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24 alternatives to FastNews

Crisp news in a minimalistic design, without the fluff.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. FastNews launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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I ranked news websites by speed▲320
I've been working on building "the fastest news website" for a few reasons: 1. I got tired of waiting for news websites to load, so I made a text-only news website that only has major news headlines. 2. I wanted to demonstrate to the world that if you want to build something really fast on the web, you can do it without loads of JavaScript. 3. I wanted to show that you can design something that looks good without having tons of images, etc. I put together the speed page at https://legiblenews.com/speed to hold my website to be more accountable for speed, but it's also…
2022 · legiblenews.com · its alternatives →
2
NewsBot▲189
The fastest way to find related articles
2015 · pedicuresalonaangenaam.nl · its alternatives →
3
Finkip▲117
Discover and read blogs faster
2015 · finkip.com · its alternatives →
4
Buzzminer▲159
Quickly read latest news from different sites in one place
2014 · its alternatives →
5
Beta Page▲243
Be the first to know about the next big app
2015 · betapage.co · its alternatives →
6
Spike▲70
Surfaces trending news articles from around the web
2014 · spike.newswhip.com · its alternatives →
7
CircaNews.com 👻▲226
To-the-point mobile news, now on the web
2015 · its alternatives →
8
One Minute News▲171
This is a minimalist news digest site that helps readers understand the biggest news happening around the world in one minute. We work on this as a side project. So why are we doing this? Welp, I myself am a clickbait hater. Sometimes I click into a news story on Facebook just to find out the content is nothing as the title suggests. Born from pure hatred, we have created One Minute News to make sure every headline literally says what the content is about. This helps readers save tons of time filtering out unimportant news just by scanning through the honest headlines. So far, here are the…
Feb 2026 · oneminutenews.org · its alternatives →
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News Genius▲66
Make sense of the news
2014 · genius.com · its alternatives →
10
Slownews▲77
All the news from your Twitter feed without the rush
2019 · its alternatives →
11
Futurism▲109
Product Hunt for news about the future
2014 · futurism.co · 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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News In Shorts▲106
News in 60 words
2015 · inshorts.group · its alternatives →
14
GoodNews▲70
A simple and minimal content focused news app.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
15
YoNews▲62
Yo it your way through tech news
2014 · its alternatives →
16
Sourced▲119
Curated tech news for startup founders/investors (EU + U.S)
2015 · sourcedhq.com · its alternatives →
17
nod.▲145
Catch up with the news in 10 sec or less.
2016 · get-nod.com · its alternatives →
18
Newsy: Video News▲68
No nonsense video news in 2 minutes or less
2015 · scrippsnews.com · its alternatives →
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Lectal▲118
A simple news app
2017 · its alternatives →
20
Slower News▲133
Don't spend a shit-ton of time filtering trivia. Contribute to slowernews/slowernews development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
21
Newscombinator▲115
Like Google-News, but for hackers
2015 · its alternatives →
22
Bluenews▲74
All the best emerging tech news, ranked by popularity
2022 · its alternatives →
23
A new media news bot▲87
Staying informed has never been so easy.
2016 · its alternatives →
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QuickNews▲16
A machine learning-powered news aggregator
2020 · quicknews.ai · its alternatives →

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