# Particle: Personalized News — Smart summaries built for you

> Personalized news aggregator with multi-perspective stories and custom summaries. (iPhone/iPad app by Mina Labs, Inc..)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/particle-personalized-news/id6683283775 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Mina Labs, Inc.](https://appshunter.io/developer/1676703908)
- Category: Magazines & Newspapers, News
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.80/5 from 1,221 App Store ratings · 423 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 370 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, Dutch, French (France), German (Germany), Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean and 9 more
- Released: 2024-11-12
- Data updated: 2026-08-27
- Monetization: freemium
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/particle-personalized-news/id6683283775/reviews.md

## What is Particle?

PERSONALIZED NEWS
Keep up with the topics that matter most to you.

NOT JUST ARTICLES... MULTI-PERSPECTIVE STORIES
Particle brings you news from many sources and shows multiple perspectives in one place. See the different sides of a story with "Opposite Sides", and understand how a story is being covered with Particle's political spectrum chart.

SUMMARIZED, YOUR WAY
Read the news in summarized bullet points that tell you what you need to know. Choose from different summary styles, like "Explain Like I'm 5", "The 5Ws", or even a different language to help you understand the story in the best way for you. 

DISCOVER RELEVANT PODCASTS 
Particle listens to podcasts to identify key moments, clip them, and place them right inside the stories you're already reading. 

LISTEN TO THE NEWS
Hit "Play" to listen to your personalized feed of news—perfect for your commute or being hands-free!

FOLLOW ANYTHING
Follow people, places, and things to always get news about them right in your feed. Follow journalists and publishers to always see content from them, too. Want it even faster? When something you follow is making news, you can choose to get notified right away.

INTERACTIVE
Need to learn more? Ask a question about any story, and Particle will answer it for you. Browse questions to learn from what others have asked.

DAILY DIGESTS
Get push notifications for your top news every day.

UPGRADE YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH PARTICLE+
Become a premium subscriber for access to even more customization. Premium subscribers get: Custom Summaries, Voice Choice, Private Questions, access to the entire crossword archive, and a variety of App Icons. 

Terms of use: https://particle.news/terms

## Key features

- Multi-perspective news stories
- Customizable summaries
- Podcast clips integrated into articles
- Listen to news feed
- Follow topics, people, and publishers
- Interactive Q&A for stories
- Daily news digests

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Monthly | $2.99 | per month |
| Yearly | $29.99 | per year |


## Chart rankings

- #81 in Top Free · Magazines & Newspapers (US App Store)

## What do users think of Particle?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly
- 🚀 Efficient news summarization
- 🔍 Transparent source and bias information
- 💡 Customizable news feed
- 🎨 Beautiful and modern UI
- 🔢 Helpful AI-powered features
- 💬 Engaging question and discussion functionality

**Cons**

- 🤖 Excessive political content despite user preferences
- 🌍 Lack of diverse global news coverage
- 🔀 Disorganized layout and navigation

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes when updating story mix
- Outdated articles appearing at the top of feeds

**Most requested features**

- Improved categorization and organization of news
- Expanded international news coverage
- Option to completely filter out unwanted political content

## Recent user reviews (10 of 423)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/particle-personalized-news/id6683283775/reviews.md

### 1/5 — Non

*2026-08-05*

Le genre d'application qui vous envoie des notifications parce qu'un chat est bloqué dans un arbre (C'est un événement indispensable à connaître). Puis vous push des mails quand vous avez supprimé l'application. Au vu des 2 premières pratiques, je prie pour qu'ils n'aient pas revendu mes données à des tiers. Fuyez.

### 2/5 — Great but please expand coverage!!

*2026-08-02, version 1.1.46*

The app is great - easy to use, good design, makes it super easy to get across things. The preference settings are awesome. But please increase coverage already to other regions!! Would give five stars if the coverage wasn’t so focused on US only

### 2/5 — Idee gut - App Ausbaufähig

*2026-07-29*

Ich persönlich finde die Idee der App sehr gut, Daily News, immer auf den neuesten Stand, Inhaltspräferenzen…

Was mich nervt ist, dass die App sehr langsam läuft, die Artikel nicht richtig laden, die Übersetzung teilweise eine halbe Minute lädt und die Übersichtlichkeit in der App gehört angepasst.

### 3/5 — Better than most news apps but has a lot of unnecessary noise

*2026-07-20, version 1.1.46*

I really wanted to love this application and frankly it’s better than most. After using it for several months, I’m moving onto a different one.

