Best News iPad Apps - And Their Best Reviews

The application: "The 9/11 Memorial: Past, Present, and Future" is a unique opportunity to hold history in your hands.

Explore the construction of the Twin Towers. View videos of the site long before 9/11. Connect with the the day of 9/11/01 as it unfolds. And then, get an insider's view of "Reflecting Absence" Architect Michael Arad's powerful Memorial Plaza and twin Pools.

• Exclusive interview with the creator of the Memorial, along with his sketches and photographs.
• More than 40 videos, over an hour of original content, site tours, museum updates, and animations.
• Over 400 high-resolution photographs, including large artifacts at Hanger 17, rare site construction images, and the landscaping of an urban forest with 400 white swamp oak trees.
• Links to share, post, and connect with the National September 11th Memorial Museum site.

One of only 50 apps in the App Store Hall of Fame, Pulse is a beautiful application that makes reading news fun and engaging. Pulse takes your favorite websites and transforms them into a colorful and interactive mosaic. Tap on an article to see a clean and elegant view of the news story. Save stories for reading later across all platforms or sync them with Instapaper, Read it Later and Evernote. Sharing a story via Facebook, Twitter and email is as easy as two taps. So good, the application is featured in the App Store HALL OF FAME!

• All your content in one place: So easy to add any content you want - from major publishers to blogs to social networks.
• Dual view: For each article on Pulse, you can switch between a clean summary of the article or go to the website directly. When you tap on an article, both are ready to view, almost instantly!
• Offline sync: No internet? No problem. Pulse loads the news stories you read, and makes them available wherever you are.
• Save Stories: Collect your favorite stories using your Pulse.me account and then sync them to send to Instapaper, Read it Later, Evernote and Reader, all in one tap.
• News discovery: Pulse features new publishers each week. You can also search for a news source by simple keywords.
• Easy share: Found an interesting news article? Sharing a news story on Pulse via Email, Facebook, and Twitter is as easy as two taps.
• Integration with Reader: Pulse allows you to directly import all your RSS feeds from Reader. Your stories are synced with your Reader account.

It's simply a Google Reader Client.
It may sound cheesy, but Reeder for iPad really is the best Google Reader client you can have on this device right now.
/macstories.net/

Features

• Syncs with Google Reader
• Browse by feed or folders
• Manage starred items, notes
• Support for shared items and friends' shared items
• Mark as unread
• Image caching
• State saving
• Slider control for list entries:
• slide to right to toggle read/unread
• slide to left to toggle starred/unstarred

Services/sharing:

• Send to Instapaper, ReadItLater or Readability
• Save to Delicious* or Pinbard
• Save to Zootool
• Post to Twitter
• Post to Facebook
• In-app email for sharing articles
• Instapaper and Google Mobilizer
• Open with Safari
• Copy Link

Save web pages for later offline reading, optimized for readability on your iPhone or iPod touch's screen. Featured by Apple and critically acclaimed by top blogs, newspapers, and magazines! Find great web pages wherever you are, then read them at home or on the go, even without an internet connection. Like the Instapaper web interface's Text option, the app downloads a mostly-text version of each page, using ideal formatting for maximum readability on the iPad. Instapaper's Browse feature is even better in the app: you can browse your friends' Liked articles, daily selections from the best editors on the web, or any web page of your choice and save pages to read later directly from the app. You don't need to zoom in to read the text. And you can't accidentally side-scroll when reading a long column. Great for long articles and blog posts that you find during the day and would like to read, but don't have the time when you find them. Save with Instapaper, then read later when you're commuting, in a meeting, or waiting in line.

Flipboard is a fast, beautiful way to flip through the news, photos, videos, and updates your friends are sharing on Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, Flickr, and Instagram. See your social media in a magazine layout that is easy to scan and fun to read. Catch up on the latest stories, videos and posts from popular publications and people. Flipboard is a social magazine filled with all the the things your friends are sharing. Share articles and photos, comment on posts, and like or favorite anything. Customize your Flipboard with sections created from your favorite news, people, blogs, and topics.