Customize Your Breaking News With NewsAlerts
Newshounds have a lot of choices when it comes to staying connected with current events. RSS feeds and countless apps are available that provide push notifications for breaking news but none has offered the simplicity of receiving stories based solely on specific keywords.
NewsAlerts is a new app that hopes to resolve that with the simple feature of choosing topics most important to you for delivery. Instead of getting breaking news that is deemed important by the editors of a news organization, you get to customize the news to keep current with what interests you.
The app's interface is extremely simple. A plus button at the top of the home screen is all you need to access to input your keywords. With the initial download (currently on sale for 99 cents) you are provided with 10 keywords that you can enter for alerts. Additional words can be obtained via an in app purchase. Once a keyword is entered, you will receive a push notification every time that word is mentioned in the media.
The app does provide you with a good level of customization by specifying how many alerts to send, what time of the day to send them and giving you options to block out specific news sources. And like other news apps, sharing interesting articles you find is easy with in app options to email the link or sending the story to your Twitter account.
NewsAlerts is a simple app that does what it advertises. It's an easy way to have news delivered to you without having to sift through long lists of RSS feeds or scanning the web for content that is interesting to you.
NewsAlerts is currently on sale for 99 cents (down from $2.99) so go check it out, on the App Store.