The iPhone has fast become the most widely used method for receiving news of all sorts, whether it be personal, local, or global. News publishers have recognized this fact and have begun to embrace it, utilizing a mobile-first strategy and making the most of social media. And while newspaper readership has waned significantly over the past couple decades, there is still a desire for a one-stop place for your news. Luckily, there is no shortage of news aggregation apps for the iPhone, and we have round up five of the best. Check it out:
Flipboard
Flipboard has been a mainstay in the App Store for a long time, and for good reason. Flipboard touts itself as “your personal magazine”, as it integrates news from your social circles and from sources relevant to you in a unified, simple to use interface. You flip through Flipboard just like a magazine, touching articles you want to read, and liking and sharing ones you find interesting.
BriefMe
BriefMe is brief. BriefMe takes a slightly novel approach to news aggregation, opting to instead give an overview of the most viral headlines in news right now, split into categories like politics, world news, business, sports, technology, and entertainment. Tapping and holding on any headline will give you a succinct summary of the piece, this gives you the power to skim the news as fast as it happens. BriefMe also includes Stream, where the absolute freshest news gets delivered with a beautiful full screen photo and headline.
Breaking News
Breaking News began its life as a twitter account that scoured the web and as many sources as possible to share the most important news. Breaking News now has a dedicated app that posts and tracks every story from Breaking News with consistent updates and a map that shows where the action is happening. News is also navigable by proximity to you and a tab called “Woah”, where you’ll find the most interesting news bits.
Timeline
Timeline takes the reverse route when it comes to the latest news: you don’t get the most up to date headlines or bitesized snippets. Timeline instead gives you in-depth journalism with a focus on context. As per its namesake, each article gives you a timeline of the events and circumstances involved in each story. Each article’s timeline is broken down to provide meaningful context to understand the full story.
Yahoo! News Digest
The concept of Yahoo! News Digest is pretty simple, and yet surprisingly effective: Yahoo! gathers the most important headlines of the day and corrals them into two daily digests, a morning edition, and an evening edition. Each digest includes a list of headlines, ordered by importance, that are color coded into categories, and include icons that serve as visual tags to show what each story involves: such icons indicate that there are photos and video, statistics, citations, and more. What’s more, each article isn’t just a link, but given a readable and well laid-out page of its own within the app.
