Symby is a news and knowledge platform to help you stay informed and empowered.
Navigate the infosphere with context as your compass.
Everything that matters, gathered in one place.
Symby brings together news articles, social news feeds, podcasts, and background knowledge all in one place, so you’ll never miss what matters.
Stop scrambling between apps and websites just to understand a single story. Symby gives you a unified information experience, while surfacing the diverse human voices and perspectives that make news interesting and thought-provoking.
Understand narratives,
not just news.
When a story breaks, different outlets notice different things.
Some lead with data, others with impact.
Some move fast, others dig deep.
Stay informed not just about what happened,
but how it’s being framed.
Track how a story is told across sources, as it unfolds.
Support your media literacy.
On Symby, you’ll see established outlets and newcomers, careful reporting and attention-grabbing headlines, perspectives you’ll agree with and ones you won’t.
You’ll see sources you know and trust. And ones you don’t.
That’s the point.
Not because all sources are equal, but because knowing what narratives are out there is how you stay ahead of them.
If you’re looking to understand the whole picture, Symby was built to show you information from all angles, supporting media literacy and critical thinking.
We don’t use AI-generated summaries.
We use AI to surface the news: to categorize, group, and sort related coverage, whether breaking news, current events, topics or themes.
This is done so you can more easily triangulate information across outlets, prominent social platforms, and podcast shows, where competing factual claims, commentary, and opinions are circulating, with the aim of bringing you closer to an unbiased news experience.
Discover the human voices creating the news and dive-in to explore the ideas that are shaping public debate.
A quick visual cue for spotting likely differences in perspective.
We try to provide balanced coverage across the political and ideological spectrum and use a simple compass tool to help identify a publication or content creator’s editorial brand.
This should be treated as opinion rather than a definitive assessment. The tool is for general guidance and acts as a visual aid so you can more easily increase your odds of quickly finding differing perspectives. We always encourage you to engage with their content to form your own opinion.
We plan to evolve this tool over time, adding more nuance and additional context. Let us know what other insights would help support your media literacy.
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Social feed
Posts from newsrooms, official accounts, and other relevant sources, so you can track what’s happening without the rest of the noise that comes with social media.
Podcasts
News and knowledge shows, plus other content, playable inside the app or from our site. Designed for people who prefer that format, ideal for “news on the go”.
Knowledge search
Look up background information from the web, such as key terms, new concepts, historical or scientific detail, then return to the news better informed.
We’re building Symby for people like you.
You already think critically. You’re curious by nature, and you know the news is shaped by narratives, not just facts alone. You deserve tools that make it easier to spot those narratives and see the full picture.
The world doesn’t come to us unfiltered. No matter how carefully a story is told, lived experience shapes what gets noticed, how it gets interpreted, and what anyone makes of the underlying facts. We can’t guarantee you unbiased information. That’s why we’re committed to neutrality, and hope to offer you the next best thing: balanced coverage that makes it easier to compare how and why narratives are forming, so you can weigh them for yourself.
Thank you for joining us on this journey.
A small team, a big question.
We are a small self-funded team based in Europe (Switzerland / Germany) who built Symby out of our passion for news, internet technologies, media literacy, online wellbeing, and lifelong learning.
Combining the spheres of media and tech, we look beyond tech-only solutions to address the deeper challenge of how AI will affect our media landscape and our understanding of the world around us.
Our international team has a diversity of backgrounds, from Europe to North America to Asia.
Our focus is on digital symbiosis
The name Symby reflects our vision of digital symbiosis: humans and machines working together to elevate understanding. The future of information depends on keeping humans at the center, using critical thinking to discern fact from fiction.