Three bytes.
Every day.
Three a day from the shared edition, and every one of them free.
One byte per category, published once a day. No feed, no algorithm, nothing held back behind a paywall. Read it, listen to it, follow it to the sources. Then come back tomorrow.
iPhone · iOS 17 or later · English and Spanish
A day in CurioByte
has a beginning and an end.
It opens the same way for everyone and it closes the same way for everyone. What happens in between is entirely up to you.
One edition a day
Each morning I publish one byte per category, and everybody opens the same one. The categories you picked decide which three land on your phone.
All three are yours
Swipe right to keep a byte, left to let it go. Nothing is locked and nothing is a teaser: every one of the three opens in full, sources included.
Go as deep as you want
Open a byte and you get the story, its key takeaways, and the sources behind it, split into Little Byte for anything under fifteen minutes and Big Byte for the long way round.
And then it ends
After the last byte the day closes itself: the posters gather onto a table, fold into a stack and tuck themselves into your Collection. That's it until tomorrow: no next episode, no infinite scroll.
Play With Your
Interests.
Pick three to six and they decide which three bytes reach you each day. Change your mind whenever. The edition follows you.
Untold
Stories
The mysteries that history forgot. Grab the key to find out.
Science
"How does it work?"
Art
DID THAT
Psychology
The mind, caught explaining itself.
Mathematics
History
Humanity's long shadow.
Technology
The next iteration of us.
Music
Where the sound came from, and why it does that to you.
Daily Stuff
The strange physics of ordinary things. Starting with the raindrop that was never tear-shaped.
The reading is free.
Always.
I have no interest in rationing curiosity, so the daily three are never gated. Premium pays for the things that cost me money to run: storage, narration, a little more of the catalogue each day.
Free
No account cost, no trialThe whole daily experience. This is the app, not a sample of it.
- 3 fresh bytes every day, all 3 open in full
- Every key takeaway and every curated source, Little Byte and Big Byte
- A Collection with your Later list and the last 7 days of History and Favorites
- Send any byte to someone else, and read the ones they send you
- The Daily Byte home-screen widget
- English and Spanish, app and content
Download free
Premium
7-day free trialThree additions. Nothing taken away from the free app to make room for them.
- Your whole Collection. Every byte you ever kept, searchable. Without Premium you keep Later plus the last 7 days of History and Favorites.
- Listen. Narrated audio on any byte, in the app, for the walk or the washing-up.
- One more byte. Up to 3 extra bytes a day when three is not enough. 6 in total, then the day is done. Skip up to 2 categories when you pull One more.
Billed through the App Store. Cancel any time in iOS Settings; the trial costs nothing if you cancel before it ends.
Your whole Collection
Search the whole archive. Favorites, History and the bytes people sent you.
Listen
One tap turns any byte into narrated audio.
The Why.
The world is
full of wonder.
From the depths of the oceans to the edges of the cosmos, there is so much to explore. You just need to look up.
Curiosity is
your superpower.
It’s the engine of growth. I believe your mind thrives when it's fed with fascinating questions, not just answers.
Intentional
Discovery.
I publish one byte per category a day and hand everyone the same edition. You decide which ones you follow all the way down, and when the last one closes, so does the day.
Tomorrow's three
are already written.
Free on the App Store, sign in with Apple, and the first edition is waiting the moment you open it.
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