Flipboard, the famous news reading app has made its way from mobile devices to the web. Though the experience on the bigger desktop screens is a tad different from what we’ve gotten used to on our mobile devices.
It’s still the easy-to-navigate experience we’re used to but the flip animations didn’t make its way to the desktop version. The Web requires users to scroll which kind of makes sense. This decision was apparently down to how unnatural the experience felt compared to physically using your fingers to interact with the content, so that overall magazine-like experience may be lost in the transition from mobile, but that might not be such a bad thing when Flipboard is just a web page away.
Flipboard for web is still designed to show you information in a rich, image-focused fashion. The emphasis here is to create your own personal magazine, with the news you want tailored to your needs. There isn’t anything exclusive to the Web version though, so when you first sign in onto the Web, you’ll see a bunch of cover stories and big news for that day, stories from the publications, topics, people and Flipboard magazines that you follow, and yes, everything will sync across your devices for a seamless experience, obviously.
More than 100 million registered users use this service and I imagine that number moving up now that it’s available on the Web.
