# Artifact: Feed Your Curiosity — AI-driven feed, just for you > AI-powered personalized news feed with content summarization and discovery. (iPhone/iPad app by Nokto LLC.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/artifact-feed-your-curiosity/id1572927568 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Nokto LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/1572927570) - Category: News - Price: Free - Rating: 4.70/5 from 5,844 App Store ratings · 80 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 12+ - Requires: iOS 15.0 · 108 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2023-02-04 - Data updated: 2026-06-10 - Monetization: free - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/artifact-feed-your-curiosity/id1572927568/reviews.md ## What is Artifact? ** A new app from the co-founders of Instagram ** See what you’ll discover with AI. Artifact learns your interests and keeps you up-to-date with the information and inspiration that matters most to you. We only notify you when it’s worth it, weed out clickbait, and use AI to instantly summarize. Download Artifact to start seeing the most interesting articles and content shared from our community. # Advanced AI with you in control Choose your favorite categories and explore an AI-powered feed built just for you. - Customized: Explore the For You feed customized to your selections or browse category feeds like Tech, EVs, TV & Movies or Crypto. - Get the most from your subscriptions: Log in to your subscriptions and Artifact will recommend the best articles from all your paid sources. - Controls: Hide any publisher you don’t want to see or tell us when you don’t like a topic. # Share and Discover the Extraordinary Artifact goes beyond traditional news categories, allowing you to share and explore links from across the web, from product pages, app reviews, recipes, architecture galleries, and more. - A visual feed of links, driven by AI: Links from the community are presented in a visual feed. Post great content, and Artifact will start showing links to relevant people. - Creative tools to make it easy to share: Links provides tools to help you quickly edit images and help with caption writing; any story that you find on Artifact can be summarized with AI. - User profiles with following to keep you in the know: Search and follow anyone with a social profile. Profiles feature recent links posted so it’s easy to see what someone is sharing. # Supercharged Reading Artifact’s tools let you take control of how you consume news. - Instant AI Summaries: Gain quick insights with a single tap as AI generates concise summaries for any article. - Reader Mode: Immerse yourself in a beautiful reading experience with clutter-free reading. - Combat Clickbait: Mark articles as clickbait and help the community steer clear of misleading content. - Paywall Prevention: Automatically snooze publishers when you run out of free content. # Stay Informed. Stay Ahead. - Timely Push Notifications: Receive personalized pushes that keep you ahead of the curve. - Leading Tech Companies: Dive into the latest from renowned companies shaping tech and see announcements before they are even covered. - Independent Bloggers and Journalists: Discover the sources that get the scoop and provide unique perspectives you won’t read elsewhere. - Global Headlines: Explore a dedicated tab featuring today’s most significant headlines from around the world. ## Key features - AI-driven personalized feed - Instant AI article summaries - Combats clickbait - Reader mode for clutter-free reading - Discover and share links - Customizable categories - Paywall prevention ## What do users think of Artifact? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Personalized news feed - 👍 Clean and intuitive UI - 🚀 Efficient news aggregation - 👍 Useful AI summary feature - 🚀 Customizable interests - 👍 Replaced social media for news **Cons** - 🐛 Ads ruin reading experience - 🔧 Lack of reader mode by default - 🔧 Limited news sources - 🔧 Sync issues between devices - 🔧 Old news content - 🔧 Unnecessary social features **Commonly reported bugs** - Frequent app crashes - Slow article loading times - Inconsistent performance **Most requested features** - Option to disable comments - Ability to import custom RSS feeds - More diverse news sources - Default reader mode setting - Sync reading preferences across devices ## Recent user reviews (10 of 80) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/artifact-feed-your-curiosity/id1572927568/reviews.md ### 5/5 — Best News App *2024-01-24* This is my all time favorite news app because they focus on what I like personally and I didn’t have to choose between different categories. The fact they are stopping this app makes me sad because like I said in my title this is by far the best news app ever. I don’t know what I will do without it. It makes me excited to read the news when I use it because it makes it so specific to what I am interest in and no other news app can say that. I hope with all of the good reviews they change their mind because I really don’t want to loose the app. ### 5/5 — Bummed that the devs shutting this service *2024-01-14* I tried to move away from Twitter and instagram to make a