Dense: News by Mood + Widgets

Hi, I'm Peter, an indie developer in Portland, Oregon. I built Dense to replace endless feeds with a tiny, comprehensive digest that fits in a 2x2 widget.

Dense gives you rolling micro-digests that rewrite themselves as stories break, highlighting exactly what changed on each refresh. In the app, you can explore stories across all topics and filter them by impact and mood, from doom to bloom, to surface what matters to you.

The app is totally free. There are no feeds, no links, no subscriptions or upsells, and no ads. Just the digest, updated throughout the day, built by one person who wanted a better way to stay informed.