Syft builds news channels from whatever you type. Rather than choosing from pre-set categories, you name a subject at any level of specificity and it sources globally against it, delivering daily digests and top stories with AI summaries in your preferred language.
Unrestricted topics is the design choice that matters. Every news app offers Technology, Business and Sport, and none of them offers the actual thing you follow, which might be a particular regulatory process or one company’s supply chain. Summarising in the reader’s own language while sourcing globally also removes a real barrier: the best reporting on a subject is frequently not in English.
Orion Arm offers a free plan with up to ten followed topics and a Plus plan raising that to a hundred with unlimited digests, but publishes no figures. Global sourcing means outlets of wildly varying reliability, an AI summary of a news story is a second-hand account of a second-hand account, and a highly specific topic returns little when little is published.
