Flipboard: The Social Magazine

Nate T

One day I started receiving multiple emails per day from Flipboard with "curated" content. Annoying, but whatever, that's how we roll these days. The truly egregious part is when I clicked on the link at the bottom to unsubscribe, it brought me here, where I evidently need to install the app to actually be able to unsubscribe from the unwanted emails. No thank you, Flipboard. I'm sure you're lovely, but I don't want your emails and I certainly don't want your app installed.

A Google user

The latest version has a change to the interface. It's now very hard to actually leave the app. Plus they are posting from a lot of sources that require a subscription to view the articles. There is no way to report an article that contains errors. Finally, some of the ads lead to scam sites. I no longer recommend this news digest app.

A Google user

Same as so many others have noted. The app was broken with the latest update. Can no longer flip side to side on multiple page stories. Flipboard can't flip. You'd think that debacle would be an all hands on deck bug, but it persists. Flipboard does have it on their known issues list, so that's a positive at least. They only give a work around though, and no indication that they are working on a fix. I still greatly miss Zite and only went to Flipboard as a fall back. If Flipboard won't even flip, why should we even bother with it. Also as others have noted, fix it fast or I'll move on. 11/1/18 UPDATE: the issue with flipping has finally been fixed starting with v4.2.4. Thank you. Moved from 2 to 4 stars. Still holding off on 5 stars due to crashing issues.

A Google user

The news sources that charge for the news and want to sign you up for an account are annoying. The way you have to try to mute those is very confusing I can't tell if I'm turning them off or not because it gives me a whole list of all of my favorites at the same time. Google news is super easy you just make one click that says hide all stories from New York Times, for example and you're done. You should make this feature much more intuitive and simple.

A Google user

This will eat through your data. Look at it on break at work. Ate though 455 megs. Over two 20 minute breaks. Uninstalled it. And wont be back. And that was day one for the month. Yup, done everything they said I should. And it still uses way more data than it should. Have turned off everything I could. As far as using my data for flipboard. Still uses an unusual amount of data. Since I've turned it off. My phone does tell me I'm using more data then normal.

Matthew R

Flipboard has become mostly unusable. Articles will not load unless you constantly refresh the app. If you inquire about help in app, they will just tell you to uninstall, reinstall. This does not fix it. It crashes all the time, freezes up. I'm a long time frequent user. I've enjoyed the app over the years, but after my experience this last year or so with lack of usability and lack of help, I'm on the hunt for something else. If anyone has any suggestions for a simiar app, I'm all ears.

A

I really do appreciate how your experience is completely customized to your interests. But 90% of the time I click on an interesting article, I am either redirected to a completely unrelated, random article or just taken to a "preview". I try clicking around to see how to open it and the best way I've found is to select "open in browser". What's the point of using an app if you still need to open the articles in your phone's browser? Uninstalled.

Kristen Hertzler

Horrible. I really liked flipboard until they started running ads that prevent you from reading the content last week. The last time I tried I had at least 6 ads in a row, each at least 30 seconds long, and everytime the new ad started, the text of the article would disappear. I only had about 5 seconds between ads to try and read anything. I gave up after 6 ads. I can find my news elsewhere.

A Google user

I have a love/hate relationship with Flipboard. I love that it aggregates articles from a wide variety of sources, that I can mute sources I don't want to see, and that I can view articles for one topic at a time. HOWEVER, its functionality leaves a lot to be desired. When it loads an article, it works fine. But it frequently hangs up when loading web pages, especially if they have many photos or videos. And if there's a popover ad on the site, it's usually game over, and I have to reload the app entirely. I love that I can disable autoplay for videos and GIFs in articles; but I hate that I can't do the same for ads. Overall, it gets a solid C+ for my purposes.

A Google user

Thus app has really degraded offer the last 90 days. Over the last 180 days the cash rate has changed skyrocketed. It crashes 3-8 times except 30 minutes or use. In the last 90 days, it will no longer own the second page when you have to flip pages on a tablet. It is borderline useless! I have to email article to view on my laptop. Please fix your usability issues.