Start Up! Browser (Ad Blocker) app for iPhone and iPad

4.1 ( 4211 ratings )

News Medical
Developer: Smartest Apps LLC

0.99 USD

Current version: 10.0, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 24 Sep 2009
App size: 1.12 Mb

Free up your screen with the app that gives you one-tap access to all of your favorite news. This quick and powerful built-in news browser blocks ads and optimizes websites to fit on your screen. Turn on "Optimized Browsing" and get news stories faster than you normally can. It will even work on other websites.

Features
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-Tilt your iPhone to scroll through websites
-Share sites on Twitter/Facebook and others
-Fully integrated with Instapaper
-Hides Most Ads from Mobile Sites
-Saved Text Can Be Read Offline
-Full Screen Support
-Lock Viewing Orientation
-Customizable Start Up Screen
-Ad-free Google Search
-Save Images to Your Device
-Scroll to Top Button
-Email Links to Friends
-Save a Homepage that Always Shows First
-Add/Sort/Delete Unlimited Bookmarks
-Home Button for Easy Access to Start Page
-Add Your Own Favorite Sites

Instructions
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Tap the bottom-right corner to display the navigation button. For more instructions, visit SmartestApple.com.

197+ Sites included
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World & U.S. News:
NPR
AP
Drudge Report
CNN
USA Today
ABC News
MSNBC
CBS News
Time Magazine
Yahoo! News
Google News
BBC
Reuters
Huffington Post
Fox News
Newsweek
AOL News
U.S. News
Newsday
Agence France Presse
Today Show
NewsMax
Politico
Slate Magazine
United Press International

Tech:
Gizmodo
CNET
MacRumors
Macworld
TUAW
iLounge
Techmeme
Engadget
Lifehacker
Slashdot
ComputerWorld
Technology Review
iPhoneFreak
NASA News
Google Tech
GigaOM
Mashable
Ars Technica
TechCrunch
CrunchGear
MobileCrunch
TechCrunch IT
Coolest Gadgets
The Inquirer
V3
Computing
9 to 5 Mac
Silicon Alley Insider
Stuff Magazine
ReadWriteWeb

Regional News:
Arizona Republic
Atlanta Journal Constitute
Baltimore Sun
Boston Globe
Boston Herald
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Chicago Tribune
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Dallas Morning News
Denver Post
Detroit Free Press
Hartford Courant
Houston Chronicle
Indianapolis Star
KTLA
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Daily News
Miami Herald
Minnesota Star Tribune
The Morning Call
New York Times
New York Post
Orlando Sentinel
Philadelphia Inquirer
Salt Lake Tribune
San Diego Union-Tribune
San Francisco Chronicle (SFGate)
The Seattle Times
Sun Sentinel
Tampa Bay Online
The Hill
Times Union (Albany)
Washington Post
Washington Times
West Palm Beach TV

Entertainment News:
Star Magazine
TMZ
OMG! News
People Magazine
E!
Meet the Famous
The Onion
WWE Daily
Perez Hilton
Google Entertainment

Financial News:
Bloomberg
CNBC
Wall Street Journal
The Economist
CNN Money
BusinessWeek
Forbes
Fox Business
Financial Times
Google Business

Sports News:
ESPN
The Score
CBS Sports
Fox Sports
Sports Illustrated
NBA
NHL
NFL
MLB
Google Sports

UK News:
The Guardian
The Sun
The Times
Telegraph
Daily Mirror
Birmingham Post
Evening Standard
Teletext
The Metro
Independent
Daily Mail
Yahoo! UK News
Google UK News
Reuters UK
News Now

Popular Sites:
digg
Slickdeals
Weather.com
FHM
Ask Men
Spike
ELLE
GameSpot
IGN
Maxim
Break.com
NBC
MTV
Discovery Channel
Car and Driver
MSN
Yahoo!
Fandango
TV Guide
Mens Health
Facebook
MySpace
Twitter
NAVTEQs Traffic
GasBuddy
Wikipedia
Reddit
Ebay
Paypal
Amazon
Dictionary.com
Flickr
AccuWeather
MapQuest
MovieFone

More iPhone formatted websites to come! Have a favorite site that you want to have its ads stripped and formatted to fit your iPhone? Email us through our website.

Note to Users:
If you like this app, you will also like the 5-0 Radio app. Theres a link to it at our website: smartestapple.com

Pros and cons of Start Up! Browser (Ad Blocker) app for iPhone and iPad

Start Up! Browser (Ad Blocker) app good for

This is a whole lot better than opening Safari. Its a quick glance at all the great websites! 5 stars!!!

This app is really worth it!! I like to read the news while I am communting to work and this app makes glancing at articles and headlines a breeze. This is my primary app in the mornings. I highly recommend it to those you just want to read news and web articles online without the fluff and overhead of ads.

This is fastest way to check all of my favorite sites on my iPhone. Im not surprised that this app has no publicity. Since it blocks ads, its the app that no news companies want you to have.

Great app for reading the news. I do all my news reading on this app @likfishn: There IS a back button. You must have closed the toolbars and entered full screen mode. Just tap the bottom-right corner to get the toolbars back. You can see what the toolbar looks like in the screenshots.

Just had written a poor review not realizing the issue about poor navigation had been resolved. Now a very good app, highly recommended.

Here I was a registered news junkie on my 12th step - almost clean...then I try this app. The sweaty palms are back and Im hooked again! Seriously, faster and more convenient than any of my individual dedicated news apps- even faster than my PC/cable service. Dont understand people saying there is no back button? Has back button and navigates VERY quickly! Ive at least double news reading/absorption rate...apologies for sucking up all the neighborhood bandwidth Dudes, I cant stop myself. Bravo.

Some bad moments

Has a lot of interesting websites, but terribly hard to navigate back to the startup screen once you exit it to visit a website. The only way I can find to do it is to reload the app. App desighn needs to better thought out.

this app is horrible. the layout isnt fluid or easy to use. I wasted a buck :[

Why would you pay $1 for a non customizable app Just Search you favorite newspaper and download it for FREE.

DO NOT BUY!!! My most used app, until recently. Really buggy, hang ups too. NY post link went bad. Sent email to customer service, NO RESPONSE.

Excellent news app for the iPhone but not yet designed for the iPad so no good for that.

I love the app because as a news junkie, I love the ease of going to the websites quickly. The app would have got a 5/5 but for two reason it did not. One there are several links that are dead or not working. Second the makers of this app seems not to fix or update the app after sending several emails. If the developers not willing to fix the dead links, then paying $0.99 not worth it.

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