Google Currents

Google Currents delivers beautiful magazine-like editions to your tablet and smartphone for high speed and offline reading.

Free • Proprietary
News Reader
Social News

Android
iPhone
Android Tablet
iPad

What is Google Currents?

Google Currents delivers beautiful magazine-like editions to your tablet and smartphone for high speed and offline reading.

Features include:

Publisher editions - Publishers such as Forbes, The Guardian, TechCrunch, PBS, Saveur, and more have produced hundreds of editions including full length, in-depth articles, videos, fine photography, and slideshows. Editions are free - covering news, business, lifestyle, fashion, sports, science, technology, design, food, entertainment and more.
Fast scan - A new navigation mode lets you quickly swipe vertically to discover unread stories within an edition, swipe horizontally to move to the next edition within a category. Or, use the “sidebar” to jump ahead to a specific edition.
Breaking stories - Google Currents uses technology to deliver the hottest breaking stories in categories such as world, entertainment, sports, science, and more. As you travel to different countries, additional breaking stories are added to match your location.
Saved stories - Run across an in-depth article that you want to read later, or a special recipe you want to keep? Star any story to be saved for later, in your personal Saved stories edition.
Your favorite blogs and feeds - Instantly, turn your Google Reader subscriptions, or any of your favorite blogs/feeds into a beautiful edition with a magazine feel.
Translate - Currents uses Google Translate technology to translate editions into a preferred language of your choice. 44 languages are supported.
Widget - Immediately see fresh news on your Android home screen with the Google Currents widget.

Each edition is available for high speed offline reading, and provides quick-touch sharing. Google Currents self-adapts to differently sized phones and tablets, with subscriptions synchronized across devices. Google Currents - a reading experience not to be missed.

show full description ▾

Discontinued

Google Currents was replaced by Google Play Newsstand icon Google Play Newsstand in February 2014: http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/02/19/google-currents-is-officially-dead-with-latest-update-transitions-users-to-play-newsstand-and-disappears-for-good/