Sitting down with your iPad is a great way to start your day, with so many news apps available to read as you enjoy your cup of coffee. The iPad has really transformed how we consume the news: what was once done only first thing in the morning with a newspaper or radio blurb and then in the evening on the television can now be done at any time of the day or night to keep you up-to-date on breaking news stories or ongoing pieces. Here is our list of the best news apps for iPad.
The best news apps for iPad-2021
4 Mar 2021, by  Christine Pamintuan
Singscope app for iPhone is a tool for checking the pitch of your singing. It analyzes the singing voice and shows the pitch in the music scale (C, D, E, F, G, A, B) as function of time. You can visualize your pitch and singing features, such as vibrato, in the scope. Simply tap on the microphone button and sing to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, and watch the pitch curve showing in the scope as you sing.
- Computes and draws pitch graphs in real-time
- Supports pan and zoom for the pitch graph and waveform display
- Supports playback of singing voices on the pitch graph
- Keeps recent singing voices for reviewing later
- Optimized for 64-bit CPU, for faster pitch analysis and smoother graph display
Feedlys mission is to deliver in one place all the knowledge and inspiration you need to keep ahead. Feedly is connected to 40 million sources across 2,000 topics, and fifty industries - processing 100 millions articles every day. With Feedly you can organize in one place industry publications, expert blogs, news sites, youtube channels, twitter feeds, podcasts, and even Google News keyword alerts. Feedly is trusted by 15 million smart readers and thousands of organizations. Feedly: Your Google Reader, Youtube, Google News, RSS News Reader for iPad app review With Feedly you can:
- Privately organize and research the topics and trends that matter to you
- Feed everyone in your organization with the insight they need to make smarter decisions
- Curate and share interesting ideas and perspectives
- Track keywords, brands and companies
- Spot new emerging trends, search for specific articles
An award-winning app that curates news and information for all your interests. With thousands of national and local sources, as well as magazines with stories curated by the community, Flipboard is one place to stay connected to the stories that matter every day. You can personalize it for the news you care about; follow business, health, tech, sports teams, cooking, travel and more to get up-to-the-minute developments as well as insightful longreads and inspiration. Flipboard app review
- Keep up on the latest stories from the world’s leading publishers
- Follow Local feeds for latest updates on what you are interested in
- Create personalized news feeds based on your interests
- Curate stories to share with others
- Enjoy expertly curated collections from our editorial team
News360: Personalized News will quickly turn your iPad into your regular news station that brings you curated news that interests you. Though it starts off by bringing fairly generic news to the news feed, the app learns over time what you might like and helps you find stories you might never find in the flood of news stories in other media. The interface makes it that much more fun to dive into the stories or simply skim headlines for the day. Users can share article via Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instapaper, or even Evernote. News360 app review
- Custom news feed
- Learns your tastes over time
- Beautiful interface
- Social media integration
- Save to Instapaper or Evernote to read later
Newsdaily lets you read daily news the way you want, with a completely customizable appearance. You get to choose font, text size, and theme. Get the latest news from thousands of publishers all in one place from Google News RSS feeds. See news from over 70 countries and with the Pro version, search for relevant news stories with keywords. You can save stories to your device to read later, add custom news categories you read often, and choose a darker theme for night reading. There's no setup needed and the dropdown menus give you easy access to related news and options for sharing.
- Powerful news reader
- Uses Google News RSS feeds
- Search with keywords with the Pro version
- Save articles to read later
- Free with in-app purchase to upgrade to Pro
The BBC NEWS app has been done over and is now fresher-looking, offers more content, and has greater personalization options. You'll be able to find content fast because the app will suggest news stories based on ones you've recently viewed and what's currently in the news. My News section lets you personalize your news offering, and Top Stories offers only the latest, breaking news from the global network of journalists. You can add topics where you see the + icon to get straight to the stories you want to read. Other features include push notifications for breaking news stories, an improved offline experience, and the ability to share stories over social networks, email, or text message.
