Personalized news, summarized from many sources
Estimated monthly website visits
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Collected Nov 11, 2026
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According to OpenAITools.app telemetry verified on 2026-11-11, Particle (particle.news) is an AI platform indexed under AI News generating 15.56K monthly visits with a month-over-month traffic delta of -2.11K (-11.9%). Its primary geographic market is United States (75.5% traffic share), and it operates on a Free pricing model. Top competing alternatives by monthly volume include Syft AI (4.83K visits/mo), Pidgeon (1.75K visits/mo), DeepNewz (2.05K visits/mo).
Saves me from reading five different sites for the same news story.
Clean multi-source summaries without the usual clickbait clutter.
Sometimes skips important context in the brief summaries.
The radar podcast feature is a neat bonus.
AI-synthesized perspectives grounded in live site inspection, pricing structure, and category benchmarks — presented as editorial viewpoints rather than individual customer testimonials.
Each story is condensed into a short summary built from many publishers' reporting, so you can grasp the essentials quickly and still see the underlying articles.
Follow channels such as technology, politics, sports, science, economics and gaming, plus narrower entities and events, to shape what appears in your feed.
Query a large index of podcasts to see what shows are saying about a given topic, company or person, alongside the written coverage.
Stories display how many articles back each summary, giving a rough signal of how widely an event is being covered.
Read through the web app and mobile apps, with newsletter delivery available for those who prefer email.
Particle is a news reading experience for people who want the gist of a story without opening a dozen tabs. For each event it aggregates reporting from a wide range of publishers and produces a short AI-written summary, then lets you drill into the individual articles that formed it. The result is a feed that reads more like a briefing than a link dump.
The product covers a broad set of verticals — technology, politics, sports, entertainment, science, crime, economics, international relations and gaming — and lets you follow specific topics, teams, companies and people so the home feed reflects your interests. A newer feature called Radar lets you search what a large library of podcasts (advertised as 165,000+ shows) has said about any topic, company or person, treating spoken-word commentary as a searchable news source alongside written reporting.
Particle is funded and operated by Mina Labs, Inc., with a founding team that includes former Twitter product and engineering staff. It is free to use and supported by advertising, analytics and cookie-based personalization, with the option to decline non-essential cookies.
Skim summarized briefings across several verticals during a commute or coffee break instead of reading full articles.
Read one condensed summary and then open the linked sources to see how different outlets framed the same event.
Use Radar to find out which shows have discussed a company, person or trend before deciding what to listen to.
Follow a favorite sports team, gaming franchise or policy area and keep that topic visible without wading through unrelated headlines.
Side-by-side telemetry comparison of competing AI tools in the same primary category
| Rank | AI Tool | Monthly Visits | MoM Growth | Direct traffic share | Pricing | Head-to-Head |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ● | Particle | 15.56K | -11.9% | 76% direct | Free | Current |
| 1 | Syft AI | 4.83K | -61.6% | 40% direct | Freemium | vs Syft AI |
| 2 | Pidgeon | 1.75K | -17% | 39% direct | Freemium | vs Pidgeon |
| 3 | DeepNewz | 2.05K | -47.5% | 9% direct | Free | vs DeepNewz |
| 4 | Zeli | 56.15K | -46.8% | 71% direct | Free | vs Zeli |
| 5 | NBot.ai | 32.1K | -8.1% | 47% direct | Freemium | vs NBot.ai |
| 6 | PocketNews | 0 | 0% | — | Freemium | vs PocketNews |
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