Open Source NewsLeecher AlternativesUsenet News Clients and other similar apps like NewsLeecher

The best open source alternative to NewsLeecher is NZBGet. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to NewsLeecher and eight of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to NewsLeecher are HelloNzb, Pan, MicroPlanet Gravity and XPN.

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  1. NZBGet icon
     23 likes

    The most efficient usenet downloader. NZBGet is written in C++ and designed with performance in mind to achieve maximum download speed by using very little system resources.

    28 NZBGet alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Snapcraft
    • FreeBSD
    • TrueNAS
    • Docker
    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. HelloNzb icon
     7 likes

    HelloNzb - The Binary Usenet Tool

    With HelloNzb you can download (binary) files from Usenet servers via NZB index files. The software is based on Java and can thus run on many platforms (tested on Windows and Linux). Automatic archive verification via PAR2, automatic RAR archive.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Pan icon
     11 likes

    Pan is a newsreader, loosely based on Agent and Gravity, which attempts to be pleasant to use for new and advanced users alike. It has all the typical features found in newsreaders, and also supports offline reading, multiple connections, and a number of features for power users...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Gravity is a usenet news client for reading news over NNTP on Windows Operating Systems. Gravity has been a popular newsreader since 1996 when it was developed by MicroPlanet. The newer open source versions are optimized for the latest 32 and 64 bit Windows Systems including...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. XPN icon
     1 like

    XPN is a multiplatform newsreader with unicode support. It's written in Python using GTK+2 toolkit and works wherever Python and GTK+2 work.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Kwooty icon
     2 likes

    Kwooty is a nzb binary grabber for KDE 4 that makes usenet downloading easy. Besides being multi-server support, it automatically verifies, repairs and extracts archive files downloaded from usenet.

    Features :

    • Automatic file downloading after openning Nzb file
    • Support for au.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. Leafnode icon
     1 like

    Leafnode is a software package that implements a store & forward NNTP proxy (client and server) that supports TCP connections across IPv4 and IPv6. It can be used to give a regular newsreader offline functionality, merge news articles from several upstream newsservers for...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. Klibido icon
     1 like
    • Automatic joining of multi-part posts
    • Automatic decoding of posts, using the uudeview library (yEnc supported) or an internal decoder
    • Multiple servers support, with priorities and fallback if an article fails on a server and is present on another server
    • Queue.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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