HitByWords - The News Explorer app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: JIA-REN WAN
First release : 10 Feb 2015
App size: 5.78 Mb
Powered by Google Trends and Word Cloud, HitByWords provides a whole new experience for browsing, exploring and sharing news!
You can get a quick idea before diving into the full story with Word Cloud in which the GoogleTrends-based algorithm chooses the most interesting and trending words marked in red color to catch your eyes.
The analysis of trending words by Google Trends is also served, including the global interest over time (starting from 2004), regional interest and city interest.
You can check the trend of global interest over time and the countries as well as cities with the highest interest to see what our world cares.
Not a big fan of the trending words chosen by algorithm?
Dont worry, HitByWords also allows you to make a real-time search by red-marking the words in which you are interested in the Word Cloud before you share it via Twitter, Facebook, text and e-mail.
FEATURES:
• Real-time Google Trends search
• Real-time Incident Map
• Get a quick idea of news through Word Cloud
• "you may also want to know..." cards based on the topic you choose.
• Trending words chosen by GoogleTrends-based algorithm
• Customize your concerned words in Word Cloud before sharing via Twitter, Facebook, text and e-mail (by clicking Word Cloud)
• Know the global interest over time provided by Google Trends
• Know the regional interest provided by Google Trends
• Know the city interest provided by Google Trends
• Pull to refresh article list
• View original article website by tapping the news title.
• No registration required!
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Lets get hit by words!
Latest reviews of HitByWords - The News Explorer app for iPhone and iPad
Among a sea of news app in App Store, this is actually a special one. The Google Trends search is definitely fun to play and the integration of map to show the interests geographically is pretty awesome too. However, all these fun things doesnt mean it is a useful app. It has potential to grow but you cannot really use it to accomplish something. Again, very interesting app. I hope more features can be added over time.
2.0 is definitely a big improvement compared with the past versions. Good for the developer to take my advice to integrate a map since for most of people they only know the locations of big cities. A map is helpful to know where the locations of other places.
Undoubtedly this is the most non-mainstream news app I ever used. Rather than providing something like top 10 trending news for you, this app lets you dig what could be trending by yourself. Very cool feature! I will still keep Goole News as my first news app while HitByWords would be my auxiliary news tool.
While the UI of this app is not so fancy, what it can provide is pretty insightful. Just read the news whose topic is about the slump in oil prices and found people who lives in Fort McMurray, CA have high interest in "oil price." Out of curiosity, I did a little bit research (aka Google) and found the decline in oil prices has made the local companies look for ways to reduce their operating cost, which means workers are getting the axe. Fort McMurray was rising and is falling due to the oil industrial, and no wonder the local people are very sensitive to oil price. I have to say this is a pretty amazing experience. Totally recommend this app and hope there will be more features.
This app provides a pretty innovative way to explore a news. I just browsed a news about Apple shares and then tried to search Tim Cook by Google Trends. It happened people in Italy are very interested in Tim Cook in the past 24 hours for a reason. After some digging, it turned out Cook flight to Italy as well as met Pope in Vatican recently and I was unaware that until now. Very cool! However, if this app wants to claim it is a mobile news explorer, which is ambitious, there is still a huge room for improvement especially for UI/UX. The idea of this app is fascinating but the implementation is kind of weak. Overall, good app and I definitely very excited for what is ahead.