Syft
Verified Oct 16, 2026 ActiveType any topic and get a daily AI-summarised news digest, translated out of whatever language it broke in
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
Free plan allows 10 followed topics and a limited daily digest; Plus raises it to 100 topics with the full digest and higher podcast and Ask Syft limits. No figure on syft.ai — Plus is bought through the App Store or Google Play, which handle all payments.
Use tool ↗About Syft
Syft is a mobile news reader where the feed is built from topics you type rather than publishers you subscribe to. Each topic becomes a channel; the app pulls from outlets worldwide, summarises stories into key takeaways and delivers one daily digest, crossing languages so a story filed in Japanese or Portuguese still reaches you. It also generates audio versions of the digest and answers follow-up questions about what it gathered through an 'Ask Syft' feature. Orion Arm Ltd runs it and ships iOS and Android apps only. The free tier allows ten followed topics and a trimmed digest; the Plus tier raises that to a hundred topics with the full digest and higher podcast and question limits, but no price is published on the website.
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- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026
Verified sources
- Home page FAQ: Free plan up to 10 Followed Topics, Plus up to 100 with full daily digest and higher Podcast and Ask Syft limits; no price shown, /pricing serves the same page (15 October 2026)syft.ai ↗
- Privacy policy names Orion Arm Pte. Ltd., a company based in Singapore, as data controller; subscriptions are processed by Apple and Google (15 October 2026)syft.ai ↗
Is Syft legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Sep 14, 2020 (6 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar GoDaddy.com, LLC, looked up Sep 12, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Jan 2, 2027Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 16, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- Orion Arm Pte. Ltd., SingaporeOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Syft
Following a topic rather than a publication is the right unit for most people, and translating across source languages is the part general news apps skip entirely — it is why a story can be three days old in English and a week old where it happened. Delivering one digest a day instead of a live feed is a deliberate anti-doomscroll choice. The cost is editorial: you are reading a model's summary of an outlet you did not choose, and the app never shows you what it decided to leave out.
Pros
- Channels are created from any typed topic, not from a fixed publisher list
- Cross-language sourcing and summarising, so coverage is not limited to your own language
- Audio versions of the digest are generated, not just text
- 'Ask Syft' answers questions against the material it collected
- Named operating company, Orion Arm Ltd, rather than an anonymous app
Cons
- Mobile only — iOS and Android, with no web reader
- The Plus price is nowhere on the website; you find it inside the app store listing
- Source selection and ranking are not explained, so bias in what gets summarised is invisible
- Free tier's ten-topic cap is low for anyone tracking a real beat
Best for
- Following a niche subject that no single publication covers consistently
- Anyone who wants foreign-language coverage without a translation step
- Readers who want one briefing a day rather than an endless feed
Not for
- Desktop readers — there is no web app at all
- Anyone who needs to verify a claim against the original wording
Watch out: You are reading a summary of a summary — the app rarely surfaces the original article's own wording, which matters when the story is contested.