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
None of the 60 sites closest to Flipboard match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
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 and search numbers · 15 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 29 ms
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