Pulse: the iPad’s Most Gorgeous Newsreader

John Brownlee ()

Created by Stanford alums Ashkay Kothari and Ankit Gupta as part of the Launch Pad class at the Stanford Institute of Design, Pulse is an absolutely gorgeous iPad newsreader that makes RSS and Atom feeds as easy as Google search, and even more gorgeous than Google Reader Play.

Co-founder Ankit Gupta says, “A lot of people we talked to were really confused about RSS and Atom and the whole vocabulary around news aggregators. We have thrown all those terms away, and made it as easy as Google search. You enter some keywords, Pulse gives you top results and you can pick the source you want to follow”.

Pulse’s UI is sublime: you swipe north to south to see headlines from various sources, left to right to see a source’s current stories, and tap to enlarge.

The only issue? A depressing limitation of only twenty RSS feeds. That said, I could probably live with that: as a blogger subscribed to several hundred feeds, when I take out my iPhone or iPad, I want my feeds to be pared down to the illuminating, fun and utterly essential anyway.

Pulse is available for the App Store now for just $3.99.

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[via 9to5Mac]

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John BrownleeJohn Brownlee is news editor here at Cult of Mac, and has also written about a lot of things for a lot of different places, including Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker, AMC, Geek and the Consumerist. He lives in Cambridge with his charming inamorata and a tiny budgerigar punningly christened after Nabokov's most famous pervert. You can follow him here on Twitter.

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  • http://cbrueggenolte.de carsten

    This looks so clean and easy to use.
    The organization in left-to-right bars is cool.

    If I had an iPad I would buy it.

  • darwin

    Do some more research before you post something next time. You can only put 20 feeds in the thing and it crashes constantly.

  • Matt H

    It’s not that THAT cool of an app, I was excited about RSS too when I was 23, 7 years ago! I don’t get all the hype about “apps” lately, they’ve been around for awhile they’re called websites! I understand the need for widget based apps or games, but c’mon do we really need text based apps that can be created the old way, on the web. Besides the web is not only viewable from an iPad but any device!! Please see my prototype as I began working today only to prove to myself that I still have it. I saw all this hype around this new app but don’t see what the big deal is. The design is cool, but the technology is nothing new…

    My “APP” -> http://www.dailyrss.com/ipad