Meet The Daily — Your own morning anchor. In thirty minutes. In your AirPods

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The Daily

Your own morning anchor. In thirty minutes. In your AirPods.

Every feature, from the first launch.

No account, no login, no cloud. Everything runs on your device and works fully offline — nothing in this post is hidden behind a wall.

What The Daily does

The Daily is a thirty-minute personal news + briefing show, narrated by your phone, in your AirPods, every morning. It's not curated by an editor and it's not algorithmic — it's a stitched composition of the topics you ask for, read in a calm voice through Apple's AVSpeechSynthesizer, with chapter marks you can skip between.

What's in v1:

— Interests: pick from 14 pre-defined briefing modules (Markets open, Tech moves, Sports recap, Politics in two paragraphs, Science one-thing-new, Health & longevity, Climate moves, Local weather, Your calendar today, Reminders, A poem, A morning sentence, A book you're reading, A long-form article you saved). Add or remove anytime. Reorder via drag. — Saved articles: paste a URL or share into the app; the article enters your Long-Form chapter as a 'read me tomorrow' card. The Daily reads a 4-paragraph extractive summary (Apple NaturalLanguage tokenization + sentence ranking) — no LLM, no cloud. — Voice: pick from system voices including premium iOS voices. Set rate, pitch, and a pause-between-chapters length. — Schedule: choose a morning time. The Daily compiles the show two minutes before, so it's ready to go when you put in AirPods. — Offline-first: every chapter, save except live weather which uses Apple's standard system location-weather service via WeatherKit (free tier). — A Tonight version: a 6-minute evening recap that asks 'what would you keep from today' and saves your answer to the next morning's show as 'Yesterday's keep.'

Free. Optional The Daily Plus ($4.99/mo) adds: a second show (e.g., a commute show and a bedtime show), import of any RSS feed, and export to a Voice Memo file you can listen to in any podcast app.

A look inside

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What's inside

Show builder — Pick 5–10 modules. Reorder. Save.
Daily player — Auto-compiles before scheduled time. Plays through AirPods.
Saved articles + extractive summary — Paste URL → 4-paragraph read-aloud.
Tonight recap — 6-minute evening show + Today-I'd-Keep journal.
Voice & schedule settings — Pick voice, set time, customize pauses.

Why we built it

Average US consumer spends 7+ hours/day on media (Nielsen). None of it is personalized to YOU specifically. Spotify pushes algorithmic playlists. NotebookLM produces 8-minute briefings but doesn't ship a morning routine. Granola ($50M+) and Oboe ($20M+) prove the integrated AI-personalized-media studio is fundable but…

What makes it different

The Daily is the only iOS app whose primary surface is a SCHEDULED, stitched, multi-source briefing in your earbuds, generated on-device from your interests + your calendar + your saved articles. NotebookLM produces briefings but it's a single-shot tool. Spotify is algorithmic, not narrative. Daily AI (lightly funded)…

Who it's for

Built for anyone who values fast, private, on-device software with a calm, focused UX.

In one line: Your own morning anchor. In thirty minutes. In your AirPods.

Try it

See the The Daily app page for the full feature list, the info table, and support links.

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