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	Reviews Blog Forum Price Drops New Apps Top 148 Feeds Gear Store About All Reviews All iPhone Reviews iPhone Games All iPad Reviews iPad Games Hardware Request Review Reviews Share This Page Tweet Below you will find the latest reviews by our world class writers. The reviews are sorted by newest first. You can change the sort order with the right hand selection box to choose sorting by rating, date, or name. Want and RSS feed of just our reviews? Here you go. Created an app and you'd like us to review it? Please see the request review page for detail on where to send the information. Show: by USA TODAY for iPhone Review iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Greg Dawson on March 15th, 2012 Our Rating: :: TOP NEWS NOW Featuring award-winning writers, up-to-date news and some of the best photography around, the USA TODAY for iPhone app offers something for all. Read The Full Review » Readability Review + Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad By Lisa Caplan on March 2nd, 2012 Our Rating: :: READING BEAUTIFIED It's been a long battle getting Readability's app approved by Apple. Now that it's out, was it worth the wait? Read The Full Review » FOX News Review iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Jennifer Allen on January 10th, 2012 Our Rating: :: WELL MADE A news app that shows other news apps how it should be done. Read The Full Review » CNN App for iPhone Review iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Greg Dawson on January 6th, 2012 Our Rating: :: MOBILE NEWS Watch domestic, international, politics and entertainment headlines and live CNN with a cable subscription. Read The Full Review » NYTimes Election 2012 Review iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Lisa Caplan on December 13th, 2011 Our Rating: :: PAYWALL ALERT The New York Times has done it again - pay walls and bugs encumber a great idea. Read The Full Review » Newstream Review iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Jennifer Allen on November 1st, 2011 Our Rating: :: SIMPLE YET SHALLOW Newstream offers the personalized newspaper experience but with some strange feature omissions. Read The Full Review » Downcast Review + Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad By Chris Kirby on July 21st, 2011 Our Rating: :: UPLIFTING Despite its name, Downcast can make your iOS device VERY happy. Read The Full Review » iReadG Review iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Jennifer Allen on January 23rd, 2011 Our Rating: :: IDEAL FOR OFFLINE USE iReadG is a comprehensive Google Reader based rss news reader but its speed and ease of use suffers for this. Read The Full Review » Drudge Report Pro Review iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Chris Nitz on January 14th, 2011 Our Rating: :: NEWSIE News in a timely fashion. Read The Full Review » Printful Review + Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad By Bonnie Eisenman on December 28th, 2010 Our Rating: :: SOLID Printful is a strong, simple article reader that parses the text from online articles and displays it in an easy-to-read, newspaper-like format. Just know that there are similar apps that do the same. Read The Full Review » The Big Picture Review + Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad By Kyle Flanigan on December 9th, 2010 Our Rating: :: UNFINISHED The Big Picture is The Boston Globe's flagship photo news section, devoted to presenting the latest world happenings in pictorial form. Read The Full Review » Blancspot Review iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Chris Hall on September 8th, 2010 Our Rating: :: TOO SLOW People who read the news like to get a lot of it fast, which is why RSS readers are so popular. Blancspot is just too slow for our multitasking world. Read The Full Review » Podcatcher Review iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Kyle Flanigan on August 10th, 2010 Our Rating: :: LITTLE GEM Podcatcher is a hidden gem, allowing you to stream podcasts and download them over 3G, even if the filesize exceeds 20MB. Read The Full Review » NetNewsWire Premium Review iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Kyle Flanigan on August 5th, 2010 Our Rating: :: NOT READY NetNewsWire is a Google Reader application built to provide the latest news on-the-go via RSS feeds. Read The Full Review » Byline Review iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Kyle Flanigan on July 25th, 2010 Our Rating: :: CRISP Byline a stylish, crisp Google Reader application that allows you to view a complete summary of the latest news. Read The Full Review » Reeder Review iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Kyle Flanigan on July 20th, 2010 Our Rating: :: IMAGINATIVE DESIGN Reeder is one the most visually-appealing Google Reader clients that we've seen since the launch of the App Store. What it lacks in configuration it makes up for in smart, minimalist thinking. Read The Full Review » Pulse News Mini Review iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Kyle Flanigan on July 16th, 2010 Our Rating: :: UNIQUE Pulse is an RSS feed reader with a difference, using pictures as well as text to get the message across. Read The Full Review » FT Mobile Review iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Kyle