Hogwasher overview

Hogwasher is a full-featured newsreader for OS X. File downloads in multiple connections across multiple servers, thread trees, and extensive filtering for keeping your discussions accessible, with a beautiful interface built for OS X 10.10 Yosemite.

Threaded discussions - Follow complex discussions at a glance with a graphical thread tree display.
Powerful filtering - Extensive rule-based filtering to keep what you want and get rid of the garbage.
Multiple server support - Download from an unlimited number of primary and backup servers simultaneously.
Effortless file uploading - Drag files unto a message window and post properly segmented and encoded binaries with one click.
Integrated image viewing - View pictures directly with built-in image gallery.
Post processing - Full support for automatic par2 check and repair, unrar, unzip, and split-file assembly.

What’s new in version 5.24

Version 5.24:

Fixed:

Hang when download connections switch from one nzb or subscription to another.
Column sizes not being preserved.
Several bug fixes.

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3.6

(45 Reviews of Hogwasher)

Comments
User Ratings

wileycoyotesr

Feb 7 2020

5.24

5.0

Version: 5.24

Easy to use, never an issue, can view pictures from within the software, excellent support. Every Mac owner should use Hogwasher.

jedx02

Was worrying that I would be unable to find a replacement for Unison but Hogwasher does the job and does it well.

marcmandy

Sep 15 2019

5.20

Version: 5.20

I've been looking for a good newsreader for Mac since Agent is not available for Mac and Unison is no longer viable, and I think I've found one! I had technical issues with the version from the Apple Store and got immediate and successful help from, I believe, the developer himself. It seems to do everything I want and I expect to be using it for a long time! It works seamlessly with EasyNews and that's all I could ask for.

resoccjp

Aug 31 2017

5.16

Version: 5.16

The last real WORKING usenet client,Hogwasher works, and works better than any other usenet reader on the Mac. After the petty childishness of thoth and the histrionics of Brian, ,most moved to Unison, written by Panic, which worked well as long as they continued support and develop the app. Unfortunately, Panic decided to kill off the program and told it's loyal purchasers of Unison to drop dead. I just stopped using usenet for a while, then tried Mimo from Giganews. Unbelievable. One of the best examples of why Java failed miserably as a programming environment. Slow beyond belief, mimo was as close to totally useless as you could get. Giganew is dropping customers by the thousands, perhaps they should consider a blanket site license for Hogwasher? Mimo is a pointless insult of an app. I truly pity anyone buying giganews for the first time and assuming Mimo is the 'standard' way of interacting with the usenet. ::shudder::

Sebehk

Aug 19 2016

5.06

0.0

Version: 5.06

Latest version at 5.08: Fixed potential hang at the conclusion of retrieving new headers. Fixed hang displaying message window for message not in the currently shown subscription. Navigation in message window now enabled even when not in the current subscription. Updated message window toolbar icons. Subscription searches are no longer restored if the search term consists entirely of whitespace. Fixed UI glitch with progress indicator while retrieving headers. Fixed problem loading subscriptions containing very large number of newsgroups. Expansion state of threads is now preserved after retrieving new headers. Fixed parsing of date strings using non-English day of week abbreviations. Improved decoding of badly formatted UTF-8 quoted printable subject strings. Improved decoding of Asian charsets. Sorting messages by size now works correctly. New preference to always add nzb files to a user-specified folder. Fixed the incorrect wrapping of long lines of quoted text.