The News (iOS) alternatives

Excellent app! It's saved me hours on distractions. One thing I wish that it had is a blur feature in addition to darkening, but that's a minor gripe and I love it anyways! According to the in-app statistics, it's dimmed windows for me for 250 hours.

A global news dashboard is a cool idea and this is a good first step, but naturally with hundreds of countries each with dozens of news stories it is overwhelming. Some ideas for improvement; 1. Sorting options: Alphabetic by name 2. Filtering: Quick filter by country name 3. Show source of each news item 4. Read indicators 5. Scrolling of each country list within scrolling of entire page is tricky 6. Pinning/favouriting countries to the top