Mobile devices have become the device most used by millions of people every day, especially among those who do not spend time in front of a computer, since it is their main source of communication as well as information, as long as let's make use of the appropriate applications.
If we want to be informed at all times of the latest news on the topics that interest us the most, it is not necessary to resort to the websites of the newspapers, but we can use applications that are responsible for collecting the news according to our preferences that we have previously established.
Newspaper web pages are full of Javascript codes to track user activity, code that slows down the loading of the web page without counting on the large amount of advertising that they incorporate.
In the last year, many of these newspapers have established a payment wall, a wall that limits access to the information they offer, so they have ceased to be, for many users, a source of information to visit.
In the Play Store we have at our disposal a large number of options to be instantly informed of everything we like based on our preferences. If you have tired of always visiting the same web pages looking for relevant information, then we will show you the best news apps for Android.
Twitter trends, which Facebook and other platforms have tried to copy without success, allow us to know at all times, what are the most important news around the world and in our country.
In addition, it has a suggestion system that, based on the accounts that we follow, offers us accounts that may be of interest to us. Through the hashtags, we can search for specific information on topics, people, devices, companies ...
Google Discover
Despite the disappearance of Google News in Spain a few years ago, the search giant makes Google Discover available to us through the Google application. This section shows us news related to our browsing history, although we can also establish which are the topics that most do not like to collect information about it.
One of the strengths of this application is that we can get rid of the suggestions that it shows us if we do not just like them despite being contemplated within a theme that we have chosen.
For example, we like movies but we really don't like Angelina Jolie. When showing news about this actress, through the news options select I'm not interested in Angelina Jolie. Thus, a related news will never be shown again with this actress in the headline of a news item.
Microsoft News
Through Microsoft News we find breaking news and detailed reports from the best journalists in the world. It allows us to establish the news media that will be displayed in our feed, including the option to hide those news that interest us least.
It also allows us to search for images from our camera by uploading a photograph, check the weather, sports, videos and images of all kinds, it includes a translator and a currency converter and the possibility of choosing from a large number of wallpapers. Microsoft is available for your download for free and includes advertisements.
Feedly
Feedly is an RSS reader. Most web pages include an RSS feed, where the links to all the news they publish are posted. We can add this RSS feed to Feedly so that shows us all the news from that source in the app.
Depending on the source web page, in many cases, all the text is in the application, so It is not necessary to visit the web in question to be able to read it.
In addition, it allows us organize all fonts by categories, so we are only interested in sports and technology, we can access its content while waiting to read the news from the world of cinema and television.
Feedly is available for your download completely free however, it integrates a series of in-app purchases that add extra functions, functions that most users are useless.
Flipboard could be considered a pretty Feedly. This application shows us all sources in magazine format that we have previously established, sources that can be a Twitter account, RSS feeds, a Facebook account ...
Flipboard's interface is very attractive and easy to use. If you want to access the information you like the most in magazine format from your smartphone or tablet, such as the Flipboard application, you will not find any other. Flipboard is available for your download completely free and includes advertisements.
Squid
If you do not like general applications to be informed at all times of what you like the most, you can give Squid a chance, an application allows us to establish between more than 100 categories from more than 40 countries.
Sport, fashion, technology, world news, food, science, travel, photography… Are one of the different categories that we have at our disposal to filter the content that we want to be displayed in the application.
Best of all, we can select the order in which we want the categories to be displayed, so that we can first establish the news that we are most interested in reading first. If we do not like any of the sources included in the categories, we can eliminate it as a source of information.
A function that we cannot find in the rest of the applications that I have mentioned above, is the possibility of annotate the news. It incorporates a widget for the home screen and is available for download completely free of charge (includes ads).
If English is not a problem for you and you want to be informed first-hand from one of the largest sources of information in the world, you can make use of Reddit. On Reddit we can find up-to-the-minute information on any topic Through the links that users have shared and that, on many occasions, are complemented by experts in the field.
Although initially its operation may seem somewhat complicated, if you spend enough time check in a very short time how Reddit is a very interesting application to be informed of everything you like the most.
Biases in the media
Each user is different, has a completely different bias and usually visits information sources according to their preferences, so I have decided do not include specific sources from specific blogs or newspapers.
If you want to have varied information from all kinds of sources and opinions, the applications that I have shown in this article are ideal. However, if you like news that has a political, sports or any other kind of biasObviously, depending on your opinion, you can download the application from that medium or visit its website from the home page of your device as a shortcut.