better use of my time and artifact filled it perfectly. However, just read that they are shutting down due to lower than expected user bases and the CEO doesn't see it viable with the "lackluster" growth they have seen. Shutting down an app a year into its a existence is quite a bold move and I wish it was more disruptive to the social media/new feeder category than previously thought. Alas, we will never find out when it could have achieved that since the potential was clearly there. ### 5/5 — I’m lost— Artifact is going away? *2024-01-14* I read Artifact is shutting down. I almost don’t know what to say. This app has been a beacon for me over the last several months. It gave me a viable alternative to a media blackout. Other apps contain so much bull, so much advertising, so much clickbait. This app made a genuine effort to provide wanted news; while empowering user to exclude what was not wanted. Beyond that, the AI summary option is amazing! Beyond that, the audio option at variable speed is amazing. Beyond that the ability to comment and share news is amazing. I shared my art. I’m lost— it took my a long time to find Artifact. It was one frustrating app after another. Artifact is nearly perfect. I read what I want to read in the format and detail I want. I share what I want to share. I still see headlines; sometimes I scrolled right by. Where can I go? What could possibly replace Artifact? I was hopeful that it would someday replace Twitter and all the other social media apps. So much potential to do things right and cut the noise, manipulation, and exploitation. Artifact— you will be deeply missed. ### 3/5 — Allow users to turn off these features: *2024-01-08* 1) The Badges. Like many users, I only use this app as a news aggregtor. This is not grade school. I don't want or need you guys telling me I get a gold star for reading a certain amount of articles. 2) Other users comments. As much as you all want to turn this app into the next big social media platform, again; I only use this app to read headlines and do not care to read others opinions about an article. 3) For you section. While I'm not the sharpest pen in the bunch, I'm also not the dulles. I do not wish to live in an echo chamber, constantly only reading from certain sources or abour topics. Give people the option to turn off these features. Because those who would turn them off are never going to change their minds and want to use them (but they probably will get fed up and just uninstall the app completely). ### 4/5 — An innovative way for reading news, but accessibility needs to be improved *2024-01-03* I’ve tried many apps to read news and this one is really interesting compared to the ones I’ve tried. It presents an excellent news reading experience and it keeps the reader really hooked Thanks to the use of AI. The app also hosts a social tab similar to X formally Twitter that enables users to share their own posts as well as follow other users on the platform. However, the app has some accessibility issues that needs to be fixed specially regarding the app’s usability with voiceover users. Many buttons aren’t labeled. And there’s no way for a voiceover user to access images within posts in the app. ### 1/5 — Getting worse *2023-12-30* I was a big advocate of Artifact after I first started using it, I felt the content was very relevant to me, maybe because early users skewed tech/startup? Anyway as more news sources are added this just gets worse & becomes every other news app that promises a curated feed. I have only a few categories of things I want to see for news but yet I see tons of sports & pop culture content I never asked for. I have every sports word blocked but unfortunately it only blocks things if the article title contains that word. I go through & block 10 sports sources & then 10 more new ones for different sports teams are in my feed when refreshing. I realize as much time as I spend blocking news sources attempting to have a feed I actually want like when I first started using the app, it’s easier to just go back to using an rss reader app with all the sources curated by me. Please don’t allow this app to just become every other terrible news app feeding irrelevant content to everyone. ### 3/5 — Decent new aggregator. Too much other fluff. *2023-11-17* For reading news and articles, it’s solid. Only problem being dark mode takes awhile to kick after tapping on a headline and it seems to come from the ads being loaded on the articles website. It’s annoying. I shouldn’t have to tap an article link, close my eyes from the blinding white background of most sites use, wait for their ads to load, then open them back up when Artifact’s dark mode kicks in. Also, the “challenges” or “badges” or whatever they’re called are childish. I’m a grown adult, I don’t need article giving me what amounts to a gold star for reading the news. And the Artifact devs need to allow for comments of readers within their app (under the link) to be turned off. I know Artifact is trying to make news social, but there’s a bunch of people who could care less what other Artifact users think of a link (this is especially true of political links to articles). If people don’t want to use a function of your app, allow ‘ em to turn it off. ### 2/5 — Great community, but ads…. *2023-11-08* So. Many. Ads. Then some more ads. With an advertisement thrown in for variety. Frequently ruins the reading experience. No hope of improvement as Systrom (creator, if instagram creation fame) has publicly professed his love of the ad based revenue model. If it weren’t for the absolutely aesthetically hideous and functionally frustrating ads it would be a home run 5 star app. Update: installed a system wide ad blocker that made the experience MUCH BETTER (but sadly meant I was stealing the service since they offer no other way to support them. Just deleted the app as it is quickly morphing into yet another junk filled social app with posts and surveys and comments and whatever they dilute the newsfeed experience with next… ### 3/5 — Frustrating if your listing to audio in the background *2023-11-03* I was so excited when this app first came out, it was a new aggregator that would learn off my habits and what I liked. Something that has become increasingly infuriating with the app is that anytime you open it and you have audio in the background, it will pause that audio it will stop that audio, this happens over and over even if you go back and start the audio again you’re guaranteed to have to pick between listening to something in the background while reading, or just finding a totally different app because Artifact won’t let you do it. I’ve submitted so much feedback to the developers and nothing comes from it. I don’t think they actually listen to their users, but rather just want to use our data to market their ads. ### 2/5 — Great community, but ads…. *2023-10-24* So. Many. Ads. Then some more ads. With an advertisement thrown in for variety. Frequently ruins the reading experience. No hope of improvement as Systrom (creator, if instagram creation fame) has publicly professed his love of the ad based revenue model. If it weren’t for the absolutely aesthetically hideous and functionally frustrating ads it would be a home run 5 star app. Update: installed a system wide ad blocker that made the experience MUCH BETTER (but sadly meant I was stealing the service since they offer no other way to support them. Just deleted the app as it is quickly morphing into yet another junk filled social app with posts and surveys and comments and whatever the dilute the newsfeed experience with next… ## Frequently asked questions about Artifact ### What does Artifact do? Artifact is an AI-driven app that curates a personalized feed of articles and content based on your interests. It helps you discover interesting links, summarizes content instantly, combats clickbait, and offers a clean reading experience. ### How does the AI personalization work? The app learns your interests by allowing you to choose favorite categories and by observing your interactions. You can customize your 'For You' feed or browse specific category feeds. You also have controls to hide publishers or topics you don't want to see. ### Is Artifact free to use? Yes, Artifact is a free application. The description does not mention any costs, subscriptions, or in-app purchases for its core functionality. ### What are the key reading features? Artifact offers several supercharged reading tools, including instant AI summaries for quick insights, a clutter-free reader mode for an immersive experience, and features to combat clickbait and manage paywalls by snoozing publishers. ### Can I share content from Artifact? Yes, you can share and discover links from across the web within Artifact. The app provides creative tools to help you edit images and write captions for your shared content. Any story found on Artifact can also be summarized by AI. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.113 — 2024-01-08 - Improvements to the main feed ### 1.111 — 2023-12-18 Improvements to performance, and our new user onboarding experience ### 1.110 — 2023-12-07 Improvements to Challenges and feed performance ### 1.109 — 2023-11-27 - Improvements to web & reader mode performance ### 1.108 — 2023-11-16 - Improvements to Posts & Challenges - Main feed bug fixes ## Apps similar to Artifact | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Volv – News in 9 seconds](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/volv-news-in-9-seconds/id1474813657) | 4.8 (39) | Free | News | | [Feedly - Smart News Reader](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/feedly-smart-news-reader/id396069556) | 4.6 (25,597) | Free | News | | [Pocket: Stay Informed](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pocket-stay-informed/id309601447) | 4.7 (25,130) | Free | News | | [Pocket Casts: Podcast Player](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pocket-casts-podcast-player/id414834813) | 4.5 (14,523) | Free | News | | [Castro: Podcast App & Player](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/castro-podcast-app-and-player/id1080840241) | 4.6 (9,127) | Free | News | | [Medium: Read & Write Stories](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/medium-read-and-write-stories/id828256236) | 4.8 (155,920) | Free | News | --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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