Nextgen Reader 6.4.0.38
Windows Phone users have a few solid alternatives waiting to be discovered and one of the most powerful tools that boasts lots of customizations, a friendly front-end and many more is Nextgen Reader.
Smooth appearance and solid structuring of the layout
This utility will greet you with a pretty simple appearance that favors functionality and ease of use, which makes visual appeal secondary.
The information hosted inside comes in a very well structured form, as the app offers an easy to read manner for any article, with images of good quality inside.
Going through hundreds of articles, subscriptions and accessing the functions and commands of Nextgen Reader are all done smoothly, without any glitches. An occasional nuisance is represented by the small delay in loading the online articles.
Add subscriptions and read the news on the fly
In order to fully enjoy all the capabilities of Nextgen Reader you will a have to sign in to Feedly using your Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft or Evernote account and thus you will be able to access and manage a lot easier all you preferred news sources.
The ability to select the news sources for each of the areas of interest is more than welcomed, as you can opt for having specific feeds included in the list and disregard the ones that are irrelevant to you.
The feed search option is a great helper and you can manage the subscriptions in a pretty straightforward manner, pin the feeds to the Start screen and choose the preferred open method for each news provider.
The text visibility is very good and you can modify the article viewing options, as there are countless customizations inside the app's "Settings" area. Another advantage of this utility is the support for landscape and portrait screen orientations that makes news reading more pleasant.
Multiple sharing options and app configurations
If you want to send out to your friends any of the articles you enjoy reading, Nextgen Reader is ready to offer you a plethora of possibilities.
Thus, besides the usual email and SMS methods, the app can post the article title and link as your status or upload this info on various social networks and services you subscribed to, like Instapaper, Tumblr, LinkedIn or OneNote, to name just a few of them.
The synchronization settings, the live tile update interval and behavior, as well as other options can be configured in-depth, so you can spend quite a while tinkering with all of them.
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Bottom Line
Design / UI9
The classy and clean appearance of the application earns it a lot of appreciation, even if it doesn't have eye-candy elements of design. |
Function10
Nextgen Reader offers a complete package for finding, reading, sharing and monitoring news from any source, along with numerous customizations. |
Security9
Generally a discreet tool, this app requires for some reason access to the phone identity, otherwise it doesn't access restricted system areas. |
Battery6
The battery usage is substantial, as the utility requires quite a bit of power to run well, but it will not drain the battery too quickly. |
Price10
All the features provided by Nextgen Reader can be used freely in the trial version and those who want to use it on multiple devices can purchase the full version. |
Compatibility9
Ready to run on most Windows Phone handsets currently on the market, the application requires version 8 or higher of the operating system. |
Specifications
- price:
- 0.99
- current version:
- 6.4.0.38
- reviewed version:
- 6.4.0.24
- developer:
- Next Matters
- category:
- INTERNET & NETWORK
- os version req.:
- 8, 8.1
- age rating:
- N/A
- in-app purchases:
- Yes. unlock full version on multiple devices
- hits:
- 479