Growth · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to The Paper

News from 100+ years ago, reproduced and delivered via email

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Paper launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
News From The Past▲19
Everyday, receive news from the past
2017 · its alternatives →
2
Goodnewspaper▲134
A printed newspaper full of good news
2017 · goodgoodgood.co · its alternatives →
3
The New Paper Text▲94
Fact-first news delivered once a day by text (yes, text)
2020 · thenewpaper.co · its alternatives →
4
The History of the Web▲115
The web's best stories, delivered each week.
2017 · thehistoryoftheweb.com · its alternatives →
5
Facebook Paper▲176
Explore stories from friends and the world around you
2014 · facebook.com · its alternatives →
6
Newspaper▲82
Best content from your favorite topics, delivered to Slack.
2016 · its alternatives →
7
Paperplane▲562
Beautiful, responsive email templates
2017 · paperpaperplane.com · its alternatives →
8
The Information▲341
Deeply-reported tech news you won’t find elsewhere.
2018 · theinformation.com · its alternatives →
9
The Factual (newsletter)▲88
Top 5 news topics, most credible stories
2019 · yahoo.com · its alternatives →
10
A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper▲638
Unim.Press is a Reddit reader in the style of a certain classic metropolitan newspaper
2020 · unim.press · its alternatives →
11
The New Paper▲134
Facts-only news in 30 seconds. No clickbait. No bias.
2019 · thenewpaper.co · its alternatives →
12
PaperLater▲135
Your Read it Later's printed & delivered as a newspaper
2014 · its alternatives →
13
SNEWPapers▲126
Hello HN, over the past 7 months I've spent nearly 3,000 hours on building SNEWPAPERS, the first historical newpaper archive with full-text extractions, nearly perfect OCR, a vast categorization taxonomy and of course with semantic and agentic search capabilities. Problem: I wanted to search through newspaper archives, but when I tried every service only lets you search for keywords and dates, and gives you back raw images of the papers, and too many of them with no context. A sea of noise. Solution: I taught machines how to read the newspapers and so far I've extracted the content from >…
Apr 2026 · snewpapers.com · its alternatives →
14
I made Hacker News but for research papers▲287
7M – Trang tin tức bóng đá uy tín, cập nhật kết quả bóng đá (KQBĐ) và bảng xếp hạng (BXH) mới nhất theo từng trận đấu.
2023 · paperlist.io · its alternatives →
15
Velocity▲293
Free ideas, facts, stories handpicked from 100+ sources
2018 · velcty.com · its alternatives →
16
The Outline▲226
A new kind of publication for a new kind of human
2016 · theoutline.com · its alternatives →
17
Paper Run▲177
The ultimate tech & science news mashup
2019 · paperrun.com · its alternatives →
18
OldNews▲8
Access to millions of historical newspaper pages
2024 · oldnews.com · its alternatives →
19TP
Top PDFs and Papers Submitted to Hacker News▲250
2019 · hackernewspapers.com · its alternatives →
20
Allpapers▲110
A daily personalized feed of research papers
2021 · its alternatives →
21
Subreply News▲62
Your daily social newspaper.
2022 · subreply.com · its alternatives →
22
Single Story▲78
The one news story that matters most, straight to your inbox
2019 · its alternatives →
23
The Generative Press▲110
The first newspaper that is entirely run by AI
2023 · thegenerativepress.com · its alternatives →
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Newspaper design▲15
2015 · codepen.io · its alternatives →

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