Wisp vs Slow News Co.
Two ways to read news without the anxiety.
Side by side.
| Feature | Wisp | Slow News Co. |
|---|---|---|
| Designed to reduce doomscrolling | ✓ | ✓ |
| No infinite scroll | ✓ | ✓ |
| Personalized to topics you choose | ✓ | — |
| AI-summarized from multiple sources | ✓ | — |
| Human-edited stories | — | ✓ |
| Weekday editions + weekend digest | — | ✓ |
| Categories: Food, Travel, Tech, Entertainment | — | ✓ |
| Android | ✓ | — |
| Mac & iPad | — | ✓ |
| Free tier | ✓ | ✓ |
Slow News Co. is an indie Apple app run by a small team of human editors. They curate a finite set of stories each weekday and weekend — you read what they chose, and that's it for the day. It's deliberately limited, which is the point.
Wisp takes a different approach: you tell it your topics, and it finds and clusters all coverage of those topics automatically. If you care about Formula 1, climate policy, or a specific tech company, Wisp covers that — Slow News Co. covers what its editors decided was worth your attention today.
If you want someone else to decide what you read, Slow News Co. is excellent at that. If you want to follow your own interests without an algorithm, Wisp is built for you.
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