News & Reading Progressive Web Apps

33 news & reading PWAs in the directory. Install directly from your browser, no app store required.

🎧

PressPlayed

Installable

PressPlayed is an RSS and news reader that converts full articles into continuous audio briefings. Users can follow specific subjects across multiple publishers or select trusted sources, then listen to complete articles read aloud in one uninterrupted stream. The service offers natural voice playback with adjustable speeds and allows users to create personalized audio briefings based on topics like companies, policies, hobbies, teams, or issues they want to track.

rss-readertext-to-speechnews
📰

Volkan

OfflineInstallable

It's a monitoring of a few volcanoes from online and available datas. It was originally built for the Piton de la Fournaise, because there was not a dedicated website nor app for it. Installs to your home screen from any modern browser — no app store, no download; its manifest declares standalone display with a 512px icon, and its service worker caches assets for offline use. Submitted by its author and measured on 2026-08-31.

monitoringvolcanoesavailable
📰

Bankless

OfflineInstallable

Crypto news, analysis, tools and community for the onchain generation. Installs to your home screen from any modern browser — no app store, no download, its manifest declares standalone display with a 512px icon, and its service worker caches 1 file, so it still opens with the network off. Checked by hand on 8 August 2026.

cryptonewsanalysis
📰

Delphi Digital

OfflineInstallable

Delphi Digital Members Portal. Installs to your home screen from any modern browser — no app store, no download, its manifest declares standalone display with a 512px icon, and its service worker caches 492 files, so it still opens with the network off. Checked by hand on 8 August 2026.

delphidigitalmembers
📰

Financial Times

OfflineInstallable

app.ft.com is a landmark of PWA history — the FT bet its mobile strategy on the web years before the platform was fashionable. Global business and markets journalism in a fast shell with offline article caching for flights, myFT topic feeds, and a standalone manifest for home-screen install. Subscription required for full access.

business-newsfinanceoffline-reading
🙏

Oficjum

OfflineInstallable

A Polish-language prayer application offering the Liturgy of the Hours (Liturgia Godzin) for daily devotion. Built as a Progressive Web App and created pro publico bono for the Old Catholic Church community, it gives clergy and lay members convenient access to liturgical prayers on any device.

prayerliturgy-of-the-hoursold-catholic
📰

Zoom News Headlines

OfflineInstallable

A lightweight news reader built as a Progressive Web App for the Andela ALC with Google program, giving quick access to top headlines. It suits readers who want a fast, installable way to scan current news stories without opening a full news site or native app.

newsheadlinesnews-reader

🪐 DevVerse CS Blog – A modern, high-performance blog app built with Next.js, Vercel, Supabase, TypeScript, MDX, and Framer Motion, featuring real-time search, dynamic routing, and optimized SEO for deep dives into computer science and software engineering topics. © Son Nguyen 20

devverseblogcomputer
🔥

Glimmer HN

OfflineInstallable

A Hacker News reader built as a demonstration of Glimmer.js, the lightweight UI component library from the Ember ecosystem. It renders Hacker News stories as a Progressive Web App and gives developers a working example of Glimmer.js in a real application.

hacker-newsnews-readerglimmerjs
📚

Library App PWA

OfflineInstallable

A library application delivered as a Progressive Web App, built with React, Tailwind CSS, and a Django backend. Its Persian-language title suggests it serves Persian-speaking readers browsing or managing a book collection from the browser or an installed home-screen app.

librarybooksreading
🗞️

Progressive News App

OfflineInstallable

A simple news reader Progressive Web App that pulls headlines from a variety of publishers through NewsAPI.org. Readers can browse stories from multiple sources in one lightweight interface, and the project also serves as a straightforward example of building a news PWA.

newsnews-readernewsapi

A Hacker News reader built entirely with vanilla Web Components and no JavaScript framework. It delivers Hacker News stories as a Progressive Web App and doubles as a reference example for developers interested in standards-based component development without React or Vue.

hacker-newsnews-readerweb-components
📰

ZUIX Hacker News

OfflineInstallable

A Hacker News reader built as a Progressive Web App example using the zUIx JavaScript framework. It lets readers browse stories from the Hacker News tech community while also serving as a demonstration project for developers evaluating how zUIx handles a real-world app.

hacker-newsnews-readertech-news
🟠

Hacker News PWA

OfflineInstallable

A beautifully designed installable Hacker News client. Fast, offline-capable front-end for YCombinator's tech news aggregator. The essential news source for developers and founders. Threads are cached once opened, so a long comment chain stays readable after the connection drops.

hacker-newstech-newsoffline
📡

NetNewsWire

OfflineInstallable

The classic RSS reader — offline-capable web app for following your favorite blogs and news sites. Chronological, unfiltered, algorithmic-free reading. Articles are cached after each refresh, so a stored feed can be read through a flight or a tunnel.

rssnewsreading
📖

Omnivore

OfflineInstallable

Open-source read-it-later app. Save articles, highlight text, add notes, and sync your reading list. The Pocket/Instapaper alternative that's free and privacy-respecting. Highlights export to note-taking apps, so what you saved does not stay trapped in a reading queue.

