The part I care about most is the Deck. Instead of scrolling a feed forever, you get one story at a time as a card. Swipe right and it unfolds into the reader, swipe left and it's gone and the next one springs up. The card rotates with your finger and the keep/skip stamps fade in as you drag, so you can feel the commit point before you let go. It turns "I have 40 tabs open" into a two-minute triage.
The rest:
Reader is clutter-free — article text, adjustable size, nothing else. No related-content grid, no newsletter interstitial.
Offline reading is a toggle, and it's real: flip it on and every story you've saved gets its full content pulled down at launch, so Saved works on a plane or in a tunnel. Off by default, because it costs bandwidth and I'd rather you opt in.
Three themes, named rather than numbered: Daystand, Nightdesk, and Sunset Sync — whicflips automatically as the day turns.
Three languages: English, French and Arabic, including proper right-to-left layout, not just translated strings.
Notifications are per-language topics, so you get headlines in the language you actually read.
Also: search with recent history, topic filters, trending, and a Discover tab for browsing by subject.
No account. No signup, no email, nothing to create. Open it and read.
Free, supported by a single banner ad on two screens — no interstitials, nothing full-screen, nothing that interrupts an article. There's no paid tier and no IAP.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wire-tech-newsstand/id6790411412
Built solo in Flutter. Happy to answer anything about the build.
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