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Google Currents app review: a beautiful magazine-like delivery of news straight to your device 2021

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Introduction

Google Currents by Google Inc. is an iPhone personalized news app that collects all kinds of different news and delivers it straight to your screen.

The personalized news app offers all kinds of cool features that you would expect from a news reader app, but in addition, gives you some really nice extras that make this app stand out head and shoulders above its already really good competitors.

Google Currents is fast, easy to use, and it makes really good use of all the technologies that the multinational has to offer, such as the Google Search and Google Translate technologies. Using location services, the app can deliver news relative for your current location.

For more information about this top personalized news app for iPhone and iPad users, keep reading our Google Currents app review below.

Google Play Newsstand - News & Magazines for you

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Navigation and Customization options

Google Currents is really easy to use. It will start you out by asking you to sign in with an existent Google account. The front page appears straight after this sign-in process, and you will receive a pre-set supply of news outlets to your screen. Navigation is very fluid and intuitive: simply swipe around the pages as you normally would on your tablet.

Customization is really easy as well. In the navigation bar on the left side of the screen you can add subscriptions to different magazine-style website for free. These show up in the navigation panel and are easily accessible from now on. The content will be displayed on your screen as a digital magazine would.

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Google Translate and Search

Google Translate will automatically translate foreign articles straight to your preferred language. The app supports over 40 different languages and translation is so quick you won’t even notice it happened, expect for the obvious grammar mistakes with which the translation software still struggles.

You can search the different magazines using Google Search and again this goes really quickly. If you find an article that you really want to read, but don’t have the time for it right now, you can easily make the article available for offline reading using Instapaper, Pocket, or Pinboard, any of which will allow you to read it anywhere without needing a WiFi or 3G connection. There are tons of different sharing options as well, like Facebook, Google +, and Twitter.

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Google Play Newsstand - News & Magazines for you

Free

Pros and Cons

Pros

  • An immense list of featured media outlets
  • Really well-designed
  • Makes use of Google technologies
  • Offline reading
  • Tons of sharing features

Cons

  • The automatic picks are not based on your Google profile

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Conclusion

Google did it again. They topped every competitor out there with a really well-designed news reader which is easily accessible, quick to use, fast to load, and has so many exclusive features it tramples the competition without blinking an eye.

The app is compatible for iPhone and iPad, and as you use your Google account, you can take your selection of news with you anywhere you go. The translation service allows you to read any news from anywhere in the world within seconds. This app truly is worthy of the Google name. 

Google Play Newsstand - News & Magazines for you

Free
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