Kees Romkes

[Review] Newsstand, RSS reader for the iPhone

Kees Romkes - Tuesday 27 October 2009 - 16:43 - 301 x read
Somedays you just run into an app that's just as brilliant as beautifull, today I ran into newsstand, an RSS reader for the iPhone.

Something I really miss on my iPhone is a decent news reader, normally I just use the web version of google reader, but a native app is just way smoother and don't forget we also have pincing, landscape reading and swipe actions just right there in the palm of your hand.

Reading a post in newsstand

So when I met Martijn Aslander today, he showed me this awesome news reader app and well, since he's the information specialist of days, I couldn't refuse and try it myself.


Categoric overview of my feeds

You can buy Newsstand in the iTunes store for € 3,99, not an easy price but well... Good apps come at a cost and in the end it'll be more efficient than starting a web browser myself.

Also sharing is made a lot easier on this app, thanks to support for multi link-sharing communities including :
I wrote about readitlater in this review before and well, this just makes my information flow just a bit easier.

Sharing a post in newsstand couldn't be easier

Reading news always starts in categories, from where you can go deeper into it and read seperate feeds or just the new articles in a category. Sharing afterwards is easy and thanks to synchronisation with google reader, I never read an article multiple times.

One of the features more interesting for less feeded users is the real "news stand" feature, where you can "Swipe" between newspapers and visually see the news passing by. I love to show this to others but with 125 feeds in my reader, not really that interesting, although it gives me a quickscan of topics in my reader at this moment.

Newsstand overview, great news visualisation

Conclusion:
Information weapon of choice, newsstand is really awesome. Push messages (although not working on my iPhone) would make this one really excellent and the lack of user suggested content (Google reader allows this since a short period of time) would finish this product.

Social Media Case Rating:
4/5 Stars



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Ing. Marc B.J. Overgaauw - Sunday 01 November 2009 - 22:24Dankjewel! De App werkt inderdaad erg netjes :)
Arif Gumussu - Friday 06 November 2009 - 01:34Ik gebruik netnewswire lite, die is gratis en werkt bijna hetzelfde als newsstand. De desktopversie van netnewswire synced met google reader net als de iphone app. Hij mist alleen delicous en read it later. 
Kees Romkes - Friday 06 November 2009 - 13:40Kan je bij netnewswire ook de "google proxy" gebruiken om grote websites leesbaar te maken op je iPhone scherm ? Scheelt namelijk nogal wat bandbreedte en daarmee tijd :) En het delen maakt het nou juist zo'n sterke app, ik kan op elk moment van de dag een boeiend bericht op twitter etc. plaatsen :)
Arif - Sunday 08 November 2009 - 21:43Netnewswire heeft ook twitter en instapaper maar geen delicous en read it later.
Het is een goed alternatief voor mensen die een gratis app willen.

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