# Flipboard: The Social Magazine — user reviews > 2,884 indexed App Store user reviews of Flipboard by Flipboard Inc., rated 4.70/5 from 328,699 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/flipboard-the-social-magazine/id358801284/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/flipboard-the-social-magazine/id358801284.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 257,045 · 4★ 49,118 · 3★ 11,680 · 2★ 3,926 · 1★ 6,930 ## What do users think of Flipboard? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Great news aggregator - 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly interface - 📰 Diverse content from reliable sources - 🗞️ Personalized news feed - 💡 Useful for staying informed **Cons** - 🔍 Difficulty finding specific articles - 🔋 High data consumption - 📢 Excessive advertising - 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs - 🤖 Irrelevant content recommendations **Commonly reported bugs** - Articles failing to load - Inconsistent navigation and UI behavior - Syncing and state preservation issues - Compatibility problems with newer iOS versions **Most requested features** - Offline reading mode - Improved search and filtering options - Customizable news feed preferences - Reduced advertising or paid subscription option - Better performance optimization ## Newest reviews (14 of 2,884) ### 3/5 — Ads!!! *2026-08-25, version 4.3.65* I have enjoyed this app for a very long time, but the ads are completely out of control covering almost the entire page making it very difficult to read indefinitely not enjoy. I’ll go back to buying magazines. This just isn’t fun anymore.!! ### 2/5 — Repetitive, narrow selections, lots of ads, too many stories requiring sign up subscriptions. *2026-08-21, version 4.3.63* Repetitive, narrow selections, lots of ads, too many stories requiring sign up subscriptions. I downloaded this app because it was recommended as not being all of the above. But it is precisely that. Not worth the effort. ### 2/5 — Annoying *2026-08-19, version 4.3.62* Doesn’t matter how many times I “Mute” a particular source, it will continue to show up repeatedly throughout a session while on Flipboard. It’s so annoying that I find myself just leaving the app. ### 4/5 — Still one of the better variety news apps *2026-08-18, version 4.3.61* They need to read out better the people that give you fake news or use black journalism they get headlines to get you to open it and it has nothing in the article about what the headline says. That’s a big negative against these guys. The other ones are the subscriptions needed. They need to do a better job of that. ### 3/5 — Same old *2026-08-18, version 4.3.61* Too many old and repeated stories. Why write about office worker that got dismissed unfairly 10 years ago? Who cares about “ Stars” shoe ware, purses, and sharing pictures of their babies, and baby bellies. Then,there are the rivers of ads ### 4/5 — Good… *2026-08-17, version 4.3.61* Like it but don’t like click bait come on headlines. Also don’t like it being used by media that truncates your reading by paywalls ### 4/5 — Sonnymean *2026-08-16, version 4.3.61* Why must you include stories from sources that tease you with a couple sentences then want you to pay to join ? ### 4/5 — Ads *2026-08-13, version 4.3.61* Too many ads ### 2/5 — Too much advertising *2026-08-09, version 4.3.61* For little 2 page snippets, you are barraged with dozens of ads, sometimes covering 80% of the screen. All for a one minute article. ### 3/5 — Good in theory *2026-08-04, version 4.3.60* Too many pay-walls really earns a failure in execution. Flipboard would be a nice combination with Apple News - it offers such breadth. Alas, much of the added content is null. ### 3/5 — good, not great *2026-07-29, version 4.3.60* There are a lot of reasons to like this aggregator. There are hundreds of outlets to choose from. It’s easy to tailor your feed the way you like. Creating and sharing magazines is fun. The community is robust if you like chatting about the stories. There are also some reasons not to like it. The app heats up your phone like an oven. It sucks up your data like a Dyson, in 27 days it’s eaten a whopping 31 gigs of data. It scrapes and sells a huge amount of your personal information. And even though it tries to give you options around ads and paywalls the outlets find ways to get you anyway. ### 1/5 — Need to get a pop-up blocker as well *2026-07-26, version 4.3.59* You can't