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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