# Flipboard

> Free news aggregator built around topics and shared Magazines

Flipboard is a news and story aggregator, described by the company as a social magazine, that builds a personalized feed from the topics, publishers, Magazines and people a reader follows. Stories can be saved into Magazines that stay private or are shared publicly, and accounts on Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky can be followed from inside Flipboard. It is free on the web, iOS and Android.

- **Category:** Read Later & Bookmarks
- **Made by:** Flipboard Inc.
- **Website:** https://flipboard.com
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 5, 2026

## Pricing

Flipboard is free to use.

- **Pricing model:** Free
- **Free plan:** The whole app is free: the US App Store lists Flipboard as Free with no in-app purchases, and the Google Play listing notes that it contains ads.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | The personalized feed, following, and Magazine curation on the web, iOS and Android. Supported by advertising. |

Read from https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flipboard-the-social-magazine/id358801284 on Oct 5, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Flipboard before buying.

## Key features

- **Personalized For You feed:** Follow topics, Magazines and people to build a feed that updates in real time, then tune it by asking for more or less of a kind of story or muting sources.
- **Magazines:** Save stories into your own Magazines for a project, a hobby or later reading. A Magazine can be made public, and Group Magazines let others contribute.
- **Fediverse following:** Follow people who post on Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky so their stories appear alongside what you follow on Flipboard.
- **Daily Edition and Explore:** The Daily Edition shows the day's news, the Explore tab browses by category and Magazine, and a Community tab features curators to follow.
- **Topic newsletters:** Flipboard sends email newsletters on its most popular topics, such as the Tech Briefing, the Climate Briefing and Wanderlust.
- **Site and curator tools:** The tools page offers an embeddable Magazine and storyboard widget, follow and share buttons for websites, and a Flip it browser button for saving links.

## Good for

- Browsing news and magazine-style stories by topic rather than by feed
- Curating articles into Magazines to share with a group or the public
- Following Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky accounts next to news sources

## Worth knowing

- Flipboard is supported by advertising; the Google Play listing notes that the app contains ads.
- No paid tier is listed, so there is no option to pay for an ad-free version.
- No desktop app is listed: the App Store shows iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, with the website for computers.

## What people say

- **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.7 out of 5 from 329,002 ratings in the United States, read Oct 7, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id358801284

Often praised:

- Several reviewers have used it for years, some of them almost daily, and call it the news reader they liked best even while complaining about recent changes. (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id358801284)

Often criticised:

- Advertising that covers or delays the article being read is a repeated complaint, with reviewers describing pop-ups over the text and pages that are slow to load or fail to. (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id358801284)
- Several reviewers are unhappy with what the feed shows them, from subjects that return after being muted to coverage they find one-sided. (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id358801284)

Based on 10 App Store reviews, seven of them three stars or lower and six more than three years old. Hacker News had only passing mentions. These are themes summarised from public reviews and discussions, not ToolGPA's own verdict.

## Works with

Threads, Mastodon, Bluesky

**Tags:** Bookmarks, Read later

## Alternatives

- [Feedly](https://toolgpa.com/tools/feedly): News reader for RSS feeds, with AI filtering on paid plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/feedly-vs-flipboard)
- [Inoreader](https://toolgpa.com/tools/inoreader): RSS reader with rules, filters and keyword monitoring. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/flipboard-vs-inoreader)
- [NewsBlur](https://toolgpa.com/tools/newsblur): Open-source RSS reader with trainable story filters. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/flipboard-vs-newsblur)
- [Feeder](https://toolgpa.com/tools/feeder): RSS reader and news monitor for the web, browser and mobile. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/feeder-vs-flipboard)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 5, 2026:

- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flipboard-the-social-magazine/id358801284
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flipboard.app&hl=en_US&gl=US
- https://flipboard.com/
- https://flipboard.com/tools
- https://about.flipboard.com/
- https://about.flipboard.com/how-it-works/

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