FAFF - News Reader Playlists
Your daily news, read aloud
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
Built for iPhone Duo: read the news like a book on the open display, or stand it up as a news radio. Your sources, read aloud in a natural Siri voice.
faff (verb, British slang): to waste time on trivial, unimportant things.
Faff about. We'll read you the news.
FAFF turns the sources you choose into a playlist you can read or listen to. Press play and FAFF reads each story aloud in a natural voice, moving from one to the next hands-free while you drive, walk, or cook. Or read along as the words light up.
BUILT FOR IPHONE DUO
• Reading Room: your stories on the left page, the one you're reading on the right
• Open it like a book: articles become facing pages, with the TL;DR on the first page
• Stand it on a table and FAFF becomes a news radio, with Up Next, a sleep timer, and type big enough to read across the room
• Close to Listen: close it mid-story and carry on by ear from the paragraph you were on
• Close it and carry on: whatever you're reading or hearing continues right where you were
PICK YOUR SOURCES
• Start with 130+ hand-picked free sources across News, Tech, Business, AI, Programming, Science, Design, Food, Gaming, Culture, Lifestyle, and Sports
• Add any site by its address, or import your list from Feedly or another reader (OPML)
• Name your own categories, arrange them your way, and star up to six shortcuts
LISTEN TO ANY ARTICLE
• Every story can be read aloud, with each word highlighted as it's spoken
• Partway through a story? Tap Listen from Here and FAFF starts reading where you are
• Press play on Today's Picks for a short spoken rundown of the day, then each story
• Sounds best with a Siri voice: FAFF shows you how to set one up in a minute
• Skip back 15 or ahead 30 seconds from the app, the Lock Screen, or your headphones
• Pick up exactly where you stopped
• Keeps playing in the background and on the Lock Screen, with controls on Apple Watch
GET THE GIST, WITH APPLE INTELLIGENCE
• A three-point TL;DR at the top of every story
• Ask about any story: the background, why it matters, or a plain-English explanation. Or select a passage and choose Ask About This. Answers come only from the article
• Picks That Learn: choose More Like This or Less Like This, and Today's Picks adapts
• Stories in other languages can be read in English
• All of it runs privately on your iPhone
TODAY'S PICKS
• A fresh daily selection from across your sources, balanced so no single outlet dominates
DISCOVER
• Explore what's trending in each category from outlets you don't follow yet, ranked on your iPhone by how many outlets are covering it
• Trending headlines are waiting on the Search tab
• Like a source? Add it to your feeds with one tap
SAVE & NOTE
• Highlight the lines that matter, add your own notes, and find them again in Search
• Press and hold the bookmark to save a story straight into a group you name
• Highlights join their story's group automatically, and Apple Intelligence can summarize a group's highlights
• Your Week: a shareable recap of what you read and heard
• Share a highlight as a quote card, or export your notes
CALM BY DESIGN
• No ads, no pop-ups, and no unread badges. Stories you've read simply turn gray
• New stories first, with Mark All as Read to move on to the next source
• Reading settings for text size, San Francisco or New York fonts, spacing, and a sepia page
• Works offline: Today's Picks, shortcuts, and saved articles are ready without a connection
EVERYWHERE YOU ARE
• Your feeds, saved articles, progress, highlights, and groups sync privately through iCloud to your other iPhones
• Listen in the car with CarPlay
• Widgets for the Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy
• Siri and Shortcuts: "Catch me up with FAFF" or "What's in my picks"
• Find saved stories in Spotlight
• Start listening from Control Center or the Action Button
• Continue an article on your Mac or iPad with Handoff
Private by design: no account needed, and FAFF doesn't collect your data. Your library syncs through your own iCloud, where only you can see it.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
Smoother and fresher.
• Much smoother scrolling throughout, especially in long articles and big libraries.
• A cleaner story list: a big lead story, two side by side, then easy-to-scan rows.
• New stories show up on their own whenever you open FAFF.
• Articles open instantly, then fill in the full story a moment later.
• Fixed strange characters and symbols in some articles, and less clutter (ads, captions, sign-up boxes) read aloud.
The developer, Brandon Tran, 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 Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Brandon Tran
- Size
- 6.6 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.1 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.1 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 11.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Realistic Violence
Profanity or Crude Humor
Mature or Suggestive Themes
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
Guns or Other Weapons
- Copyright
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