A portable and internet-connected device with a touch screen, especially a sizable one like the iPad, makes for a pretty slick platform for reading news. Here's a look at the five most popular iOS newsreader apps.Earlier this week we asked you to share your favorite iOS newsreader app, and now we're back to highlight the five top nominations.
Reeder (iOS, $4.99)
Reeder is a Google Reader client with an inventive interface, optimized for the touchscreen of iOS devices, and heavily integrated with other web-based services. Not only does Reeder sync with your Google Reader account, but it also has built-in send to/sharing services to let you send articles to services like Instapaper or Read It Later, save them to Delicious, Pinbard, or Zootool, post them to Facebook or Twitter, share them via email, or open them in Safari. You can interact with your RSS feed just like you would in Reader, including adding notes and starring articles. [iTunes App Store]
Flipboard (iOS, Free)
Flipboard bills itself as a social magazine and a revolutionary way to get news from all corners of your life (others apparently agree, as it was named iPad App of the Year by Apple). Flipboard organizes incoming information from your various sources: Google Reader, Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr, and allows you to customize your Flipboard to your heart's content to see the people, lists, groups, blogs, and photostreams that are important you. Beautiful interface aside, one of the strong selling points for Flipboard is the high level of interactivity it provides with all the services you roll into it, including easy Facebook and Twitter updates, favoriting photos in Flickr, starring articles in Google Reader, and more. [iTunes App Store]
Pulse (iOS, Free)
Pulse offers a lot of features and eye candy for a very nice free-as-in-beer price tag. Pulse supports dual view, so each article you tap on to read can be read either cleanly formated for Pulse or as it would appear on the source's web site. You can pre-load Pulse with your daily news for offline reading however far underground or out of range your daily commute takes you. You can also easily import your feeds from Google Reader but Pulse does not, as many other readers in this Hive do, integrate directly with Google Reader. Pulse supports sharing via Facebook, Twitter, Instapaper, and email. [iTunes App Store]
MobileRSS (iOS, Basic: Free, Premium: $2.99)
MobileRSS is another polished reader that syncs with your Google Reader account. You can mark items as read (or force them to stay unread), star items, download your feed list for offline reading (including images), and save images from your feeds directly to your Photo Album. You can also share items by email, Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Read It Later, and Instapaper. For those of you still annoyed by Apple's removal of the rotation-lock functionality with the last iPad update, MobileRSS supports software-based rotation lock to keep things fixed in landscape mode for widescreen reading. (Though take heart—hardware orientation lock is coming back in iOS 4.3.) The free version is ad-supported; remove the ads by upgrading to the $2.99 premium version. [iTunes App Store Free /Premium]
Byline (iOS, Basic: Free, Premium: $4.99)
Although all of the applications in this roundup are compatible with both the iPad and the smaller iOS devices like the iPhone and iPod touch, Byline packs a lot of functionality into a small space—perfect for those catching up on their news via their phone. Byline supports two-way syncing with Google Reader, integration with Twitter, Instapaper, and Read It Later, caching of the newest 1000 articles in your feed for easy offline reading, and intelligent caching that automatically downloads articles from sites that truncate their news feeds. The basic version is ad-supported; upgrade to the $4.99 premium version for ad-free reading. [iTunes App Store Free / Premium]
Now that you've had a chance to look over the five most popular iOS-based newsreaders among Lifehacker readers, it's time to cast a vote for your favorite:
Which iOS Newsreader Is Best?
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