A news application is on sale at Top Nine in Apple Store. Nick D'Aloisio, a 17-year-old Londoner has launched this news application called Summly for iOS users. He has so far received more than $1 million in funding from investors.

News is a part of everyone's daily lives and it has been delivered to people via newspaper, radio, television, and now online in the Internet. Pocket news is the version for news applications found in smart phones and delivers more or less the same thing found in print or online.

Summly is a pocked size news for iPhone and gained top nine position among application in the Apple Store.

Beautiful and Concise Summaries

Summly offers simple, intuitive, and elegant news for its users. It redefines news delivery for the mobile world with algorithmically generated summaries from hundreds of sources. Innovative gestures, animations, and great summaries make the reading of news not just informative but also fun. It is easy to use, easy to scan, easy to read, clear and concise.

You Choose

The user selects his favourite news sources or topics and Summly will to the rest. It generates summaries from different sources that vary from The Wall Street Journal to ESPN Sports. In addition, the user can also add a keyword on any topic in the world and Summly finds the content and generates summarised news.

Unique Gestures

Summly has a state-of-the art user interface with no buttons and a minimalist approach. Users just have to press anywhere on a summary to reveal the "Summflower" which allows sharing of summaries and saving of favourite ones for offline viewing. Swipe down to see the full article, swipe up to view the categories, and double tap for a longer and detailed summary.

Summly is currently available to iOS Summly will soon have a version for the Android Market as well.

Avid news readers who want to try out other news application for Apple Store could also look into six well-known news sources:

1. AP Mobile or The Associated Press Free. It has push notifications for news alerts, photo galleries, and customization.

2. The New York Times Free. This application has no push notifications, but it can provide in-depth reporting from a variety of topics. It allows saving of news articles for up to seven days. Offline reading feature is included.

3. NPR News iPhone App or National Public Radio Free. This one focuses more on radio news with an hourly newscast and access to popular NPR radio shows. Users can stream both live and archived episodes.

4. Fluent News Reader Free. This app compiles news and headlines from organisations such as Fox News, BBC, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. The user can also customise which sources are displayed.

5. CNN Mobile ($1.99) for the user who prefers video news. It has excellent video selections from CNN shows and surfs around the user-generated content in the iReport Section.

6. MSNBC News Free. Sends out breaking news using push notifications. The alerts are timely and relevant but can be turned off if the user is bothered. For users who watch The Today Show, NBC Nightly News or other NBC news programming this is a good choice app.

Statistics of Summly in Apple Store

Category: news

Version 2.0

Size: 33.3MB

Languages: English, Bokmal, Norwegian, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai

Seller; Summly Limited, Summly Inc.

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod Touch (3rd gen), iPod Touch (4th gen), and the iPad. Requires iOS 5 or later. This application is optimized for iPhone 5.

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