A calm news app that reads like a book.
This is not intentionally advertising, I just want to share an app that really has changed how I consume news. I happened to have built it. I'm disclosing this as per Rule#8. That being said...
I absolutely love my e-ink tablets. I love reading on them. What I noticed is the problem with my iPhone or iPad wasn't only that the screen wasn't e-ink, it was also that every app assumes you want to vertically scroll. The "doom scroll" that feels endless because the app is trying to keep you engaged to show you more ads.
I decided to build a news app that doesn't scroll. Instead it breaks up every article in to pages like a book. You can clearly see it's 7 pages long for example.
I'm biased but I absolutely love using it. No algorithm, nothing deciding what I see besides me. It's much calmer. It also uses "readability" so the article is just text and images.
A few features I'm pretty excited and proud of
- Mute: You can mute keywords to avoid movie spoilers, hide news topics you're tired of hearing about. It's liberating.
- On Device Summary: if you have Apple Intelligence, it will take a 30 page article and give you the important bullet points.
- Multiple device syncing but entirely optional. If you want to use it offline, all of the data is private to your one device. You can create an account which just syncs your followed news sources, read articles, articles you saved (stars) things like that.
- NO SUBSCRIPTIONS. I honestly hate subscriptions. Even though I have server costs with the syncing system, I wanted to price it where you buy it once and have it forever. There's a 14 day trial fully featured, then a 1 time in app purchase if you want to buy it.
There's more but I don't want this post to be too long. Please check it out.
Website: PageFeed.app
Appstore: View the App Store Link