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Infomous app review: the app that shows you what’s trending, but you choose what’s relevant

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Introduction

Infomous is a news app that uses a word cloud to bring you all the trending topics. I really like the way this app brings you the news. It makes it really easy for anyone to pick out the topic to read about and shows really easily what is trending in the world at the moment. The app is divided into different categories, making it much easier for you to find your interests, as some of the world news makes smaller entertainment news invisible in the main category.

Infomous

Free

Finding a Topic and Reading the News

First of all, I have to say Infomous is really fast in loading the topics at hand. After booting up the app, the word cloud loaded instantly and I didn’t have to wait at all. In this word cloud, the topics that are more trending at the moment show up bigger than the ones that are less popular. Terms that have something to do with one another are connected by a line and displayed in a cloud. When you find the term you want, simply tap it, and the news articles will pop up. Tap on a news article and it will load in the in-app browser, also allowing you to open it in Safari. All of this runs really smoothly.

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Customization and Sharing Options

The app also features tons of different customization options. You can easily hide a topic you don’t want to see in your cloud, and there is already an editable list of hidden words where you can easily add topics and remove terms. On top of this, you can also customize the way the app looks, by changing font sizes for both the word cloud as the news panes, as well as choosing how many words actually show up in the cloud.

Sharing options are very minimal. You can only share a screenshot of the cloud via Twitter and Email, or save it to your Camera Roll, but there is no way to share news articles within the app. A search function iss also missing, which would be nice is you would like to prioritize a topic.

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Infomous

Free

Pros and Cons

Pros

  • Ingenious way of displaying news topics
  • Very fast and easy to use
  • Customization options are in-depth and useful

Cons

  • Limited sharing options
  • No search option

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Conclusion

Infomous is a really nifty news app, displaying the news and trending topics in an all-new way. Categories are a great way to go more in depth, while customization options allow you to shape the way the news is delivered to you to your liking. Sharing and search function are missing, and I hope these will be added to the app, as these function would make the app complete.

The app is compatible with both iPhone and iPad and is just over 5 MB in size.

Infomous

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Cherry is a hard-working writer and an aspiring web designer who can't go a day without using her favorite apps. She's always on the lookout for new apps and enjoys discovering ones that others have overlooked.