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News Follower

Posted Thursday, May 13th, 2010 at 10:00 am by Antonio Wells 0 Comments

User Rating3.25/5

News Follower allows you to follow news on any topic from Google News and Twitter. The app is the best experience for Google News on Android. It also provides similar functions like Google Alert w/o requiring an account. An ad-free pro version is coming with supports for: Sharing, Notification, Archive News.

Price: Free

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Pros & Cons:

Pros

• Simple news aggregate on choice topics from Google News & Twitter
• Google Alerts feature… No Google Account required
• Save/Remove search topics

Cons

• Very basic app, Pro features will make it more enticing

Features:

News Follower Android App is a simple news aggregate from topics you search via Google news. It is not an RSS reader app. However it finds all top news articles based on your search with option to more articles similar to the lead topic. Think of it as the Google Alerts feature with signing into your Google account. Plus you can save and remove search topics. Tapping on a article sends you to the content authors website to read more.

Usefulness:

New Follower can be very useful to those who like to keep up with top news topics of their choice, especially those fond of Google News aggregated service.

Ease of Use:

The app is simple to use; search your topics, save them, browse the results, off to reading.

Frequently Used:

User dependent. An avid user could launch the app multiple times daily.

Interface:

The user interface is basically a search and results list; results can have more related articles and revealed by toggling the arrow.

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