Newsreaders
From Usenet Big-8 Management Board
The purpose of this page is to provide information without any express or implied preference for any of the applications listed.
Please contact us to correct or expand this list.
For more detailed information on newsreaders please refer to http://www.newsreaders.com.
For general questions about newsreaders for any platform try posting the question to news://news.software.readers. If your question is about a specific newsreader please put the name of the newsreader in brackets "[ ]" at the beginning of the subject line.
Outlook Express can be configured to read Usenet newsgroups as can Thunderbird.
40tude Dialog
- Platforms: Windows
- Web site/Download: http://www.40tude.com/dialog/index.htm
- Support: http://www.40tude.com/dialog/wiki/index.php
- Graphical Newsreader with Unicode character support. Shareware/Freeware.
A4Pocket Newsreader
- Platforms: Pocket PC
- Web site/Download: http://www.a4pocket.com/newsreader/
- Support: http://www.a4pocket.com/support.html
- Graphical Newsreader for Pocket PC. Shareware.
BeInformed
- Platforms: BeOS
- Web site/Download: http://www.bebits.com/app/1410
- Support: http://www.bebits.com/app/1410
- Graphical Newsreader. Freeware.
Beonex
- Platforms: FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS, Solaris, Windows
- Web site/Download: http://www.beonex.com/
- Support: http://www.beonex.com/communicator/support
- Graphical Full-featured web-browser and email/news client. Opensource/Freeware.
BNews
- Platforms: BeOS
- Web site/Download: http://www.paradiseplace.org.uk/BeOS/bnews.htm
- Support: None found
- Graphical News client for BeOS. GPL Opensource/Freeware.
Claws Mail
- Platforms: BSD, Linux, Solaris, Windows
- Web site/Download: http://www.claws-mail.org/downloads.php?section=downloads
- Support: http://www.claws-mail.org/
- email client (and news reader), based on GTK+
Forte Agent/Free Agent
- Platforms: Windows
- Web site/Download: http://www.forteinc.com
- Support: http://www.forteinc.com/agent/support.php or news:alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent
- Graphical news and mail reader. Shareware/Freeware.
Freenews
- Platforms: All with JavaScript supported web browser
- Web site/Download: http://freeusenetreader.com
- Support: Contact author on web site http://freeusenetnews.com
- A free web based news reader for viewing news groups within a web browser. Requires Javascript.
Gnus
- Platforms: Linux/Unix, Windows
- Web site/Download: http://www.gnus.org/
- Support: news:gnu.emacs.gnus
- News and mail reader under GNU Emacs. Opensource/Freeware.
Gravity
- Platforms: 32 bit Windows
- Web site/Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpgravity
- Support: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=906885
- MicroPlanet Gravity is a popular full-featured Usenet news client for Win32 platforms. Opensource/Freeware.
HogWasher
- Platforms: MacOS X
- Web site/Download: http://www.asar.com/download.html
- Support: http://www.asar.com/support/index.html
- Graphical mail and news reader. Commercial.
KNode
- Platforms: Linux
- Web site/Download: http://knode.sourceforge.net/
- Support: http://bugs.kde.org/
- Graphical news reader for the K Desktop Environment. Opensource/Freeware.
Lynx
- Platforms: Linux/Unix, VMS, Windows3.x/9x/NT, 386DOS and OS/2 EMX
- Web site/Download: http://lynx.isc.org
- Support: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/
- A text web browser capable of reading and posting news. Opensource/Freeware.
MacSOUP
- Platforms: Mac OS X, Mac OS Classic
- Web site/Download: http://www.haller-berlin.de/macsoup/
- Support: See website for contact email address http://www.haller-berlin.de/macsoup/
- Offline news reader and email for the Mac. Shareware.
Maple
- Platforms: Currently Windows only
- Web site/Download: http://ro-maple.blogspot.com
- Support: See website for contact email address http://ro-maple.blogspot.com
- Java and JavaScript based news reader and email client.
