Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to The Common News

Municipal news & local government transparency

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

1
Aware▲9
Are you Aware of what's happening in your local government?
2025 · awarenow.ai · its alternatives →
2
Below the Fold▲144
News you aren’t hearing anywhere else
2021 · its alternatives →
3
Stump▲101
Building the new place for local politics
2024 · joinstump.com · its alternatives →
4
The New Paper▲134
Facts-only news in 30 seconds. No clickbait. No bias.
2019 · thenewpaper.co · its alternatives →
5
Balanced News▲115
Track your political reading from all sides.
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
6
Local News Finder▲6
Makes it easy to discover local news across the U.S.
2025 · localnewsfinder.com · its alternatives →
7
Handy News▲79
News without the noise
2021 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
8
Vanilla News▲102
The news, but without all the opinions
2023 · its alternatives →
9
Your News▲166
News from Your Favorite Blogs, YouTube and Reddit Channels.
2024 · yournews.app · its alternatives →
10
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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LocalWiki, the open platform for local knowledge▲83
2015 · localwiki.org · its alternatives →
12
Dead Simple News▲107
Life is complicated, your news shouldn't be
2023 · deadsimplenews.com · its alternatives →
13
Partial Press▲130
Breaking news according to political bias 🗞
2017 · its alternatives →
14
Every Voice▲98
Powering transparent democracy
2024 · counteveryvoice.org · its alternatives →
15
Unite These Fuckers▲106
Compare Conservative/Liberal articles on the same topics
2017 · its alternatives →
16
Vox▲124
Understand the news.
2014 · vox.com · its alternatives →
17
Their News▲82
Pick a political bias for your news
2021 · their.news · its alternatives →
18
SpotlightNews▲65
Now your newsfeed is authentic, local and 100% yours
2020 · spotlightnews.us · its alternatives →
19
Local Headline News Platform▲3
Community Driven Local News For The People By The People
2023 · its alternatives →
20
Current Status▲96
The political web's front page.
2018 · currentstatus.io · its alternatives →
21
Newspaper▲82
Best content from your favorite topics, delivered to Slack.
2016 · its alternatives →
22
The New Google News▲88
Easily catch up on what’s important
2022 · news.google.com · its alternatives →
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LocalWiki▲7
My friend and I have been working on this open-source project for over a year, and we just launched our site and released our software: http://localwiki.org It's a way for local communities to share information, knowledge, and preserve local history. Inspired by a project we started in Davis, California, in 2004 called Davis Wiki (http://daviswiki.org), which today is the most used news and information source in Davis and by many metrics the world's largest and most participatory local wiki. By our estimates, half the local residents visit it in the course of a week, and 1 in 7 residents…
2011 · localwiki.org · its alternatives →
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MakeItPolitical▲73
Trending news delivered to your inbox, along with a poll
2022 · makeitpolitical.com · its alternatives →

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