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Best News Apps, Personalized for Smartphones and Tablets

Best News Apps

Admit it: You’re a headline hound. When you’re killing time inbetween meetings or waiting in line at the post office, you want to skim cracking news — and prompt. Personalized news aggregation apps pull top content together for you, and sort it exactly as you tell them. From an app that lets you create your own private magazines to an app that combines several news rivulets into one, these are the best news apps right now.

Alien Blue Pro Reddit Client ($1.99; iOS)

It’s effortless to get lost in Reddit’s jam-packed labyrinth. So how about a plain app that makes it plain to search Reddit’s archive of posts, browse Casual Subreddits, and more? The free version of Alien Blue has the basics, but step up to the Pro version to get the capability to add and create posts, view all pictures with a single tap, and build up advanced features likes tilt scroll, hide all, and the capability to exclude posts by keyword. Android users should look to BaconReader for Reddit on Android (free).

Circa News (Free; iOS, Android)

Editors curate and condense the day’s news into more lightly digestible components, with original sourcing links supplied, in Circa News. Go after stories to receive shove notifications when there’s a fresh development, and share stories via e-mail, Facebook, or Twitter. It even has offline support, so you can take your news on-the-go, even when you have no connection.

News Republic (Free; Android, iOS, Windows 8)

News Republic lets users get a visual overview of the latest news that matters to you, and you can even personalize your home screen by moving topics around various screens and resizing their icons. The app’s Tag Nav news navigation system lets you explore related topics. Version Trio.0 displays Articles lists that permit for quick news browsing, while an improved catalog of popular choices and sources expand the depth of news you can view.

Flipboard (Free; Android, iOS)

A sort of Pinterest for news, Flipboard lets you pick topics you’re interested in as well as popular publications and sorts all of that news by category. Plus, a Flipboard Two.0 update lets you create individual magazines, where you essentially ‘re-pin’ news or blog articles (or even items from Etsy) to your own magazines and sort them however you like. You can share your magazines via social networks or with other Flipboard users or keep them to yourself, and browse through or subscribe to other users’ individual magazines. And the app offers syncing, so you can access your top news on any device.

Pulse (Free; Android, iOS, Windows 8)

Pulse aggregates all of your beloved blogs, magazines, social networks and newspapers, so you can go after such top news sources as The Fresh York Times as well as your dearest under-the-radar tech blogger. You can sync with social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Instagram, Reddit and YouTube. If you’re stuck without Internet, don’t fret: Pulse supports offline sync so you can read news stories whenever. And you can save stories for later through Instapaper, Read It Later or Evernote. The best part? Pulse syncs your account across all of your devices, so you can commence reading a story on your smartphone and finish it later on your tablet.

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