Acrylic Times - online newspaper with high potential [programs for the iPad]
Makradar Ios / / December 21, 2019
For several months, a news reader I used RSS-reader Early Edition. He has one great feature of Newsline it shows in a random order, as if stirring. At first, it even amused, but the desire was not possible to control everything and everyone overcome.
I had to go to the AppStore to shop, where by chance met a program of well-known to our readers company Acrylic. In the yard was summer, and the Times for iPad resembled a winter white to gray mottled, with a minimum of functions and without import feeds from Google. Reader had to be postponed until better times, until the autumn. A few days ago, the application finally renewed and has received a lot of very interesting possibilities. The question "What to read?" Was rediscovered.
Times is a version of a desktop reader adapted for the tablet. Layout elements repeats those of the application for MacOS. In the upper part there are sections for flow separation on the subject, there is the appearance of new articles appearing badges with their number.
Below are news feeds themselves. Opportunities news show can be called a highlight Times. Depending on the content of the stream, it is possible individual adjustment of each of the webs. So much for the photos to be the most convenient display of images with minimal text for news most comfortable leaving only the text, read various blogs pleasantly mixed mode text / image. In total, there are five different templates. Feeds, the content of which is updated rarely, can be arranged in a single tape, in such a case would be useful setup «Number of Articles» (number of articles).
Besides the length of the articles is possible to change the width. All fit on the screen four tapes.
The already-read articles acquire shades of gray. Very simple and elegant solution.
Opening animated news is folded newspaper. Viewing standards for this kind of application: open in Safari, to send to E-mail, post it on Twitter or publish to Facebook. All you have to like there. In addition, you can configure the default view for each tape. So the resources that cut their feeds, will be opened at once in «View on Web» mode.
Read and watch and can be in portrait mode.
It is pumped from the desktop and the so-called «Shelf» (shelf). Useful News makes sense to postpone for the future a simple push-throw.
The first version of the Times was purchased by me in somewhat random. I was so confident in Acrylic, that does not even get acquainted with, and this despite the fact that the price of the app is quite high. Disappointment from the first version was pretty serious. But I did not kick the developers decided to just wait. Version 1.1 has justified, albeit partially, to my expectations. Gorgeous looks combined with flexible viewing settings Times did to me RSS-reader number one.
At the same time, I urge the reader not to rush into buying, and this for several reasons. The app simply not yet mature enough for everyday use. There are departures of some popular Russian-language resources when added to the tape, import bookmarks from Google Reader as well leaves much to be desired, there are sometimes slow when using animation and rendering pages, there is no size option font. Despite these shortcomings Times high potential is obvious.
Page in the App Store:Acrylic Times
Developer website: Acrylic
cost: $ 7.99 (discount, the current value $3.99)
Personal rating: ★★★★