May 29, 2009 3 min read

iGreekNews

iGreekNews and iGreekNews HD were the most successful and technically advanced news readers in Greece.

Release date: 2009, Re-released: 2015

iPhone application

Initially released as a paid app in 2009, it had a large database of news sites, along with their sub-categories, categorized per domain (Politics, Finance, etc).

Its ease-of-use and fluid UI made it extremely performant even when running on old devices like the plain iPhone 3G.

The iPhone application quickly climbed to being one of the top-grossing Greek applications, reaching 2nd place in all categories for 5 months, and remaining in second place of the top news applications for the entire year 2010.

Notable features:

Extremely fluid UI, no hiccups even when using on a plain iPhone 3G with advanced animations and ease-of-use
News Feeds from over 70 Greek sites.
Frontpages from all Greek Newspapers every day.
Saving favorite articles for later use
Subscribe to custom news feeds that were not included in the application.
Sharing to 5 social media networks.

iGreekNews HD for iPad

iGreekNews was released as a paid app for the iPad in 2011, written from the ground up to take advantage of the iPad's larger screen and UI framework differences.

iGreekNews HD climbed to the top of the iPad newsreader applications and stayed in this place for 11 months.

Features:

Extremely fluid UI, no hiccups even when using on a plain iPhone 3G with advanced animations and ease-of-use
News Feeds from over 70 Greek sites.
Frontpages from all Greek Newspapers every day.
Saving favorite articles for later use
Subscribe to custom news feeds that were not included in the application.
Sharing to 5 social media networks.

iGreekNews Re-Release

In 2015, the application was re-released, and it was accompanied by a backend that would aggregate News Sites and the Twitter feed, categorize the results, associate them and store them in MongoDB.

It quickly climbed to the top of the news applications but was soon taken down by apple.

The backend was written in NodeJS and was publicly released.