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Flipboard story search finds stories over 3 years old. It used to be better than this, but has gone downhill seriously. Twitter does a better job.arty.pharty
A-mazing!
A classmate of mine referred me to check out the app, and it was the best decision I’ve made! User friendly, likeable and super easy to navigate through without tutorial! Found no personal pain points for me! Highly recommend Flipboard for anyone who likes reading news articles without the hassle of subscription fees and searching for credible news articlesShow lessMandalion96
A little bit shady
Flipboard asked me to rate the app in an in-app pop up. Trying to submit 1 star was not allowed. That’s a bit shady. What I don’t like is that the app sends you to the publisher to read the article. This is bad because any ad-blocker u might have installed in Safari does not work in Flipboards “web-browser”. So to read an article you end up downloading megabytes of ads and ad-tracking scripts from every publisher. That is, unless the publisher has an agreement with Flipboard, in which case Flipboard inserts its own full page ads you cannot pinch out of. The whole Flipboard experience can therefore be very _bad_ for your data plan and for your privacy. That said, Flipboard is very useful and gives you the opportunity to browse through articles within topics of interest in a very nice way. Apples own News app is a strong contender though, but for now I do prefer Flipboard.Show less_hauk
Developer Response
Sorry you're experiencing these crashes. Have you already tried clearing your content cache and quitting the app from multitasking yet? If that doesn't help please email support@flipboard.com and we can take a look-see. Thanks!Best news app
I have tried out many different news apps in the past and none really hooked because of poor designs or lack of updates.
Flipboard is the best out there. The layout works in a way that you’ll be “news-binging” as if you were streaming a tv show. And frequent updates really boost its functionality.
Great work guys :)Show lessiMarko97
IN-credibly Addicting!!
WOOAAHH! Where was this app when I was in Grammar School?!!? I suppose like w/everything in our World now-a-days, it must have had to do with our famous technology. But what a shame, because not only am I massively addicted to this awesome app, I’ve now had to re-wire myself to my normal (-that’s IF there REALLY IS such a thing for us Writers 😅...!)daily routine in order to not remain literally stuck in so much incredibly fun, true, and many times even hysterical articles, which by all the Authors keeping things so up-to-date-, is what makes everything, so much fun!!!..
I’ve even passed this App Cross-Country to my Sister, and as far as to my Dad who lives in South America!! I know that sooner or later, God will work his mysterious ways w/me too, in order for me to start my own Testimony and help others fight and FREE from Domestic Violence along with the other ‘things,’ I was told I couldn’t do, but with my Faith I’ve stomped every one of them!!
Keep it up, Flipboard, and best of Prosperities to all of you ‘real,’ Authors who sacrifice your time, sweat and tears to such a phenomenal gift to us who remain indoors 95% of the time- - TRULY A GIFT FROM ABOVE!!
Sincerely yours,
Ms. Ximena CifuentesShow lessNegucha
The alternative
Flipboard. Alternatively you could spend all your time and money doing it yourself and end up with much less.KerryleeButler
Do not update to this version - much slower
I am a long time Flipboard user and recently I updated to iOS 11 on my iPad. I also updated the Flipboard app to the current one and that’s when the problems begun. The app is MUCH slower than the previous one. It takes long time to load ANY article from any source. There is also no option to block pop-ups (or at least one that works) so you are bombarded with ads and subscription nags. Come on Flipboard, blocking pop up ads is easy and almost every other browser has it. Another annoyance that still persists is the inability to disable the Cover stories. Let me choose what I want to read please. Seems like the best version was the original version. Downhill since then. Two stars, hope you can fix your problems so I can change it to five. Latest iPad with plenty of storage and latest iOS. Worked fine on previous Flipboard ver.Show lessTomDenver77
Beautiful program for reading information from on-line. It’s in my top 5 most used iPad apps!!!!
If you have not tried this app, you must try it out!
It's very graphical and pretty on my retina iPad and my 12.9” iPad Pro. Generally works very smoothly. Could cache the data a little better / faster, I've got fast internet at home, but sometimes it's slow updating and if I just spent a while reading the last entry, seems like it could read ahead a little bit, it could make the experiences so much better...
BUT be careful if you have a cellular connection! FlipBoard (being so graphical and beautiful) is a HUGE a data hog (assuming you're viewing something graphical and not text) so if you're on a low data plan be careful. I used over 10% of my 250MB data plan in less than 5 minutes (I tested this again at the end of this month, just a few minutes and 50MB of data was gone!). This is NOT a flaw, it's just the way super graphical apps are, but it goes SO fast I wanted to point it out.
Because of the retina display it "shrinks" some graphics too small (like animated GIFs in Tumblr pages) and it's too hard to read. Needs some user adjustment on that (what size to shrink to retina proportions) and to size text. It shrinks things WAY too far on the iPad Pro.
It’s got a great search option that searches a variety of sources all at once.
I don't think it's as useful on the iPhone for browsing, maybe if you went to a specific section, but I'm still not sold on that yet...Show lessGary LaPointe
Love my daily catchup of articles on Flipboard
I love this app I can customise it to bring me all the information, news and what’s happening around the world.
Whether it’s happening in science, technology, word of fashion or politics I choose what I like and every day I get the latest information delivered in a simple and easy to read format.
It’s the digital magazine you have always dream’t of delivered to you mobile device or tablet. Simple easy and enjoyable...Show lessUrban Focus
Better than nothing
It’s a very inconsistent interface. Some articles flip, but others scroll.
And as for training it to show you articles that match your interests - good luck! Let’s say an article about SEO turns up and you want to “show less like this.” The list of topics to unsubscribe from has zero relevance to the SEO article. You’ll see a list like “potatoes, ancient Egypt, Donald Trump, jasmine” when all you want is to see fewer articles about SEO. The function is so useless it would be better not to include it.Show lessfred564654
