Zetik

Zetik is a monitoring agent for people who want to follow a handful of subjects properly rather than scroll a general news feed. You describe what matters in a sentence — a company, a person, a rumour, a niche technology — and Zetik watches news, webcasts, forums and filings for it, then briefs you when something actually happens.

What makes it different

• Signal folding — when forty outlets run the same story, Zetik collapses them into a single card and shows the count. Briefings on the site are labelled with things like "folded from 38 sources" for a Federal Reserve decision and "folded from 47 sources" for an Apple event, so you see the story once with its provenance intact.
• Editable memory — the model of your preferences is visible rather than hidden. Entries such as "Tracks solid-state batteries" can be read, edited or deleted, and you can steer it in plain language ("less celebrity coverage").
• Discovery — beyond your tracked topics, it surfaces adjacent stories and connections you did not ask for by name.

Delivery

Briefings arrive however you want to read them: in the app feed, as push notifications, as an email newsletter, over RSS, or as audio summaries including podcast highlights. That last option makes it usable as a commute briefing rather than another app to open.

Platforms and pricing

Native apps on iOS and Android plus a web feed. The app is free to download; Apple's listing shows in-app purchases for Zetik Plus at $14.99/month or $119.99/year, a $9.99/month Premium tier, and a one-off Zetik Pro at $149.99. Published by Newsbang, Inc.

Worth knowing

Zetik summarises third-party reporting, so it inherits whatever the underlying outlets get wrong. Treat the folded cards as a pointer to primary sources — which it cites — rather than as the reporting itself.