Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A geeky way to surf news launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   A News App for Geeks▲6

   2015 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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   Swipe News▲97

   A news reader build upon the principles of simplicity

   2015 · swipenews.co · its alternatives →

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   News Genius▲66

   Make sense of the news

   2014 · genius.com · its alternatives →

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   Buzzminer▲159

   Quickly read latest news from different sites in one place

   2014 · its alternatives →

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   News Cues▲57

   Quickly scan through headlines of the current news.

   2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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   Surfly▲80

   Surf the web together. From anywhere.

   2014 · surfly.com · its alternatives →

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   The Tab▲94

   Hyperlocal news site written by student journalists

   2015 · thetab.com · its alternatives →

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   ReadThisThing▲81

   One fantastic piece of journalism delivered via newsletter

   2015 · readthisthing.com · its alternatives →

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   Cyber Surf▲75

   Easily browse through awesome gifs

   2016 · cyber.surf · its alternatives →

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    The Memo▲91

    A new online publication for people curious about the future

    2015 · account.forbes.com · its alternatives →

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    TL;DR▲85

    Interesting content, summarized by real people

    2014 · tldr.io · its alternatives →

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    HaH▲55

    A humorous look at the state of journalism.

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Feedial▲63

    A next-generation news reader

    2015 · feedial.com · its alternatives →

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    NYT Now▲11

    A faster way to get caught up on the news

    2014 · nytimes.com · its alternatives →

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    Better way to consume online news and media▲5

    2017 · thedailygray.com · its alternatives →

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    Passive News Delivery Web Service Like TV▲6

    2014 · newsasync.clojurecup.com · its alternatives →

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    WorldState▲19

    Reimagining the consumption of news

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Blazing News: A realtime news summariser▲7

    2021 · blazing-news.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

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    News site using NLP to analyze social data and write its own headlines▲8

    2015 · newsninja.com · its alternatives →

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    Use AI to summarize and read the news▲5

    2023 · aireads.vercel.app · its alternatives →

21. 21MA
    Made an app that summarizes the news. Thoughts?▲8

    2016 · zoltapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Layers News▲7

    2020 · layers.news · its alternatives →

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    News for Normal People▲4

    A more intelligent way to know the news.

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Infonity▲4

    Personnaly picked news to read, hear or watch.

    2016 · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →