Friend requests, messages, and notifications are all viewable through their standard icons, which are always on screen when browsing feeds. The lack of an offline reading mode will also prevent Paper from replacing popular news-reader apps.Įven though Paper seems to put an arm’s length between itself and Facebook, all of the well-worn Facebook features are present.
Part of this is because there are only 40 publishers featured right now, a small handful compared to what’s out there. Many of the stories in the feeds land there because of the publication sharing it rather than the content of the story. Some of the curation could use some fine tuning, or just more specific section titles. These diversify the stories you see within the app and allows you to escape the noise of the standard Facebook news feed without having to leave the app. The app prompts you to add feeds in categories like Headlines, Tech, Planet, Ideas, and other buzz words of interest. Paper solves this by supplementing the Facebook feed with curated categories you choose. This is, in equal parts, a blessing and curse because not all interests are shared, but all stories are.
Usually Facebook news feeds are subject to the content placed in them by friends, family members, and followed pages. That’s another key to Paper: This is your feed. Status updates serve as postcards from around the Web, taking users to that destination briefly, like reading a friend’s experience abroad, then pulling users back into their own world. A video introduction shows people writing letters and mailing cards from various locales, a blunt analogy for the way users share stories within the app. The seamless motion transition is beautiful and natural, playing right into the simple theme of the app. The article preview sits and waits to be explored, requiring you to slide the page up as if opening a folded card. Photos turn into panoramic shots that you can turn your iPhone to view in their entirety. Once you’re in a story, you get to see Paper at its finest.
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