The Lede: Read Later
The article, not the headline
Free · In‑App Purchases
Hear the author out. Then see what the sources say. The desk makes each article's best case; Dig Deeper lists every source. Free: 10 briefs and 2 Dig Deepers a month.
Headlines are written to be clicked. The Lede reads the article underneath and tells you what it actually argues.
Save anything worth reading, from Safari or any app with a share button. It comes back renamed for the real story, filed on its beat, with a short brief that makes the strongest honest case the piece can make. Your queue reads like a magazine instead of a pile of open tabs.
THE RENAME
"A glass of red wine equals an hour at the gym" becomes "It was run on rats." Every save comes back named for what the piece actually argues, with the headline it ran as kept right beside it. You always see both.
THE BRIEF
A short, fair read of the argument: what the piece claims, what it rests on, and what it leaves out. Enough to know what you are dealing with before you commit twenty minutes to it.
FILED BY BEAT
Your saves shelve themselves into sections. Politics, Culture, Science, Business and the rest. Browse by mood, the way you would a magazine, instead of scrolling a list in the order things piled up.
DIG DEEPER
When something matters, send it to the research desk. It goes out and finds more reporting, weighs what holds up, and comes back with an honest bottom line. Then it shows you every source it looked at, so you can check its work. It works the same on a news story, a how-to, or the history thread you fell into at midnight.
THE COMMONPLACE BOOK
Every passage you mark, from every article you have read, collected in one place with your notes.
BUILT TO BE READ
Real typography, generous margins, and a dark mode made for night reading. The article you saved deserves a better page than the one it ran on.
NO ACCOUNT
There is nothing to sign up for and no password to make. Your library lives in your own iCloud and syncs across your devices.
MEMBERSHIP
Membership is one subscription, billed monthly or yearly. The desk reads it all, and you get 150 Dig Deepers a month.
Both start with a 7-day free trial.
Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically for the same period and price unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase.
Privacy Policy: https://theledeapp.com/privacy.html
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Take your queue with you. Settings now has an Exports section: send your unread queue to your e-reader as a book, or export your highlights.
Send to Kindle: save your Kindle address once and the book goes straight there. Your Kindles sync to your other devices through iCloud.
Three new Shortcuts actions: Save to The Lede, Get Latest Briefs, and Open Article.
Every Dig Deeper now says which sources the desk wrote from and asks you to check the ones that matter, with a row to report a problem.
Fixes: a pasted link the desk couldn't read no longer waits forever on "On its way," source dates show the right day, and VoiceOver and large text work better throughout.
The developer, Charles Klein LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- User Content
- Browsing History
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Browsing History
- Usage Data
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Charles Klein LLC
- Size
- 10.9 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Yearly $99.99
- Monthly $9.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Charles Klein LLC
