Six million Wikipedia articles. One, chosen for you each day.
No feed, no noise. Just one article a day, tuned to what you can’t help being curious about. Never get lost down the , and never rush. Every door it opens stays halfway open, to meet again one day.
How your daily discovery gets personal.
dailypedia learns the shape of your curiosity, then opens one article each morning that’s only yours. Read it, like it or skip it, and tomorrow’s pick knows you a little better.
Tell it what you wonder about
In about 60 seconds, you pick the worlds you’re drawn to. Fine-tune by the topics within them, if you like.
It maps your curiosity
Those picks become a private map of what could pull you in, hundreds of small signals across dozens of topics. A first sense of you, before you’ve read a word.
One arrives, each morning
One entry, chosen for you and ready for a calm read. No links to follow, nothing else to disturb you. When you’re done, you’re done, and what you thought of it sharpens tomorrow’s pick.
In time, no two readers drift the same way.
Two people can start from the very same worlds. Read a while, and your daily article becomes something that’s yours alone.
What waits behind today’s door.
Alchemy
Alchemy was an ancient art that chased three impossible dreams: turning lead into gold, brewing an elixir of immortality, and finding a single cure for every disease. Practised from China to the Muslim world to medieval Europe, its adepts guarded their work in cyphers and cryptic symbols — and in the guarding, invented real laboratory craft that became the seed of modern chemistry. Even Isaac Newton, in private, spent years an alchemist.
The feed asks for all of your time and almost none of your attention. A rabbit hole asks the opposite. dailypedia rebuilds the second one:
one personal door a day.
A new door, not a feed
One entry a day, with a beginning and an end. The rare app that hopes it stays with you after you close it, then leaves you alone.
Truly yours, and it learns
No trending bar, no algorithm chasing the crowd. Just the article your own curiosity points to, and it becomes more you each day.
Made to be read
Every entry is typeset like a page from a fine almanac: real typography, generous space, and nothing flashing for your attention.
The daily read I wished existed.
In the mid-2010s, a friend showed me IFTTT, a little automation app. Then one day an applet there caught my attention: it emails you a random Wikipedia article every morning. I loved the idea. But then I felt something was missing. It didn’t quite speak to my curiosity, because it just didn’t know me.
The Wikipedia I loved was the kind I fell into myself, hopping from one link to the next, endless exploration driven by my own curiosity rather than a random pick. I later learned it was called the wiki rabbit hole. That was the good part. The bad part was the time: ten minutes easily turned into hours. And these days, I don’t feel like I have as much of it to spare.
So I built dailypedia, to put the two together. One article a day, driven by your curiosity, with no drowning to steal your hours. You read it and you’re done. It’s the daily read I wished existed.
A few quiet answers.
Everything you might reasonably wonder before you download.
What happens after I finish today’s article?
Nothing here is built to keep you in the app. You read the one article, and you’re done. No feed to scroll, nothing pushing you to come back. The rabbit hole here happens a day at a time: tomorrow brings the next one, chosen for you.
What does it cost?
dailypedia is free to use. Your daily article will always be free to read.
If you’d like, you can support dailypedia with a small contribution. This experimental form of support is not a settled funding model and is currently available only on iOS. Your contribution does not unlock any content or features; it is simply a way to thank the developer and help sustain dailypedia.
Is what I’m curious about kept private?
Yes. Your taste profile is used only to choose your daily read. What we keep, and how to delete it, lives on our privacy page.
Why do I need to sign in with Apple or Google?
Signing in creates your dailypedia account and keeps your taste profile, reading history and saved articles linked to you. Apple or Google shares an account identifier, your email address, and any name or profile image your provider shares. We use these details only to authenticate you and manage your account. Signing in gives dailypedia access only to these basic account details, not to any other data from your Apple or Google account.
How does it learn what I’m curious about?
During a short setup you choose the worlds you’re drawn to, and can refine that with specific topics if you like. From those picks dailypedia builds a private picture of your curiosity, then quietly sharpens it from your feedback and small signals in what you read.
Do I have to read every day?
No. Read whenever you feel like it. Every daily pick stays in your history, so nothing is lost. But if you’re away for about two weeks straight, dailypedia stops choosing new articles. Come back any day and pick your journey up right where you left off. Your history and taste profile stay exactly as they were, ready to continue, until you decide to delete them.
Where do the entries come from?
Every one comes straight from Wikipedia: the encyclopedia that millions of volunteers have built, edit by edit, into the largest open record of human knowledge we’ve ever had. dailypedia doesn’t rewrite it; it chooses from it. It’s shared under CC BY-SA, and we’re just grateful to stand on it.
Which languages can I read in?
On Android, articles are available in English only. On iOS, you can also read them in Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese and Turkish through machine translation.
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