NewsDistill believes in giving its users an
amazing news experience. After going through the suggestions and feedback about
data consumption from our users, we have decided to introduce the Lite mode for
the app. Previously, we had only Ultra Mode for users but to reduce data
consumption of users, NewsDistill came up with Lite Mode. It is for the users
who wish to consume less data while using the app. The Lite mode shows picture
in small sizes and does not allow users to flip from one article to another.
With Ultra Mode you have a better news
experience as it displays picture in high quality and you can flip the articles
on the go. So if data consumption is not a big deal, you can switch to Ultra Mode.
We would also want to highlight that one can change the mode through settings.
NewsDistill
has enhanced the look and feel of notifications and genre to give amazing news
experience to its users.
During the World Cup T20, we had live cricket
updates on home page. So now during the IPL, if you don’t wish to see the live cricket updates on your homepage
then, you can go to settings and change according to your need.
Have
you ever wished for a platform where stories on news, entertainment, and other
countries were all integrated at one place? Do you like the interstate stuff
from Hindu, entertainment from Deccan Chronicle and headlines from Times of
India?
Same
was the case with Mr Narasimha Reddy, founder of this awesome app called Newsdistill.
“I
always thought that different sources had different perceptions about the same
incidents and that reflected in their articles. I could sometimes clearly infer
that some news sources were biased towards a particular political or
organizational group and I would always look for other channels to see what
they have to say about the same incidents. So, I ended up with a lot of open
windows on my laptop and at times it became very cumbersome. Yet, it was pretty
difficult for me to find what I wanted.
I am
also inclined towards a particular news source when looking for a specific
Genre. Personally I like ‘The Hindu’ for headlines, ‘Deccan Chronicle’ for
Entertainment, ‘The Economic Times’ for business needs and so on. Not that I am
biased, but those were my personal choices and I am sure everybody would have
their own choices too!
Having
said that, I always wished that the related articles from different sources
were grouped together at one place for me to read and compare. And all my
personal preferences like news from different Genres from different sources
were all organized at one place. I wished for something that would do all this
for me with just one click every day. How awesome would that be! How much time
would that save me! That’s exactly when the Idea behind NewsDistill first got
planted.” quoted the founder of this startup.
NewsDistill
can be viewed as a website or can also be downloaded on your android and
iPhones. You are allowed to create your account on this platform, and then you
can create your own personalized newsfeed – which means that you can add news
articles and genres of your liking to it.
This
platform is a news aggregator
incorporated with innovative
algorithms, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning and very deep
analytics. We are integrating 30+ unique features in this application.
The
major highlights of this startup are –
- Quick Filters: You can
filter news by Country (India/World), State, Language, Channels, Genres
and Videos instantly. So that you can find what you are looking for in
just 2 clicks
- Add your own preferences:
You can customize the app using News Distill preferences. If you are
looking for Sports news from a specific channel, Entertainment videos in a
specific language
- Follows: Get instant
updates from your favourite channels by following them. You can also
follow a topic to get continuous updates from different sources related to
it
- News grouping: News
articles and videos from different sources on the same topic are grouped
together so that user can read all of them at one shot
- Offline reading: News
Distill saves the articles you have glanced at when you are online so that
you can read them in your free time, even when you go offline
- Notifications: Stay up – to
date with Newsdistill’s notification of latest news
- Share posts: Share the
articles and news items that you like over social media pages
- Hot news: You’ll be on top
of all the hot news from any location, source and language with just a
glance at our home page. You can access all the important news on News
Distill’s home page without having to spend much time
- Multilingual: Along with
English, News Distill also supports multiple regional languages like
Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Malyalam, Kannada etc so the user can read news in
the language he is comfortable in
The
team of NewsDistill has 4 strong pillars –
- Narasimha Reddy – CEO
and Founder. He is a genius in technology
- Vamsi – CoFounder and
Director and is also a close adviser to Narasimha and was always with him
since the beginning
- Bhaskar Reddy – Vice President,
heading the marketing department
- Kalyan Srinivas –
Director, leading the team at offshore as Narsimha and Vamsi live in the
US
The
app was officially launched on 2nd Dec. 2015, which was inaugurated by Mr. KTR
(Kalvakuntla Taraka Ramarao) the IT & Panchayat raj Minister for the state
and Mr. Jayesh Ranjan, IAS secretary of the stat for IT industry. Only in 2
months, this startup has already released their first stable version, available
in Google play store.
More than 1.2 Lakh downloads have been recorded. The website is able to gain
more than 6 million page views in a month. Presently, the team is working on
integrating the live scores feature and also working on IOS platform.
What’s
keeping you waiting yet? Go to Google Play store of your Android phone now, and
download
this super cool news app. The app will soon be available for Apple
users as well.
