TheStumbleUponWeb find service has carved out a big comportment for itself on the Web , with a reported 15 million substance abuser and 1 billion personalized recommendations each calendar month . Last month , in fact , StumbleUpon push back more traffic to U.S. internet site than even Facebook , harmonise to figures compiled by Web analytics firmStatCounter . StumbleUpon wants to broaden its scope into the mobile world , and to that end , it undulate out a revamp version of its iOS app on Tuesday .
The free StumbleUpon app looks to recreate the service ’s Web breakthrough experience on Apple ’s iOS machine . Sign up for the service — you may do so like a shot from the app or on the website — select some interests , and tap a button : The StumbleUpon app will find articles , telecasting , picture , and websites based on those pastime and what other StumbleUpon users are recommend . You ’re capable to share any content you come up across with your StumbleUpon friend as well as via Twitter and Facebook .
Tuesday ’s 1.4 update to StumbleUpon ramp up the social feature film of the roving app . Pages now feature a social stripe across the top of each Thomas Nelson Page , showing you a StumbleUpon drug user that “ like ” that exceptional piece of content , open you a way to find standardized likes from that user if the content also vibrate your fancy .
A gray social bar at the top of StumbleUpon pages lets you see who likes the content you’re looking at and gives you access to user comments.
The app also underwent an interface makeover , with more - prominent pic thumbnails to show off your interests and the people you follow . The app ’s home page also features links to photos , video , news program , and friends for faster stumbling . In addition to the omnipresent Stumble button , you may also swipe from pageboy to page to discover new content .
I ’m admittedly a fledgeling to the world of StumbleUpon , but I get hold the app pretty comfortable to navigate and the subject matter it came up with more or less in line with my interest . ( The noise can be a slight jarring though — while browsing through newsworthiness , I stumbled from a story on Derek Jeter skipping Tuesday ’s All - Star Game to a travel slice on a Manilla hotel Sir Ernst Boris Chain to a story about the cosmos ’s largest thermometer in Baker , Calif. , and — disappointingly — to a news article about an auto race that happened two workweek ago . )
Some of the interface elements are still a piddling tough to finagle . There ’s a Thumb ’s Down ikon that allow you apprise StumbleUpon you ’re not particularly impressed with the content it ’s provided you . A triangle next to the icon allows you to provide further instructions ( such as account junk e-mail or twinned content or blocking a user ) , but the triangle is so flyspeck , it ’s abysmally severe to get at .
StumbleUpon may be a major thespian on the Web , but it faces some stiff competition on the iOS weapons platform , where Flipboard sets the criterion for delivering personalized news to your iPad . Other apps , includingZiteand Taptu , put a interchangeable accent on tailoring the World Wide Web to your specific interests . Still , StumbleUpon puts more of an emphasis on finding parts of the Web you might not otherwise discover , which may help the app suffer aside from the ever - growing field of apps focusing on individualize your browsing .
StumbleUpon is a universal app that runs on the iPhone and iPod speck as well as the iPad . The 1.4 update brings more small change to the variation built for Apple ’s smaller Io machine — the iPhone app sports the societal bar , and StumbleUpon promises faster browsing and germ hole .
The free StumbleUpon app runs on iOS 3.0 or later .
