutoRAR feature automatically tracks RAR sets and will decode complete sets when the download is done.

Express NewsPictures

This newsreader downloads and displays pictures and other binaries from newsgroups. It filters spam, leaving only those articles that contain real binaries. The program lets you preview the downloaded pictures and shrink or scroll if the image doesn't fit in the preview window. You can filter newsgroups and messages by keyword.

NewsBeaver

NewsBeaver is a free program which lets you view and download newsgroup pictures. NewsBeaver can be run without saving anything to your hard disk, this makes it safe if you don't want to store anything on your computer. However NewsBeaver can also save images to any folder you choose so that you can view pictures later. NewsBeaver has an integrated Picture Viewer so that you can view images as you download them. There is no documentation for NewsBeaver yet so just download it and give it a try. It's not very difficult to work out.

Giganews Binary Newsreader

This news reader specializes in music, films and pictures. It has an integrated browser with the capability to display all common file types and even movies.

News File Grabber

News File Grabber is a utility for downloading and extracting attachments from Newsgroups on the USENET. You can download and extract all attachments from a newsgroup, filter articles and specify what files are to be downloaded and also combine articles across multiple newsgroups or servers. News File Grabber supports various decoding schemes, including MIME, UUE, Base64 and YEnc (also multi-part files). The program allows you to automatically or manually combine multi-part articles to extract the attachments. Additional features include support for multiple servers, download resuming, message caching, favorites, integrated picture viewer and more.

Akhbarakom Desktop

Akhbarakom is the first Arabic news aggregator desktop application.It reads from more than 50 built-in channels in different fields: World news, Arabic & middle East, Internet & technology, sports, science, finance, Energy, Health and more.You can add your own category and RSS/RDF channels.You can add/remove to categories favorites.You can send the news you like to a friend by email.It can be used for Arabic as well as non Arabic news channels.

News Interceptor

This program instantly notifies you when your favorite Web sites have news of interest. You select your favorite sites from a list of more than 700. When new news appears on your favorite sites, the title appears in a window, and you can click the title to read the whole story at your leisure.

GrabIt

GrabIt is an easy to use program that has a familiar looking user interface - Care has been taken to make the downloading of binaries as fast and easy as possible. This is why most people love GrabIt. Fast selecting, downloading and decoding of binary attachments - See a binary you want, select it and GrabIt does the rest! It will download and combine all parts and decode your binary to the location you specified.

Deutschland Radio

More then 210 Deutschland Radio Stations (High-Band & Best Quality).* RSS feeds From Spiegel online, tagesschau.de, sueddeutsche.de and google News * Useful German Video and Media Links * Google Search , Wikipedia, Compare Prices * Torrent Search - in more then 28 Top Torrent Search engines * Free Babylon Translation German-English-German * Deutschland Live TV News & Channels

Agent

This fully-integrated USENET and e-mail tool supports yEnc, MIME and UUEncoding, and multiple servers. It handles binaries and offers custom folders, filtering, kill and watch lists, and cross-post management. Agent 3.3 supports multiple news and mail servers and multiple connections. The Task Manager allows for task retry.

SenseExplore Summarizer

Innovative summarizer that highlights most informative sentences directly on the web pages you visit. Saves reading time and speeds up information aquisition. Perfect for reading news, encyclopaedias, reference manuals and other similar sources.Comes with standalone tray summarizer module that can summarize text copied to clipboard at a click of a button.

Atomic Newsgroup Explorer

Program is developed to extract e-mail addresses and user names from the usenet newsgroups. It perfoms fast and effective. Just enter any NNTP server address or choose it from the default list and the program will download the names of all available usenet groups. Then select some interested groups to explore and ANE will gather all the addresses and names from these groups.

Usenet Radio

Downloading files from Usenet can be complicated. Usenet Radio makes downloading and playing mp3 files as simple as hitting the play button. Underneath the simple radio like interface is a powerful newsreader that handles all the decoding and connection details. Enter your account information, or sign up, and it starts downloading and playing mp3 files.

NewsGator Inbox

NewsGator is a news aggregator that runs directly inside Microsoft Outlook. It allows you to subscribe to various syndicated news feeds (such as weblogs, news sites, etc.) and have news from these sites be delivered right into your Outlook folders. It also integrates into the IE toolbar, allowing you to easily subscribe to new feeds directly from your browser. Newsgator presents an overview of the latest news on a Newsgator home page inside Outlook, and groups the individual items into folders from where they can be read like emails and also managed as such (forwarded, saved, synchronized etc.). The program also comes with posting abilities, allowing you to run your own weblog from inside Outlook! Additional features include proxy support, search functionality, support for the latest RSS and RDF syndication formats and more.

