nowfound

AI · alternatives · 2026

AN

24 alternatives to A news app where you define your algorithm

A01 is a news reader where you define your own algorithm in plain English. For example, you can prompt it with: • "I want to follow recent AI startups and their first funding rounds.” • "I want updates on regulation changes and enforcement actions around stablecoins.” Every few hours, the backend fetches new articles, embeds them, and scores each one against your prompt. Only the most relevant pieces show up. No engagement metrics, trending bait, or “you might also like” filler. I built this because I every time I opened up Twitter or LinkedIn to stay informed on something, but always ended…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

  1. 1
    A01▲545

    Hey everyone, I feel like a lot of us have gotten used to social media as our main way to stay informed. It’s where we get our news, trends, opinions, and everything. But honestly, my attention has been wrecked by it. TikTok, X, Instagram... I go in to check one thing and suddenly I’ve lost 90 minutes. So I started wondering what if we could actually control what we see? Like, fully. What if we could own our feed instead of letting the algorithm choose what we scroll through? To play with that idea, I built a small demo app. You just type in what you want to follow, like “recent crypto big…

    2025 · a01ai.com · its alternatives →

  2. 2

    Hi HN! I just launched A01 on the App Store! A01 is a personal news agent that follows exactly what you tell it to, without the algorithmic noise. I built it because I often had to jump between different sites and platforms to stay updated. When topics get really niche, there’s no single platform to rely on, and I’d often get distracted by unrelated content along the way. How A01 works: - Ingests 2,000+ RSS feeds hourly (The Verge, NYT, Nature, IEEE, arXiv, etc.) - Creates embeddings using Voyage - Vector search matches your custom prompts against new content every hour - Delivers only what…

    2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

  3. 3
    Syft AI▲601

    Define Your news & choose your topics for personalized feed

    2025 · syft.ai · its alternatives →

  4. 4

    Get fresh and unique crypto-news from around the world

    2023 · t.me · its alternatives →

  5. 5
    Ray▲298

    I've been using this daily for 4 months and figured others might find it useful. This is my first open source project so would love any feedback. Ray connects to your bank via Plaid, stores everything in an encrypted local SQLite database, and lets you ask questions about your finances in natural language. No cloud, no account, your data is stored on your machine. Before anything reaches the LLM, all PII is stripped — your name, companies, transaction details are redacted and replaced with tokens, then rehydrated locally in the response. The AI never sees who you are.

    Apr 2026 · rayfinance.app · its alternatives →

  6. 6
    Gem▲228

    AI-powered news summaries for tech and finance

    2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

  7. 7
    Lark▲117

    1st crypto app that correlates news to price in real time.

    2017 · its alternatives →

  8. 8
    Rio▲147

    Your personal AI news anchor

    2024 · rionews.ai · its alternatives →

  9. 9
    Wrabbit▲91

    Crypto forecasts and analytics app

    2020 · wrabbit.io · its alternatives →

  10. 10AT
  11. 11

    AI Driven, personalised, distraction-free Crypto News

    2019 · coinblick.com · its alternatives →

  12. 12

    I got tired of reading clickbait articles and seeing irrelevant ads. So I pulled in a few RSS feeds to create a news digest using OpenAI 4o-mini for summarisation. Appreciate any feedback you'all might have. PS: News-summarisation may have been done to death, but I'm a UI noob, so I'm using this project to learn some.

    2025 · newsful.ai · its alternatives →

  13. 13

    Crypto, Stocks & Sentiment

    Jun 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

  14. 14

    Hi HN, my friend Ivan and I are retail investors and consume financial news regularly. We both think the current finance news is unwatchable, filled with exaggerated titles, writer bias and anecdotal details, so we built MacroPulse to make the financial news app we want. MacroPulse aggregates financial news, and the AI creates a single concise summary with key points for every stock daily. If you want to know the details, you can click the key points, the AI will give you extensive details. With the new format, I hope we can save you time while making you learn more about the details.…

    2025 · macropulse.co · its alternatives →

  15. 15

    Hi HN! I just launched StayUpAI, an all-in-one platform to stay ahead in the AI world. It aggregates AI news from multiple sources (articles, research papers, YouTube), then uses AI to summarize all news daily or weekly. Core features: - Unified AI news feed (with source/language/theme filters) - Daily & weekly AI summary emails - Summaries for each news item (papers, YouTube, articles) - Multilingual news (with translation) - Free to start, no personal info needed for a quick test I built this because tracking AI news is overwhelming, and I wanted a tool that does the curation…

    2025 · stayup.ai · its alternatives →

  16. 16

    Hey HN, I'm Ethan. I was spending 2 hours every morning across HN, Twitter, and newsletters trying to keep up with AI for my startup. So over the past few months, my co-founder Thor and I built FiveW to distill the latest AI developments relevant to us, in a 5 minute briefing. FiveW does three things: 1. Personalized morning briefing -- talk with an agent on onboarding, and get a daily briefing tailored to your interests that you can deep dive on. 2. Curated AI news feed -- surfaces the most important AI stories of the day from 100+ sources, in one place 3. Live market signals -- BTC, gold,…

    Mar 2026 · fivew.xyz · its alternatives →

  17. 17RT

    I decided to build my own AI feeds reader since I wanted features I couldn't find, or at least not in the way I wanted to, for instance: - Filter news by interest/category - Cluster same story from different sources into one - Show short summary of each new so you can skip if it's not really that interesting to you - Track relevant AI figures, but not only their tweets and posts but also their appearences in articles and interviews I'm still tuning it and improving it everyday.

    Sep 2026 · aibriefs.news · its alternatives →

  18. 18

    Been feeling a bit left out in this fast paced world of ML/AI, so built my first ML project since college. The idea is to scrape the most recent HN article titles and use TF-IDF and cosine similarity as metrics to rank articles that you're interested in to filter out only relevant things. Hopefully a fun project for beginners to get inspiration to jump into this world.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

  19. 19OA

    Find information, resources and relevant links for reader.one. This domain may be for sale.

    2015 · reader.one · its alternatives →

  20. 20

    The simplest Windows app for real-time crypto news alerts.

    2025 · gokhankozan.gumroad.com · its alternatives →

  21. 21

    I like keeping myself in the loop of AI progress, and with an amount of things that are happening in the industry it has been quite a challenge. Yes there are plenty of AI newsletters and news-sources, including HN itself. However, all of those require significant time commitment. I was looking for something in a 5-minute-morning-briefing format, so I built it myself. Idea is pretty simple - every morning a pipeline is launched by cron on my raspberry pi. It crawls a few news sources (HN, reddit, tech crunch etc.) , aggregates, deduplicates and rates the news based on importance, then writes…

    Jul 2026 · ai0.news · its alternatives →

  22. 22

    Free, No-Ads, AI powered News Aggregation and Summarization

    2025 · reveal-app.net · its alternatives →

  23. 23

    We wanted a better crypto news source, so we built one.

    2018 · its alternatives →

  24. 24

    I built an AI Market Pulse Widget that analyzes the day’s news and instantly shows the market sentiment and direction. It’s designed to be plug‑and‑play: just copy the embed code and drop it into your site or blog. Key features: AI‑driven sentiment analysis of daily financial news Clear market direction signals (positive, negative, neutral) Customizable design (colors, layout, size) to match your site Simple integration — works anywhere with a quick embed Free to use for bloggers, traders, and financial platforms Why it’s useful: Instead of manually scanning headlines, your visitors…

    2025 · fxradar.live · its alternatives →

Also compare

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 →