Read the news.In half the time.

Name: PageForth
Price: 29.99 USD
Author: Nate Kontny

An AI news reader for Mac, like the old NewsFire. Point it at any site (no feeds needed) and it summarizes every article.

7-day free trial, then $29.99/yr · macOS 26+ · Apple Intelligence required

PageForth, an AI news reader for Mac, with sources at left, the article list in the middle, and an on-device AI summary of the open article at right — **Fig. 1:** The reader. Sources at left, the day's articles down the middle, the gist of the open story at right.

Don't waste your time.

The Summary

Every article, pre-read.

Open an article and the gist is already there. A short lead, the key bullets, the point. Skim the ones you don't care about. Read the ones you do. The full article is always one click away.

PageForth's on-device AI summary of a news article: a short lead paragraph and bullet-point key points — **Fig. 2:** A lead and key points. Before you decide to read the full article.

The Sources

RSS is dead.

Most sites don't even bother with feeds anymore. PageForth doesn't need them. Paste in any page (a blog, a newsletter, Hacker News, an author's archive) and it figures out what's an article and what isn't.

Adding a news source in PageForth without RSS: paste any URL into the Add Source dialog and it finds the articles — **Fig. 3:** Paste any URL. PageForth finds the articles on it.

For You

Love it or leave it.

Tap the heart on the ones that land. Thumbs-down the ones that don't. The For You tab puts the next thing you'll want to read at the top. It gets better the more you use it.

PageForth's For You feed, a personalized news list ranked across all sources by the articles you have hearted — **Fig. 4:** The For You feed, ranked by what you've hearted.

In other news.

On Device

Token free.

Summaries run on your Mac. Ranking runs on your Mac. PageForth uses your on-device Apple Intelligence. No API key. No per-article cost. The price of the app is the price you pay.

iCloud

Everywhere. All at once.

Read on your laptop, pick up on your desktop. PageForth syncs your sources, your reads, your hearts, and your For You feed across all your Macs through iCloud.

Finders keepers.

That thing you skimmed last week? Type a word or two. A keyword and semantic search finds the article even when you don't remember the exact words.

Setup is one URL.

Open the app ▸ Paste a URL ▸ Start reading

Privacy Edition

None of our business.

Filed under: things we will never collect

I.Articles come straight from the sites. Nothing routes through us.

II.Summaries and ranking run on your Mac. No cloud model. No server of ours in the loop.

III.No analytics. No tracking. No account to make.

From the publisher

Nate Kontny and family — Nate Kontny, builder

Built by Nate Kontny. I've been building software for 25+ years, from Highrise and Draft to two trips through Y Combinator. These days I'm a Staff Engineer at Fivetran, after helping build Census as a founding engineer through its acquisition. PageForth is the kind of tool I like making: small, opinionated, and built to remove steps from things you do every day.

Need anything? Email me at nate@ninjasandrobots.com. I'd love to hear from you.

Reader's questions

Before you ask.

Does PageForth require Apple Intelligence?

Yes. It needs macOS 26 or later with Apple Intelligence turned on and the on-device model downloaded. The summaries are the whole point of the app, and they run on your Mac.

Is PageForth private?

Yes. Summaries and ranking run on your Mac through Apple Intelligence. There is no cloud model and no server of ours in the loop. Articles come straight from the sites you add. No analytics, no tracking, no account to make.

Does it use RSS feeds?

It can, but it doesn't have to. If a site offers an RSS feed, paste it in. If it doesn't, paste the page itself (a blog, a newsletter, Hacker News, an author's archive) and PageForth figures out what is an article and what isn't. The feed is optional, never required.

How much does it cost?

$29.99 a year with a 7-day free trial, on the Mac App Store. The price of the app is the price you pay. No API keys, no per-article cost.

Does it sync across my Macs?

Yes. PageForth syncs your sources, your reads, your hearts, and your For You feed across all your Macs through iCloud.