Pollar for press
Pollar is a European news service that turns coverage from nearly 200 outlets into short summaries with links to every source, in English, Polish, German and French.
Media contact: Bartosz Kasprzycki, bartoszkasprzycki@pollar.news
Facts
Updated 14 October 2026
| Label | Value | As of |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A news service that groups coverage of each event and summarises it with links to every source | |
| Languages | English, Polish, German, French | |
| Where to read | pollar.news, iPhone (App Store since July 2026), Android (Google Play since August 2026) | |
| Sources | 197 news outlets in 12 marketsAs of 14 October 2026 | 14 October 2026 |
| App Store | 12,644 first-time downloads since launchAs of 13 October 2026 | 13 October 2026 |
| Google Play | More than 1,000 installsAs of 14 October 2026 | 14 October 2026 |
| App Store ratings | 4.7 in Poland (76 ratings), 4.6 in Germany (19 ratings)As of 14 October 2026 | 14 October 2026 |
| 108,347 followers on @pollar.newsAs of 14 October 2026 | 14 October 2026 | |
| Price | Free to read, no account needed. Membership from €3.49 a month or €34.99 a yearAs of 14 October 2026 | 14 October 2026 |
| Advertising | No ad networks. At most one labelled sponsor of the web brief a day | |
| AI | Every summary is written with AI from published reporting and labelled as such | |
| Team | Four people in Berlin, Warsaw and LondonAs of 14 October 2026 | 14 October 2026 |
Pollar is on the App Store and Google Play, and on the web at pollar.news.
Media contact
Bartosz Kasprzycki
Co-founder, head of product
We reply within one working day, in English or Polish. Interview requests for Jakub Dudek, the founder and editor-in-chief, go to the same address.
How Pollar works
Pollar reads articles that established outlets have already published. Software groups the articles about one event, and an AI model writes a summary in English. The summary is then translated into Polish, German and French.
Before publication, automated checks compare each summary with its sources. No person reads every summary before it goes out. The newsroom chooses the sources and sets the rules. When we get something wrong, we correct it and add a note under the story.
Every summary carries an AI label and links to the articles it is based on. Since 13 October 2026 Pollar does not use outlets that reserve text and data mining, and it no longer takes photos from publishers. The companies that process data for Pollar, and where they do it, are listed at pollar.news/ai-policy.
In numbers
| Label | Value | As of |
|---|---|---|
| Sources behind a typical story | 7As of 30 days to 14 October 2026 | 30 days to 14 October 2026 |
| Stories published a day | 170 on averageAs of 30 days to 14 October 2026 | 30 days to 14 October 2026 |
| Source articles cited since Pollar started | 562,352As of 14 October 2026 | 14 October 2026 |
| Daily briefs published | 267As of 14 October 2026 | 14 October 2026 |
What Pollar makes
The daily edition
Coverage of the same event from several outlets becomes one entry: a headline, a short summary, the key facts and a link to every source.
Live carries breaking stories as they develop, and the Brief sums up the day. Threads follow a long-running story over weeks, with a timeline and the people involved. There is also a news map and a search of the full archive. Pollar Chat answers questions about current events and cites its sources.
Pollar Sounds
A narrative podcast led by Jan Sigsworth, journalist and sound designer. An episode either follows one story back to its roots or takes three stories from three angles, built from reporting already published. Script, research and editing: people. Narrator voices: AI, made with ElevenLabs, which supports Pollar's audio with a grant. Recordings of real people are original and never dubbed.
Four episodes since 3 October 2026, in English with subtitles in Polish, German and French. On pollar.news, in the iPhone and Android apps, on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Members hear new episodes at least six hours early.
Explainers and Films
Explainers walk through one large story in a few minutes: timeline, map, figures, quotes and what happens next, read by an AI voice. They appear in the iPhone and Android apps, usually within an hour of a major story breaking. 62 published since 1 October 2026.
Films are short videos of about three minutes that answer one question about an event, with subtitles in four languages. 17 since 23 September 2026, in the apps, at pollar.news/films and on Instagram.
