Skimify News vs think

Skimify is the gamified news app that finally feels good to use. Swipe through a fast, full-screen feed of the day's most important stories, politics, world, business, tech, sports, entertainment, and breaking news, each one boiled down to the essentials so you stay informed in minutes, not hours. Swipe, don't scroll forever. One story at a time, full screen, distraction-free. Two feeds: "For You" learns what you actually read; "Latest" is pure chronological. Bite-size summaries with a one-tap jump to the original publisher when you want the full story. Fresh constantly: new headlines arrive throughout the day. MAKE IT A HABIT Earn XP for reading, build daily streaks, and climb 20 levels. Earn coins as you read and redeem them for real rewards. Take on daily challenges and unlock achievements. Play quick news- and AI-literacy games: flag the AI-fabricated claim hidden among real ones in Fact Check, catch the AI's edits as it rewrites a story in real time in The Hallucination, and pick the exact word from look-alike options in the daily Verbatim, a once-a-day puzzle whose five answers reveal a shared sentence the next day. SAVE WHAT MATTERS Save any story to read later, your saved list syncs to your account and is fully searchable. YOURS, YOUR WAY Pick the exact categories and sources you care about in your "Yours" feed. Light and dark themes. Start anonymously, create an account only if you want to sync and keep your progress across devices. Skimify is a gamified news aggregator: we aggregate stories from independent publishers, who remain the source of the full article.

think renders news the way e-ink renders a page: soft greys, a serif headline, dithered photographs, nothing that blinks, auto-plays, or refreshes itself while you're looking at it. ONE STORY AT A TIME No infinite scroll, no feed to doomscroll through. Each story fills the screen — headline, photo, publisher, and a read-time estimate. Swipe up for the next one, swipe right (or tap) to open the full article in-app. When you've seen everything your topics have to offer, the feed says so and stops, instead of padding itself out with filler. PICK YOUR PUBLISHERS, SKIP THE ALGORITHM There's no engagement-driven ranking deciding what you see. Choose your topics, and think shows you a curated catalog of publishers behind them — 208 publishers across 32 topics at last count. Vote a story up or down to tune the mix, or mute a publisher outright. Want a source that isn't in the catalog? Paste any site's RSS or Atom feed URL and think adds it to your list. SAVE FOR LATER Bookmark anything you don't have time for now. Saved stories are grouped by topic and stay in your list until you clear them. NO ACCOUNT, NO TRACKING There's no sign-in and no user id. think has no analytics, advertising, or crash-reporting SDK, and no server of its own — it only talks to your chosen publishers' RSS feeds and their image hosts. Your topics, your publishers, your votes, and your saved stories live on your device only, and are deleted when you delete the app. Available in English and Vietnamese. Requires iOS 15 or later.