Kagi News (iOS)

Timely, enjoying it so far as a first user.

I don’t use any social media and have attempted to get my news in the most basic and unbiased form possible.

After finally acknowledging I could never keep up with my RSS reader, I started using Particle a month ago, but I still feel overwhelmed.

Kagi News feels like a sweet spot at the moment, time will tell but this is as much context and unbiased aggregation as I need/want.

Only feedback is allowing custom categories? Right now is enough to get me functional, but I’d love my more niche topics to be available.

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rdmuser 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm assuming that is the app version of the kagi news page found here:

https://kite.kagi.com

https://github.com/kagisearch/kite-public

The feeds for kite seem to be here:

https://github.com/kagisearch/kite-public/blob/main/kite_fee...

Edit: Actually if you are looking for more things to explore the kagi github has some interesting other stuff like the smallweb page and the opml file of rss smallweb feeds:

https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb

https://kagi.com/smallweb/opml

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yashau 10 hours ago | parent [-]

I have tried to use it but it's a bit cumbersome to use for me. I don't want to manually browse the categories I just want to see everything (that I need) on the landing page. It also makes wildly inefficient to use on a desktop/laptop that has more screen real estate than a phone. Until then I will continue to use https://brutalist.report on my computer to catch up on news.

	▲	rdmuser 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Personally I like the newsminimalist rss feed for simple ai evaluated and summarized news. I don't have much experience with the site itself but it's likely also worth a check. The dev is an active part of hn. https://www.newsminimalist.com/ The dev and the launch post from 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35795388 https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=t0bia_s
	▲	vladyslavfox 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Brutalist Report looks like the service I was looking for for a long time. Thank you!

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leshokunin 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I use Kagi. I like the search a lot. This is completely irrelevant to what I want from them. At least with Orion browser it’s associated to the general use case of privacy. I fail to see the angle here?

	▲	weikju 11 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Using AI in a way that doesn’t ruin their main products.
	▲	europeanNyan 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		As a long time Kagi user, I absolutely love this. I have tried getting into the RSS game for a long time but it never seemed to stick. This seems like a good middleground because it also follows the Kagi philosophy of simplicity with a wide range of diversity of sources. As far as I can tell, it's a really nice aggregator of articles with a nice presentation which will hopefully allow me to slowly stop going to news sites multiple times per day. Also, it's a nice way of escaping enshittification in the same way Kagi as a search engine (by being paid) and other Kagi projects (like Small Web) are doing it.

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biglyburrito 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

OP posted a link to the German app (de). Here's a link to the US app (en):

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kagi-news/id6748314243

	▲	Havoc 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Don’t think it’s country dependent. Both the us and de link end up some place for me and I’m in the uk
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Eddy_Viscosity2 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is just a news aggregator though right? Using it doesn't get any money to the journalists?

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jimmydoe 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I tried but not like it:

- category doesn’t make sense. World are all USA news, business are mostly big tech, tech are most big corp

- the way it digests the news and chop it down to timeline/question/summary feels overly dumb down.

	▲	jiehong 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The world category is clearly US news, indeed. But they have other countries categories by default in the language of the news themselves with possibility to show that translated in a language of our choice. So this helps. I wish they had a scope per source for reliability and political party association.

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AnonC 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It has a “Business” section, but it defaults to US and doesn’t have any customization (in Settings->Categories) to choose business/economy/financial news from other countries or regions. I wanted to provide feedback from the “Give Feedback” option in the Settings screen, but that opens up the Kagi feedback forum and requires creating an account. I’m not that invested in anything Kagi to go through this amount of trouble.

I would prefer in-app feedback forms to be simple forms that collect information right within the app without having an account, logging in, etc.

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syntaxing 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I absolutely love this. It’s really well done. I like how they give you “timeline of event”

	▲	weikju 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The LLMs do get it wrong once in a while though in their summaries. Mostly OK in my experience with Kagi Kite (this is an app version of kite.kagi.com)

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angoragoats an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This seems about as relevant to their core search product as building a clothing import/export/logistics business[1].

I wish they’d focus entirely on search, because that is where innovation is sorely needed. I used Kagi for a little while and could see it becoming huge if they added more user-friendly features.

[1] https://blog.kagi.com/celebrating-20k

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_aavaa_ 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

When Facebook and Google take views and traffic away from news sources through summaries and amp and the rest, it’s bad. But when Kagi does it it’s now good?

	▲	giancarlostoro 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I mean… at that point you gotta finger point at every single LLM that can fetch news.

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piyuv 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

An RSS reader with pre-configured feeds? Neat, anything to get people into RSS is a win

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shelled 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They are trying to do a lot of things, get into a lot of things. By the way, this installs on a mac and then keeps loading infinitely when launched.