Pollar Radar
Radar follows what a reader chooses to watch: a city, a company, a politician or a bill. It keeps a dossier of where things stand, sends an alert only when something material changes, and collects scheduled dates such as votes, hearings and deadlines. Every Monday it sends a summary of the week to read or listen to. Three watches are free, members have no limit.
On the web at radar.pollar.news since 5 October 2026. The iPhone and Android versions are in testing.
How Pollar uses sources and AI
In October 2026 Pollar changed how it works with publishers and AI.
- On 13 October Pollar stopped using 82 outlets that reserve text and data mining. Publishers can opt out at any time, and we act within seven days.
- Pollar no longer takes photos from publishers. Images come from Wikimedia Commons and official sources such as the European Commission, with author and licence. Some stories carry an AI-generated illustration of the topic, always captioned as such and never showing a real person or event.
- The feed, Live, Threads, email, audio and the API all mark AI involvement, in line with Article 50 of the EU AI Act.
- Since 12 October every correction is noted under the story it changes.
The page "How Pollar is made" at pollar.news/ai-policy shows live figures and takes one story apart to show what AI wrote and what was checked. It also lists every company that processes data for Pollar, with its region.
Pollar Weather and Pollar Sports are in testing and not yet available.
Screenshots
Pollar on iPhone, Android and the web, as of 14 October 2026. Each picture links to the full-resolution PNG. The ZIP holds the screenshots in English, Polish, German and French.
iPhone
HomeDownload Home on iPhone as PNG, 1.5 MB 
Sources of a storyDownload Sources of a story on iPhone as PNG, 1.1 MB 
BriefDownload Brief on iPhone as PNG, 851 kB 
LiveDownload Live on iPhone as PNG, 322 kB 
Pollar Sounds playerDownload Pollar Sounds player on iPhone as PNG, 3.7 MB 
ExplainerDownload Explainer on iPhone as PNG, 368 kB
Android
HomeDownload Home on Android as PNG, 395 kB 
Sources of a storyDownload Sources of a story on Android as PNG, 411 kB 
BriefDownload Brief on Android as PNG, 448 kB 
LiveDownload Live on Android as PNG, 248 kB 
Pollar Sounds playerDownload Pollar Sounds player on Android as PNG, 603 kB 
ExplainerDownload Explainer on Android as PNG, 165 kB
Team
Jakub Dudek
Founder, editor-in-chief
Berlin
Jakub founded Pollar and is editor-in-chief of "Pollar.pl", the registered daily published at pollar.news. He studied physics and social informatics at AGH University of Krakow, holds a film school diploma and worked in UX design. He sets Pollar's product direction, its editorial standards and its AI policy.
Bartosz Kasprzycki
Co-founder, head of product
Berlin
Bartosz studied linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Before Pollar he worked on digital advertising products for international platforms, where he saw how much of the internet is shaped by distribution and attention. At Pollar he leads product and the language of the four editions, and he is the press contact.
Ignacy Konopka
Co-founder, head of engineering
Warsaw
Ignacy studied law at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków before moving into software. He built the system that reads coverage from nearly 200 outlets, groups articles about the same event and recognises the people, companies and institutions in them across four languages. Law school left him with a rule that suits a newsroom: every claim needs a source.
Jan Sigsworth
Head of Pollar Sounds
London
Jan is a journalist and sound designer, and an alumnus of the National Film and Television School and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He leads Pollar Sounds, the narrative podcast Pollar started in October 2026.
Membership
Pollar is free to read. Readers who want to support it can choose a membership. Annual plans start with 14 days free.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Supporter | €3.49 | €34.99 |
| Founder | €7.99 | €79.99 |
Supporter adds offline reading, articles read aloud, unlimited Pollar Chat and the Brief without a sponsor. Founder adds a vote on what Pollar builds next and access to the member community. In Poland Supporter costs PLN 12.99 a month or PLN 129.99 a year, and Founder PLN 29.99 or PLN 299.99.
