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News-Summarizing App Gist Goes 2.0 With Pocket Integration And More Features

News-Summarizing App Gist Goes 2.0 With Pocket Integration And More Features

January 17, 2014
Gist has just been updated to version 2.0 with support for the popular read-later service Pocket, along with other improvements. As its name suggests, Gist is an app that provides the gist of articles. Specifically, it summarizes an article into five simple bullet points, offering an easy way to digest key information from the article. Released just last November, Gist has just gone 2.0 with Pocket integration. This new feature lets you connect your Pocket account to access all of your saved articles for easy summarization within Gist. Your Pocket article queue complements Gist's top news and custom article summarization offerings. Gist's Pocket support also extends to adding, deleting, favoriting, and archiving articles. Gist 2.0 also brings the following enhancements to summaries:
  • Completely new summary view for dramatically easier reading
  • Read a short excerpt of your article while waiting for it to summarize
  • Open articles directly in Safari or Google Chrome
  • Save articles to your Pocket or Instapaper account
  • Dynamic Text Support
Furthermore, Gist 2.0 features a new tab-based navigation layout and a slightly reduced speech rate for the regular setting. It also relocates the recent searches button to the search bar and adds support for opening the full article directly from the main screen by swiping on the article. Gist 2.0 is available now in the App Store as a free update or as a new $1.99 download. It's optimized for iPhone and iPod touch running iOS 7.0 or later. Gist is a neat alternative to Yahoo News Digest, which was launched last week by Yahoo to offer a combination of Yahoo News and Summly. [gallery link="file" order="DESC"]

Mentioned apps

$1.99
Gist - News Summaries
Gist - News Summaries
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Free
Pocket (Formerly Read It Later)
Pocket (Formerly Read It Later)
Idea Shower
Free
Yahoo News Digest
Yahoo News Digest
Yahoo

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