Pros: 
- It’s a beautiful, well executed application and it threads the same story from contrasting sources in a helpful way
- It updates fairly close to real time and does a good job at prioritizing more important stories up front

Cons: 
- No control over news sources and constantly fed uninterested editorials
- It’s not uncommon to have some seriously biased headlines or photos for suggested stories
- it’s local targeting is only partially good as while I do get some local content, I get random locales across the country 
- No way to turn off the noisy ‘social’ features and every news story becomes a comment box and Q&A for opinions

### 3/5 — Customizing preferred topics does nothing

*2026-07-18, version 1.1.46*

Despite spending a considerable amount of time customizing the news categories and topics I’m interested in, and specifying what topics I’m completely uninterested in, I constantly am shown topics I’ve chosen not to see. For instance, sports or celebrity news…chose to not see any of this yet get it all the time in large quantities too. 
These issues remain despite closing out of the app and loading it back up.

### 5/5 — Love it

*2026-07-14, version 1.1.46*

Great source for news and break downs on what’s happening now. Fun app to use

### 3/5 — They put in ads

*2026-07-13, version 1.1.46*

Used to be great but now it crashes and has ads with a subscription to remove them

### 5/5 — Die fast perfekte News App

*2026-07-10*

Hab mich von Social Media gelöst und informiere mich jetzt mit dieser App, über was auch immer in der Welt abgeht. Allerdings spreche ich Deutsch und lerne Englisch. Ein deshalb nützliches Feature meiner Meinung nach wäre deshalb, dass man Artikel auf bedarf übersetzen lässt. Z.B. durch einen Button neben dem "Post a comment" button

### 4/5 — Great before Atlantic forced sponsored propaganda placement

*2026-06-27, version 1.1.46*

Particle was truly great, then accepted money from The Atlantic and now forces their very non neutral propaganda into forced placement that can not be skipped.  Shameful missed opportunity to be useful without any stupid American group bias.

### 5/5 — Great news app for busy folks

*2026-06-27, version 1.1.46*

A very well thought out news app. Pulls from many sources and summarizes into a news “story” that you can quickly read, or if you want more you can easily click through to any of the full article sources. I like that this company works with the news outlets, highlighting specific stories from some of them and placing them in your feed, as well as making it easy to click through to the news outlet’s website directly to read the full article.

## Frequently asked questions about Particle

### What does Particle: Personalized News do?

Particle is a news application that curates news based on your interests, presenting stories from multiple sources and viewpoints. It offers summarized bullet points, integrated podcast clips, and the ability to listen to your news feed.

### What are the key features of Particle?

Key features include multi-perspective stories with political spectrum charts, customizable summaries in various styles, integrated podcast clips, the ability to follow specific topics or people for instant notifications, and an interactive Q&A feature for stories.

### How much does Particle cost?

The app offers a freemium model. Users can access core features for free, with an optional premium subscription called Particle+ that unlocks additional customization options like custom summaries, voice choices, and private questions.

### What kind of content can I follow on Particle?

You can follow anything that matters to you, including specific people, places, and things. You can also follow journalists and publishers to ensure you see content from them directly in your personalized feed.

### Can I listen to the news with Particle?

Yes, Particle allows you to listen to your personalized news feed by hitting the 'Play' button. This feature is ideal for hands-free use during commutes or other activities.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.1.47 — 2026-08-13

New in this release:
- Performance improvements and bug fixes.

### 1.1.46 — 2026-06-17

New in this release:
- Performance improvements and bug fixes.

### 1.1.45 — 2026-06-09

New in this release:
- Performance improvements and bug fixes.

### 1.1.44 — 2026-06-07

New in this release:
- Regional news feeds for timely election and local coverage in Browse and For You.
- An improved Browse experience with new editorial feeds.
- Long-read audio playback with a new mini player.
- Enhanced podcast clips with faster transcript loading, and smoother playback.
- Faster search.
- Improved translation support for iOS 26.4.
- Fixed crashes and boosted performance across several features.

### 1.1.43 — 2026-06-01

New in this release:
- Regional news feeds for timely election and local coverage in Browse and For You.
- An improved Browse experience with new editorial feeds.
- Long-read audio playback with a new mini player.
- Enhanced podcast clips with faster transcript loading, and smoother playback.
- Faster search.
- Improved translation support for iOS 26.4.
- Fixed crashes and boosted performance across several features.

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*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 2026-08-27.*