# FAFF - News Reader Playlists > FAFF - News Reader Playlists (iPhone/iPad app by Brandon Tran.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/faff-news-reader-playlists/id6816192280 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Brandon Tran](https://appshunter.io/developer/6816192282) - Category: News - Price: Free - Age rating: 12+ - Requires: iOS 26.1 · 6 MB - Languages: English - Released: 2026-10-09 - Data updated: 2026-10-11 ## What is FAFF? faff (verb, British slang): to waste time on trivial, unimportant things. Faff about. We'll read you the news. FAFF turns the sources you choose into a playlist you can read or listen to. Press play and FAFF reads each story aloud in a natural voice, moving from one to the next hands-free while you drive, walk, or cook. Or read along as the words light up. BUILT FOR IPHONE DUO • Reading Room: your stories on the left page, the one you're reading on the right • Open it like a book: articles become facing pages, with the TL;DR on the first page • Stand it on a table and FAFF becomes a news radio, with Up Next, a sleep timer, and type big enough to read across the room • Close to Listen: close it mid-story and carry on by ear from the paragraph you were on • Close it and carry on: whatever you're reading or hearing continues right where you were PICK YOUR SOURCES • Start with 130+ hand-picked free sources across News, Tech, Business, AI, Programming, Science, Design, Food, Gaming, Culture, Lifestyle, and Sports • Add any site by its address, or import your list from Feedly or another reader (OPML) • Name your own categories, arrange them your way, and star up to six shortcuts LISTEN TO ANY ARTICLE • Every story can be read aloud, with each word highlighted as it's spoken • Partway through a story? Tap Listen from Here and FAFF starts reading where you are • Press play on Today's Picks for a short spoken rundown of the day, then each story • Sounds best with a Siri voice: FAFF shows you how to set one up in a minute • Skip back 15 or ahead 30 seconds from the app, the Lock Screen, or your headphones • Pick up exactly where you stopped • Keeps playing in the background and on the Lock Screen, with controls on Apple Watch GET THE GIST, WITH APPLE INTELLIGENCE • A three-point TL;DR at the top of every story • Ask about any story: the background, why it matters, or a plain-English explanation. Or select a passage and choose Ask About This. Answers come only from the article • Picks That Learn: choose More Like This or Less Like This, and Today's Picks adapts • Stories in other languages can be read in English • All of it runs privately on your iPhone TODAY'S PICKS • A fresh daily selection from across your sources, balanced so no single outlet dominates DISCOVER • Explore what's trending in each category from outlets you don't follow yet, ranked on your iPhone by how many outlets are covering it • Trending headlines are waiting on the Search tab • Like a source? Add it to your feeds with one tap SAVE & NOTE • Highlight the lines that matter, add your own notes, and find them again in Search • Press and hold the bookmark to save a story straight into a group you name • Highlights join their story's group automatically, and Apple Intelligence can summarize a group's highlights • Your Week: a shareable recap of what you read and heard • Share a highlight as a quote card, or export your notes CALM BY DESIGN • No ads, no pop-ups, and no unread badges. Stories you've read simply turn gray • New stories first, with Mark All as Read to move on to the next source • Reading settings for text size, San Francisco or New York fonts, spacing, and a sepia page • Works offline: Today's Picks, shortcuts, and saved articles are ready without a connection EVERYWHERE YOU ARE • Your feeds, saved articles, progress, highlights, and groups sync privately through iCloud to your other iPhones • Listen in the car with CarPlay • Widgets for the Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy • Siri and Shortcuts: "Catch me up with FAFF" or "What's in my picks" • Find saved stories in Spotlight • Start listening from Control Center or the Action Button • Continue an article on your Mac or iPad with Handoff Private by design: no account needed, and FAFF doesn't collect your data. Your library syncs through your own iCloud, where only you can see it. ## Version history (last 1 release) ### 1.0 — 2026-10-09 No release notes. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-10-11.*