Files
| File | Format | Size |
|---|---|---|
| Everything | ||
| All files, October 2026, ZIPZIP One archive with every file on this list and the screenshots in all four languages. | ZIP | 69.4 MB |
| Press kit and fact sheet | ||
| Press kit, English, PDFPDF | 365 kB | |
| Fact sheet, English, PDFPDF | 32 kB | |
| Press kit, Polish, PDFPDF | 392 kB | |
| Fact sheet, Polish, PDFPDF | 34 kB | |
| Press kit, German, PDFPDF | 387 kB | |
| Fact sheet, German, PDFPDF | 34 kB | |
| Press kit, French, PDFPDF | 394 kB | |
| Fact sheet, French, PDFPDF | 34 kB | |
| Logos | ||
| Logo with name, black, SVGSVG | SVG | 7 kB |
| Logo with name, black, PNG, 1024 pxPNG, 1024 px | PNG, 1024 px | 15 kB |
| Logo with name, black, PNG, 4096 pxPNG, 4096 px | PNG, 4096 px | 72 kB |
| Logo with name, white, SVGSVG | SVG | 7 kB |
| Logo with name, white, PNG, 1024 pxPNG, 1024 px | PNG, 1024 px | 16 kB |
| Logo with name, white, PNG, 4096 pxPNG, 4096 px | PNG, 4096 px | 78 kB |
| Bear mark, black, SVGSVG | SVG | 5 kB |
| Bear mark, black, PNG, 1024 pxPNG, 1024 px | PNG, 1024 px | 10 kB |
| Bear mark, black, PNG, 4096 pxPNG, 4096 px | PNG, 4096 px | 64 kB |
| Bear mark, white, SVGSVG | SVG | 5 kB |
| Bear mark, white, PNG, 1024 pxPNG, 1024 px | PNG, 1024 px | 11 kB |
| Bear mark, white, PNG, 4096 pxPNG, 4096 px | PNG, 4096 px | 67 kB |
| Key visualiPhone and Android on the map from the top of this page. The ZIP holds both as lossless PNG. | ||
| Key visual, 16:9, JPEG, 3840 × 2160 pxJPEG, 3840 × 2160 px | JPEG, 3840 × 2160 px | 1.1 MB |
| Key visual, square, JPEG, 2160 × 2160 pxJPEG, 2160 × 2160 px | JPEG, 2160 × 2160 px | 581 kB |
| Portrait and AI briefing | ||
| Jakub Dudek, portrait, JPEG, 1000 pxJPEG, 1000 px | JPEG, 1000 px | 181 kB |
| For your AI, MarkdownMarkdown A briefing to give an AI assistant before you ask it about Pollar: current facts with dates and a suggested prompt. | Markdown | 12 kB |
Press releases
, Press release
Pollar Sounds, one story at a time, Press release
Pollar for Android opens to everyone, Update
The Pollar Paper, the day on one front page, Milestone
Our numbers, in the open, Milestone
Live coverage for developing stories
Statements
We have no statements at the moment. When we issue one, it will appear here with its date.
Pollar in the press
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About Pollar
Short version
Pollar is a European news service that turns coverage from nearly 200 outlets into short summaries with links to every source, in English, Polish, German and French. It is free to read at pollar.news and in the iPhone and Android apps. Pollar is based in Berlin.
Long version
Pollar is a European news service based in Berlin. It reads coverage from nearly 200 outlets in 12 markets, groups articles about the same event and turns them into short summaries with links to every source, published in English, Polish, German and French. Every summary is written with AI and labelled as such, and corrections appear under the story. Besides the daily edition, Pollar makes Pollar Sounds, a narrative podcast, short Films and spoken Explainers, and Radar, which follows a chosen city, company, politician or bill. Pollar is free to read at pollar.news and in the iPhone and Android apps, and readers can support it with a membership. It is published by POLLAR P.S.A. as the registered daily "Pollar.pl".
Using these materials
You may use Pollar's logos, screenshots and photos from the press kit at pollar.news/press in coverage of Pollar without asking us. Crop and scale them as you need, but do not change what they show. The portrait of Jakub Dudek needs no credit. Screenshots show the apps and pollar.news as of 14 October 2026.
Writing the name
Write "Pollar", with a capital P and nothing after it. Only the logo is in lower case. Not "Pollar News", "Pollar app" or "POLLAR". The company is POLLAR P.S.A.
Media contact
Bartosz Kasprzycki
Co-founder, head of product
We reply within one working day, in English or Polish. Interview requests for Jakub Dudek, the founder and editor-in-chief, go to the same address.