QuadSucker/News

This software is a multithreaded news downloader that downloads binaries concurrently. It is optimized for downloading images, and includes built-in support for viewing GIF and JPEG files. The program also includes advanced multi-part message assembly algorithms allowing for downloading of MP3, ZIP, RAR, AVI, MPG, and other large file types. Multiple threads allow up to four news articles to be downloaded simultaneously. Built in black list and white list options help you filter content. The duplicate database is able to reject files based on subject, filename or contents. It includes yEnc support and support for all other message-posting formats.

RollingHeads

RollingHeads is a general purpose tool to find and organize today's news. It's easy to use and will keep you informed. With an extensive list of news sources, RollingHeads locates and organizes the major topics for the day. You can drill into any topic for a complete list of headlines in the last week or watch the latest headlines for all topics as they are read.

Pluckit

This program automatically searches newsgroups for binary attachments. It supports yEnc and RAR. It downloads them from the newsgroup to your hard drive. Pluckit seeks out only the messages having pictures, grabs them, saves them to your hard drive, and can display them on your screen.

TIFNY

Tifny is a comprehensive search tool for USENET newsgroups. The program learns from past usage and utilizes that knowledge to improve the quality of your experience. It combines a newsreader and a picture thumbnailer into one application. You can view full size images and thumbnails by directory or see them by newsgroup, author, organization, width, height, size, or just make your custom selections. Also supports yEnc decoding.

Easy Post

Post many files at once on newsgroups in yEnc format. Unlimited number of files to post, ability to stop and resume posting, automation. Drag and drop support, sorting files by name, size, ascending and descending and then posting in that order. Automatic file naming, automatic file splitting for multi part posts.

Advanced Mass Sender

Manage and send mass quantities of e-mails to a large number of clients. The program has a built-in SMTP server.

Binjet

This program helps you locate and download large files posted to the Usenet. Use a Web browser and Usenet search engine to find files, and then Binjet will automatically get them for you from one or more Usenet servers. Binjet accepts NZB and BFT files from Usenet search engines and Ozum newsreader. It includes yEnc support, automatic downloading and decoding files, automatic downloading and assembling multi-part files, and cross-group search.

Binary Boy

Find and download file with this yEnc/NZB compliant newsreader. Enter a search term, browse the results, then select the files. Any disconnects during the downloads are dealt with automatically. Binary Boy can combine parts from multiple servers to assemble a complete file. If pieces of a file are missing, the Dr. Binary feature can attempt to create a playable file from the available parts. Keep your files organized by creating a folder for each newsgroup. The folder can use the name of the newsgroup or you can manually assign each a name. You can also send related files, such as music from the same artist, to the same folder. The built-in scheduler allows you to download files matching your search criteria and disconnect automatically after an optional time limit.

TLNews

This Usenet newsreader has a download feature and provides access to newsgroups for reading and writing messages. The multi-connection design provides transfers of both headers and messages while the multi-threaded download engine makes sure your files are downloaded without the need to manually combine or save them.

Rocket Desktop

Track the news on your company or your competitors, your favorite sports team, actor or musical performer. Any topic that makes news can be found with the user friendly Rocket Desktop. Rocket Desktop is a lightweight program that provides a way to search for the latest news from thousands of global sources. Rocketinfo continuously scans and indexes 16,000 news sources and thousands of weblog sources for the current news and business information.

Binary Vortex Newsgroup Downloader

This program downloads files from Usenet newsgroups. It is optimized for downloading images, and includes both thumbnail and full-screen image viewers. Movies, MP3 files, sound files, applications and other types of files may be downloaded as well. It even supports the new Yenc encoding format, in addition to traditional encoding methods. It includes a kill list that can be used to filter out content from undesirable authors or about undesirable subjects. A toggleable virus filter is provided to stop the downloading of files that may contain viruses.

SBNews News Robot

This program automatically downloads binaries from Usenet newsgroups. It can also decode attachments. It works with all types of attachments, including JPG, GIF and BMP images, MP3 and WAV audio files, AVI and MPG movies, and archive files.

GetNews

GetNews is new program developed to collect the news articles from your favorite sites. GetNews can automatically check different channels and save all information in your own news archive. Fast and usable interface of GetNews saves a lot of your time. With GetNews you can get articles from news portals or internet magazines, messages on forums, reviews of fresh programs from catalogs, and more interesting information from Net.

