FreshBit reads 51 trusted sources every 30 minutes, groups the articles about the same event and scores each story out of 100. You see what actually happened in design, UX/UI, AI and dev, and how sure it is.
51trusted sources: 30 official, 21 press and community
30 minbetween checks, all day
0–100credibility score on every story
4topics: Design, UX/UI, AI and Dev
01/How it works
Read. Match. Score. Then publish.
Most news apps show everything at once. FreshBit checks first. Nothing reaches the feed until it passes a credibility check, and every score comes with its reasons.
STEP 1/ Sources
Read 51 trusted feeds
Company blogs, changelogs and release notes, plus established press and a few community sites. Each source has a trust tier.
Articles about one event are matched by rare words like product names and version numbers, and by meaning. Two blogs from one company count as one voice.
Vercelofficial
Google DeepMindofficial
9to5Macpress
Introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen3 sources
STEP 3/ Credibility
Score it out of 100
Who published it, whether an official source confirms it, how many independent outlets agree, and any red-flag words. Rumours are never marked Confirmed.
Confirmed 75+Reported 50+Developing 40+
Try it/Score lab
Build a story, watch it score.
This uses the same rules as the FreshBit backend.
A company blog, changelog or release notes. Worth 45 points plus a 20-point bonus.
Independent outlets reporting it
Each organisation counts once. Three or more make a story Confirmed even without an official post.
Community sites mentioning it
Hacker News, Lobsters, Product Hunt. They count half, and never publish a story on their own.
Version numbers across sources
Credibility
100/ 100
405075
02/Features
Calm to read. Quick to trust.
Five places in the app, each built from Apple’s own components where it counts: the tab bar, forms, sheets and the folding top bar.
Today/The feed
The day, with the strongest story on top.
The best-confirmed story of the last 24 hours leads, then everything else, newest first. A line marks where yesterday’s news starts.
Topic filters for All, Design, UX/UI, AI and Dev. Each colour dot always comes with its label.
Swipe right to save, left to hide. Stories you have opened dim, so new ones stand out.
The header folds into a Liquid Glass leaf as you scroll. Tap it for a compact bar with the filters.
New stories wait behind an “N new stories” pill. The feed never jumps under your thumb.
Story/Detail
Every story shows its working.
The headline comes from the original source. Below it: a short brief, the plain facts, and the credibility score with every source listed.
Brief, written on your iPhone by Apple Intelligence on supported models. Nothing is sent to an AI service.
The facts: who said it, to whom, when, where, who reported it and who confirmed it.
Why this score opens a sheet with the reasons in plain words.
Follow a Developing story and get one alert when trusted sources confirm it.
Explore/Discover
See what the day is about.
Topic tiles with today’s counts, the tags trending across stories, events that news was announced at, and this week’s most-confirmed stories.
Trending today counts tags across stories and folds duplicates like “node” and “node.js”.
Events group spellings, so “Adobe Max” and “Adobe MAX 2026” are one event.
Search covers every headline, summary, event and author.
Alerts/Few and earned
Only told when it matters.
Alerts are capped, so they stay worth reading. Each one says how well the story is confirmed before you open it.
Top stories: at most 3 a day, and only when 2 or more trusted sources confirm them.
Keyword alerts: follow words like Claude, Figma or Liquid Glass. At most 3 a day.
Followed stories: one alert when a story you follow becomes Confirmed.
Morning brief/Once a day
Yesterday’s confirmed news, at the hour you pick.
Choose a time in Settings and FreshBit sends one alert a day with the most-confirmed stories of the last 24 hours. Tap the leaf on Today to open the brief at any time.
Pick a time from 6 AM to 9 PM, or leave it off.
Most confirmed first, ranked by independent sources and then by score.
Settings that change the feed live: topics, sources and whether to show Reported and Developing stories. Try them in the demo at the top.
03/Light and dark
One design, two tuned palettes.
Dark mode isn’t an inverted light mode. Each colour pair was checked for contrast in both: body text is 16.7:1 on light and 17.1:1 on dark. Lime is a fill, never text on a light background.
← LightDark →
Light
#F6F8F3#FFFFFF#0E1A12#4B5A50#3D6600#C8F550
Dark
#0B120D#141D17#EEF5EA#A3B2A7#C8F550#1C2720
04/Privacy
Your reading stays yours.
FreshBit works without an account. What you save, hide and read lives on your iPhone. Read the privacy policy.
On your phone
Saved stories, hidden stories, read history and settings stay on the device unless you choose to sign in.
Sign in only if you want
Sign in with Apple keeps a private copy for your iPad, Mac or a reinstall. Only you can read it, and you can delete it in the app.
Briefs written on device
On supported iPhones, Apple Intelligence writes the brief on the phone. No story text goes to an AI service.
No ads, no trackers
The app has no advertising and no analytics or tracking code.
05/ In testing
FreshBit is in TestFlight testing.
It isn’t on the App Store yet. To try the test build on your iPhone, ask for an invite and we’ll send a TestFlight link.
Not yet. It’s in testing through TestFlight. The latest build is build 11, from 12 November 2026.
What does “Confirmed” mean?
A story is Confirmed when it scores 75 or more. In practice that means an official source published it, such as a company blog, changelog or release notes, or three or more independent outlets report it.
Reported means 50 or more, and Developing means 40 or more. Anything lower is held back and checked again on the next run.
Can a rumour be marked Confirmed?
No. Stories with words like “rumour”, “leaked” or “reportedly” lose points and can never be Confirmed. Stories from community sites alone are never shown.
Does FreshBit write the news?
No. The headline comes from the original source and “Read on …” always opens it. The short brief is written on your iPhone by Apple Intelligence on supported models. Otherwise the app shows the article’s opening.
Which sources does it read?
51 sources: 30 official ones, such as OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Figma, Apple Developer and the GitHub Changelog; 18 established outlets, such as NN/g, Smashing Magazine and The Verge; and 3 community sites. You can switch any of them off in Settings › Sources.
How often does it update?
The sources are checked every 30 minutes. A story appears as soon as it passes the score, so busy days bring many updates and quiet days bring few.
Do I need an account?
No. Sign in with Apple is optional. It keeps your saved stories and settings in a private account so they come back after a reinstall and on your iPad and Mac.
Does it work offline?
Stories you have opened or saved are kept on the phone, so they open without a connection.