Free web app · no install needed

Your news.
Your pace.
All caught up.

Turn any topic into a channel, stack up the stories that matter, and clear them out at your own speed, right in your browser.

Catch Up home screen showing channels for Politics, AI, Tech, Phish, and more, each with an unread count

Channels & subchannels

Follow a topic as a channel, then narrow it with subchannels. Subchannel stories stack on top of the channel's own coverage.

Roll the dice

Not sure where to start? Pull one random unread story from your whole pool and go from there.

Streaks & The Pool

The Pool combines every channel into one feed. Your streak counts the days you've kept up with it.

Bookmarks

Save a story for later. Read stories stick around in an archive for two weeks before they clear out.

Channels

Any topic on earth, organized your way

Add a channel for anything: a team, a band, a subject, a place. Subchannels narrow it further, like one player or one album, without losing the bigger picture.

Unlimited channels and subchannels, whatever you're trying to keep up with.

Catch Up AI channel with a Jobs subchannel, showing a grid of related news cards
Reading

Preview first, click only when it's worth it

Cards with a snippet or image expand right in the app, so you can see what a story's actually about before deciding to read further. Cards without either link straight to the source.

A story card expanded in Catch Up with a headline, image, and Read here button
AI filtering

An AI layer that filters, not decides

Turn on relevance filtering and Catch Up checks each incoming story against the channel or subchannel it landed in, dropping the ones that don't actually fit. It's optional, off by default, and runs on your own API key.

Signing in uses Google. Catch Up only asks for your basic account info, nothing more.

Settings screen with AI relevance filtering toggle set to Gemini
The Pool

An inbox you can actually empty

Work through a category and when you're through, Catch Up tells you. Nothing waiting to refill the moment you look away.

Catch Up modal reading All caught up in The Pool

Every story comes from one source, pulled in parallel

NewsData.io The Guardian GNews Hacker News The New York Times Google News (RSS)
Also on your phone

The same pace, in your pocket

Catch Up is a hosted web app, so it installs to your home screen like any other app, no App Store required.

Catch Up home screen on mobile
Catch Up channel view on mobile
Catch Up bookmarks screen on mobile

Get caught up

Free, no install, no account required to try it.