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 unbuilt at scale. The Daily is the missing morning routine product.
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) is text-only. The Daily uses AVSpeechSynthesizer (Apple's improved 2025 voices), so quality is real without a cloud TTS bill.
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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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