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19 Of The Best iPad 2 Apps For Social News

  • Thomas Oppong
  • Jun 28, 2011
  • 3 minute read


BroadFeed delivers content shared on Twitter in a clean, easy-to-read format. It’s a new kind of newspaper—filled exclusively with stories and pictures that matter to you—minus the inky fingers.

Printful is a  reading application for both iPhone and iPad.  It allows you to read all the news, blogs, feeds and web pages that you could wish for, whenever you have time and in the best available format for your device.

TweetMag is a social magazine that reduces the noise that often plagues Twitter. It transforms Twitter into beautiful magazines of articles and media that people are tweeting about most. It’s like making a personal editorial team out of the people, lists and tags you follow.

Wired Magazine .You can subscribe to the iPad edition of WIRED. It’s the WIRED vision of how technology is changing the world, and it features exclusive content available on the iPad.

NewsRack. NewsRack is a full-featured RSS reader for iPhone and iPad with an intuitive interface. Skim over the latest headlines on a beautiful rack of newspapers (only iPhone/iPod touch) or use the powerful classic interface to read and organize feeds.

NYT Editor’s Choice . The improved NYTimes app for iPad now has more content, including blogs, videos and slide shows. Enjoy our Top News section for free, or subscribe and unlock all the sections in the app and get unlimited access to NYTimes.com on any device*.

Pulse is an RSS reader with a difference. Instead of displaying feeds as long lists of headlines, it shows them as a grid of images. Feeds can be spread across multiple pages, with up to 12 per page and up to five pages.

Flipboard takes content from your Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Google Reader accounts, and assembles it into a gorgeous ‘flipbook’.You can add sections from parts of your accounts, so you could have different sections for, say, Facebook photos of you and Facebook wall posts.

The Economist app provides a selection of articles from the weekly magazine for free and is updated each Thursday at 9pm. Subscribers to the print title or website get the whole magazine free. For everyone else, it costs £3.49 per issue, which you can get on a one-off basis as an in-app purchase.

Zite is a personalized magazine for your iPad that automatically learns what you like and gets smarter as you use it. Zite gives you personalized news, articles, blogs, videos and other content from a variety of both mainstream and niche publications and sites.

News.me offers a remarkable new way to find out what the people who interest you are reading right now. News.me offers a fresh, uncluttered, and compelling way to get your news via the luminaries you already follow on Twitter.

FLUD is a  personalized news ecosystem that empowers it’s users to engage and broadcast relevant content to their social networks.Access as many personally chosen feeds as you want, at any given time in a beautiful and usable news interface.

Blastr. Stay up-to-date with the latest from the front lines of science fiction, fantasy and the supernatural as Blastr’s entertainment coverage comes to your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.

Newsy delivers context with convenience to keep you informed on the world’s news stories. Through short videos on your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, Newsy accelerates your understanding of a news story by analyzing perspectives from multiple sources.

NPR for iPad: Experience NPR in magazine style with a focus on News, Arts & Life, and Music content that’s broad, deep, and timely.

NewsMix is a social magazine that retrieves the best news from your friends and from the web.It lets you stay up to date with both your social media AND the world’s news, create your own mix of news and share articles with your community.

Mixtab was designed around the concept of Tabs. A Tab holds a set of websites ( via RSS ) and Topics so you can read them all in one place! With Mixtab, you have a fun, easy way to follow your interests, whether it be sports, technology, fashion, cooking or anything else…

Web Feeds HD is a premier RSS reader for the iPad. Get all of your favorite news and blogs (RSS, RDF and ATOM feeds) delivered to the beautiful, Mail-like interface of Web Feeds HD, and you’ll be up to date wherever you go.

Slide Reader – A New Google Reader Experience for iPad

Thomas Oppong

Founder at Alltopstartups and author of Working in The Gig Economy. His work has been featured at Forbes, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, and Inc. Magazine.

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