Curation is dying. In order to read the news, you used to have to actively choose which magazine or newspaper in which to subscribe. Building your music library used to involve going to a music store, looking around, and actively choosing an album to purchase. Even in the iPod days, you would search through iTunes and actively choose which album or song to purchase, slowly building up your collection. Your iPod became something that was somewhat of a reflection of your personality, or at least of your music tastes. ...

Scoopy is better when you have a great collection of sources powering each refresh. With that in mind, we have created the Source Finder. Previously, you had to paste in the exact RSS URL if you wanted to add a source. Those days are over. With the Source Finder, you can now simply put in any website’s URL, and Scoopy will find any sources attached to that link. It will then give you the option to subscribe. We hope this allows everyone to build their Scoop faster and with less stress. We have ideas to make this feature even better in the future. ...

Scoopy Picks is a hand-curated set of sources that will fill in the gaps if your Scoop doesn’t have enough sources on its own. These are actual human-picked sources, not advertisements, and not generated. We made an effort to have an eclectic collection that spans niches but isn’t just the usual set of websites you are used to seeing elsewhere. You’ll know a source is a Scoopy Pick if it has our little ice cream scoop icon in the top left. As you add more of your own sources, you will see less Scoopy Picks. Also, if at any time you choose you’d rather not see any Scoopy Picks, you can turn them off at any time in the Settings under “More Options”. ...

Our Filter feature is just one of the many ways Scoopy keeps you in control of what you see in your scoop. Within the settings pane, you can add or remove any filter you want. Filters can have spaces and special characters, allowing you to pinpoint the exact items you want removed. Once a filter is added, every time your scoop is loaded, Scoopy will make sure no item title matches a filter, and if it does, one of a few things will happen. ...

Scoopy wants you to be in control. You should be able to decide when you are ready to put Scoopy down, and move on to other things. We want to encourage this, and we want to do so without you losing your progress in the moment. With this in mind, we’ve built Progress Saving. If you are watching a video, or listening to a podcast, we store your progress as you go. That way, you can stop at any time, and simply pick up where you left off… even on a different device! This works the next time the item shows up in your Scoop, or by storing the item in your icebox for easy retrieval. ...

There are a variety of source types that Scoopy supports, and social is one of them. Just grab the URL of the user’s page on either Mastodon or Bluesky, and paste into the Add Source box in settings. Easy! Happy scooping! Older version of this post, before new features were added to scoopy: There are a variety of source types that Scoopy supports, and social is just one of them. Just grab the rss feed of any Mastodon or Bluesky user. ...

Whether listening to a podcast, playing a video from within an article, or playing a video directly in a video source, you don’t have to stand still during your enjoyment. Just keep scrolling and the player will slide from the right into a floating section in the bottom right, known as a “float”. Once something is floating, it will persist even after you hit the built-in refresh button on the lower left. You can also hover (or tap) over the float to see a similar set of actions as you would find inside a peek. (Close, copy, icebox, etc.). ...

The Icebox is your personal space to store articles, videos, and social posts for later. Whenever you open a peek (the name of the little box that comes up when you click on an item in your scoop) you’ll see a snowflake icon. Clicking once on that will add it to The Icebox. After that, at any time you can click the snowflake icon at the top of your scoop to see all your saved items. ...

Note: This article was written at the launch of our beta, and parts of it may now be out of date. Not burying the lede: Today is the Friends and Family launch of something that we have been working on for a while. It is called Scoopy, a new take on rss news readers. Now that we have the big news out of the way I’d like to go into story time, and then some more information. ...