Flipboard has taken the leap from mobile to desktop. What started as one of the first iPad apps is now accessible through any modern browser via Flipboard.com, a beautiful web interface for consuming online content.
Like the iPad and iPhone app, you can not only read articles from sites you follow, but also create custom “magazines” based on sources you choose.
As expected, the design of Flipboard’s web app is gorgeous. Articles are presented in clean typography with big images, and infinite scrolling makes it feel like you’re swimming in an endless sea of cool stuff to read. It’s kind of like Pinterest meets RSS meets Medium.
Flipboard’s bookmarklet makes it easy to save webpages to your collection from anywhere on the web (including Cult of Mac — we’re an official partner). Having the app’s reading experience available on the desktop, including its curated Daily Edition news service, will likely encourage its millions of users to check in more frequently.
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4 responses to “Flipboard brings its gorgeous magazine app to the web”
Unfortunately, Zite, which was a superior app to Flipboard, was bought out and shut down by flipboard.
Great thats its on PC, hoped it was going to be as dynamic as the App. Am waiting.
As a long time fan, and user of, newsreader apps on the iPad, I can assure you that Flipboard is a mediocre app. Their selection of articles and sources, and options for sharing and saving, are sub-par. Two other newsreaders, Zite and News360, are far superior. Many of us Zite fans are worried, because Flipboard bought them. We’re hoping that Zite lives on, and Flipbboard experiences a well-deserved death. If not, then most of us will migrate to News370, which is far superior to the tacky Flipboard…
Simply junk.