flipboard.com
Who runs Flipboard, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest news aggregator alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- SmartNews
Measured from Flipboard’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Flipboard01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Flipboard
Flipboard flipboard.com
One place for all the stories you care about. Join the Flipboard community to discover and share what inspires you.
Wikidata: social-network aggregation, magazine-format application
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Flipboard tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
More than all 18 alternatives below.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 5 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Flipboard
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Flipboard, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
SmartNews - Discover your world every day
Trusted by over 40+ million worldwide readers, SmartNews provides the best news, stories and events across 200+ local news sites.
Very close - 02
NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts
NewsBreak is the best local source for news, videos, and information on safety, accidents, sports, business, celebrity updates, stock market trends, and more.
Very close - 03
Digg - News, before it trends
See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.
Very close - 04
Mix — Expand your mind
Discover the gems of the web, personalized to you.
Very close - 05
Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos
Latest news coverage, email, free stock quotes, live scores and video are just the beginning. Discover more every day at Yahoo!
Very close - 06
American social news aggregation website and discussion portal
Very close - 07
News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com
Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.
Very close - 08
Dailymotion
video streaming site
Very close - 09
Home – Lycos
search engine and web portal
Very close - 10
StumbleUpon
content discovery platform
Very close - 11
Tumblr
Tumblr is the place you go to be yourself on the internet. No performance, no perfection. Just you, and the people who get it.
Very close - 12
follow.it | The Ultimate News Platform
Never miss important news again, without information overload. As publisher, turn your news into revenue and increase traffic.
Very close - 13
Techmeme
Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web.
Very close - 14
Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
Very close - 15
YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Very close - 16
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クリエイターが文章やマンガ、写真、音声を投稿することができ、ユーザーはそのコンテンツを楽しんで応援できるメディアプラットフォームです。だれもが創作を楽しんで続けられるよう、安心できる雰囲気や、多様性を大切にしています。
Very close - 17
Inoreader - RSS reader and news aggregator
With Inoreader, content comes to you the minute it's available. Follow websites, social media feeds, podcasts, blogs, and newsletters. Enjoy what's important to you, all in one place.
Very close - 18
Wattpad - Stories to obsess over
Wattpad connects a global community of millions of readers and writers through the power of story
Very close - 19
TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates
Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.
Very close - 20
news aggregation app and website
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Flipboard’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Flipboard uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Flipboard adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 15 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 37 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Flipboard’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CMS
- Contentful page source: images.ctfassets.net
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- JavaScript frameworks
- React page source: data-reactroot
- Analytics
- Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
- Google Analytics page source: google-analytics.com/analytics.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Google Ads conversion tracking page source: gtag('config', 'AW-
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:servers.mcsv.net include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.goo…
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: KJxSiCVesl4Z917kNWRn91atWBPs1ZeMg5E56zGkQKwr0TdvpUTCyQ==
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:servers.mcsv.net include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.goo…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1510.awsdns-60.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=dZ8g4eOwcpvhvx5AD10LH0gUSjKTUUgORwal07q…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=EU2djlhiCyLFRE6dqL0HEIwLSclUSRLzkbvQ4ObXr7I
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 14/20
- React 10/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on flipboard.com 9/20
- Next.js · not on flipboard.com 9/20
- Amazon Route 53 8/20
- Amazon SES · not on flipboard.com 6/20
- Apple Business · not on flipboard.com 6/20
- Atlassian 6/20
- Amazon CloudFront 6/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on flipboard.com 6/20
- Slack · not on flipboard.com 5/20
- Zendesk · not on flipboard.com 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on flipboard.com 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on flipboard.com 5/20
- DocuSign · not on flipboard.com 5/20