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The ads are too unbearable. It’s like 3/5 of every “article” you see and in between flips you have a fullscreen ad. The UI concept is great but that’s where it ends. It seems like the app has been around so long now that it’s just being squeezed for every penny to up profits year after year. My recommendation is you will be better off finding an alternative news app. If they were to just make it a purchase of around $2.99 I’d buy it to rid myself of ads and subscription based news if available.
Great source for a wide variety of news, updated frequently. You can select a bunch of different areas of interest when you setup the app for the first time. Update January 2022: Very frustrated with the app. Many times right in the middle of reading an interesting article will get kicked out and returned to the homepage. Ads are becoming so abundant that some links are unreadable. Too many clickbait links require a subscription.
One day I started receiving multiple emails per day from Flipboard with “curated” content. Annoying, but whatever, that’s how we roll these days. The truly egregious part is when I clicked on the link at the bottom to unsubscribe, it brought me here, where I evidently need to install the app to actually be able to unsubscribe from the unwanted emails. No thank you, Flipboard. I’m sure you’re lovely, but I don’t want your emails and I certainly don’t want your app installed.
I’ve used Flipboard for years but I can’t deal with it any longer. The ads from the majority of magazines I subscribe to have become intolerable. They take up half the screen; many have X’s so tiny that is nearly impossible to close the ad; they manically jump out in various locations; some don’t even let you close the ad; plus other annoyances that I won’t detail bc of the word limitation. It was great while it lasted, Flipboard.
I used to use Flipboard years ago and it was pretty good. But reading all these reviews about the ads and articles requiring a subscription is a big turnoff to me. It sounds like FlipBoard has gone off the deep end here. Too bad. It used to be a good concept. My guess is that they won’t be around much longer. No balance –> BIG TURNOFF! Plenty of other places just like FlipBoard that do this 1,000% better! All these reviews are telling them how to fix the app but they are not listening.
Been using this since the beginning. Looks great and has useful content. However, ads have proliferated over time to the point where they are intrusive, block content, and are hard to dismiss. Many articles now require subscriptions. App freezes frequently and will not load articles without having to restart and lose place in the feed. These problems greatly affect usability and I am uninstalling.
Sooooo….simply put, this app is NOT worth your time. Nor should it be an “Editors choice” While at first it seems amazing, you begin to tire of the constant attack of subscription requests and multiple ad overlays – as well as pages that don’t load. Eventually you will tire of even trying to use it. You can delete you cache. You can uninstall and reinstall to your hearts content. It won’t matter. The one thing Flipboard isn’t interested in is bringing you a solid news experience. $$$$$$$$$$!!!
This is basically CNN in app form. Wouldn’t recommend it at all. Especially if you are looking for a neutral news source. It’s utter garbage articles and all clickbaited inaccurate headlines. I honestly can’t believe that it has good ratings at all. Though, a lot of them look like bot ratings. Save yourself the headache of swiping away the notifications from this app and just don’t install it.
This app worked well for a very long time. A few months ago a glitch appeared. On many, if not most, of the news articles only the first page is accessible. Contacting Flipboard about the glitch was not possible from the app. When I finally reached them, they acknowledged the glitch. In the months since I contacted them the glitch persists an no update from Flipboard. I am still looking for an alternative app (not to be confused with an alternative fact 😉
Same as so many others have noted. The app was broken with the latest update. Can no longer flip side to side on multiple page stories. Flipboard can’t flip. You’d think that debacle would be an all hands on deck bug, but it persists. Flipboard does have it on their known issues list, so that’s a positive at least. They only give a work around though, and no indication that they are working on a fix. I still greatly miss Zite and only went to Flipboard as a fall back. If Flipboard won’t even flip, why should we even bother with it. Also as others have noted, fix it fast or I’ll move on. 11/1/18 UPDATE: the issue with flipping has finally been fixed starting with v4.2.4. Thank you. Moved from 2 to 4 stars. Still holding off on 5 stars due to crashing issues.
Please don’t take me back to the first story when I go back to the list! This app could be great, but when I use the phone’s back button or the one in the UI, about 60% of the time it takes me to the first story on the list. Oh my gosh how frustrating. I have to swipe down to get to the one I came from. Also randomly the stories repeat when you flip through them. I tried Flipboard because Google news sucks so bad (mobile data and battery killer), but I am so frustrated about this seemingly minor thing that makes me crazy!
Frustration! Articles are broken down in tiny segments over multiple pages…and you have to wade through tons of ads to find each “Next” to click on. And then if you get side tracked for very long or your computer flickers u have to start all over from the beginning. The articles, while they may contain useful/interesting content, aren’t worth wading through so much. Too often get kicked off or I give up before reaching the end or even to the essence of the article (re the titles”). 🙁
The news sources that charge for the news and want to sign you up for an account are annoying. The way you have to try to mute those is very confusing I can’t tell if I’m turning them off or not because it gives me a whole list of all of my favorites at the same time. Google news is super easy you just make one click that says hide all stories from New York Times, for example and you’re done. You should make this feature much more intuitive and simple.
