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The Daily: personalized morning news briefing
Your own morning anchor. In thirty minutes. In your AirPods.
| Platform | iPhone (iOS 17+) |
|---|---|
| Price | Free, no subscription |
| Account required | No |
| Works offline | No |
| Subscription | None |
| Last updated | 2026-02-24 |
ios· Free · all features included ·By All Things AI, Inc ·Released 2026-02-24
Accessibility: Light & Dark · Spoken cues · iPad layout · Browser version How we checked →
Use The Daily in your browser — no install. Sign in and it works right here. Everything stays in your browser; nothing is sent to our servers.Free. All features included.
No subscription, no in-app purchases, no paid tiers. Everything you see works the moment you install it.
About this app
What The Daily does
The Daily is a thirty-minute personal news + briefing show, narrated by your phone, in your AirPods, every morning. It's not curated by an editor and it's not algorithmic — it's a stitched composition of the topics you ask for, read in a calm voice through Apple's AVSpeechSynthesizer, with chapter marks you can skip between. What's in v1: — Interests: pick from 14 pre-defined briefing modules (Markets open, Tech moves, Sports recap, Politics in two paragraphs, Science one-thing-new, Health & longevity, Climate moves, Local weather, Your calendar today, Reminders, A poem, A morning sentence, A book you're reading, A long-form article you saved). Add or remove anytime. Reorder via drag. — Saved articles: paste a URL or share into the app; the article enters your Long-Form chapter as a 'read me tomorrow' card. The Daily reads a 4-paragraph extractive summary (Apple NaturalLanguage tokenization + sentence ranking) — no LLM, no cloud. — Voice: pick from system voices including premium iOS voices. Set rate, pitch, and a pause-between-chapters length. — Schedule: choose a morning time. The Daily compiles the show two minutes before, so it's ready to go when you put in AirPods. — Offline-first: every chapter, save except live weather which uses Apple's standard system location-weather service via WeatherKit (free tier). — A Tonight version: a 6-minute evening recap that asks 'what would you keep from today' and saves your answer to the next morning's show as 'Yesterday's keep.' Free. Optional The Daily Plus ($4.99/mo) adds: a second show (e.g., a commute show and a bedtime show), import of any RSS feed, and export to a Voice Memo file you can listen to in any podcast app.
Features
Built to be useful, not noisy.
Show builder
Pick 5–10 modules. Reorder. Save.
Daily player
Auto-compiles before scheduled time. Plays through AirPods.
Saved articles + extractive summary
Paste URL → 4-paragraph read-aloud.
Tonight recap
6-minute evening show + Today-I'd-Keep journal.
Voice & schedule settings
Pick voice, set time, customize pauses.
Why it exists
The problem
Average US consumer spends 7+ hours/day on media (Nielsen). None of it is personalized to YOU specifically. Spotify pushes algorithmic playlists. NotebookLM produces 8-minute briefings but doesn't ship a morning routine. Granola ($50M+) and Oboe ($20M+) prove the integrated AI-personalized-media studio is fundable but…
What's different
How The Daily stands out
The Daily is the only iOS app whose primary surface is a SCHEDULED, stitched, multi-source briefing in your earbuds, generated on-device from your interests + your calendar + your saved articles. NotebookLM produces briefings but it's a single-shot tool. Spotify is algorithmic, not narrative. Daily AI (lightly funded)…
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FAQ
Questions about The Daily
How much does The Daily cost?▾
The Daily is free. All features are included from day one — no subscription, no in-app purchases, no paid tiers. Everything you see in this listing works the moment you install it.
Where does The Daily store my data?▾
On your device. The Daily is built privacy-first: no account is required, no analytics SDKs, no third-party trackers. Nothing is uploaded to a server we control — the app works without one.
What platforms does The Daily support?▾
iOS, on iPhone and iPad. You can find the latest availability on this page.
How do I get support for The Daily?▾
Use the Support link on this page, or email support@allthingsn.com. We answer every message and keep responses on the same thread.
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