When comparing Feedbro vs Flipboard, the Slant community recommends Flipboard for most people. In the question“What are the best news readers?” Flipboard is ranked 8th while Feedbro is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Flipboard is:
This app has a very polished, magazine-style layout, that is flipped through by swiping. Because of its layout, Flipboard is especially nice on tablets.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Allows filtering out unwanted articles
Built-in rule engine let's you filter out articles you don't care about.
Pro Readability-style full article fetching
Pro Can highlight articles with specific keywords in them
Using regexp.
Pro No online services needed
Pro Can read Twitter and Instagram directly
Pro Supports also Firefox (add on available in Mozilla Add-on store)
Pro Supports feed previewing and easy discovery
Pro Great for managing Youtube subscriptions
Pro Supports MathJax for LaTeX and TeX math rendering
Pro Supports IFTTT
Pro Can read intranet feeds and blogs
Pro Built-in support for Youtube, Youtube Search, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Yammer, Vimeo, Bitchute, LinkedIn Groups, LinkedIn Jobs, Slideshare
Pro Supports VK.com (read channels as feeds)
Pro Supports Discord notifications
Pro Supports Slack notifications
Pro Very polished UI that is organized like a magazine
This app has a very polished, magazine-style layout, that is flipped through by swiping. Because of its layout, Flipboard is especially nice on tablets.
Pro Personalized magazines
Magazines is a features by Flipboard that can allow anyone to create their own personalized magazine by collecting the content from various websites and collate them into a magazine that can also be shared to other readers. Magazines can be set to either public or private access and anyone can follow the magazine.
Pro Free
Pro Cross-platform
Flipboard is available on Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Windows and web app.
Pro Google Reader import
There is also a simple import from Google Reader.
Pro Social network integration
Flipboard pulls information from Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, etc. Everything is aggregated in one app, which can then be flipped through and shared, either directly on Flipboard or on social networks.
Pro Easily discover stories based on topics
Flipboard has millions of Magazines that anyone can follow, covering various subjects. Some cover general topics like home decoration, while others are immensely specific: for example, there’s one just about technological advances that extend human lifespan. All users can create their own Magazines and share them publicly, with friends, or keep them for private use.
Cons
Con Excessive ads with no way to remove them
Flipboard doesn’t offer subscription plans, having only the completely free full version. However, it does feature ads that appear between articles and there’s no way of removing this function.
Con Needs better organization of topics, mags, users followed
When you follow 3-5 magazines per topic (sometimes more) it would be nice to be able to group some of these together in a way that constricts the 'fire hose' of content.
Con Low quality news sources
The default content is from low quality sources such as Mashable.