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How idly works

idly reads what many outlets reported, writes one short summary in its own words, checks it, and links you to every original.

How a story is made

  1. Many reports

    idly follows Indian and international outlets across news, culture, sport, cars, tech and entertainment. When several of them report the same event, idly groups those reports into one story.

  2. One summary, written with AI help

    An AI model drafts a short summary from those reports: a headline, a one-line dek, three bullet points and a few labelled sections (what's new, why it matters, what others say, what we don't know yet). It works only from what the outlets published and never adds facts of its own.

  3. Checks before anyone sees it

    Originality: the summary must be in idly's own words; no run of nine or more words may be copied from a source, except quotes. Sensitive stories: anything touching criminal allegations, religious or communal conflict, violence or disasters, children, or a claim about a person's private life is held off the site until a journalist approves it, and if the check itself fails, the story is held. Images: only press-kit images or photos credited to their source are used.

  4. A named checker

    Each story shows who checked it: the editor who approved it, or the desk name when it went live automatically after passing every check.

  5. Links to every original

    The bottom of each story lists the outlets it was built from, with links, so you can read them in full.

What “AI-assisted” means

A computer model writes the first draft of each summary. It reads only the published reports for that story. It doesn't browse the web, interview anyone or decide what's true on its own. The checks above run on every draft. People set the rules, review the held stories and fix mistakes.

AI can still get things wrong. That's why every story links to the originals, and why corrections are published.

Why we link the originals

The reporting belongs to the outlets that did it. idly saves you time by putting several reports side by side, but it doesn't replace them. If a story matters to you, read the originals. They usually have more detail, more voices and the full context.

What we never do

  • No pop-ups asking you to sign up
  • No videos that autoplay with sound
  • No selling or renting your personal data
  • No gossip pages or blind items
  • No paid story without a Sponsored label
  • No ranking stories by clicks or outrage

How your edition is picked

Your edition is eight stories. The first three are the same for every reader: the most important stories of the day. The other five are picked from what you read, vote “worth it” on or ask for less of. idly keeps that under a random ID stored on your device. There's no account and no name.

  • Tap the label on a personalised story to see why it's there, or choose “less like this”.
  • Mute words you never want to see in Your idly.
  • To start over, use Reset personalisation in Your idly. To stop it, turn personalisation off from the menu: nothing about your reading is sent after that.

Everyone's top 5 is never personalised.

Easy, Standard, Expert

idly is in English. Any story can be read at three levels: Easy (short sentences, everyday words, every hard term explained in a few words), Standard (the story as idly publishes it) and Expert (tighter, with the precise terms kept and no explanations). idly re-writes it with AI from the story itself, then checks in code that no number was added, the sections are all there and the level really is easier or tighter. Names stay as written. Standard is always one tap away, and an adapted story always says so at the top.

  • Pick a level in Your idly, or under Reading on any story.
  • If your reading suggests another level would suit you (how fast you finish stories, how often you look up a term), idly may ask once. It never switches by itself, it remembers a no, and you can change it back any time.
  • Hard terms (“repo rate”, “DRS”, “BS6”) are underlined; tap one for a one-line meaning written once and checked by editors. You can see them always, only for topics new to you, or never; at Easy they're always explained, and at Expert only if you choose Always.
  • The front page puts the sections you read most first and says so. One tap resets it to the editors' order.

All of this sits under your anonymous ID, or on your device. Levels are about how you like to read, never about who you are: idly never asks your age and never guesses your age, politics, religion or health from what you read. Personalisation is meant for readers aged 18 and over. Delete my data removes it all.