Hello everyone,
I am pleased to announce Collector, a news reading app that we released last night for Windows Phone 7 and 8.
Our main goal was to have something that worked like Flipboard for iOS/Android, and I can say that we probably did it. rly:
All our team we'll be happy to read your feedbacks, so please take a look at it and let us know your thoughts!
You can download the app by visiting this link on your device collectorwp.com or just browse the marketplace.
“Collector is simply the best news reader on the market.”
Browse through and choose from a selection of hundreds of feeds, or better still add your own RSS feed!
We care about quality.That is why we made it our life’s mission to bring you pixel perfect craftmanship the app, making your reading experience the best it can possibly be!
Collector works on ANY Windows Phone device out there, and does what the other readers cant and dont; it works offline as well !
You can also connect to Twitter in order to create your very own personalised news feeds from any of your Twitter followers. Prefer Tumblr, well that ‘s supported too.
Thanks to Collector Content Scraping, you can automatically see any link or attached picture, much like an Instagram photo or an article from a website.
Main features:
- Browse between a hundred of selected news websites or magazines.
- Add your own RSS feeds.
- Read articles offline, or read them while it’s syncing.
- Integrated Readability? content reading.
- Share directly to Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn !
- Create news feeds using other sources, like a Twitter user or even a Tumblr blog
- Live tiles supports every Windows Phone version (7.8 too!)
UPDATE 1.2:
- RSS Feed search engine
- Background agent to update live tiles
- Italian localization
- Number of articles to check
- Improved article content (spaces and typography)
- Share articles via email
- Brand new pin-icons, hand-made designed for each category
- Few UI/UX improvements
- Bugfix for some crashes reported by few users
UPDATE 1.3:
- New redesigned home screen
- Facebook integration
- Share via email
- Tens of improvements and fixes
- Better quality for the articles images
UPDATE 1.4 and 1.4.1:
- Instagram integration
- Bugfix for random crashes at startup
- Automatic download of outdated collections
- Improved download speed for the collections
- Little graphical improvements
UPDATE 1.5.1
- Bugfix for random crashes at startup
- Import feeds from Google Reader
- Unread/read articles
- Fix for low-quality images in some feeds
- Little improvements
UPDATE 1.5.2
- New re-designed "Read article page"
- Article detail page removed
- Few little fixes and general stability improvements
UPDATE 1.6
- New signup/login feature
- Background cloud-sync of collections and preferences (if you're logged in)
- 32bit color depth support for Windows Phone 7.x devices
- Improved stability while loading some feeds
UPDATE 1.6.1
- New Light/Dark reading theme
- Improved stability while reading the articles
- Infinite scrolling changed to pages (memory friendly)
- Pin icons and some new welcome screens
- Little improvements around the app
UPDATE 1.6.2
- Pocket (Read it later) integration
- General stability improvements
- Added an option to skip the welcome screen
- New collections update engine
UPDATE 1.6.3
- Improved readability on articles
- Bugfixes
Download Collector for Windows Phone
Like us on Facebook! facebook.com/collectorwp
With Love
Collector Team
I am pleased to announce Collector, a news reading app that we released last night for Windows Phone 7 and 8.
Our main goal was to have something that worked like Flipboard for iOS/Android, and I can say that we probably did it. rly:
All our team we'll be happy to read your feedbacks, so please take a look at it and let us know your thoughts!
You can download the app by visiting this link on your device collectorwp.com or just browse the marketplace.
“Collector is simply the best news reader on the market.”
Browse through and choose from a selection of hundreds of feeds, or better still add your own RSS feed!
We care about quality.That is why we made it our life’s mission to bring you pixel perfect craftmanship the app, making your reading experience the best it can possibly be!
Collector works on ANY Windows Phone device out there, and does what the other readers cant and dont; it works offline as well !
You can also connect to Twitter in order to create your very own personalised news feeds from any of your Twitter followers. Prefer Tumblr, well that ‘s supported too.
Thanks to Collector Content Scraping, you can automatically see any link or attached picture, much like an Instagram photo or an article from a website.
Main features:
- Browse between a hundred of selected news websites or magazines.
- Add your own RSS feeds.
- Read articles offline, or read them while it’s syncing.
- Integrated Readability? content reading.
- Share directly to Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn !
- Create news feeds using other sources, like a Twitter user or even a Tumblr blog
- Live tiles supports every Windows Phone version (7.8 too!)
UPDATE 1.2:
- RSS Feed search engine
- Background agent to update live tiles
- Italian localization
- Number of articles to check
- Improved article content (spaces and typography)
- Share articles via email
- Brand new pin-icons, hand-made designed for each category
- Few UI/UX improvements
- Bugfix for some crashes reported by few users
UPDATE 1.3:
- New redesigned home screen
- Facebook integration
- Share via email
- Tens of improvements and fixes
- Better quality for the articles images
UPDATE 1.4 and 1.4.1:
- Instagram integration
- Bugfix for random crashes at startup
- Automatic download of outdated collections
- Improved download speed for the collections
- Little graphical improvements
UPDATE 1.5.1
- Bugfix for random crashes at startup
- Import feeds from Google Reader
- Unread/read articles
- Fix for low-quality images in some feeds
- Little improvements
UPDATE 1.5.2
- New re-designed "Read article page"
- Article detail page removed
- Few little fixes and general stability improvements
UPDATE 1.6
- New signup/login feature
- Background cloud-sync of collections and preferences (if you're logged in)
- 32bit color depth support for Windows Phone 7.x devices
- Improved stability while loading some feeds
UPDATE 1.6.1
- New Light/Dark reading theme
- Improved stability while reading the articles
- Infinite scrolling changed to pages (memory friendly)
- Pin icons and some new welcome screens
- Little improvements around the app
UPDATE 1.6.2
- Pocket (Read it later) integration
- General stability improvements
- Added an option to skip the welcome screen
- New collections update engine
UPDATE 1.6.3
- Improved readability on articles
- Bugfixes
Download Collector for Windows Phone
Like us on Facebook! facebook.com/collectorwp
With Love
Collector Team
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