Aurore
iPhone · iPad · Mac
Aurore gathers your sources into a daily paper that ends. No bottomless feed, no account to create, no timeline that reloads the moment you reach the end. You read, the last page says “you're up to date”, and the app gets out of the way.
Coming soon to the App Store
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These stories are real, and the grouping you see was computed by the app itself. When six newsrooms cover the same thing, in two languages, Aurore shows one and keeps the others behind the badge. Pick a story.
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Twelve reading backgrounds
Thirty typefaces
Six backgrounds and seven typefaces are included; the rest come with the €6.99 pack. One position is missing here, Catch-up: it needs an absence, and tells you in a single thread what happened while you were away.
On your screens
One app per platform would have been easier to build. Aurore is a single one: the Mac lays the paper beside the article, the iPhone stacks them, and what you read on one is read on the other.
And in your pocket
The same wire story turns up at four sources during the day. Aurore recognises it by its content — not its headline — and shows one, even when it has been translated. The other versions stay behind the badges of the newsrooms that covered it.
Most feeds only hand over a standfirst. Aurore fetches the page and pulls the text out of it, set like the rest of the paper. For sites you subscribe to, the built-in browser keeps your session.
Essentials keeps only what several sources judged worth covering. Everything shows it all. Catch-up tells you in a single thread what you missed while you were away.
Your sources, your settings, what you have read: it all stays with you, synced between your devices through iCloud. Aurore's server does not know who you are, because there is no account to know.
A stronger-contrast setting turns the ink pure black or white, thickens the text and asserts the rules, across the whole app. Two high-contrast backgrounds — black on white, white on black — stay free: this is accessibility, not decoration. Text size, typeface and background all change while you read, from the article menu.
An extension for Chrome and Firefox sends the page you are reading into Aurore, in one click. It waits for you there, lifted out of its page, with the rest of the paper — and it travels between your devices like everything else.
Aurore collects your mail, tells newsletters from the rest, and files them in the paper. Social network notifications stay outside. Once read, the letter goes to the bin; a button in the article unsubscribes you from Aurore without touching your subscription.
A YouTube, Dailymotion or PeerTube channel is followed like a paper, and the video plays inside the article. Bluesky and Mastodon come in the same way: a thread of six posts becomes an article, without the replies and without the like counter.
The morning, work, a story you are following: each gets its own paper, each one finite. An article read in one is read in all. Ready-made selections give you one from the start.
Paper, magazine, grid or list: the same material, laid out the way you read it best. The setting follows the paper, not the app.
Highlight a passage and it stays. The library gathers what you set aside and what you highlighted, and the archive keeps past papers, day by day.
Eight tints for controls and section names — the original red, orange, peach, pink, purple, blue, green, yellow — each measured to stay legible on every background. A reading background brings its own: terminal turns the app green, coffee turns it orange. Settings let you decide otherwise.
A three-sentence summary, and if you are joining a story mid-way, three lines of background. The work happens on your device: nothing you read goes anywhere.
Aurore for life, with every function. No subscription: nothing renews, nothing needs cancelling, and you will never think about it again.
Six more reading backgrounds and twenty-three more typefaces, sold separately — the ones you have just tried above. The whole app works without them, and says so plainly.
Twenty sources, one themed paper, seven days of archive — and all the rest: the deduplication, the summaries, the newsletters, the widgets. A morning paper takes more than a fortnight to become a habit; we leave you the time.
Aurore lives on what you pay, which explains the rest: no tracking to resell, no feed to stretch out, no reason to keep you here.
The paper arrives at the hour you chose. It has a length, a beginning and an end, and it tells you how long it will take. It is the opposite of an application trying to hold on to you.