carrotA personal news brief
Your work. Your rabbit holes. That thing you can’t stop reading about.
Tell Carrot what interests you. Get a short, sourced roundup, then go deeper wherever you’re curious.
See how it worksIn private alpha on iPhone and Android.
Room for a very specific interest.
Three small steps through Carrot.
Scroll to follow along.
“Keep me up to date on battery research and recycling. Skip the stock prices.”
Speak or type. Carrot organises your request into a stream it can research. You don’t have to write a perfect prompt.
A guide to your first stream
Keep different interests in separate streams. The roundup brings a few developments together; the side panel takes you straight to a particular topic.
Open what interests you. Leave the rest for another time.
Roundups, streams and stories explained
Open a story for the explanation behind it. Follow its sources to the original material, or ask a question right where you’re reading.
Choose the amount of detail and writing style in your stream settings.
How to check a summary against its sources
A useful brief helps you decide what deserves your attention. Some days that’s a quick skim. Other days, one story sends you further.
Carrot keeps the question box and the sources within reach.
“What does this change?
What’s still uncertain?
Where can I read more?”
From the blog
How a finite briefing differs from a feed, and how Carrot organises your interests into streams, a roundup and individual stories.
Give your personal news brief a subject, a boundary and a useful angle. Examples for research, work and interests, without complicated prompting.
A practical source-checking routine: identify the claim, open the original, compare dates and numbers, and notice what the summary leaves uncertain.
Carrot is a personalised news briefing app for iPhone and Android. Describe your interests, get a sourced roundup, and open individual stories or ask follow-up questions. It is currently in a small, invited alpha.
Carrot researches the web around your saved interests and writes from the evidence it finds. Sources stay attached to stories. AI can make mistakes or miss context; the original source is there for you to check.
Yes. Choose “I can’t talk right now” when adding a stream and type your interests. Questions can be typed too.
The invited alpha is free to use. There is no paid subscription tier in the current app.
Public downloads are not available yet. Carrot is being tested by an invited group on iPhone and Android. Existing testers can contact the person who invited them for installation help.
Still growing
We’re testing Carrot on real phones and listening to the people using it. For now, it’s invitation-only.
Take a look around. There’s more to come.
Meet Carrot