The extension costs less, and its free allowance is smaller
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Browser extension: A$6.99 a month or A$69.99 a year, from A$7.99 and A$79.99. Seven articles a week free, from ten a day.
It is now listed as “Mundane Read: See how the news is written”.
A subscription is for one person, in up to three browsers. Settings lists each one with when it was last used, and any of them can be disconnected there; connecting a fourth disconnects the one used least recently.
It looks articles up by a four-character fingerprint of the address, never the address itself.
Reading the site without an account: ten articles a day, from twelve. With a free account there is still no limit.
The API has two plans, free and pay as you go. The Enterprise plan is gone: pay as you go has no ceiling.
A headline check, an end to the day, and a way to fold a subject away
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The headline check: on every story whose full report we hold, the page says whether the figures, names and quoted words in the outlet’s headline are in the outlet’s report, and names the ones that are not.
It shows its working rather than a score — how many claims could be checked, how many were found — and says plainly where it could check nothing, rather than showing a tick it has not earned.
The front page now says where it ends. Nothing loads below the line, and it tells you how many stories the day held.
Stories you have opened are marked on every list. Nothing counts what you have not read: no unread total, no badge, no streak.
Not today: fold a subject away from the front page. It folds the subject the outlets filed under, not a word in a headline, and it never folds anything quietly — what it took out is always on the page, one tap from coming back.
On a day when one subject is a third of the news, the page says so.
What you have read and what you have muted are kept in your browser. They are never sent to us, and none of it needs an account.
Topics, a page for every indicator, and edits outlets make after publishing
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Topics: every subject our sources file on, at /topics, with the messy category labels merged into one list.
A page for each indicator: what raises it, what is never counted, and the stories at each end of it this week.
Where an outlet changes a story after publishing, the article says so and shows the headline as it was first filed.
Opinion, Analysis and Review labels, where the outlet said so. The Good news page no longer carries arguments, promotions or reviews.
Word swaps are made only where the plain word fits the sentence: "Australian batter" is a cricketer, "seized control" is not a reply, and "alleged" is left alone in court reporting.
Numbers are never removed as adjectives: "all twelve miners" stays twelve.
The front page leads with Australia; overseas stories follow and live blogs come last, because a summary of a running feed reads as nonsense.
Local: find your area by postcode, without giving the browser permission to locate you.
Every summary and shortened article is tidied of what cutting sentences leaves behind.
Story pages show how the story developed: who filed when, and who changed their headline afterwards.
Words that carry a fact are kept: a deceased man, a sawn-off shotgun, an unlicensed driver, a pro-Palestinian protest, the maximum penalty.
Attribution is never removed: "in a statement on Tuesday" and "in an Instagram post" stay where they are.
An RSS feed for every topic.
Local pages, a daily brief, and a calmer design
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Local pages for every state and major city: weather, emergency warnings, transport disruptions and what’s on.
The Daily Brief: the day’s news in five minutes, ranked by how many outlets reported each story.
Latest, Most covered, Search, state pages and RSS feeds.
The site can be installed on a phone and keeps articles you have opened for reading offline.
Every indicator now reads how a story is written: hype does not lift Happiness, drama lowers it, and naming an event is not a hostile article.
Australian political wording from both sides is measured and replaced with plain terms.
Security fixes to checkout, sign-in and links. See the security page.
Sign in with a code, Settings, and the extension subscription
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One Sign in button: an emailed six-digit code, no password.
Settings to preset the sections, places and indicator limits your front page opens with.
Browser extension: ten articles a day free, then A$7.99 a month or A$79.99 a year.
Show what we removed: the report’s own wording struck through beside ours.
Summaries and shortened articles made by our own engines. No AI models anywhere.
Coverage counts from Australian outlets we do not ingest (GDELT).
On phones, one story per screen.
Readable addresses and failure alerts
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Article addresses are readable: /article/the-headline-in-words.
Failures (ingest, email, payments) now alert the team by email.
Mundane Read
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Vanilla became Mundane Read. News, no dramas.
Adjective detection rebuilt on a part-of-speech tagger, measured against expert-annotated English.
The Niral Score, the gender indicator, and live billing for the API.