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General Features

  • Very easy to use. Start downloading files within minutes of installation.
  • Automatically assembles multi-part articles.
  • Full support for multiple newsgroups and servers: Binbot can assemble
  • articles across multiple newsgroups and servers.
  • Recognizes a wide variety of file types, so you can find at a glance the files you're looking for.
  • Advanced sorting capabilities (by subject, size, author, file type, date, etc.)
  • Quick search function with familiar Google-like syntax, and options to ignore case, accents and other diacritical marks.
  • Full NZB file support.
  • Built-in Usenet web-based search.
  • Powerful article filtering capabilities.
  • Author ratings and statistics with Face/X-Face support.
  • Supports secure connections (SSL) to the news server.
  • Designed to handle busy newsgroups (millions of articles).
  • Contains no spyware or advertising.
  • Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

File Downloads

  • Handles all common file encodings (MIME/base64, UU, yEnc).
  • Automatically unpacks downloaded files (unrar, unsplit and unzip).
  • Supports multiple simultaneous file downloads and real-time download scheduling.
  • Allows file downloads to be suspended and resumed at the click of a mouse.
  • Supports previews of large files.
  • Connection limiting function (limits the number of connections to the news server).
  • Bandwidth limiting function (limits the bandwidth used for downloading).
  • Supports drag and drop of downloaded files
  • Maximal performance on high speed connections.
  • Automatically blocks potentially malicious files.

Multilanguage Support

  • Extensive support for non-English text in newsgroups, articles and file names. Can properly display text in most European and Asian languages including Russian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean.
  • The user interface itself can be easily translated into almost any language.