Octopus Newsroom Client gives you the opportunity to work and share your stories on the go. Octopus Newsroom Client is an adaptable and innovative app that works as a part of the Octopus Newsroom Computer System (NRCS). It enables newsrooms to adapt to future digital trends and modernize the news production workflows. Created for journalists with a focus on collaboration and sharing, the Octopus Newsroom Client gives you all the tools you need to effectively gather information, create media-rich stories and send them to the newsroom. Reporters in the field also benefit from the new, advanced features and can even use the app as a mobile prompter during the live shots.
Key features:
assignments sync with Octopus Server access to story folders and My stories subscribed wires media-rich stories timecode logging LIVE prompter mode notifications history access to rundowns geolocation *** PLEASE NOTE ***
This is not a standalone consumer app and requires Octopus Newsroom server version 8.3 and higher. Please contact your Octopus administrator for details on how to connect.
Latest version
Version
1.9.3
Update
Apr 2, 2026
Package ID
cz.eltoro.octopus
What's new
Apr 2, 2026
The mobile app now correctly respects the configured number of rundowns to sync as defined in the "System setup" on the server. Ask your admin to change it if needed.
Additionally, we fixed the following: Keep suggestions/spellchecker in the keyboard enabled Occasional crash when opening the media tab