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by microtonal 3913 days ago
I have been using Blendle nearly since the day they launched for reading Dutch newspapers. It is absolutely great: I can cherry-pick articles without subscribing to a newspaper, I don't have to shop around on different newspaper sites and they have this great feature where you can request a refund if an article is not what you expected quality-wise.

Also, they have this nice feature where you can register your newspaper subscription to get unlimited access in the Blendle webapp.

The only thing that I find lacking is an Android app - the webpage is sometimes slow on my nicely spec'ed ASUS tablet and I'd like to save longer articles for offline use.

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They do have an Android app, but I must admit I haven't used it on an Android tablet, so maybe it is only for phones?
Thanks for pointing this out, I completely missed that they introduced an app. Maybe it was not available in Germany before? (Dutch expat here ;))

Edit: There also seem to be two apps:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.blendle.app...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blendle.ap...

I cannot install the first (possibly because I am not in NL).

That first app is odd. I am in the Netherlands, but it is "not available in your country". The second one is.
Hi, one of Blendle's Android devs here (Dutchie as well). The first one used to be the official app, but since it posed some problems we deprecated it. It'll be removed from the store soon. The second one is atm only meant for Germany, but that might change very soon... :-)