And unlike Flipboard, it doesn’t let you add additional feeds within the app. Taptu is unlikely to win a design award-its homepage is too crammed with information, too claustrophobic: I counted 56 separate visual elements on the page when I used the app.īut News.Me doesn’t give you access to your Twitter lists. In many ways, this free offering is indistinguishable fromĪlphonso Labs’ Pulse News ( ), which which recently won anĪpple Design Award at June’s Worldwide Developers Conference.

If you’re looking to combine all your information sources into one app, you’ll have to look elsewhere.

One, two, or three columns per page? Do you want a simple list of headlines from a news source, or a summary of each story? Pulp is so endlessly customizable, that it might actually be your fault if you don’t like it, with one possible exception: There’s no way to import your Facebook and Twitter feeds. You select the news feeds you want to read, then choose the layout. This $5 app from Acrylic Software doesn’t try to compete with Flipboard’s magazine style, instead turning its users into newspaper designers.

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