ReadBeeb

🙃 My name is Bilaal, and I'm thrilled to be introducing you to ReadBeeb - a better BBC News client for iOS. 💯 When Version 7 of the OEM BBC News app was launched, the design of the app was ruinedand made it became a lot harder to discover and read the news. Access to quality journalism is a critical part of democracy and the state-owned media organisation was drastically letting down the British taxpayers that fund it. 🕓 Over the past year, I set out to change this by building my own mobile client which rights these wrongs. ⏩ ReadBeeb pays homage to the old version of the app, whilst attempting to remain modern, slick, fast and accessible for power users. 📰 Easily view all the top stories of the day, as curated by the BBC News editors. 📱 Experience a personal feed of topics you subscribe to, displayed in reverse chronological order. This is something the inept BBC decided to kill off. 📈 Discover the trending articles and topics on BBC News. 🎥 Prefer video? We have a dedicated tab to that too. Again something the BBC don't want you to have access to. 🌍 Based abroad? We support access to all of the BBC's international services: English, Cymru, Arabic, Hindi, Mundo and Russian. 🌐 Sick of the BBC just displaying in-app web views for loads of articles? ReadBeeb attempts to fix that too (experimental). ☯ Love dark mode? We fully support it throughout the app, including with our app icons. 🛡️ Your privacy is protected throughout. No analytics are sent to me or the BBC. Plus you don't need to log in with a BBC account to access the app. (Again something the BBC can't do). 🔄 And most importantly, the whole project is completely free and open-souce. Fork and contribute as much as you'd like. Check it out in GitHub today! 🤖 I'd love to hear your thoughts on ReadBeeb, so please comment below and let us know what you think! In particular, I think it's time to rethink the UI as we start planning support for iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV. 🫶 Thank you for your endless support!