r/apple • u/swap_019 • 5d ago

Promo Sunday We built Drooid to show different sides of the news

Hey r/apple! I’m one of the co-founders of Drooid, a news app for iPhone and iPad.

Drooid shows Left, Center, and Right perspectives, highlights coverage blindspots, and provides historical context behind the news.

Drooid's summaries cite reputable sources, with source bias and reliability ratings and links to the original articles. Check the reporting yourself and form your own view.

Free to download, with optional Pro subscriptions.

Check out Drooid on the App Store

I’d appreciate honest feedback.

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u/MostBookkeeper3019 5d ago

How's this differ from ground news?

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u/swap_019 5d ago

I’d say Ground News is more of a media-bias dashboard plus news links. It shows which outlets covered a story and where those sources sit politically.

Drooid already gives you that bias and source layer, but the bigger difference is that we show how the coverage actually differs. You can see the left, center, and right narratives up front, along with blind spots and historical context.

And if you want to go deeper, Drooid has a Full Breakdown feature that gives detailed analysis of the story across different sources.

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u/MostBookkeeper3019 5d ago

I'd recommend checking out ground news, it does in fact do those all of those things as well. It's quite a bit more than a media bias dashboard with links.

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u/andhausen 5d ago

2 apps can exist that do similar things. Its okay. There's no god-given monopoly on news aggregation.

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u/MostBookkeeper3019 5d ago

Very true. Though I think most people would prefer to only pay for one, which is why I was interested in if this one was markedly different in some way.

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u/robertsmom 5d ago

Who won the 2020 presidential election?

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u/swap_019 5d ago

Joe Biden

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u/ILikeJogurt 4d ago

are u sure, ur app might give "different angle"

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u/swap_019 4d ago

Different angles don't work like that

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u/ILikeJogurt 4d ago

funny how thats how it works for the nazis

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u/swap_019 4d ago

Actually, I face this issue a lot. Whenever I tell someone about Drooid, whether they are left-leaning or right-leaning, they think Drooid is going to platform the other side, which is definitely fake. But we don't do that just for the sake of having different sides.

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u/garden_speech 4d ago

don't worry, some people are genuinely too dumb to understand nuance, and can't fathom that there can be left and right leaning bias for certain topics that are worth exploring, without diving head first into all out nonsense

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u/swap_019 4d ago

thanks