This will eat through your data. Look at it on break at work. Ate though 455 megs. Over two 20 minute breaks. Uninstalled it. And wont be back. And that was day one for the month. Yup, done everything they said I should. And it still uses way more data than it should. Have turned off everything I could. As far as using my data for flipboard. Still uses an unusual amount of data. Since I’ve turned it off. My phone does tell me I’m using more data then normal.
Flipboard has become mostly unusable. Articles will not load unless you constantly refresh the app. If you inquire about help in app, they will just tell you to uninstall, reinstall. This does not fix it. It crashes all the time, freezes up. I’m a long time frequent user. I’ve enjoyed the app over the years, but after my experience this last year or so with lack of usability and lack of help, I’m on the hunt for something else. If anyone has any suggestions for a simiar app, I’m all ears.
I really do appreciate how your experience is completely customized to your interests. But 90% of the time I click on an interesting article, I am either redirected to a completely unrelated, random article or just taken to a “preview”. I try clicking around to see how to open it and the best way I’ve found is to select “open in browser”. What’s the point of using an app if you still need to open the articles in your phone’s browser? Uninstalled.
Horrible. I really liked flipboard until they started running ads that prevent you from reading the content last week. The last time I tried I had at least 6 ads in a row, each at least 30 seconds long, and everytime the new ad started, the text of the article would disappear. I only had about 5 seconds between ads to try and read anything. I gave up after 6 ads. I can find my news elsewhere.
I have a love/hate relationship with Flipboard. I love that it aggregates articles from a wide variety of sources, that I can mute sources I don’t want to see, and that I can view articles for one topic at a time. HOWEVER, its functionality leaves a lot to be desired. When it loads an article, it works fine. But it frequently hangs up when loading web pages, especially if they have many photos or videos. And if there’s a popover ad on the site, it’s usually game over, and I have to reload the app entirely. I love that I can disable autoplay for videos and GIFs in articles; but I hate that I can’t do the same for ads. Overall, it gets a solid C+ for my purposes.
Thus app has really degraded offer the last 90 days. Over the last 180 days the cash rate has changed skyrocketed. It crashes 3-8 times except 30 minutes or use. In the last 90 days, it will no longer own the second page when you have to flip pages on a tablet. It is borderline useless! I have to email article to view on my laptop. Please fix your usability issues.
The latest version has a change to the interface. It’s now very hard to actually leave the app. Plus they are posting from a lot of sources that require a subscription to view the articles. There is no way to report an article that contains errors. Finally, some of the ads lead to scam sites. I no longer recommend this news digest app.
Used to love this app but, it seems to be getting plagued with more and more issues as time goes on. Most recent issue has made the app unusable. After scrolling through a few stories, a page with a video ad will pop up. Once you get to that page, the video never plays, nor can you move forward or backward. App just 100% freezes and then the only way out is to close the app completely. Uninstalled.
Changed my rating from 5 to 2 stars. Used to be great. Now it has too many issues that make it frustrating to use. Stories won’t open, app freezes, app will suddenly reload randomly while in the middle of reading a story, the widget won’t update and sometimes unable to open flipboard from the widget. Phone is less than a year old and the app worked fine for the first few months so it isn’t the phone. Have uninstalled and reinstalled a number of times. Looking for a new app.
Wonderful news app. Initially the “flipping” mechanic turned me off but after using it a while it works very well. I enjoy having the widget on my home screen to stay up to date as well as following tags for related news. The only issue I have is with news I find relevant. Generally it’s spot on but I’ll frequently get something I don’t care about maybe 1 in every 9 or so stories so that could use some better tweaking but otherwise a great experience!
Although the UI is interesting, I don’t feel like I’m getting completely relevant news. There’s a lot of pop culture that I receive or political opinion pieces that get mixed up in the “for you” section or “daily 10” section that I am neither interested in or have ever searched. Some news articles also show up because the app thinks it’s relevant to the overall topic, when in reality it is far off.
I have been with Flipboard since the beginning and I have never seen so many ads overtake the content. Tiny video windows everywhere!!! Try to tap the impossible, tiniest “x” button on the screen and it either closes the ad (very infrequent), sends you to the ad content (frequent) or doesn’t work at all (frequent). I am about ready to uninstall this silent tracking everything I do pos software.
It’s OK as a reader, with a big if: IF you want to read the news that Flipboard thinks you should be reading. Personalization simply doesn’t work. I’ve repeatedly tried to mute the NY Times, but it won’t add it to the list and keeps using it as a source. Even sources that are on the mute list still appear. EDIT: OK, so what you’re saying is that when I go into the News or magazine feeds and every article has a “Mute” control, I shouldn’t expect those controls to work? Seriously?
