Apps · 2026
Gist
The news, one story at a time — a brief you can size, and a feed that actually ends.
/ Why it was built /
News is everywhere, and still hard to keep up with. A typical morning is a dozen tabs, a handful of apps, and headlines that all seem urgent. You open a piece because the title is loud. Twenty paragraphs later you still aren't sure what actually happened. An hour later you have scrolled a lot of news, and understood very little of it.
Long-form reporting still matters. The trouble is the gap between wanting to know what's going on and having forty minutes, several times a day, to read it properly. Feeds that never end make it worse: yesterday sits next to this morning, so the pile never feels finished. Gist started from a simple question: what if catching up felt like flipping through a small stack of today's stories, not standing in front of a firehose?
/ The idea in one picture /
One story. A short hook. Room to go deeper if you want. When you're done, you move to the next one. That rhythm is the whole product.
/ The stack /
Technical stack
Non-technical stack
/ One story at a time /
On a phone, Gist is a reel. You swipe through today's stories the way you might flip a stack of cards. Each card is a full screen: image, source, a tight tagline, and the sense that this is the story in front of you, not one of eighty in a list.
On a larger screen, the same idea sits in a calmer layout. A rail of stories on one side, the piece you're reading on the other. You still choose one story and stay with it. The feed is mixed so one topic doesn't take over the day. You can narrow it to Local, Africa, World, Politics, Business, Sports, Tech, Culture, or Environment — and rearrange them so the ones you care about come first. Local is Namibia, in English, so the home feed is readable and actually local.
/ Gist AI /
Every story in Gist has already been published somewhere else. The original article is the source of truth. Gist does not replace it. Gist AI reads that article and writes a brief so you can understand it quickly: what happened, who is involved, why it matters.
the gist = what happened + who is involved + why it matters
It is not a headline generator. You choose how long the brief should be: short for a skim, medium for most stories, long when you want more of the article without opening the original yet. When you want the source itself, it is one tap away.
/ What you can do with a story /
Like
A light signal: this landed. Nothing more, and nothing permanent required.
Save
A library. Anything you bookmark lives in Saved, so you come back on purpose instead of hunting a feed that has already moved on.
Sign in
Likes and that library travel with you, on this device and the next. Saved stories are yours. They don't disappear with the day's feed.
Ask for more
If you've gone through what's in front of you, you can ask for another handful on the topic you're in. That is deliberate, not an infinite scroll that never admits you're caught up.
/ The 24-hour window /
Gist is meant to feel like today, not like an archive you wade through. Stories live in the main feed while they are still current. After about 24 hours, a story that nobody has saved is pruned: it leaves the feed so yesterday doesn't sit on top of this morning.
live window ≈ 24 hours, unless you saved it
Pruning is not a punishment and it is not deletion of the original article. The publisher still has the piece. Gist is simply not trying to be a warehouse of every headline it has ever shown. It is a reader for what is in play now.
/ What pruning does not touch /
If you save a story, it is kept. Saved stories are not pruned with the 24-hour feed. They stay in your library so "I want to read this later" actually means later.
/ In the live feed /
Current stories, roughly the last day. The pile clears itself so it stays small enough to finish.
/ In your library /
Anything you chose to keep. Never swept away with the day's prune.
/ The takeaway /
Gist is for people who want to know what's going on without performing a second job of doing the news. The problem was too much story, too little understanding, and a feed that never admitted it was time to stop. The solution is a small, current stack; Gist AI reading the article for you; a brief you can size; and a library for the pieces that deserve to last longer than a day.
Flip through what's happening. Get the gist. Save the rest.
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