PhoNews Newsgroup Reader

Christian Grach

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

PhoNews is a Usenet-News Client for reading online newsgroups.

You can use multiple servers with multiple newsgroups. Attachments can be saved to a Cloud-Storage or internal storage.

For support and feature-requests send an e-mail to [e-mail].

Ratings and reviews

The interface is mostly very straight forward and useful. Took me a bit to figure out how to unsubscribe (slide right in the subscribed group list). It is a major pain though that the list of all groups has no hierarchy whatsoever. It's just plain miles long list and finding anything there by scrolling is virtually impossible. The search helps a bit but doesn't solve this problem completely.

Nice and simple to configure and use, but struggles to cope when a topic has numerous deeply nested threads. Taken a couple of stars off due to the frustration experienced when it loses server connection, then downloads multiple copies of the same messages, making navigation impossible. The only workaround is to delete and resubscribe to all groups.

The app crashes often and rarely can actually pull up posts, often failing to pull text from the provider. Every single time the app fails to load it plays an ad, I don't think this is intentional but it definitely feels insulting.

What's new

We try to keep the app stable - so this is another bugfix release.