The bigger problem on iPad is Trove’s unending grid of equally weighted stories-it’s easy for the eyes to get lost.Įditions by AOL ( ), a recent entrant into the category of news-gathering apps. That’s not awful, but services like Readability and apps like Flipboard, Zite, and even News.Me have trained me to expect a more visually consistent reading experience. The problem is design: Click on a story in Trove, and you’re automatically whisked to an in-app browser to read. Instead of Twitter, Facebook is the foundation, taking your “likes” and creating news feeds about those topics. The limitations become irritating, though, because you have to pay for them: $1 a week or $35 a year. If you like but don’t want it cluttering your main Twitter feed, you’re out of luck: there’s no way to access it from News.Me. And unlike Flipboard, it doesn’t let you add additional feeds within the app. Taptu is unlikely to win a design award-its homepage is too crammed with information, too claustrophobic: I counted 56 separate visual elements on the page when I used the app.īut News.Me doesn’t give you access to your Twitter lists. In many ways, this free offering is indistinguishable fromĪlphonso Labs’ Pulse News ( ), which which recently won anĪpple Design Award at June’s Worldwide Developers Conference. If you’re looking to combine all your information sources into one app, you’ll have to look elsewhere. One, two, or three columns per page? Do you want a simple list of headlines from a news source, or a summary of each story? Pulp is so endlessly customizable, that it might actually be your fault if you don’t like it, with one possible exception: There’s no way to import your Facebook and Twitter feeds. You select the news feeds you want to read, then choose the layout.
This $5 app from Acrylic Software doesn’t try to compete with Flipboard’s magazine style, instead turning its users into newspaper designers.
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