Kagi News and Pollar share a stance: reader-funded, no ads, sources in the open. The difference is cadence and focus. Kagi News publishes one worldwide digest a day, around noon UTC. Pollar runs a continuous European edition, with events, live moments and a twice-daily brief.
| Pollar | Kagi News | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free; optional reader membership | Free |
| Cadence | Continuous, with live coverage | One digest a day, around noon UTC |
| Focus | Europe first | Worldwide |
| Languages | Four edited editions: EN, PL, DE, FR | Many, via machine translation |
| Sources | About 270 European and international outlets, listed per article | Community-curated RSS feeds, public on GitHub |
| Apps | Web, iPhone (Android in testing) | Web, iPhone, Android |
Two answers to the same problem
Both services refuse advertising and keep sources in plain view. Kagi News compresses the world into one digest a day. Pollar keeps a running European edition: events update as reporting develops, live moments follow breaking stories, and the brief sets the rhythm twice a day.
Languages and focus
Kagi News generates stories from community-curated feeds and machine-translates them into many languages. Pollar publishes four edited editions: English, Polish, German and French, each with its own URLs. Coverage is Europe first: EU politics, the member states, and the stories that affect them.
Where Kagi News is stronger
Worldwide scope and radical curation transparency: the source list is a public GitHub repository anyone can inspect or extend. If one global five-minute digest a day is all you want, Kagi News does that well. If you follow European news through the day, in Polish, German or French, Pollar is built for that.
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Facts checked on 4 July 2026. If something here is out of date, write to contact@pollar.news and we will correct it.