Location centric news, the move over from local papers to a digital era, now it's enhanced by an app that also brings you stories appearing in real time globally. Breaking News is an excellent concept, well executed with live video, proximity alerts on major stories, watch lists so you can filter your feed according to your interests. You can even see what's trending as it happens, a live wire into the web and its relationship to news.

The design of the app is pretty simple, and classy. At the top of the screen you'll find the name of the 'Editor on Duty' (in this case Dave) and then the top stories (this morning Greece). We particularly like the 'Whoa' feature at the bottom of the screen, as mentioned above it's full of pertinent trivia essential for the next game of Trivial Pursuit you're playing. Perhaps best of all there's no need to 'sign up' to use the app. Yes you heard correctly, what joy.


July 2015