Top 5 Best News Apps for Android

When headlines changes with a blink of the eye, it becomes necessary to get updates of everything happening near or far but around us. Most of us are so busy with our daily schedules that we need someone to gather the events for us. It is then, when news apps come into picture. Now without wasting time let me give you my top 5 best news apps for Android.

Pulse

This is Google’s Editor’s choice and it is no doubt a great choice. It allows you to select your preferred topics or news from a catalogue and specify the new source of your choice; this is one feature which you won’t see in any other news app. It gives you full control of the news; you can customize the news, streamline with Facebook, Twitter or book mark it. Here you can collect your selected news and RSS feeds in one app. This makes your life simple by avoiding going to each news provider separately. With Pulse you have the liberty of reading great content on some great websites after selecting content of your choice from the available categories. With built in web browser module to ease the web page loadings, it is also a favourite of some publishers which publish content specifically for Pulse users. Not only this, you can share the news via Email, Facebook and Twitter.

BBC News

It is one hub for international and local news and is immensely flexible news app which provides great control to the user. You will have a streamlined and personalized experience. You are free to select content as per your interest and at the same time you can specify the sequence or the design in which the selected categories should occur on the main page. It is neat and sober app with great freedom of choice (though sometimes slow navigation can be a problem as per the choice). Not just that; you can also access famed BBC Radio live service on go and also watch news report videos. Are you guessing the cost? Don’t, it is free. There are various other android news app in the market that you can download free of cost.

TIME Mobile

Do you prefer a simple and easily readable good content? You are at the right place. Time mobile news app (free) is very simple and straight forward. You can view it as a digital magazine. If you are interested in TIME magazine & their articles and looking for contributors of the articles then download it immediately. It covers almost all sections of the magazine and needs android version 1.6 and above to run. If you love cartoons, podcasts and quotes of the day, it won’t disappoint you. Plus it is also free. Few things which you may not like are - articles are marred by being written in large blocks of text. But yes it gives you the articles which are incredibly well written.

CNN

Are you looking for the continent specific news? CNN is for you. It will bring all the foreign news you would like to know at your doorstep. Here categories are not that elaborated and you may have to scroll down the list to read what you are interested in. One feature which is remarkable here when compared to other apps is – when you open a story in CNN, you see the bullet points which gives you a brief idea of the story. It will save your precious time in case you are less interested in details. News alerts, live videos and story following are some other great features. You can also contribute your own story/opinion and upload photos and videos directly through this app. So if you are interested in international news with bulleted summary with font of your choice, go for CNN.

Google Currents

If you are interested in current news, breaking/saved stories around the world in the field of business, lifestyle, fashion, sports, science, technology, design, food, entertainment etc. then Google current is good option. It will add the news as per your location, while you are travelling. It’s online and offline reading is very eye-pleasing, quite like magazine reading. Edition specific reading is easy here and you get free in-depth articles, videos, fine photography, and slideshows. Your Google lead subscriptions, blogs/feeds will be instantly converted to beautiful magazine like reading by this app. Google current widget is available for your home screen. “Google currents” is an app which supports 44 languages, not to be missed for sure.

These are my top 5, I am sure you can add more apps for android that you can download in your beloved phone.