Flipboard: The Social Magazine 12+
Stories curated by enthusiasts
Flipboard Inc.
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- Free
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Description
Go beyond the headlines and hot takes, and dive deeper into the stories that matter to you with the award-winning Flipboard app. Flipboard is made for and by enthusiasts, with content curated on thousands of topics from world renown publishers, local outlets and the community.
Personalize Flipboard to get just the content you care about. Follow business, health, tech, sports, cooking, travel and more to stay up-to-date, dive deeper into the things you love or discover something new. You can even follow local news and events. Just enable location services to get a list of towns and cities near you.
Collect stories you like into your own Flipboard Magazine. Use the + (plus) button on any story in Flipboard to add it to your own Magazine. Make your Magazine public to share ideas and insights with an ever-growing community of enthusiasts curating on Flipboard.
USE FLIPBOARD TO:
- Keep up on all your interests with the latest stories from leading national publishers including Associate Press, The Washington Post, ESPN, National Geographic, NPR, TIME, The Atlantic, BBC, CBS, NBC and thousands more.
- Follow your city for local updates, regional news, weather, commute, sports, and dining.
- Curate stories you find informative or inspiring and share with others: Use the + (plus) button on any article to save it to your own Flipboard Magazine.
- Follow other experts and enthusiasts who are curating about topics you love.
- Turn on notifications and use the Flipboard widget to get stories delivered to you everyday.
GET FLIPBOARD IN YOUR INBOX:
Now get the amazing content and curation on Flipboard delivered to your Inbox. There’s a Flipboard Newsletter for our most popular topics. Sign up for The Tastiest for foodies, the Tech Briefing for tech enthusiasts, the Climate Briefing for environmental news, Wanderlust for travelers, The Shot for photographers and many more.
Visit flipboard.com/newsletters to view and subscribe to all of the Flipboard Newsletters.
KEEP UP WITH FLIPBOARD:
For product updates, the latest from our blog, and tips on how to use Flipboard, follow us on Flipboard and other social platforms:
https://flipboard.com/@flipboard
www.twitter.com/@flipboard
www.facebook.com/Flipboard
https://www.instagram.com/flipboard/
We’d love to hear what you think! Reach out to our support team under Settings > Help & Feedback. For any other technical issues or questions, contact us at http://flip.it/support.
What’s New
Version 4.3.25
Update your app for bug fixes and performance improvements.
Check out new sources and community Magazines in your Explore tab.
Tune your For You or Topic feeds using the three-dot action to personalize your experience.
Add your Mastodon feed to Flipboard; go to your Following tab (four squares icon) and select “Accounts”.
Ratings and Reviews
Flipboard ads are getting desperate
Flipboard has switched on full-screen ads that can pop up whenever they want, and often. I frequently have to dismiss the same ad several times a minute WHILE READING AN ARTICLE. It makes the app unusable. Looks like the aggregate news app business isn’t doing well. Pity, as it used to be one of the killer apps of iOS.
Developer Response ,
Thanks for your feedback and we apologize for your experience. We try to serve relevant ads to our users. Even though there is no way to hide ads at this time, your feedback is valuable to us. For further feedback, Please select "Contact" at flip.it/help and we can further assist you.
An app that doesn’t understand itself
Flipboard is a content discovery app but it thinks it’s a news app.
Why is it the former and not the latter? In news apps you can see all the headlines as you scroll down the screen, then click on the ones that interest you. If it refreshes it’s either not a big deal because you can simply scroll back to where you’ve left off or actually welcome new feed.
In Flipboard you can only flip through one or two stories at a time at a leisurely clip. Sometimes you have to flip through dozens of stories without finding anything. You put the phone down for a minute and here Flipboard springs a nasty surprise - it refreshes the feed as if there was some breaking news story that you simply need to know. In reality it’s maybe two articles about cats or underwater chess. But now you need to flip through all the same stories page after page if you want to reach the content you haven’t done before. Why not let the user decide when to refresh? Why not make the app remember where we left off and take us back there? Why not insert the ‘breaking news’ stories at the next flip instead of forcing a complete refresh?
Swipe sensitivity
Generally a great aggregator app. One thing that really grinds my gears though…
Can some thing be done about how easily the app recognizes a slightly off vertical swipe (to scroll an article) as a horizontal swipe (forward or back)?
I don’t have this issue with any other app. It wouldn’t be such a problem if it were easy to go back to the article that I just “back-ed” away from. (Due to the constant updates even while I’m reading…. Which is generally a good thing, I suppose)
Developer Response ,
Hi there,
Thank you for your feedback! We will share this with our team to make them aware of this usability block.
Thank you.
App Privacy
The developer, Flipboard Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Location
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Search History
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Flipboard, Inc.
- Size
- 169.9 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.7 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.7 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.7 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 6.2 or later.
- Languages
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English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
- Copyright
- © 2010-2022 Flipboard Inc.
- Price
- Free