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Best android news widgets

1.Feedly

Free download

Feedly is an app for both Android and iOS that consolidates all your favorite feeds into one place. Feedly's interface is simple and easy to navigate. It features customizable notifications for the latest news and breaking headlines.

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  • Grace Murphy

    by Grace Murphy

    No doubt the neatest and most efficient app I've ever laid my hands on. I'm not a very organized person, to begin with, but I love to read articles wh More

  • Edward Morrison

    by Edward Morrison

    Feedly is an amazing Android news widget. You're able to find all your news easily and sort them to however you want.

  • by Walter Peterson

    I've been searching around for an app that lets me consolidate all of my feeds into one spot. Feedly does that!

  • by Ricardo Venegas

    Feedly takes all your links to live feeds and consolidates them into one easy to use app. Add links in a user friendly interface and stay connected wi More

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    by Irina Ostrovskaya null

    The widget does not update and freezes /crashes all the time!

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    by Peter Franzke null

    Tried both Feedly and Flipboard on my Samsung Galaxy S6. For older Android devices Feedly is the way to go as it's lighter on the devices resources. T More

2.Flipboard

Free download

Flipboard is a reader that allows users to draw from blogs and publications in order to create their own personal magazine. You can also connect to social networks to see what your friends are posting. It's available on Android and iOS devices.

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  • Lisa Jacobs

    by Lisa Jacobs

    This is a cool widget! I wanted one for daily news, but this brings in from various sources at once, instead of just one. It does exactly what I neede More

  • Donna Ruiz

    by Donna Ruiz

    A great app for keeping up with the latest news, plus the interface is really awesome I've never seen anything quite like it.

  • Anthony Woods

    by Anthony Woods

    flipboard has been one of the most creative ways online to put together a nice story by collecting info from different sources

  • by Nicholas Black

    This would be an acceptable solution. The app is specifically news oriented, but it could certainly be used to curate which news the user sees.

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    by Peter Franzke null

    Flipboard is by far the best looking news app and easily wins in the widget department. My only knock is that for older Android phones it can be drain More

3.Inoreader

with in-app purchases
Inoreader is a feed reader that lets you access all your favorite newspapers online in a few clicks and for free, so that you can stay updated with the latest news from your favorite websites and blogs.
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  • Justin Wagner

    by Justin Wagner

    Inoreader is very user-friendly from my experience of using it for almost two years now. It helps me track all the articles i want to read later and k More

  • Doris Vargas

    by Doris Vargas

    This is the only news widget i've tried with 0 ads, i'm definitely sticking to this.

4.gReader

Free download
gReader is a simple and fast rss/feed reader for Android devices that allows users to receive the latest stories from his favorite sites and blogs in just one place.
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  • Joe James

    by Joe James

    I believe that gReader has a lot of capabilities, however its interface seems a little too busy. To me I want a clean and simple news widget that pres More

  • Carl George

    by Carl George

    Great solution. Allows Android users to get news fast.

  • Rachel Boyd

    by Rachel Boyd

    this is a very useful reader for android users

5.NYTimes

with in-app purchases

With the NYTimes app developed by The New York Times Company for Android and iOS devices, you'll get breaking news alerts, morning briefings, a today widget and more.

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  • Patrick McDonald

    by Patrick McDonald

    I always appreciate it when an App provides me with an important update without having to open the App itself. Generally the widgets provided with mos More

  • Arthur Guerrero

    by Arthur Guerrero

    I wanted to start keeping up with the news since its become a bigger topic due to the political climate in the past year. I downloaded this and dedica More

6.Google News

Free download

Google News is a news aggregator app developed by Google for Android and iOS devices. The app provides a comprehensive and personalized view of headline stories and local news & weather. 

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  • Judith Walker

    by Judith Walker

    It's important to keep on top of things like news and weather, so I was looking at some easy and unobtrusive widgets that I could periodically check.  More

  • by Nicolás Alonso

    Google News and Weather is the go to app for news on your phone. The widget provides you with all the latest news and will keep your android widget up More

  • Larry Campbell

    by Larry Campbell

    I don't like google widgets. I think there are a lot of better widgets for any task, for weather my favorite is probably the weatherchannel weather wi More

  • Billy Bryant

    by Billy Bryant

    The first thing I check on my phone everyday is Google News and Weather. It is the best Android widget to keep me up to date on daily news and weather More

7.Foldery

with in-app purchases
Foldery - Multicon Folder Widget is an app developed by UrySoft for Android devices. The app is mainly used for designing widgets of apps folders on the desktop of your device.
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  • Jane Harvey

    by Jane Harvey

    Foldery Multicon Folder Widget helps me organize my android device and news widgets. It allows me to use many icons and increase the size of important More

  • Angela Gu

    by Angela Gu

    Design your own widgets for your Android apps. Allows more widgets than typical for Android

8.Scrollable News Widget

Free download
Scrollable News Widget is a small lightweight RSS and news reader widget app developed by Gilles Dodinet for Android devices with a few customization options.
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  • Dylan Lane

    by Dylan Lane

    The Scrollable News Widget is an alright solution for those looking a good app of this kind that works with Android phones, but other options might be More

  • Lori Hudson

    by Lori Hudson

    The Scrollable News Widget lets me keep up to date with the news that is important to me. I like how I can customize the exact news sources I want to  More

  • Donald Brooks

    by Donald Brooks

    At long last I have finally found a news widget that actually does what I want it to do. Compared to most Android new widgets this one has just the ri More

DID YOU KNOW?

Did you know that prior to literacy, town criers held the responsibility of spreading news, announcements, and information to people within the town? Town criers usually wore garish outfits to make them stand out amongst the crown and often carried a trumpet to call the attention of the crowds before making announcements. The English word “news” was coined during the 14th century as a special use and a plural form of the word “new”. Although the exact time and place wherein this term originated from isn’t necessarily agreed upon, evidence suggests that cultures around the world have found an avenue for people to share stories about new and information that are deemed interesting.

Ancient civilizations have practiced questioning travelers for news as a matter of priority. In ancient Greece, daily happenings and major events were spread within their respective “agoras” or public forums. Nowadays, plenty of print and online platforms offer their audiences a chance to catch up on important events, happenings, and gossip. The news is usually spread by word-of-mouth, which oftentimes causes them to become untrustworthy as information can become warped as it passes by from one person to another, making it difficult for fact-checkers and truth seekers to determine if a certain piece of information is true or not.

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