Flanigan on July 15th, 2010 Our Rating: :: OUTSTANDING One of the oldest news organizations branches into the portable world, offering something that surpassed high expectations. Read The Full Review » The Guardian Review iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Kyle Flanigan on July 14th, 2010 Our Rating: :: UNIQUE One of the most popular news sources in the world makes it to the iPhone, with some unique features that make it stand out against its rivals. Read The Full Review » The Washington Post Review iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Kyle Flanigan on July 8th, 2010 Our Rating: :: OUTSTANDING CONTENT Award-winning content meets an award-winning phone, for $1.99. Is it worth it? Let's find out. Read The Full Review » LA Times Review iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Bonnie Eisenman on June 25th, 2010 Our Rating: :: LIMITED The LA Times app is a mixed bag. On one hand, the app is stable, reading articles is easy, and offline caching is great. But access to content is limited, and basic features like landscape view are notably absent. Read The Full Review » Guzzle Review iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Bonnie Eisenman on May 26th, 2010 Our Rating: :: NICHE APP Guzzle is a good app, and the service does a solid job of constructing keyword-specific news feeds. If you need a narrowly-focused news feed, it's worth looking at. Just be sure to test out the (free) website first. Read The Full Review » MobileRSS Pro Review iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Jason Fanguy on March 29th, 2010 Our Rating: :: REMARKABLE READER MobileRSS Pro is a well-developed, reliable, feature-rich feed reader for the iPhone. If you use Google Reader (or not) and are looking for a reader app, MobileRSS Pro is well worth its price. Read The Full Review » Instapaper Pro iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Bonnie Eisenman on March 17th, 2010 Our Rating: :: LITERARY BLISS Are you literate? Do you read long things online? If so, Instapaper Pro is a must-have. It allows you to download long articles and blog posts for on-the-go reading. Finesse, functionality, and overall awesomeness make it a true 5-star app. Read The Full Review » NewsAlert iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Bonnie Eisenman on March 10th, 2010 Our Rating: :: NICHE, BUT GOOD NewsAlert is a great way to isolate news about certain topics. It won't be useful for everyone, but it does what it promises and it does it well. Read The Full Review » Broadersheet iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Kyle Flanigan on February 4th, 2010 Our Rating: Broadersheet is an intelligent news service that learns what you love and hate. Over time, it aims to only give you articles that you'll like. We take a look at how well it performs. Read The Full Review » The White House iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Kyle Flanigan on February 1st, 2010 Our Rating: We scrutinize the official White House application. Read The Full Review » Push News iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Bonnie Eisenman on November 3rd, 2009 Our Rating: :: INCOMPLETE Push News is a decent idea, but it needs more features to make it your one-stop way of reading the news. For now, I'd advise looking elsewhere if you want to stay up-to-date. Read The Full Review » The White House iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Kyle Flanigan on October 13th, 2009 Our Rating: :: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED CNN reaches the App Store with its new flagship application, CNN Mobile. We take a look at its impressive array of features, including push notifications and live video viewing. Read The Full Review » News Fuse iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Bonnie Eisenman on June 17th, 2009 Our Rating: :: USEFUL News Fuse is a streamlined app that gives you easy access to a wide variety of news sites. It's not rich in features, but it makes up for it in ease-of-use. If mobile Safari is too cumbersome for you, give this app a go. Read The Full Review » FeedFalls iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Jason Philo on June 17th, 2009 Our Rating: :: NOT RECOMMENDED FeedFalls is pretty to look at, but there's not a lot of function with this form. Imagine channel surfing without ever finding something you want to watch. Now do that with a news paper. Read The Full Review » RSS Flash g iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Jason Philo on June 1st, 2009 Our Rating: :: RECOMMENDED RSS Flash g is an RSS reader that syncs with Google's Reader RSS aggregator. This is a middle-of-the-road RSS utility. It does a great thing syncing with Reader, which any Reader fan will love, but some may find the interface wanting. Read The Full Review » TechCrunch Offline Reader iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad By Bonnie Eisenman on April 6th, 2009 Our Rating: :: BELOW AVERAGE TechCrunch is a tech-centric blog network, and their offline reader promises to deliver all of their content in a quick, convenient package. While it's pretty enough to look at, and has plenty of features, the reader is just too crash-prone to justify consistent use. 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