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Bubble News

Live headlines as a bubble map, sized by how big the story actually is.

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Released
August 28, 2026
Available on
Android and Web
Category
News

Screenshots

  • The Bubble News board for the World category: every headline is a bubble, and the more outlets carry a story the bigger its bubble
  • A story opened from the board: headline, summary, source, a link to the full article and the other outlets covering it
  • The same headlines as a list, newest first, with the source and time of each
  • The category menu open, listing Business, Technology, Climate, Sports, Culture, Entertainment, Lifestyle and Health
  • The language menu open, offering English, Dutch, German, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Spanish and Italian
  • App settings: theme, board colour, number of bubbles, transparency, drift speed, article age and the breaking news alerts switch

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What Bubble News is for

Bubble News turns the day's headlines into a map you can read at a glance. Every story is a bubble, and the size of the bubble tells you how big the story is: one look shows what is dominating the news cycle, instead of a list where the newest item is always on top.

It reads 454 public RSS feeds from news outlets around the world and refreshes continuously. Nothing is machine-translated, so you read what the newsroom wrote. No account, no sign-up, no infinite scroll and no algorithm deciding what you should see: you pick the category, the language and the timeframe, and the board shows what the feeds published.

Free and supported by ads. A one-time in-app purchase removes them permanently.

Use cases

  • Seeing what dominates the news: Every story is a bubble sized by how big the story is, so one look shows the biggest.
  • Reading without an algorithm: Pick the category, the language and the timeframe. No account and no infinite scroll.
  • Catching up fast: Just in shows the stories from the last few hours across every category.

What it does

  • Sixteen categories, from World and Politics to Science, Gaming and Beauty & Fashion
  • Seven content languages: English, Dutch, German, French, Portuguese, Japanese and Spanish
  • Search across every headline, summary and source name, with or without accents
  • Just in: one tap shows the stories from the last few hours, across every category
  • Saved articles stay on your device, no account needed
  • Light, dark or system theme, board colour, bubble count, drift speed and transparency
  • Article age from 1 day to 2 weeks