read-lateropen-sourcereading
📑

Readwise Reader

OfflineInstallable

All-in-one reading app for articles, newsletters, RSS feeds, PDFs, and Twitter threads. Highlight and review passages with spaced repetition. For serious readers. Saved passages resurface on a spaced schedule, which is what separates reading from remembering.

readinghighlightsspaced-repetition
📰

CoinDesk

Installable

Leader in cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, blockchain, DeFi, digital finance and Web 3.0 news with analysis, video and live price updates. Installs to your home screen from any modern browser — no app store, no download, its manifest declares standalone display with a 512px icon, and it caches nothing for offline use, so it needs a connection. Checked by hand on 8 August 2026.

leadercryptocurrencybitcoin
📰

Cointelegraph

Installable

The most recent news about crypto industry at Cointelegraph. Latest news about bitcoin, ethereum, blockchain, mining, cryptocurrency prices and more. Installs to your home screen from any modern browser — no app store, no download, its manifest declares standalone display with a 512px icon, and it caches nothing for offline use, so it needs a connection. Checked by hand on 8 August 2026.

mostrecentnews
📰

Decrypt

Installable

Decrypt is a next-generation media company positioned at the intersection of emerging technology, alternative finance, and culture. Installs to your home screen from any modern browser — no app store, no download, its manifest declares standalone display with a 1024px icon, and it caches nothing for offline use, so it needs a connection. Checked by hand on 8 August 2026.

decryptnextgeneration
👛

Bubblemaps

Installable

Explore wallets, reveal connections, and see through the noise of blockchain data with interactive bubble maps. Installs to your home screen from any modern browser — no app store, no download, its manifest declares standalone display with a 512px icon, and it caches nothing for offline use, so it needs a connection. Checked by hand on 8 August 2026.

explorewalletsreveal
🔧

Blockworks

Installable

Blockworks | Connecting investors and businesses in onchain capital markets. Installs to your home screen from any modern browser — no app store, no download, its manifest declares standalone display with a 512px icon, and it caches nothing for offline use, so it needs a connection. Checked by hand on 8 August 2026.

blockworksconnectinginvestors
📰

El periodico

Installable

A news headline aggregator that collects top stories from major sources around the world and presents them in one place, similar in spirit to Google News. The interface is in Spanish, making it a simple option for Spanish-speaking readers who want their favorite headlines in a single app.

newsheadlinesnews-aggregator
🗞️

news-summary

Installable

A web app that publishes regularly updated summaries of technology-related news from a variety of sources. Instead of full articles, readers get condensed overviews, making it useful for developers and tech enthusiasts who want to stay current on industry happenings in a few minutes a day.

tech-newsnews-summariesnews-aggregator
🧑‍💻

Chris Zuber

Installable

Personal website of web developer Chris Zuber, combining an about page, project portfolio, and blog. Built as a responsive, progressive site with the Jekyll static-site generator, it serves visitors who want to browse his work, background, and writing from any device.

portfolioblogjekyll
📰

A Hacker News client built with Cycle.js, a functional and reactive JavaScript framework. It lets readers browse Hacker News stories in the browser and serves primarily as a demonstration of how Cycle.js handles a real-world application, useful for developers evaluating the framework.

hacker-newsnews-readercyclejs

The personal website of Justin Ribeiro, a web developer, open-source coder, and film photographer. It collects his writing and stories about the open web, photography, darkroom printing, and the projects he builds, for readers interested in web technology and analog photography.

personal-websiteblogphotography

A tracker for physical book collections and a companion for active reading. Users catalog the print books they own and follow their reading progress in one place, similar in purpose to Goodreads or StoryGraph but centered on managing a personal physical library.

booksbook-trackingreading
📖

Open Bible

Installable

A Bible reading app in Portuguese that lets users read scripture, highlight passages, and attach personal notes in a simple, distraction-free interface. Aimed at readers who want a focused study tool for biblical texts without extra features getting in the way.

biblereadinghighlighting

Portfolio of Shrirang Mahajan, a full-stack AI developer and machine learning engineer from India. It showcases projects including QuillGPT for LLM fine-tuning, LoomRAG for multimodal retrieval-augmented generation, and LangChain-based chatbots, alongside expertise in PyTorch, TensorFlow, Python, FastAPI, and React, for recruiters evaluating his work.

portfoliomachine-learningai
📄

Professional resume site for Walker Randolph Smith, a software engineer with ten years of experience specializing in front-end architecture and distributed systems serving two billion customers. Visitors can review his background and specialization, making it a reference point for recruiters and potential collaborators.

resumeportfoliopersonal-website

A Hindi-language collection of Hindu vrat kathas (fasting stories) with accompanying aarti and puja vidhi, organized for every day of the week. Devotees observing weekly fasts can open the day's story, ritual steps, and prayers in one place instead of consulting printed booklets.

hinduismvrat-kathaaarti
📰

Inoreader

Installable

Powerful RSS reader with filtering, rules, and full-text search. The Google Reader replacement power users love. Follow hundreds of sources without algorithmic interference. Rules can mute, tag or forward items automatically, which is what keeps a hundred sources from becoming noise.

rssnewsreading

Own a PWA? See the listing options — standard submission is free.