MaxNews
- Platforms: Mac OS X
- Web site/Download: http://www.maxprog.com
- Support: http://www.maxprog.com/support/us/maxnews/index.html
- News reader for the Mac. Freeware.
MesNews
- Platforms: All version of Windows (95, 98, NT, 2000, XP and Vista)
- Web site/Download: http://www.mesnews.net/gb/chargement.php
- Support: http://www.mesnews.net/gb/
- It is a freeware newsreader developed in the Delphi 7 language.
Mozilla Suite (SeaMonkey)
- Platforms: Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2-eComstation, Solaris, Windows
- Web site/Download: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/releases/
- Support: http://www.mozilla.org/support/
- Graphical Internet suite (web browser, mail, and news reader). Opensource/Freeware.
MR/2 Internet Cruiser Edition
- Platforms: OS/2-eComstation and Windows
- Web site/Download: http://www.mr2ice.com/
- Support: news:comp.os.os2.mail-news or mailing lists:
- Win32: mr2win.list@mr2ice.com?subject=SUBSCRIBE
- OS/2-eComStation: mr2ice.list@mr2ice.com?subject=SUBSCRIBE]
- Graphical mail and news reader. Shareware.
MT-NewsWatcher
- Platforms: Mac OS X(Universal Binary)
- Web site/Download: http://www.smfr.org/mtnw/
- Support: See website for contact email address http://www.smfr.org/mtnw/
- Graphical news reader for the Mac. Donationware.
New Yanoff
- Platforms: Palm OS
- Web site/Download: http://www.palmyanoff.com/
- Support: http://www.palmyanoff.com/contacts.htm#support
- News reader for the Palm. Shareware.
Newega
- Platforms: Linux, Windows
- Web site/Download: http://newega.free.fr/index.html
- Support: http://newega.free.fr/index.html
- Usenet reader with a web based interface.
NewsHunter3
- Platforms: Mac OS X
- Web site/Download: http://www.parkersoftware.com/products/newshunter/index.html
- Support: None found
- Graphical news reader. Shareware.
Newsman Pro
- Platforms: Windows
- Web site/Download: http://www.newsmanpro.com/
- Support: http://www.newsmanpro.com/phpbb2
- Graphical news reader. Shareware.
News Rover
- Platforms: Windows
- Web site/Download: http://www.newsrover.com/
- Support: http://www.newsrover.com/RoverSupport.htm
- Graphical news reader. Shareware.
NewsTap
- Platforms: iPhone,iPod, iPad
- Web site/Download: Apple Store: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=292410356&mt=8
- Support: http://mobile.clauss-net.de/NewsTap/
- Usenet reader for the iPhone OS.
NewsXpress
- Platforms: Windows
- Web site/Download: http://www.malch.com/nx1faq.html
- Support: Abandonware
- Graphical news reader. Freeware.
nn
- Platforms: Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mac OSX, HP-UX, Tru64, linux
- Web site/Download: http://www.nndev.org/
- Support: http://www.nndev.org/
- Graphical news reader. nn is a menu based (point and shoot) netnews reader for Unix based systems.
Pan
- Platforms: Linux, MacOS X (requires X11 and Fink), Windows
- Web site/Download: http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/
- Support: http://pan.rebelbase.com/mailing_lists/
- News reader for Gnome. Opensource/Freeware.
PC Yarn
- Platforms: DOS, OS/2-eComStation, Windows
- Web site/Download: http://www.vex.net/yarn/
- Support: http://www.vex.net/yarn/list/
- Text-mode offline news and mailreader which imports SOUP packets into its own local database
Pine
- Platforms: AmigaOS, Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OpenVMS, OS/2-eComstation, Solaris, Windows
- Web site/Download: http://www.cac.washington.edu/pine, OS/2 version: http://www.zeta.org.au/~nps/software/pine/en/index.html
- Support: http://www.washington.edu/pine/getpine/non-UW.html#Documentation or news:comp.mail.pine
- Text based mail and news reader. Opensource/Freeware.
