Small Talk vs Nerdish

Start every day with something new! Small Talk delivers daily knowledge, inspiration, and fun in one place. From motivational quotes and fascinating facts to clever jokes and life hacks, you’ll always have something interesting to learn and share. Unlock a daily source of inspiration and fascinating discoveries! Each day you will receive a notification informing you that your daily small talk has arrived. Home and lock screen widgets are also available for those looking for constant inspiration. Your daily small talk will include the following: INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE: Each day you'll receive words of wisdom from history's finest, including Albert Einstein, Oscar Wilde, and the Dalai Lama. FUN FACT: Thousands of educational (and humorous!) facts drip-fed day by day: perfect as ice breakers on first dates and awkward meetings. JOKE: Turn a frown upside down with jokes that make people smile instantly. WORD OF THE DAY: Expand your vocabulary daily with surprising and elegant words. ON THIS DAY: Learn about key historical events, from discoveries to famous birthdays. TOP TIP: Clever life hacks and practical wisdom for everyday activities. For an even richer experience, upgrade to Small Talk EXTRA and unlock these exciting features: THOUGHT: Philosophical mantras and shower thoughts to provoke your brain. RECIPE: Delicious and easy to make recipes, healthy snacks and meal hacks. RIDDLE: Ingenious and infuriating brain teasers to get your noodle in gear. IMAGE: Inspiring photos, shocking statistics and memes from around the world. QUIZ: A daily pop quiz to test your knowledge against other members. Remember, every day's a school day! Discover something new, spark conversations, and never run out of things to say. Join thousands of users who are already making their daily lives more engaging, one notification at a time. Discover new ideas, spark great conversations, and keep your mind sharp with fresh content delivered daily! Download Small Talk and let it become your daily dose of knowledge and fun! Stay curious & inspired.

Nerdish is a learning app that helps you grow your general knowledge. The articles inside are our own — written to show you things you'd never thought to look up, feed your curiosity, and help you learn more about the world. You can read them or listen to them, and most take about ten minutes: why people like spicy food, what Nefertiti actually looked like, how the internet crosses oceans. What's inside: - Articles we write ourselves. Each one starts with a question our editors find interesting, and gets researched properly before it's written. - Topics from the life around you. Sleep, coffee, déjà vu, the internet, Nefertiti — things you pass by every day without wondering about them. - Our own writing framework. It keeps every article interesting and concise, but still genuinely educational — a lot of thought went into getting all three at once. - Built as microlearning for adults. Short chapters of a couple of minutes each, designed to fit a phone screen and a busy day. - Audio for everything. Read it, listen to it, or follow the text while it plays. - Historical photographs, archive material and artwork alongside the text, with facts and details in the margins. - A wide range of subjects, from the human body to ancient history — and the connections between them. We built Nerdish for people who: - would rather spend phone time on something better than socials. Same ten minutes, different outcome. - enjoy learning random things for no particular reason. Curiosity doesn't need a goal attached to it. - want to stay mentally sharp. Reading something unfamiliar is a small habit that keeps the mind working. - want to find their way back to reading. Short pieces are easier to start with than a book you've been meaning to open for months. - want to have more to say — about art, history, or why the sky is blue. Why it works: There's no way to measure general knowledge and no point where you have enough. But it's what you're using when you read the news, or decide whether something sounds true, or find a solution that came from somewhere unrelated. Hardly any of us sets out to work on our knowledge. Nobody ever taught us how — there's no course in general knowledge, nowhere obvious to begin. So it stays on the list of things you'd like to do. Nerdish works because the mechanism is already there. Curiosity is what built your general knowledge in the first place, and it doesn't need much — an interesting question and ten minutes. And knowledge doesn't stay in separate piles. We write science with its history in it, history with its culture, and culture with the people behind it — nothing is only about one thing. Pick a topic, read or listen, learn something you'd never thought to look up. That's how general knowledge grows. Learn with us about: - Health and the human body: sleep, memory, ageing, and how the body actually works. - History: ancient empires, revolutions, great discoveries, and the people who changed things. - Science and technology: space, evolution, physics, AI, inventions, and everyday phenomena explained properly. - Daily things: why déjà vu happens, how coffee was discovered, where common ideas come from. - Art and culture: painting, music, architecture, design, literature, and the movements behind them. - Food: where dishes come from and why we like what we like. - Famous people: the lives behind the names. Welcome to being Nerdish with us! Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/