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Guides to NEWX — and how it differs from other news apps
In-depth writing about NEWX, the news aggregation and analysis app built by KTS: what it is, how it compares with other categories of news product, how Story Arcs, multi-source disagreement and hyperlocal coverage work, and what the app is still not good at.
The NEWX series
Start here
Nine posts that between them describe the whole product. Read the first two if you only read two.
Pillar · 12 min read
What is NEWX? The complete guide
The full, factual description: what NEWX is, who builds it, how the pipeline works, every feature, what it costs, what it collects — and what it is not good at yet.
Trust · 9 min read
Why trust NEWX? Independence, and how to check it yourself
Who owns it, who funds it, what a human decides and what is automated, how to audit any claim in one long-press — and a plain list of what it still gets wrong.
Guide · 8 min read
News in 60 seconds: quick summaries that don’t cost you the whole story
For readers with no time: 60–70 word cards, a 30-second Gist written from every outlet on the story, two more depths one tap away, and Story Arcs that tell you what developed since your last visit.
Comparison · 10 min read
NEWX vs other news apps: a capability comparison
A capability-by-capability table across headline-summary apps, aggregator feeds, single-publisher apps, social feeds and NEWX — including where NEWX loses.
Feature · 7 min read
A news app that stays quiet: silence hours, turn-based alerts, and an end to doomscrolling
A seven-hour quiet-hours window that holds alerts rather than dropping them, a switch per notification category, pings only when a followed story genuinely turns — and a feed that ends.
Feature · 7 min read
Story Arcs explained: news as chapters, not a river
How a running story is kept as numbered chapters with turning points, a Quick Recap and a “you’re caught up to here” marker — so you can rejoin after weeks away.
Feature · 8 min read
Where sources disagree: coverage, bias mix and blindspots
Why blended AI summaries destroy the most useful thing on the page, and what NEWX shows instead — plus the Blindspot label and a bias mix that admits when it cannot be computed.
Feature · 8 min read
Hyperlocal news in India: your locality, not your metro
Why local news has no distribution, how the Local feed resolves in four tiers from your locality to your state, and how residents file reports that are reviewed before publishing.
Feature · 6 min read
An AI news assistant that cites its sources
Cited answers, reconstruction of long-running stories, and hard programmatic guardrails on health and market questions — including an honest “I don’t have enough to answer”.
Looking for a specific answer?
The NEWX FAQ covers 44 questions on independence and ownership, quick reads and reading time, features, notifications and quiet hours, pricing, privacy, languages, publishers and account deletion.
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