When comparing Google Play Newsstand vs Yahoo News Digest, the Slant community recommends Yahoo News Digest for most people. In the question“What are the best news readers?” Yahoo News Digest is ranked 14th while Google Play Newsstand is ranked 16th. The most important reason people chose Yahoo News Digest is:
Great look and feel to the app as you swipe though stories or scroll down on a headline to read more details. Most stories come with custom designed graphs tailored for the story.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Reads magazine subscriptions as well as free news content
Pro Simple card-based interface
Pro Wide selection of sources
Pro Multiple feeds ("highlights", "news", "business", "entertainment", "sports")
Pro Automatically knows your interests based on Google search history
Pro Beautiful UI design
Great look and feel to the app as you swipe though stories or scroll down on a headline to read more details. Most stories come with custom designed graphs tailored for the story.
Pro Great for a casual reader of the News
Rather than give you full articles, the app creates "Atoms". It's a short summary of the news event, generated from a variety of different sources.
It provides infographs, images, videos and more to help you quickly understand the news event. This means you are able to read through all of the news stories in minutes.
Pro Only shows top few stories
Hard to get lost in reading news when you only get 8-12 stories at a time.
Cons
Con Inability to Avoid Paid Content in Headlines
Newsstand has zero options to block news sources. In Read Now, Newsstand's headlines section, this often leads to a mess of stories being behind numerous paywalls exclusive to each publication.
Con No customization of news headlines or categories
You only get the top 8-10 headlines of the day regardless of news category or source.
Con Meager sharing options
You can share any article in the digest, but it doesn't give many options for tailoring the message that is sent.