read a story without a pop-up blocker on Flipboard cause its coming across what you're trying to read. Not to mention all the worthless repeat stories on Flipboard ### 1/5 — There’s better free apps that do the same thing *2026-07-24, version 4.3.59* If you find an article you actually want to read (99% of articles are ads and schemes to impeach Donald Trump - even if you turn political articles OFF) you’ll never be able to actually read it because the pop up spam will make the article disappear completely. ### 3/5 — Nice collection of Slop *2026-07-19, version 4.3.58* A grab bag of whatever our AI Overlords decide to throw at us. But there are some gems amidst the mess. Enough apes banging away at keyboards will eventually produce something readable. Not great, probably not good, but amusing enough for us to momentarily forget our Mortality. There are worse things out there. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Liberian *2026-08-24, version 4.3.63* Flipboard sucks! Comment section is being overseen by bleeding heart liberals, not too mention bots always serving up discord. ### 1/5 — Ad promotion hampers the disabled!!! *2026-08-22, version 4.3.63* Very disheartening for the disabled. The ads not only cover the bottom 20% of the screen, but also have floating boxes on the screen. How can the visually impaired use voice over when a dialog box covers the main content? ### 1/5 — Terrible scam ads *2026-08-20, version 4.3.63* Please remove any scamming ads and there’s far too many of them especially the pop ups. ### 1/5 — Links *2026-08-19, version 4.3.62* Annoying links to articles that consistently don’t work ### 1/5 — To many ads! Way too many Amazon ads. *2026-08-17, version 4.3.61* I have used Flipboard for a couple years and it has progressively gotten worse. Ads everywhere Amazon selling everything. AI that doesn’t know how to spell, waste of time. ### 1/5 — Need to get a pop-up blocker as well *2026-08-14, version 4.3.61* You can't read a story without a pop-up blocker on Flipboard cause its coming across what you're trying to read. Not to mention all the worthless repeat stories on Flipboard ### 1/5 — Adds *2026-08-13, version 4.3.61* You cannot read an article without being bombarded by pop adds. I give up on trying to read most articles ### 1/5 — Give me a paid option *2026-08-11, version 4.3.61* The ads flashing across the page ALL THE TIME are unrelenting and the alerts warning that I have a virus are just not true. I hate this app. ### 1/5 — Good News App but *2026-08-08, version 4.3.61* Too many freezes ### 1/5 — Have to close app to not watch long ads *2026-08-06, version 4.3.60* Recently, some links you click on start a 10 or 15 second ad before a video. There is no way to go back without watching or closing the app entirely, and reopening. This happens often enough to be extremely irritating. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Nouvelles factuelles *2026-08-24, version 4.3.64* J’aime bien me renseigner sur Flipboard. Les articles sont pour la plupart non biaisés. ### 5/5 — Love Flipboard! *2026-08-18, version 4.3.61* I choose my mags, get what I want. There is always something I want to read. A never delete. ### 5/5 — Fantastic *2026-08-11, version 4.3.61* But too many subscriptions ### 5/5 — Love this *2026-08-08, version 4.3.61* Fell in love with the app. Makes reading fun, makes articles and the ad filled web approachable. Curating your own magazine is just fresh and I absolutely love the flip mechanic. Really makes engaging with the web a little more analog. Very important for human beings. Great job guys! ### 5/5 — Edits ? *2026-08-03, version 4.3.60* Please allow Editing Options in Published Comments On News Articles In Flipboard. ### 5/5 — Love reader mode! *2026-08-03, version 4.3.60* Best feature is reader mode. No adds or popups. Just lets me read the article in peace. ### 5/5 — Flipping Great! *2026-07-18, version 4.3.58* I love this way of getting news and learning. Thank everyone at Flipboard. ### 5/5 — Miss the Samsung Bixby Home Widgets *2026-07-06, version 4.3.55* But they are back on Apple ### 5/5 — Appreciate *2026-06-20, version 4.3.53* I love the platform. Not all articles open or are unscripted but headlines/titles pretty much speak for themselves ### 5/5 — Indispensable *2026-06-19, version 4.3.53* À ne pas manquer, belle présentation des articles de partout en français. Bravo --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-04.*