Five articles.
Every day.
No noise.

Broaden picks 5 thought-provoking articles for you each day, from sources you can trust. Read one, read all five. Either way, you're building a reading habit that sticks.

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Free to download. Pick your topics and you're reading.

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The Guardian
The city designed to make you lonely
6 min read · Architecture
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Neuroscience
Why your brain lies about time
Psychology
The science of habit stacking
Science
How octopuses taste with their arms
Philosophy
Boredom is the rarest state
🦫14 days! Keep going!

How it works

Three steps. One new habit.

1

Pick what you're curious about

Choose from 15 topics, including philosophy, space, psychology, architecture, sport and technology. Rate what you read and the picks sharpen.

2

Five articles, ready each day

Your five are waiting when you open the app, curated from trusted sources like The Guardian, Aeon, MIT Technology Review and Wired. No clickbait, no filler.

3

Read one. That's enough.

Even one article a day builds a streak, earns badges, and teaches you something new.

A beaver mascot cheers you on. (Yes, really.)

A better use of your screen time

Your phone, but better.

You'll spend hours on your phone today. Everyone does. Broaden asks for six minutes of them, and gives you something back.

Broaden isn't another news app with 500 articles and an infinite feed. It's 5 articles, chosen for you, and then you're done. No guilt, no overwhelm, no algorithm trying to keep you hooked.

Just one good read a day. That's the whole idea.

What's inside

Built for people who want to read more
(and finally can)

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Curation that learns your taste

Tell us what you're into. Broaden reads across dozens of publications each night and picks the five worth your time. Every thumbs up sharpens tomorrow's set.

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A streak that keeps you going

Read one article and your streak counts. A Mon–Sun week view shows the days you've already nailed.

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A library that's yours

Save what's worth a second look and keep a shelf of the best things you've read.

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Friends who keep you honest

Compare streaks on the leaderboard. Share articles. Turn reading into something you do together.

Questions

Everything you need to know

Yes. All 15 topics, five articles a day, streaks, badges and the friends leaderboard cost nothing. No trial clock, no card. Broaden Pro is coming soon: two extra reads a day, an ad-free experience, unlimited saves, and private notes on anything you read, for £14.99/month or £149.99/year. Join the waitlist in the app and we'll tell you when it lands.

We curate from publications that earn their reputation on the writing. The Guardian, Aeon, MIT Technology Review, Harvard Business Review, Ars Technica, Wired, Carbon Brief, Dezeen and dozens more, matched to the topics you pick. No content farms, no aggregator slop, no clickbait.

Not at all. Even one article a day keeps your streak alive and counts toward your reading goals. Five is a menu, not a minimum.

Those apps hand you an infinite feed and leave you to sort it out. Broaden gives you exactly 5, chosen for you, from sources worth trusting. The constraint is the feature: no overwhelm, no doomscrolling, just a reading habit that survives a busy week.

All 15 of these: Architecture & Design; Business & Economics; Culture, Arts & Music; Current Affairs; Environment, Climate & Energy; Health & Medicine; History; Law & Justice; Lifestyle; Philosophy; Psychology & Neuroscience; Science; Space & Astronomy; Sport; Technology. Pick as many as you like. Every topic is free, and you can change them any time. Want one we don't cover? Send it to us from Settings → Feedback.

Get started

Download now. Read tonight.

Download Broaden, pick the topics you're curious about, and your first five articles are ready in minutes.

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Free. No credit card. Just great articles.

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Broaden puts good writing in front of people who came to read it. If you publish it, write it, or want to build something with us, tell us who you are and we'll send over the deck.

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