BBC News app review
- Live BBC World Service Radio
- Video over cellular and WiFi
- Find content quickly
- Full selection of stories from the newsroom
- Personalize your news offering
NPR News gives you the NPR experience on your iPad. You'll be able to follow local and national news and listen to your favorite NPR stations while on the go. Enjoy hourly news updates, hear public radio podcasts on demand, create a playlist of stories, bookmark your favorite stations, and more. Some of the programs you can listen to include All Things Considered, Fresh Air, Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me, Planet Money, and more. You're able to find stations by GPS or zip code. Want to read while you listen? You can do that, too.
NPR News app review
- Listen to NPR's hourly news updates
- Bookmark your favorite stations
- Listen to your favorite live programs
- Hear public radio podcasts on demand
- Free news app for the iPad
Newsify has been featured by Apple as “What's Hot” and “New and Noteworthy” and for good reason. This app lets you read and share your favorite websites and blogs in a cool newspaper-like format. You can read all of your favorite blogs, news, and RSS feeds in one reader app. The app has background syncing with notifications, offline reading options, night mode, full-screen article reading, the ability to sort by oldest or newest first, and many more features that make reading the news and blogs an absolute pleasure. If you want to upgrade to Newsify Premium, try it for a week for free and get even more features.
- Newspaper-like appearance
- Night mode
- Show only unread folders/subscriptions or all
- Choose your theme
- Free with in-app purchases
The Economist for iPad is a news app that lets you read or listen to a selection of articles chosen every week by the Editor-in-Chief of The Economist, Zanny Minton Beddoes. You will have access to what's going on in finance, business, technology, current affairs, science, economics, and the arts. Every week's issue is released on Thursday at 4 pm and you can read or listen to it before it hits newsstands. You can store and access back issues, pre-download so you can enjoy the content offline, and it's easy to move between the audio and reader features.
The Economist for iPad app review
- A selection of articles chosen each week by The Economist's Editor-in-Chief
- Read or listen to the articles
- Store and access back issues
- Read offline
- In-app subscription required
If you want to be able to save and store your articles so you can read them later, check out Instapaper. You'll get a mobile-optimized text view that you can read offline, anywhere and anytime you want. Your reading experience will be clean, uncluttered, and if you'd rather listen, you can do that too with its text-to-speech feature. Another nice thing about this app is that you can save to Instapaper from within other iOS apps with just a tap so there's no messing around. You can control the font, spacing, and color theme, highlight text, and sort your list of articles by length, date, and popularity. There are really so many features you will just have to try this app.
Instapaper app review
- Save articles and read them offline
- Mobile-optimized text view
- Text-to-speech feature
- Send to Kindle
- Free with optional in-app purchase for Premium membership
NewsFlash makes sure you have access to all breaking news as it is happening. You'll get headlines from multiple news sources all shown on one stream. You can quickly and easily scan the headlines you want; breaking news is always listed first and you will see topic-related articles grouped together so you can compare different sources for the same story to see all sides. The app downloads stories super fast, so you'll be reading in no time. This is a free app that is supported by iAds, which you can remove with an in-app purchase.
- See the latest news as it breaks
- Headlines from multiple sources
- Download stories fast
- Headlines in Business, Sports, News, Celebrity Gossip, and more
- Free with an in-app purchase to remove ads
USA Today has upgraded their previous award winning app to include new features that will allow its readers a more complete and immersive experience. From articles to photography, users will get the high caliber content that they’ve come to know and love from USA Today. Users can browse headlines, read breaking news on a national and local level, watch videos, view images, share stories via Social Media, get push notifications, live weather and forecasts, latest sports scores and much more. The navigation is simple and you can enable location services to receive special offers. USA TODAY for iPad app review
- Read the national and local news
- Get the latest scores and updates for sports
- Live weather and 10-day forecast
- View photos and videos
- Share via Social Media, Get push notifications