Each morning Sides gathers headlines and short summaries from about 29 English-language outlets and groups the top stories into one daily digest. For each story you see how left, centre and right outlets word it, how Western and Eastern outlets frame it, what they agree on and what each side leaves out. Every point links to the headline it came from.
Sides is a reading tool, not a feed. One digest a day, built from headlines and short summaries, with the analysis checked against its sources before it is published.
Each morning Sides reads headlines and short summaries from about 29 outlets and groups them into the day's top stories, usually 5 to 10. Each story is covered by at least three different outlets. The app downloads one file a day and keeps it, so the latest digest opens instantly and stays readable offline.
The Political lean view shows real quotes from left, centre and right outlets, labelled by outlet. The West / East view does the same for Western and Eastern outlets and lists East–West contradictions when the day's coverage has them. Coverage bars show who covered the story, and a blindspot label marks a story that only one side covered.
Below the comparison sit what all sources agree on, what each side leaves out, contested claims, and opinion pieces kept apart from the reporting. Tap any source to read the original article on the outlet's own website. Sides shows headlines and short summaries only, never full articles.
Real quotes from each outlet's own headline or summary, grouped by political lean and labelled by outlet. You read the words they chose, not a paraphrase.
Alongside UK, US and European outlets, Sides reads outlets based in the Middle East, India, China, Japan and South Korea, plus The Moscow Times. The West / East view compares how each group frames a story. State-controlled outlets carry a visible state media label and are included for comparison, not endorsed.
A story covered only by left-leaning outlets, or only by Western outlets, is marked as such. Coverage bars show which outlets, and which sides, covered each story.
For each story: what all sources agree on, what each side leaves out, which claims are contested, and opinion pieces kept apart from the reporting.
Tap a source chip to read the original on the outlet's own site. Before publication each point is checked automatically against the headlines and summaries it cites, and points that cannot be traced to a source are left out.
On larger tablets the sides appear in columns. Light and dark themes follow your device, and text scales with your device's text size up to 200%. No account and no sign-in.
Each story in the digest carries the same set of views. These are the parts, in the order they appear on the page.
Today's digest
Political lean
West / East
Coverage bars
Blindspot label
What all sources agree on
Leaves out and contested
Sources
Sides is free and shows a small banner ad at the bottom of the screen. Ads never appear inside the sourced coverage, and ad requests are non-personalised. One in-app purchase removes the banner for good. There is no subscription.
The whole digest, every day, with a small banner.
The same app, with the banner removed for good.
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The comparison is generated automatically by an AI model from headlines and short summaries, once a day. No human editor writes or reviews it. Before publication, each point is checked automatically against the headlines and summaries it cites, and points that cannot be traced to a source are left out.
Political-lean labels come from published media-bias ratings by AllSides and Ad Fontes Media. Outlets outside the UK/US left–right scale, including state media, appear in the West / East comparison only. Sides does not rate the accuracy of any outlet or story. Settings › Outlets and ratings lists each outlet with its lean, region, ownership and rating source.
English-language outlets read each morning, across left, centre and right, and Western and Eastern countries.
Top stories a day, each covered by at least three outlets. One download a day; readable offline afterwards.
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From the public headline feeds of about 29 English-language news outlets based in the UK, US, Europe, the Middle East, India, China, Japan and South Korea, plus The Moscow Times. Sides reads headlines and short summaries only, never full articles. Settings › Outlets and ratings in the app lists each outlet it reads, with its lean, region, ownership and rating source.
Sides does not. Political-lean labels come from published media-bias ratings by AllSides and Ad Fontes Media, and the rating source is shown per outlet in the app. Outlets outside the UK/US left–right scale appear in the West / East comparison only.
No. The comparison is generated automatically by an AI model from headlines and short summaries, once a day. Before publication each point is checked automatically against the headlines and summaries it cites, and points that cannot be traced to a source are left out. Sides does not rate the accuracy of any outlet or story.
So their framing can be compared with everyone else's. Outlets such as CGTN carry a visible state media label and are shown in the West / East view for comparison, not endorsed. RT, Sputnik and Press TV are not read.
A story that only one side covered: only left-leaning outlets, for example, or only Western outlets. Sides marks these with a label on the story so you can see what the other side did not report that day.
The app says so. East–West contradictions are listed only when the day's coverage contains them; when it does not, the view reads "none found" rather than inventing a disagreement.
Yes. The app downloads one digest file a day and keeps it, so the latest digest opens instantly and stays readable without a connection. Opening an original article needs a connection, because it opens on the outlet's own website.
Only the banner. Sides is free with a small non-personalised banner ad at the bottom of the screen, never inside the coverage. The one-time £2.99 purchase removes it for good. No features are held back, there is no subscription, and Restore purchases is in Settings.
No. There is no account and no sign-in. Sides does not use analytics. The ad banner is served by Google AdMob with non-personalised requests; the privacy policy explains what that involves.
Sides is free to download, with a one-time £2.99 ad-free purchase. No account, no subscription, and every point links to its source.
