Introducing Trending Stories

When big news breaks, half your feeds write about it. A keynote, a major release, an election night — every site you follow publishes its own take, and your timeline fills with variations on the same event, scattered between everything else you meant to read.

Trending Stories is Feedler's answer: a new smart list where, whenever several of your sources cover the same news, their articles are gathered into one story — the sources' icons stacked together, one headline, and every site's take a tap away. Open it and you see, at a glance, what your feeds are buzzing about.

The Trending Stories smart list — news covered by several feeds, grouped into stories
Your feeds' biggest news, gathered into stories

Your feeds, nothing else

Stories are built only from the sources you follow: no editor picking headlines for you, no external news service, no global popularity chart. If a story is trending in Feedler, it's because it's trending in your reading — which makes it a very different signal from any news app's front page.

Every angle, side by side

Expand a story and each source's coverage sits under the shared headline, one article after another — read the reporting from one site, the analysis from another, the hot take from a third. Read states work right in place: mark any article read inside the story, exactly as you would in a regular list.

An expanded story — each source's article listed under the shared headline
Expand a story to see every source's take
Swiping one article read inside an expanded story — read states are managed right in place
Mark any article read, right inside the story

Done with a story? Not interested at all?

Those are two different gestures. Done reading: tap Mark all as read and every article in the story is cleared — the story bows out of the list, but it isn't gone for good: the moment a new article joins that news, the story comes back to show it. Not interested: swipe the story left to delete it, and that one is for keeps — it won't return even as new articles pile onto that news. An Undo appears right after in case of a slip, and you can always bring every deleted story back from the settings.

A story mid-swipe — the delete panel revealed, removing the story for good
Swipe left to delete a story for good

An algorithm, not AI

Stories are grouped by a smart matching algorithm running entirely on your device. That's a deliberate choice: it works on every iPhone, iPad and Mac — no Apple Intelligence required, no cloud service involved — and nothing about your reading ever leaves your device. It's also instant, and it never hallucinates a connection that isn't there.

AI only where you want it

One optional extra does use Apple Intelligence, on devices that have it: tap AI Summary inside a story and the essentials of all its articles are condensed into a few lines — a quick brief before you decide which takes to read in full.

A story's AI Summary card — Apple Intelligence condenses all its articles into a few lines
The whole story, summarized with Apple Intelligence

Make it yours

Trending Stories is tunable, in Settings  Lists  Trending Stories: how recent a story must be, how many sources it takes to make one, whether stories can group articles across languages — and a one-tap way to restore the stories you've swiped away.

Trending Stories settings — time window, minimum sources, language grouping and restore
Tune how stories form

Trending Stories is rolling out to TestFlight testers now and will be part of the upcoming App Store release. Questions? The FAQ entry covers every detail.