Flipboard: Your Personal News Magazine

Flipboard is a free app that collects news articles, blog posts, and videos from across the internet and presents them in a clean, clear, readable magazine format. Instead of visiting ten different news websites every morning, Flipboard gathers the stories you care about into one organized place — and you flip through them like pages in a magazine.

You choose what goes into your Flipboard by selecting topics you are interested in. When you first open the app, it will ask you to pick topics from a list — things like Health, Travel, Local News, Sports, Politics, Technology, Cooking, and hundreds of others. Flipboard then pulls in relevant articles from major publications and websites for each topic.

Flipboard is free and available on iPhones, iPads, and Android phones. There is also a website version at flipboard.com for use on a computer. The basic version has no ads in the content itself — though it does include promoted content from time to time.

One of Flipboard's nicest features is that it works well offline. Once you have loaded a few articles, you can read them without an internet connection, which is helpful on airplanes or in areas with poor reception.

You can also "flip" (save) articles to personal collections called "Magazines" that you create yourself. For example, you could create a Magazine called "Gardening Ideas" and save relevant articles to it over time. You can keep your Magazines private or share them with others.