Flipboard is a social news app that makes it easy to stay informed about the topics that matter most to you.
You can think of Flipboard as a smart magazine. Unlike traditional print magazines, Flipboard personalizes your content based on your interests, then displays relevant articles in a magazine-style layout that’s easy to interact with and pleasing to the eye. In addition to articles, you’ll see other types of content, including videos, podcasts, tweets, and more.
Users can use Flipboard to build digital magazines to share with other users; as you read through Flipboard content, you can easily add them to a new or existing magazine under your profile. Flipboard also lets you curate magazines based on your interest, on different sources, on sharing with a community, or on making a collection.
How the Flipboard App Works
Flipboard operates by making you literally flip through stories. It has a unique gesture-based flip feature that flips the page when you move up / down or left / right on the tablet, just like flipping the page of a real magazine.
How to Get Started With Flipboard
Download the free Flipboard app or sign up via a web browser at Flipboard.com. Flipboard will ask what your interests are by prompting you to select a few topics to follow; you can always unfollow these and add additional ones later.
Flipboard will then fill your home feed with stories based on the topics you’ve chosen. From here, you can begin using the app.
WITH FLIPBOARD YOU CAN:
- Get quick access to your top 9 interests in the Home.
- Read, like, and share stories on a variety of topics.
- Keep up with the news every day with The Daily Edition, a roundup of important stories you need to know.
- Get the latest news on important events with special magazines hand-curated by our editorial team.
- Engage with other Flipboard community members that share your interests.
- Collect stories around specific themes and save them into personal magazines.
- Read stories from The Guardian, BBC, The Telegraph, Forbes, Wired UK, Condé Nast, Rolling Stone, and many more top publications from around the world.
- Enjoy Flipboard in 25 local editions, including versions for Australia, Brazil, Turkey, India, and China.
Why You Should Use Flipboard
You might already get some of your news from other places online, such as by following news sources on social media, visiting individual sites, or subscribing to blogs. Flipboard, however, offers more benefits than these other ways of getting your news fix.
- Keep your friends’ lives separate from the news: News stories appearing on your Facebook or Twitter feed will be mixed in with the random posts from your friends and following. Although Flipboard is a social app, too, stories shown are always about news and don’t include any friendly social updates.
- Get the look and feel of a real newspaper or magazine: By far, one of the biggest things attracting people to Flipboard is its unique layout and gesture-based flip functionality.
- Get your news from reputable sources: Forget about finding news sources yourself because Flipboard does the work for you. When you follow a topic, you’ll see the latest and most popular articles from leading sources around the world.
- Personalize your news experience: Follow only the topics you’re interested in, the users who curate great stories, and the social accounts you want to integrate into your news experience.
- Become a news curator yourself: Remember, you can create magazines on whichever topics you like and share them with the community if you want.
USE FLIPBOARD TO:
- Keep up on the latest stories from the world’s leading publishers, including The New York Times, National Geographic, TIME, The Atlantic, BBC, and thousands more.
- Follow Local feeds for updates on COVID-19 as well as other regional news, weather, commute, sports, and dining.
- Create personalized news feeds based on your interests in “Smart Magazines”
- Curate stories to share with others: Use the + (plus) on any article to add them to your own Flipboard Magazine to collect for yourself or share ideas with friends.
- Enjoy expertly curated collections from our editorial team, including The Daily Edition, 10 for Today, The Tech Digest, The Tastiest, and more.
SOME OF THE PUBLISHERS ON FLIPBOARD:
- News & Politics: The New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post, Politico, Axios
- Technology & Science: TechCrunch, Wired, Fast Company, Popular Science, National Geographic, ReCode
- Business & Entrepreneurship: The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Fortune, Forbes, Inc. Magazine, Entrepreneur
- Wellness & Lifestyle: Brit + Co., Self, Greatist, Prevention, Women’s Health, Men’s Health
- Entertainment: People, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, PopSugar, Hollywood Reporter, Variety
- Food & Cooking: Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, Food52, Serious Eats, Eater
- Travel: Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, Lonely Planet, Budget Travel, AFAR
- Sports: ESPN, CBS Sports, Fox Sports, SB Nation, Bleacher Report
- Home & Gardening: ELLE DECOR, House Beautiful, Dwell, Remodelista, Gardenista
- Style: Vogue, Refinery29, GQ, Elle, Glamour, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, W Magazine
- Outdoor Adventure: Outside, Bicycling Magazine, Runner’s World, Snowboarder Magazine, Powder Magazine, Canoe & Kayak
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