Criteria for good news aggregator apps:
- Right content: includes the right mix of content sources and quality content that you actually want to read
- Personalization: the best aggregators learn based off your preferences, what you read, rate, and share with others; content relevancy
- Speed and ease: from updating new content to scrolling through screens; make sure your news aggregators are fast, efficient, and simple standout
- Social sharing: from email, to Twitter to Facebook, good aggregators have simple ways to share help with content curation and discovery with others
- Feedly
- Has become the RSS reader for the choice for many news junkies, especially since Google Reader went into retirement
- Quick and responsive, with a fleet of powerful apps on iOS, Android, and the web
- Offers a visual and straight-forward means of building your own personalized magazines
- Select your general interests, and then immediately dive into a pre-generated set of articles, laid out in the style of a newspaper
- Google Play Newsstand
- Replaced Google Currents, and articles appear as individual cards and there are rows of square icons to look through specific publications
- Curated experience
- digg
- Remains the prolific news aggregators
- Doubles up as an RSS reader; you'll need to add new feeds using digg Reader
- Circa
- Offers brief, bite-sized news stories tailored specifically for mobile consumption
- Rather than simply regurgitating what's already available on the web, its in-house team of editors produce new stories with distinct and easily digestible sentences, quotes, photos, and links
- "Save-it-for-later" app which lets you archive interesting content from the web and then quickly find it again from most devices
- Instapaper and Readability are both similar apps to Pocket
- Prismatic
- An interest network where you can follow the topics and people you care about and share your own interest
- TapTu
- Provides instant access to all of your interests in one beautiful little app
- Pulse
- A cross between Flipboard and Google Play Newsstand; organizes its stories by thumbnail images
- Zite
- Learns your interest and reading habits and gets smarter the more you use it; you'll get the best of the web completely tailored to your unique set of interests
- NetNewsWire
- Simple and efficient, and syncs with your Google account
- news360
- An app that learns what you enjoy and finds stories you'll like around the web
Paid Apps
- Press ($2.99) ,
- Sophisticated news reader app built exclusively for Android
- Supports third-party RSS services including Feedly, Feedbin, and Feed Wrangler
- gReader Pro ($4.69)
- Newsreader app for Android that uses Feedly or The Old Reader to serve up all of your RSS feeds
- Quick, reliable, and simple to use
- Zinio (pay per publication)
- Cross platform and syncs yours purchases as you go
- Pocket Casts ($3.99)
- Podcast app, and a great way to keep up with the latest headlines and explore complex issues while you're on the move
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