Appy Gamer 4.4.2

A video games news app that learns what you like over time
It can be hard to stay on top of all your favorite gaming topics, and even if you add Softpedia to your RSS feed there’s still a great deal of content that you might like to consume, but not at the cost of spending an entire day hunting down those stories, videos and images.

One way to do that is to add Appy Gamer to your home screen as well. It aggregates all the gaming news, videos and photos on the internet and offers them in custom-tailored serving sizes.

Dense UI

A powerful aggregator of gaming news, Appy Gamer packs everything you could possibly care about in a dense interface filled with tiles that you can add to your Home screen and use them as RSS feeds.

Unfortunately the experience is somewhat hindered by the endless dialogs and prompts during the setup process. But once that’s over and done with, you’ll be in for a wonderful experience.

For hardcore gamers

Appy Gamer is very well designed to serve the avid gamer. You can choose your gaming content - including news stories, videos, and photos - from an endless selection of categories, including Moods, which lets you rate the mood level of a story.

You can select any category to add it to your home screen and receive constant news updates tailored to your taste. You can have PS4 stories delivered to you and no Xbox 360 stories, or you can check out technology-related topics (console hardware, etc.), even a little bit of gossip from the games industry.

Articles can be saved for offline reading, and the more you poke around it the more it learns what topics interest you.

Appy Gamer comes with a news digest that you can discover by swiping to the right on the homescreen. Here, you’ll find an overview of the most important news of the day, based on the topics you’ve chosen for your homescreen, and you’ll get new content every morning.

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softpedia rating

4.5/5

user rating 1

UNRATED
5.0/5
 

0/5

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Hits & Misses

hits

  • superbly designed gaming news reader
  • RSS functionality
  • custom-tailored news feed
  • has standalone video and photo sections
  • explore related topics via Tag Nav keyword navigation system
  • covers all the major platforms from mobile through consoles and PC

misses

  • pesky ad obstructs view
  • ad is non removable
Bottom Line
Design / UI9
 

Appy Gamer has a simplistic, intuitive UI and is very well designed overall, but it displays a pesky ad at the bottom of the screen (which apparently you can’t remove) and this ad sometimes obstructs other elements that are important in the app.

Function9
 

A highly-qualified sidekick for gaming fanatics, Appy Gamer aggregates all the gaming news, videos and photos on the internet and offers them in custom-tailored serving sizes.

Security7
 

Appy Gamer integrates with Facebook and Google + and, if you let it, it will try to fetch a lot of information from your profile, as well as post on your behalf.

Battery8
 

Normal consumption levels.

Price8
 

Had it not been for that pesky, non-removable ad, Appy Gamer would have deserved max score here. Also, the app’s curiosity about your social network profiles is a price to pay in and of itself.

Compatibility9
 

Works with all iDevices in the iOS 6 league and above, and has an iPad version to die for.

Editor's Review
EXCELLENT
Reviewed by Filip Truta, last updated on February 21st, 09:15 GMT.
Specifications
price:
100% Free
current version:
4.4.2
reviewed version:
4.3
developer:
News Republic
category:
INTERNET & NETWORK
os version req.:
6.0
age rating:
4+
in-app purchases:
No
hits:
361

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