I’ve enjoyed Flipboard over the years but now it crashes in the middle of random stories and I have to close it, poke a bunch of buttons, reopen the app, find the story I’m trying to read and hope that it will actually load this time. If it doesn’t I have to start the process again. Should have to work that hard. Saddly, uninstalled it until after it works again.
Used to love this app. Lots of content. Then subjects I followed started having irrelevant content. After upgrading my phone recently, it seems worse. The content seems consistently relevant, but there is also a lot less of it. Some areas rarely update. Have thought of uninstalling. Too bad. 11/28/2018 And nothing has really changed. All of the content is less substantive. Downgraded to two stars. Developer should care more about the consistency of their app. Have heard others say they have deleted it.
More ads than news. App is almost useless. Only exciting thing is your bi-weekly updates and me trying to figure out what you’ve changed for the worse. Your recent update will not allow articles to load. Yes, I’ve deleted the appropriate things, restarted the app, still doesn’t work. If I click view on web I can access it that way. Thanks! 2 stars to 1…
I used this app for about a year. At first, it had great news and articles. Gradually, more and more advertising has crept in, and now there’s so much advertising, I can’t find the news or articles anymore. A lot of the advertising is “disguised” as articles. I’m not sure what happened here Flipboard. It’s disappointing. I had to remove the app, and i will try a different news app now.
No longer a useful news aggregator. It used to be my go-to, and I loved it. But it now places a far heavier emphasis on commentary than news, the suggested storyboards are far too often and far too useless, and it doesn’t seem capable of identifying duplicate stories. I ended up spending more time flipping through than I did reading. It is a beautiful UI, and if you want non-news aggregated magazines (or want cable news transcribed on your phone) ymmv. As-is, I’ve deleted it from my phone.
Crashes frequently. Very frustrating. Recent changes have made things even worse, as I now can’t flip from page 1 of articles to page 2 or beyond. I saw where Flipboard Support says this is a known problem with certain versions of Samsung/Android, but they haven’t fixed it and it is now 4 months and counting after the first bug reports.
This is a great news app, and one of my favorites, but there’s something holding it back. I love the “reader view” feature that gets rid of all the extra bs and gives you a clean page to read. The problem with it is it takes freaking FOREVER at times to pop up. Why in the world would I want to wait for the entire page to load for me to load a different page because I didn’t want the whole page to load? It’s bad enough to make me try other apps. Please change it. Make it available at 1st click.
App is mostly good, but has a few really annoying features that make me avoid it a lot of the time. If you are reading an article and the phone goes to sleep or you take a call, the app resets and the story disappears and you can’t find it again. Search engine is worthless for finding stories. No matter how much you tell it you are not interested in certain topics, they keep showing up. Many articles disguised as real news are really just ads for products. Had my fill. Looking elsewhere.
This was my go-to app for staying up to date with current events. I used it, across many platforms: PC email, Android, & iOS. Then.. ..the quality of the feeds dropped significantly. Teaser headlines that led to subscription pay walls. Links to pages with so many ads that my phone would seize up. And, content that was only fit for tabloids. What went wrong Flipboard? You had something truly great and you destroyed it.
Flipboard used to be my one-stop app for my local and global news, but like everything else in life, all good things come to an end. Unfortunately, there are now too many 20-second video advertisements that must play from beginning to end before I can get a tiny bit of news. Sometimes it’s just all advertisements and no news because Flipboard will crash after the ad has played. Making matters worse is that these ads are often repeated on your screen, over and over… and over and over again.
Can’t flip! I often get to ad screens that I cannot flip past. The app is just frozen at that point, the “wait” spinner never stops. I can flip backwards, but I cannot go past whatever ad is blocking me. Maybe put a clock on the ads, if they don’t load in time allow us to move on to the next story. I am now in the market for a different news reader.
It used to work but now it has me in an endless loop of taking me to the same article and not letting me view anything else if I try to engage with it. It is read this or exit. The only reason I have not given up on it is because of the pop ups relevant news that show up in my notifications. But if I ever try to open it it will always take me to the same article it has taken me for years. I have tried updates, Uninstalling, and reinstalling but nothing changes.
This one star is to get someones attention. I have used this app for years and you have still not added the feature to organize the magazines we can create. There is no sort feature. I was even stupid enough to manually move all 60 magazines around only to see them immediately revert to the order they were created in. Just the ability to sort them alphabetically would make a huge difference. Im going to abandon this app. /rant
Since the demise of Google News & weather, if tried a few things. Flipboard is okay, but I really with it’s widget would show me more than one story. I like the lock screen ability, but getting to my home page is a bit bothersome. I would REALLY like to see sources with the title. I don’t want to stumble upon some blog unedited with a catchy title