Kittiwake: News Topic Watcher

Follow the news on the questions you care about, without reading everything. Kittiwake watches a topic for you, scores every new story against your question and turns the day's coverage into one signal from 0 to 100, so you see at a glance whether things are moving. ASK A QUESTION, GET A SIGNAL • Write a topic, a few keywords and the question you want answered, such as "Is there growing backlash over the new phone's price?". • Kittiwake scores each story on how closely it matches your topic and question, and leaves out what is off topic. • Apple Intelligence on your iPhone reads each story and writes a short summary. Without it, Basic mode scores stories by your keywords and how many outlets carry them. • The signal and its 8-week line show where the story is heading, with the week's change next to it. • Not sure where to start? Pick one of twelve starter watches and make it yours. ONLY WHAT IS NEW • Unread stories carry a dot, and stories found since your last check sit at the top. • Mark one story or a whole topic as read. ALERTS WHEN IT MATTERS • Choose the alert score for each topic and get a notification when a story crosses it, at most five a day. • A daily digest at the time you pick, and a weekly recap with the week's biggest mover. SHARE WITHOUT THE NOISE • Share a signal card: your question, the signal, the week's change and the 8-week line, as an image. • Send a watch to a friend with a link; Kittiwake always asks before adding it. • Copy a brief for yourself, or send a summary as Markdown or by mail. HOME SCREEN, WIDGETS AND SHORTCUTS • Widgets in two sizes show the signal and its line. • Shortcuts and Siri can read a topic's signal or copy its brief. • Stories are refreshed in the background when iOS allows, and always when you open the app. YOUR SOURCES • News search feeds, the GDELT news database and any RSS or Atom feed you add. • Every story links to the publisher's own page. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no tracking, no analytics and no server of ours. Scoring happens on your device; the app only connects to the news sources you use, to fetch the latest stories. Requires iOS 26 or later. Apple Intelligence is optional.