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How to follow the news without drowning in apps, why a news app shouldn’t need your account, and how GetMyNews works.
News apps compared10 min read
Which half of Ground News do you want to replace: the left-center-right rating, or the same story as several US newsrooms wrote it? Five options, priced.
Read →Reading habits9 min read
A news filter bubble is a feed that keeps serving what you already clicked. Three levers get you out: pick the newsrooms, see why a story is shown, reset.
Read →Reading habits9 min read
A morning news routine should give you the day, not take it. Four rules that keep the first ten minutes to orientation, and the test that says it worked.
Read →Swipe news9 min read
News avoidance is not laziness; it is a response to a format that never concludes. What the data says, and why an ending is the fix willpower is not.
Read →Reading habits9 min read
A useful European set is three sources, not a tour of the continent. What is already in English, what needs one tap to translate, and how to keep it small.
Read →No account10 min read
A news algorithm is three steps: intake, scoring, presentation. What each score optimizes for, where the rules run, and six checks that reveal it.
Read →Swipe news9 min read
Three interfaces, three habits. What a scroll, a chronological inbox and a card deck each ask of you, and which reader each one produces after a month.
Read →Reading habits9 min read
Local newsrooms first, one international desk, and a rule for the pundits at home. A three-layer setup for following an election in another country.
Read →No account9 min read
A checklist of what a news app can know, usually knows, and must know — and how the Play Data safety card and the privacy policy give you the answer.
Read →News apps compared8 min read
Ranked lists rot by spring. Three checks — account, ads, sources — that judge any free iPhone news app, and the category that matches your actual job.
Read →Reading habits9 min read
Once a day, in one sitting, from a surface that can finish. Why checking is not reading, and a one-week method to find the amount that orients you.
Read →News apps compared7 min read
Artifact closed in January 2024 and Yahoo bought the technology. What its readers were really after, and the five tests any replacement has to pass.
Read →No account8 min read
Same feed, different data trail. What on-device personalization means, what a cloud profile keeps after you delete the app, and how to tell them apart.
Read →Reading habits9 min read
Six newsrooms, one event, six leads. The five reasons national coverage diverges without anyone inventing facts, and how to read across them in a minute.
Read →Sources & paywalls8 min read
What $12.99 a month buys inside Apple News, what it does not unlock, and a five-step trial test that answers the question before the charge lands.
Read →Swipe news8 min read
The endless scroll is a design decision, not an accident. The four techniques that keep a feed open, what they cost attention, and how to get off tonight.
Read →Sources & paywalls8 min read
Most of what crosses your phone is a rewrite. Six moves that trace a story back to the newsroom that gathered it, and what a card owes you before you tap.
Read →Sources & paywalls7 min read
Subways, planes and dead zones. What a news app can still show you with no connection, what it cannot, and the thirty-second habit that decides it.
Read →No account8 min read
Tracking in a news app is a pile of identifiers, not one switch. What to turn off on Android, what only a different app fixes, and what to demand.
Read →News apps compared8 min read
One ranks for you, the other asks you to assemble. The category difference that survives every redesign, plus the three checks that decide it in a week.
Read →Reading habits8 min read
International news is not one feed. How to build an English-language source list country by country, with three roles instead of thirty bookmarked logos.
Read →Sources & paywalls7 min read
Ranked lists of free news sites rot in a month. The four categories that stay open on purpose, how to spot them, and what to do when your story is locked.
Read →Sources & paywalls7 min read
A news aggregator gathers many newsrooms into one place. The three questions that define one — intake, ordering, where you read — and whether you need one.
Read →No account8 min read
An email is a join key, not a login. What news apps do with the address after you type it, and how to tell a necessary account from a collection one.
Read →Sources & paywalls7 min read
RSS never went away: every newsroom still publishes one and podcasts run on it. What an RSS feed is, why it lost the mainstream, and when it beats a feed.
Read →News apps compared8 min read
A free reader can replace the Apple News app, not the News+ catalog. The four questions that separate a real alternative from a rebranded signup funnel.
Read →Sources & paywalls8 min read
Open, metered or hard: three kinds of paywall, four tells that identify each from the link alone, and what to do with a locked story that matters to you.
Read →Reading habits8 min read
The case for a short daily pass through the news when the honest alternative is looking away. What informed has to mean, and what tuning out really costs.
Read →Reading habits8 min read
You do not need a translation app to read a foreign newspaper. How Chrome's page translation works on Android, when it is good enough, and its real limits.
Read →Reading habits9 min read
Feeds are built to keep you, not to brief you. Four structural reasons social networks fail as a news source, and what the ranking actually selects for.
Read →Sources & paywalls8 min read
Which routes past a paywall are legitimate, which are circumvention, and why a library card beats every browser trick people trade online right now.
Read →Reading habits9 min read
Start with the claim, not the pixels. A five-step check that traces a story to a newsroom, plus the image, audio and video tells that still hold in 2026.
Read →News apps compared8 min read
Leaving Google News is easy; leaving it for something that is not the same trade is harder. Four kinds of alternative, four questions that decide.
Read →Reading habits9 min read
News fatigue comes from a format with no stopping rule. What it is, why more access made it worse, and a ten-minute daily pass you can actually finish.
Read →No account8 min read
Four one-minute checks that tell you if a news app truly works without an account, plus exactly what GetMyNews stores on your Android phone.
Read →Reading habits8 min read
Four obstacles make international news harder than it should be. A four-source structure, one daily pass, and the tap that removes the language wall.
Read →No account8 min read
Nothing about showing a headline needs your identity. Why news apps require an account anyway, what the sign-up wall buys them, and the on-device option.
Read →Swipe news8 min read
A deck of full-screen cards instead of an endless scroll. What a swipe news app changes about attention, personalization and where the learning happens.
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