Breaking ~ Your News At A Glance app for iPhone and iPad
4.4 (
2944 ratings )
News
Lifestyle
Developer:
Robocat
2.99 USD
Current version:
1.6.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 04 Mar 2015
App size: 33.65 Mb
Breaking is a feed reader and a today widget giving you a simple and fast way of keeping track of what’s new in your world.
Add local news, your favourite blogs or anything else that comes with a feed as a Today widget. The latest stories will always be right there when you have time for them, a single gesture away. View latest stories from the Today View or explore complete feeds from the Stories view in the app. Read, share, dismiss and save for later reading. Breaking just straight up makes news consumption a breeze.
** Features **
- Display the latest stories from your feeds in the Today View in Notification center, a single swipe away.
- Get the full picture from the stories view inside the app.
- Explore popular stories and feeds from other Breaking users.
- Swipe to dismiss a story and view the next.
- Tap a news item and go straight to the full story in your browser.
- Type in a name or a url and we’ll search the site and find the feed for you. It’s really easy.
- Supports a lot of feed types, including RSS, Atom and Youtube channels.
- Highly customisable settings, letting you control things like story extracts, number of stories in the widget, Open in readability, multiple browser support and much more.
** More Breaking **
If you’re enjoying Breaking for iOS, make sure to try out the Mac sister-app: The same awesome functionality build for Yosemite.
** Support **
If you have any questions or comments please send us an email at [email protected]. Note that If you leave a support question in the comments we wont be able to write you back, so just shoot us an email instead.
Due to limitations by iOS, we are unable to show more than three stories on iPhone 4S and older, four stories on iPhone 5 and 5S and five stories on iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. However, when you swipe to dismiss a story, new stories will be loaded and displayed in the today view.
Pros and cons of Breaking ~ Your News At A Glance app for iPhone and iPad
Breaking ~ Your News At A Glance app good for
Love this app more and more with every update! Love the addition of Pocket to the mix!
With multiple browser and reader service support, the only thing missing from this great app is something that would probably be too complex to implement - syncing with your favorite news reader service (Feedly in my case).
Besides that wish, I find that Breaking has everything I want in a widget for quickly skimming over, saving for later reading, or immediately viewing the latest articles from your favourite news or blog feeds.
Some bad moments
You cant even open the RSS feeds in the app itself ... just the Today View? Im sorry but there must be something Im missing to validate the $3.49 I blew on this app.
Needs a menu or something to help you locate rss news sites, for local, national and international news. Need categories to help find your interests, eg. Local news, lifestyle, medical, etc... Need a way to prioritize your news feeds as you cant display everything in the today widget.
I really like robocat; however, this version seems like it was rushed out way too quickly as it doesnt work at all and if it does, it is really glitchy and lacks polish. For example - the Today widget either shows an empty screen or Unable to Load. Same issue occurs on OS X. :/
The idea is a really good one: Integrate an RSS reader into the Notification areas of OS X and iOS. Have them all synch through the iCloud so all of your feeds are always wherever you are.
On OS X it gets about 75% there. The search feature doesn’t work. That’s another review, though.
On iOS it doesn’t seem to update. This is the one job it’s supposed to do and, unless I’m missing something, it won’t update neither on my iPhone or my iPad. Each show, in the notification area, the original feeds that were loaded when I initially synch’d up. It’s been nearly 24 hours and I’m still looking at news from yesterday. I’ve gone through all of the settings and set it to update in the background and use cellular when needed and I still get nothing.
Actually, I do get something: "Unable to load.” I either get the original news items from when I originally setup the feeds or “Unable to load.”
Hopefully they’ll release an update soon and fix it because it’s a good idea.
Right now, if you’re thinking about purchasing this you should hold off because it just doesn’t work.
You have to type the full site in there... Works fine for me not sure if the other dummies were smart enough to figure that out...
I assumed this was like any other RSS reader but included a Today widget. Nope. This *literally* does one thing, it *only* shows feeds in the Today widget. You cant read the articles in the app. You cant star or save articles for later. In fact, the app is nothing more than a Settings page.