Pronews/2
- Platforms: OS/2-eComstation
- Web site/Download: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=pronews
- Support: news:comp.os.os2.mail-news or mailing list: pronews_support@os2warp.org
- Graphical news reader. Donationware.
RMRNews
- Platforms: Symbian OS V5.0
- Web site/Download: http://www.rmrsoft.com/epoc/news.htm
- Support: None noted
- Graphical news reader for PDAs. Shareware.
SLRN
- Platforms: AmigaOS, BeOS, Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2-eComstation, Solaris, VMS, Windows
- Web site/Download: http://www.slrn.org/
- Support: news:news.software.readers
- Console mode mail and news reader. Opensource/Freeware.
Sylpheed
- Platforms: FreeBSD, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, Windows
- Web site/Download: http://www.sylpheed.org
- Support: http://sylpheed.good-day.net/en/ml.html
- Graphical mail and news reader. Opensource/Freeware.
Sylpheed-Claws
- Platforms: FreeBSD, Linux/Unix, Solaris
- Web site/Download: http://claws.sylpheed.org
- Support: http://claws.sylpheed.org/MLs.php
- Graphical mail and news reader. Opensource/Freeware.
Thunderbird
- Platforms: Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2-eComstation, Windows
- Web site/Download: http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
- Support: http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/
- Graphical mail, RSS and news reader based on Mozilla. Opensource/Freeware.
TIN
- Platforms: Linux/Unix, MacOS X, Solaris, *BSD
- Web site/Download: http://www.tin.org
- Support: news:news.software.readers
- Console mode mail reader. Opensource/Freeware.
Turnpike
- Platforms: Windows
- Web site/Download: http://www.demon.net/demon/products/internetaccess/turnpike/
- Support: http://www.demon.net/helpdesk/producthelp/internetaccess/turnpike/faqs/index.html
- Graphical news reader. Free to Demon service customers. Also available for a charge to others.
Unison
- Platforms: MacOS X
- Web site/Download: http://www.panic.com/unison/
- Support: http://www.panic.com/unison/support.html
- Graphical news reader for Mac OS X. Shareware.
Usenet Explorer
- Platforms: Windows
- Web site/Download: http://www.netwu.com/ue/download.htm
- Support: http://www.netwu.com/newspro/phpBB2/
- Graphical news reader. Shareware.
WinVN
- Platforms: Windows
- Web site/Download: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/software/winvn/winvn.html
- Support: winvn@news.ksc.nasa.gov
- Graphical Newsreader for Windows. Freeware.
XanaNews
- Platforms: Windows (not 9x)
- Web site/Download: http://xananews.techtips.com.br/
- Support: news:news.software.readers{
- Open source newsreader for Windows.
XNEWS
- Platforms: Windows
- Web site/Download: http://xnews.newsguy.com/
- Support: news:news.software.readers{
- Graphical Newsreader for Windows. Freeware/donationware.
XPN
- Platforms: Linux, Windows, and any other platform that runs Python and GTK+2
- Web site/Download: http://xpn.altervista.org/index-en.html
- Support: http://xpn.altervista.org/index-en.html
- A graphical newsreader written in Python with the GTK+ toolkit. GPL licensed project http://sf.net/projects/xpn
XRN
- Platforms: Linux, UNIX
- Web site/Download: http://www.mit.edu/~jik/software/xrn.html
- Support: http://www.mit.edu/~jik/software/xrn.html#xrn-users
- Newsreader for the X Window System. Freeware/Opensource.
Yanoff
- Platforms: PalmOS
- Web site/Download: http://yanoff.sourceforge.net/
- Support: Mailing list: http://www.egroups.com/group/yanoff/
- Newsreader for the Palm. Freeware/Opensource.
