Everything about the app, in short answers. Works offline in the app; nothing here is sent anywhere.
You choose the sources. The app collects their articles, turns them into short spoken pieces, and plays them one after another — including in the car, hands-free.
Your sources → Articles → Spoken → In the car
Paste any website address. The app looks for that site's feed and adds it — you don't need to know what RSS is or find a special link.
If you already use Feedly, Inoreader, NetNewsWire or almost any other reader, export an OPML file from it and import it here. Your sources and folders arrive intact.
A category is a group of sources — World, Sport, Local, anything you want. Categories are what Radio turns into stations, so they're worth a minute of thought.
Discover proposes publications you don't follow yet, checks that each one actually works, and lets you add them in a tap. It works from the very first day, before you've read anything.
Type a publication's name instead of its address, and the app searches for a matching source and adds its feed for you.
Explore the source directory on our website — browse feeds by topic, discover new publications, and see what others are reading. A good place to start if you're not sure which sources to add.
Open safeandinformed.com ↗Kreel is a free browser extension from the same team. As you browse, it quietly finds the RSS feeds on the pages you visit — including hidden ones for YouTube, Reddit and GitHub — and exports them as an OPML or Excel file you can import straight into Safe & Informed.
Only the natural AI voice costs credits. The robotic (system) voice, reading text, and translation are always free. Here's what each AI-voice action costs:
Radio takes a category and plays it as a continuous station. It keeps going on its own — no tapping, no choosing, no end of list.
Add articles to the queue and they play one after another. It's the manual version of Radio — you decide the running order.
A full-screen view where each article is one card and you flick upwards for the next. Fast way to clear a backlog without opening anything.
The system voice is your phone's built-in speech. It's free, works offline, and reads the whole article. The natural voice is a real-sounding narrator that reads a short summary instead.
System voice → Whole article → Natural voice → Short summary
Playback speed is remembered across sessions. The sleep timer stops playback after a set time or at the end of the current article.
Download your queue before you leave and it plays anywhere — underground, in a tunnel, on a plane.
The app appears on your car's screen as a full audio app, with six tabs. Everything is built from Apple's driving-safe controls — large targets, short lists, no typing.
Add the app's actions as Siri Shortcuts, then trigger them by voice — Siri starts playback, opens the briefing and controls what's playing, hands-free. You choose the wording; these are just the defaults.
Thirty seconds of setup makes the whole drive hands-free.
If you allow location, the app shows the weather where you are and traffic conditions nearby. Location is used at that moment and never stored.
Strips the page down to the article — no banners, no pop-ups, no cookie walls. Adjust the text size and it stays that way.
The archive is what you deliberately keep. Organise it into folders, add tags, write notes on an article — it becomes your own reference library.
History fills itself with everything you've opened or played. Archive holds only what you chose to keep. One is a record, the other is a decision.
Searches the articles you've collected — titles and full text. Wikipedia results can be included if you want background on a subject.
Finds related articles by meaning rather than by exact word — searching "elections" also surfaces pieces about voting and ballots.
The app watches what you open, finish and skip, and builds a picture of your interests. All of it happens on this device — nothing about your reading is sent anywhere.
What you read → On this device → Your topics → For You
You don't have to wait for the app to learn. Choose the topics you care about, and how old an article can be before it stops appearing.
The app scores headlines for clickbait patterns and quietly pushes the worst offenders down. It's a filter on presentation, not on opinion or politics.
The app checks your sources in the background and notifies you when something looks genuinely urgent.
Control playback from your wrist, see what's playing, and pick up where you left off. Complications put it on your watch face.
Pin a widget to your Home Screen or Lock Screen for the latest headlines. While something is playing, a Live Activity keeps the controls one glance away.
The same app runs on iPad and on Macs with Apple silicon, with a layout that uses the extra room.
Your sources, categories, queue, archive and history sync through your own iCloud account, so a new device arrives already set up.
Most of the app is free forever. Pro adds the AI layer: a natural voice, short summaries and the daily briefing.
Every article read in the natural voice uses one voice play. Pro includes 150 a month, and the count resets on the 1st.
If 150 isn't enough, top-up packs add more. They're one-off purchases, not a subscription, and they don't expire at the end of the month.
Subscriptions are managed by the App Store, not inside the app. Cancel any time and you keep the paid features until the period ends.
You never register. There's no name, no email, no password, no profile — so there's no user database with you in it.
The article's text is sent to our server, which passes it to the AI provider and returns the audio. The request carries no identifier — no name, no account, no advertising ID.
You can choose to contribute anonymous usage figures. Both options are off unless you turn them on, and you can change your mind at any time.
The app asks for as little as it can, and each request has one purpose.
Usually the publisher changed or retired their feed. Open the source and use Check feed — the app will re-test it and tell you what it found.
Check the silent switch and the volume first — they catch almost everyone at least once.
Open the phone's Settings › General › CarPlay, choose your car, and make sure the app is in the visible list. Some cars hide new apps until you add them by hand.
A station needs at least two sources in that category, and those sources need to have published something recently.
Use Restore Purchases in Settings. Make sure you're signed in with the same Apple Account you bought it with.
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