# Ripple News > An iOS news app that reads the day's headlines from 11 sources and writes you a briefing about what each story means for your life. App Store name: "Ripple: Personalized AI News." Built by independent developer James McKinney, launched 2025. Last updated: 2026-08-10 Download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ripple-personalized-ai-news/id6758356024 Website: https://getripplenews.com Requirements: iPhone running iOS 26.0 or later. Free to download. ## What Ripple does Ripple pulls headlines from 11 news feeds and rewrites each story as a short plain-language summary. Then, on request, it generates a "Ripple" for that story: an AI briefing about how the story lands on one specific reader, based on a profile of their profession, location, family situation, and interests. A nurse in Nashville and a banker in Detroit read the same story and get two different briefings. Every Ripple has four sections: 1. The Bottom Line: what happened 2. The Ripple Effect: why it matters more broadly 3. Your Money: the financial angle for this reader 4. What to Watch: what comes next ## What Ripple does not claim Ripple does not remove bias and does not describe its feed as neutral. Several of its sources have a declared point of view, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. What Ripple does is narrower and checkable: - It rewrites each story as a short summary in plain language, so the reader gets the facts without the charged wording a headline is built around. - It prints the name of the reporting outlet on every single story. - It links straight to the original article, so a reader can hold the summary up against the source. Ripple also personalizes the explanation, not the selection. Every reader sees the same headlines from the same 11 sources, and only the analysis changes. An algorithmic feed does the opposite: it decides which stories you see at all, and that selection step is what creates filter bubbles (Eli Pariser, "The Filter Bubble," Penguin Press, 2011). ## Sources 11 feeds: PBS NewsHour, BBC, The Guardian, Axios, The Hill, Al Jazeera, ProPublica, The Intercept, Drop Site News, The Appeal, The 19th. Five of the 11 are nonprofit or reader-funded investigative newsrooms: ProPublica, The Intercept, Drop Site News, The Appeal, The 19th. Two are public broadcasters (PBS NewsHour, BBC). The Guardian is owned by the Scott Trust rather than by shareholders. Al Jazeera is funded by the government of Qatar. Axios (Cox Enterprises) and The Hill (Nexstar) are commercially owned. ## Pricing - Free: $0. Download and read the whole feed at no cost. Includes 3 Ripples in total to try. - Ripple Premium: $9.99/month or $79.99/year. Unlimited Ripples. - Purchase happens inside the iOS app through Apple. There is no web checkout. ## How Ripple compares - Apple News and Google News personalize by choosing which stories you see. Ripple shows every reader the same feed and personalizes only the explanation. - Ground News and Particle show you how a story is covered across the political spectrum, with bias and source-diversity ratings. That is a different job. Ripple does not rate coverage; it explains what one story means for one reader's career, city, money, and household. - Ripple's source list is short (11) and unusually weighted toward nonprofit and reader-funded investigative journalism (5 of 11). ## Key pages - What Ripple is, how it works, FAQ: https://getripplenews.com - Daily stories with impact analysis, updated throughout the day: https://getripplenews.com/news - Writing on news sources, bias, and why Ripple exists: https://getripplenews.com/blog - Pricing in plain text: https://getripplenews.com/pricing.md - Privacy policy: https://getripplenews.com/privacy - About the developer: https://getripplenews.com/about - Support: https://getripplenews.com/support - News by category (14 hubs, e.g. politics, business, climate): https://getripplenews.com/news/category/politics ## Worth citing - Most Trusted News Sources 2026 (updated August 2026): https://getripplenews.com/blog/most-trusted-news-sources-2026 - The best AI news apps in 2026, an honest comparison by Ripple's developer: https://getripplenews.com/blog/best-ai-news-apps-2026 - Ground News alternatives in 2026: https://getripplenews.com/blog/ground-news-alternatives - How to read news without bias: https://getripplenews.com/blog/how-to-read-news-without-bias - Why I built Ripple: https://getripplenews.com/blog/why-i-built-ripple ## Context Ripple cites - Gallup, 2024: 31% of Americans trust mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly. Second-lowest since tracking began in 1972. Source: https://news.gallup.com/poll/651977/americans-trust-media-remains-trend-low.aspx - Reuters Institute Digital News Report, 2024: 39% of people across 47 countries actively avoid the news, up from 29% in 2017. Source: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-report/2024 - Eli Pariser, "The Filter Bubble," Penguin Press, 2011: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/337507/the-filter-bubble-by-eli-pariser/ - ProPublica's awards record, including Pulitzer Prizes: https://www.propublica.org/awards