What are the best news apps for iPhone or Android?
My favorites for the iPhone (some are available for Android, too):
personalized news apps, based on machine learning algorithms
- Zite (acquired by CNN)
- Hopflow
- Prismatic
- Material
- NOOWIT (app coming soon, currently web only)
- Trapit (iPad only)
- YourVersion
ranking news apps, news based on what the people you follow like, or what other people that use the same app like
- Cliqz
- Thirst
- Fireplug
social news apps, news based on what your friends and contacts on your social-networks like
- Undrip
trending news apps, news based on what is hot and popular
- Riversip (automatic)
- Digg (human, not automatic)
- Njuice (automatic)
- NewsWhip (automatic)
- Fever (automatic)
- Newser (human, not automatic)
- Frrole (automatic)
quick news, news articles shortened via text summarization
- Circa (human, not automatic)
- Wibbitz (automatic)
- Clipped (automatic)
- Summly (automatic)(acquired by Yahoo! & integrated in Yahoo! news)
- Simply (automatic)
audio news apps
- Umano
- Hourly News
- Stitcher
- Antenna
video news apps
- Newsy
- NowThis News
generic news apps, news aggregation based on your customization
- Feedly
- News Republic
- Newstream
- Taptu
- Pulse
- Google Currents
- News360
- SkyGrid
- StreamGlider (iPad only)
- NewsMix
- Info Junkie
- Float
- Trove
- Fluent News
- ChannelCaster
other news apps
- Blancspot
- Breaking News
Toplists of news apps for iOS (iPhone/iPad):
- http://appshopper.com/bestsellers/news/paid/?device=iphone&sort=rating&dir=desc
- http://appcrawlr.com/app/search?q=news&search=search&device=iphone
- http://www.appexplorer.com/?q=&c=6009&r=4&so=pop&dev=&p=5
- http://www.appstorehq.com/search/results?crumb%5Bcategory%5D=News&crumb%5Bplatform%5D=iPhone&crumb%5Brating%5D=4.0&crumb%5Brelease_date%5D=%2A-%2A&crumb_order=query%2Ccategory%2Crating%2Crelease_date&format=html&page=1
- http://www.appolicious.com/search_based_categories/11-news
- http://appadvice.com/appcharts/100?genre=news
Toplists of news apps for Android:
- http://www.appbrain.com/apps/popular/news-and-magazines/updated/?o=0
Deadpool of news apps I used, that are not available any more :(
Flud - http://www.flud.it/
Wavii - http://wavii.com/
Summify - http://summify.com/
my6sense - http://www.my6sense.com/
Smartr - http://smartr.mobi/