Custom News app for iPhone and iPad
4.4 (
1944 ratings )
News
Entertainment
Developer:
Centered Systems
0.99 USD
Current version:
1.5, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 22 Sep 2009
App size: 744.09 Kb
Read multiple newspapers in a single app. Then customize to read only your favorite sections.
Custom News presents news items from leading newspapers, magazines and other sources. You select the sections you want to see and the order in which to see them.
Highlights
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- Read news in portrait or landscape mode
- Email news items to friends
- Select newspaper sections
- Reorder newspaper sections
You get news from:
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- Chicago Tribune
- Dallas Morning News
- Houston Chronicle
- Miami Herald
- Philadelphia Inquirer
- Pittsburgh Post Gazette
- San Francisco Chronicle
- Irish Times
- London Times
- The Globe and Mail
- Times of India
Sections include:
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- Top News
- National
- World
- Business
- Politics
- Technology
- Sports
- Health
- Entertainment
- and more
Future versions will include more news sources and more customizable sections.
For Help
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Tap Settings & Help
To select a different newspaper:
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1. Tap on its name in the tab bar, or
2. Tap "More" and then tap the name
To move different newspapers to the front row:
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1. Tap "More"
2. Tap "Edit"
3. Drag and drop items between the tab bar and the main screen
4. Tap Done
To customize sections:
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1. Tap the filing cabinet icon on top left
2. Tap the on/off switches to show/hide sections
3. To change the order of the sections, tap "Reorder", hold the thumb control on the right and move up or down
4. Tap "Done"
Pros and cons of Custom News app for iPhone and iPad
Custom News app good for
Excellent newreader thats simple to navigate, has a clean, attractive interface and uses intuitive controls. Highly recommended.
It is definitely easy and quick: Easy to use the software and quick to read the daily news from multiple publishers.
Loads articles fast and supports landscape mode. This is the best way to get news to your iPhone!
Centered Systems has another Winner ! This is the only app you need for News. Nice interface and easy to use. I would like more choices of Newspapers.
This is excellent app!! All I needed was to select the newspapers and the sections I loved to read.
I like the clean interface and the ability to rearrange the sections. I turn some sections off to reduce clutter and move my favorite sections to the top based on each newspaper.
Some bad moments
The screen grabs are a bit deceptive. The headlines in this app are formatted for the iPhone, but once you click on the article, youre reading from a Safari-type format, not something thats formatted for the iPhone.
If the articles were as cleanly formatted as the headlines (specifically for mobile hand-held reading), this would be a great bargain at 99 cents. As it is, Id recommend trying Fluent News or News Addict, or the individual apps for NY Times, USA Today, CNN, etc. instead.
Not to bad gets every big news sight on one thing but very buggy, needs update that will increase speed and shorten delay when switching from screen to screen
I would have rated previous version a 4star but without the bigger national papers, it is much less useful to me. The Washington Post, Boston Globe and USA Today along with the Chicago and California papers gave me a great balance. Without them the app is much less useful, especially for the IPAD.