Acute Vision 2005

This news client is designed to download pictures, video and music from binary newsgroups. All downloads can be encrypted and stored on your hard disk using discreet filenames. Optional password protection prevents unauthorized access, while the quick hide feature will instantly conceal all windows. The thumbnail browsers use a familiar Windows explorer-type interface to rank and organize downloads. Additional features include a built-in image viewer and editor, and a slideshow viewer. Supports simultaneous connections to an unlimited number of news servers. Automatic decoding and reassembly of multi-part postings, as well as support for all common encoding formats including yEnc, Uuencode and MIME. Offers fully automated or manual downloading based on your personal preference. You can export files for use with other applications. Configuration wizards and comprehensive tutorials are included.

40tude Dialog

40tude Dialog is a newsreader (Usenet) with Unicode support. It comes with a customizable interface, color coded messages, support for multiple servers and identities, filtering and much more. It supports binary attachments, decodes and encodes attachments using Mime (Base64) and has built-in video, image and HTML viewers. Additional features include import/export, bookmarks, address book, signature support and much more. Nice, modern interface and tons of features.

GroupsAloud

This program will read your Usenet news aloud to you. You can save material as MP3 files for use with portable devices. GroupsAloud supports AT&T Natural Voices.

John Kerry for President NewsReader

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Digibin

This news reader combines several concepts in binary downloading from Usenet newsgroups. It supports multi-threaded connections, multiple servers, multiple agents, grouping of newsgroups in collections, automatic combination of multi-part files, automatic combination of multi-file groups, automatic NFO preview and yEnc.

NewsWolf

This program allows you to search a set of newsgroups to obtain the most recent data. It performs exhaustive searches of news servers to ensure they are freely accessible.

NewsBin

NewsBin is a multithreaded news robot that automatically downloads and decodes binary posts to usenet newsgroups. NewsBin will take full advantage of high bandwidth internet connections by allowing multiple simultnaeous connections to your news server or servers. It re-assembles multi-part posts across multiple servers and includes real time rendering of thumbnails when downloading images. NewsBin support regular expression parsing for complex filtering capabilities based on subjects or filenames and provides file size filtering and limits on crossposting. NewsBin can also post binaries to the newsgroups and provides simple text message viewing even though its focus is being the fastest binary downloader on the market.

AutoPix

AutoPix is an automated NNTP downloading program for newsgroup binaries. Setup is quick and easy and will have you transferring graphics and other binaries in no time flat. Hands-free operation (once you've configured it) downloads binaries from the newsgroups you've selected, saving them in the folder of your choice. AutoPix handles multiple servers, Uencoded, MIME, and can show a thumbnail preview of files as they're downloaded!

OmniViewer Pro

You don't need a lot of patience to find the right info on the internet just the right software. Save time, and don't get overwhelmed by too much useless information. OmniViewer Pro brings you real-time, updated information to your desktop, internet connected wireless device and/or Pocket PC, without having to surf each site manually. New version includes offline browser, speech output, multiple browser windows, powerful archiving and much more.

Noworyta News Reader

This news reader and e-mail client works online and off. It can use multiple servers and supports multiple users. Use it to read and filter UUE and MIME files.

NewsGrabber

Includes a full image/object viewer/browser, spam reduction, complex filtering. It can display thumbnails, and interacts with Dial-Up networking to dial and download unsupervised. Download to try out its many more features. It will run 50 times unregistered. Best of all its only $20, and you get all upgrades forever.

NewsShark

This program is designed to get file formats like MP3, RAR and ZIP from Usenet. Mission-specific features like partial file preview will download, decode and play the first segment of an MP3 or MPG and an emergency restart function automatically resumes interrupted downloads without starting over. It includes yEnc support.

Newsgroups Pictures Downloader

This software is a specialized news reader that focuses on picture newsgroups. It filters text and spam from Usenet postings and presents only the pictures. It supports common file formats, queued downloads and server authentication. It now allows a list of news server addresses, so you can change servers more quickly.

APicViewer

Apicviewer automatically search, download, display and email your favorites pictures, videos, movies and sounds.

AllPicturez

AllPicturez finds thousands of free pictures from fine art over cars to cartoons in Internet newsgroups. It concentrates on pictures therefore it only presents the pictures and no text making it very easy to use for Internet beginners and professionals. It automatically filters out Spam messages and converts newsgroup names to human readable text. It immediately decodes and displays the pictures and creates a thumbnail for each downloaded pictures. AllPicturez supports JPEG, GIF, Base64, UUdecode, server authentication and basic picture manipulation.

FotoVac

This software is a utility for downloading images from Internet newsgroups. It will read through the newsgroups that you select and will download all the images that it finds in each group. The images are displayed as thumbnails, and to view a full size version of a downloaded image all you have to do is click on it.