Flipboard: most-reported complaints
- Complaints in recent reviews
- 56% of 36 recent reviews analysed
- Most-reported issue
- Other 80% of complaints
- Company replies
- 0% of negative reviews, typically within a day
- TrustScore
- 1.8 from 47 total reviews
- Review window analysed
- 2020-11-30 to 2026-11-01 36 reviews
- Sector
- Other sectors
Automated analysis of 36 public Trustpilot reviews published 2020-11-30 to 2026-11-01. TrustScore 1.8 from 47 total reviews — see the Trustpilot page. Quick answer: is Flipboard legit? Issues below reflect what reviewers reported, not findings of wrongdoing.
Reviewers most often report issues categorized as 'Other,' accounting for 80% of the 20 identified complaints. These reports frequently cite perceived political bias or dissatisfaction with the content quality. A smaller portion of complaints, representing 10%, describe the service as 'Not as described,' with users noting a gap between expectations and the actual content delivered. No clear trend could be established for either issue due to the limited number of reviews.
Trustpilot lists this business as no longer collecting reviews. New reviews are not currently being gathered for its profile. See the Trustpilot page for the current status.
Not enough reviews to establish a trend.
What are the most common complaints about Flipboard?
| Issue | Share | Count | Trend | By month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other | 80% | 16 | ||
| Not as described | 10% | 2 |
Other
16 reports · 80% of complaints“Blatant left wing bias, shame because the platform works well.”
3 readers marked this review helpful on Trustpilot.
“Finally deleted app because of the overwhelmingly one-sided political bias.”
2 readers marked this review helpful on Trustpilot.
“The very first day I was bombarded with extremely Anti-Conservative propaganda.”
2 readers marked this review helpful on Trustpilot.
Not as described
2 reports · 10% of complaints“Flipboard just has highly commercial drivel and delivers about 20% on what is a massive niche in the market”
“The sources they allow / vet to have on their app is very questionable and spread a lot of miss information”
The company has not claimed its Trustpilot profile. We last checked this profile on 2026-11-12 and found 0 new reviews. These are facts Trustpilot publishes about the profile, as of our last harvest.
Companies House: FLIPBOARD UK LIMITED (no. 08273855), active, incorporated 2012 (14 years); next accounts due 2027-09-30, last accounts filed 2026-07-31. 1 current officer; 1 filings in the last 12 months (38 filings on record). official record — public register facts, not an indicator of wrongdoing; officer changes are routine in many company structures. Live Companies House status as of 2026-11-11.
In the accounts to 2025-12-31, audited by ZEDRA Audit & Assurance (UK) Limited, the auditor reported a material uncertainty about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern: “However, there is a material uncertainty about the availability of financing from the parent company in the foreseeable future based on the current financial position of the group.”. This is a disclosure auditing standards require when such an uncertainty exists. It is a statement about the accounts, not a prediction that the company will fail, and many companies trade on normally after one. Filed at Companies House; reproduced as filed. Source: Flipboard’s filings read on Company Register Intel.
Forum footprint: 4 MoneySavingExpert forum discussions mention this company (browse). Roughly 0 of the top, relevance-sorted search results were posted in the last 90 days — an approximate figure by construction, not a true recency count. Recent thread titles: “E: 02/12 Win a Limited Edition Xbox 360 250GB Skyrim console”, “Upgrade time, (S4 Vodafone)”, “What are you favourite money saving apps (for android tablet)?”.
Severity: 0% of this company’s 20 graded complaints were classified as severe (money lost, an essential service cut off, or a problem unresolved for months). See the harm index.
Reviewers here waited a median of 1.0 days between the experience and publishing their negative review (31 reviews record both dates).
Sector benchmark: other makes up 80% of this company’s complaints vs a 23% median across 307 ranked companies in its sector.
Review velocity: 4 of this company’s 47 Trustpilot reviews (9%) were written in the last 12 months.
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Method: reviews are classified into a fixed complaint taxonomy by an automated reader; every category shown is backed by at least two verbatim quotes from distinct reviews. Trends are computed from dated review counts only. Negative reviews are deliberately over-sampled for evidence depth; headline percentages use an unbiased recent sample only. Report updated 2026-11-03.