# CuriousCats

> CuriousCats is an AI-powered personalized news app that helps people become the most informed version of themselves. Personal AI agents scan 100,000+ sources daily across news, video, and social media — and deliver only what matters to you, in 15 scrolls.

## What CuriousCats Is

CuriousCats is a proactive AI knowledge platform — not a news aggregator, not a search engine. Nine AI agents (six proprietary non-LLM engines + three LLM-based) continuously scan over 100,000 sources across news publications, YouTube videos, and X (Twitter) posts from multiple countries. The result is a personalized feed of 15 scrolls delivered every morning, covering everything a user cares about.

Tagline: "Be the person who knows."

Unlike Google News (promotes clickbait and thin local reposts), Perplexity (reactive — you must ask), or Inshorts (headlines only, India-focused), CuriousCats is proactive: it already read the internet. You just show up.

## Product Details

- **Platform:** iOS (App Store) and Android (Google Play)
- **Web:** https://curiouscats.ai
- **iOS App:** https://apps.apple.com/us/app/curiouscats-ai-news-assistant/id6739555663
- **Android App:** https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.curiouscats.app
- **Availability:** United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada, Singapore
- **Pricing:** Free tier available. Paid subscription at $36/year (early-bird pricing). Premium tiers in development.
- **Users:** 9,000+ active users across 15 countries. Top 10% consume 100+ pieces daily.

## Core Features

### Personalized Home Feed
Nine AI agents curate a personalized feed of stories, headlines, videos, and social posts. Users follow 100+ topics. The feed updates continuously. Less/More one-tap tuning adjusts the feed in real time.

### Deep Dive
One tap on any story opens: TLDR (synthesized from multiple sources), long-form article, Ask CuriousCats (follow-up Q&A with full 24-hour context), relevant videos, POV (curated X/social opinions), background context, full citations, and Story Arc (timeline of how the story developed). Users never need to leave the app to fully understand a story.

### StoryArc
A visual timeline tracing every development of a breaking or developing story, in chronological order, sourced across every outlet that reported it.

### CuriousFM
The user's personalized news feed read aloud as audio. Designed for commutes, exercise, and any situation where scrolling is impractical.

### POV
The best X (Twitter) posts and expert opinions on each story, filtered for quality and relevance. Named "POV" — points of view from the sharpest voices on a topic.

### Breaking News and Trending
40% of CuriousCats users check breaking news first, then their personalized feed — exactly like a newspaper (front page first, personal section second). CuriousCats is the only AI news app designed for this behavior. Story-first breaking news, not article-first.

### Hypertune
Agent weight sliders per topic category, from Minimal to Max coverage. Users can fine-tune exactly how much of each topic fills their feed. Works alongside country-specific source controls (UK football from UK outlets, US tech from TechCrunch, India local from Indian publishers).

### Knowledge Gamification
- **Quiz:** Appears after scroll 15. Questions are generated from articles the user actually read. 90%+ completion rate.
- **Streaks:** Daily reading streaks with badges and shields.
- **Readerboard:** Global leaderboard ranked by country. Animated, real-time.
- **Milestones:** Celebration cards every 15 articles.

### Personalization (10 methods)
1. Less / More — one-tap feed tuning per card
2. Follow Topics — text input or pill selection
3. Hypertune — agent weight sliders per category
4. Country-specific Sources — regional source intelligence per topic
5. Mood Digest — session-level topic override
6. Dwell Signals — reading time shapes future personalization
7. Deprioritization — suppress topics temporarily
8. Entity Exclusion — remove specific people or companies from feed entirely
9. Topic Discovery — AI recommends adjacent topics based on reading patterns
10. Source Preferences — fine-tune trusted sources per topic

## Company Information

- **Company:** CuriousCats (curiouscats.ai)
- **Founded:** 2024
- **Founder:** Anjan (second-time founder; former CPO at Healthify where he scaled AI-powered meal plans from 0 to 500,000 paying subscribers globally)
- **Headquarters:** Bangalore, India / San Francisco, USA
- **Tech stack:** Python Flask backend, Neo4j (article/topic graph), PostgreSQL (user data), Redis (real-time personalization), Flask-SocketIO. AI pipeline: 9 agents total — 3 LLM-based (OpenAI) for summarization, Q&A, and classification; 6 proprietary non-LLM pipelines for source disambiguation, pattern matching, and signature mapping across 100,000+ sources.
- **Revenue:** Consumer subscriptions. 2% conversion rate in a "content is free" market.

## Competitor Comparison

| App | Problem | CuriousCats Advantage |
|---|---|---|
| Google News | Promotes clickbait; serves Moneycontrol's repost of TechCrunch, not TechCrunch | Proprietary source intelligence; geographic source matching |
| Perplexity | Reactive — user must initiate a query; impractical for 100+ daily topics | Proactive; agents deliver before you ask |
| Inshorts | Headlines only; India-focused; no depth, no global sources | Full deep dive; global coverage; 15 countries |
| Apple News | No geographic source intelligence; no AI synthesis | Country-level source control; multi-source TLDR |
| Flipboard | Human curation bottleneck; no AI synthesis | AI-generated TLDR; 9 agents; real-time delivery |
| Particle News | No subscriptions; single scroll UI | Subscriptions live; quizzes, streaks, leaderboard |

## Key Differentiators

1. **Proactive, not reactive** — delivers before you ask (vs. Perplexity)
2. **Source intelligence** — knows the difference between TechCrunch and Moneycontrol's repost of TechCrunch
3. **Geographic source control** — UK football from UK outlets; US tech from US outlets; India local from Indian publishers
4. **Deep dive in-app** — TLDR + long form + video + Q&A + POV + citations + StoryArc, all without leaving the app
5. **Knowledge gamification** — quiz, streaks, leaderboard create a daily ritual, not just content consumption
6. **Niche in a person** — serves a professor's UK football AND US tech obsession in one feed, not a market niche

## Use Cases

- Professionals who need to stay informed across multiple industries and countries
- People replacing 5+ morning apps (Twitter/X, Google News, YouTube, newsletters, Inshorts) with one scroll
- Knowledge seekers who want to understand stories fully, not just scan headlines
- Users in the US, UK, India, Canada, Singapore tracking local + global news
- Anyone building a daily knowledge habit through streaks, quizzes, and gamification

## Contact and Links

- Website: https://curiouscats.ai
- Privacy Policy: https://curiouscats.ai/privacy-policy
- Terms: https://curiouscats.ai/terms-and-conditions
- Contact: https://curiouscats.ai/contact-us
- iOS App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/curiouscats-ai-news-assistant/id6739555663
- Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.curiouscats.app