Calmly News Live
Ten stories a day, with the drama adjectives stripped out. Then the feed locks.
Every other news app is built to be bottomless, because time-in-app is the metric it is optimised against. Calmly News is built to end. Ten stories, chosen for the day, written without the language engineered to make you angry or afraid — and then nothing, until tomorrow.
What it actually does
- A hard cap of ten. Not a suggestion, a recommended-reading section, or a wellbeing nudge. When you have read the ten, the feed stops serving.
- Summaries with the emotional loading removed. The adjectives that exist to make a headline hit harder are stripped; the facts of the story are not.
- Filters you set. Block a topic or a keyword you do not have the capacity for this week. It stays blocked until you unblock it.
- A reset after heavy stories. Some news is simply heavy. There are short breathing exercises built in for immediately afterwards, rather than a link to a different app.
What it is not
It is not a way to avoid knowing things, and it is not a mental health tool. Mental health is not about hiding from the truth; it is about having the capacity to handle it. A ten-story cap protects your capacity. It does not do anything else, and I would rather say that here than imply otherwise.
Questions
- What happens when I finish the ten stories?
- The feed locks for the rest of the day. There is no “load more.” That is the entire mechanism — the app is finished with you before you are finished with it.
- Does it hide bad news?
- No. It removes the adjectives written to make a story land harder, not the story. A plane crash still reads as a plane crash. You can also filter specific topics or keywords, which does hide those, but that is a choice you make rather than something the app does on your behalf.
- Is it free?
- Yes, on both iOS and Android.
- Is this a mental health app?
- No, and it should not be used as one. It is a news reader with a cap and a filter. If news is affecting you in a way that a shorter feed does not fix, that is a conversation for a professional, not an app.