The lead
All the news(letters)
you swore you’d read,
read to you.
Without ever handing an app your inbox
(There’s no app to hand it to anyway.)
Today’s Major Headlines (tap to listen)
5 minutes to sound smarter,
from the carpool to the boardroom
A matter of record
The newsletters you love, distilled into a 5-minute morning audio newscast you can listen to walking your dog or doing the dishes.
Done with your sensitive email staying where it belongs, in Gmail.
All Other Apps, inbox access
Every other newsletter reader asks you to connect your email, an OAuth grant that hands a startup standing permission to read your entire mailbox. Bank alerts. Medical results. Tax documents. Password resets. A decade of private correspondence. A breach at a company small or big, and all of it leaks.
The Hark way, no access exists
You never connect your email. One Gmail filter you control forwards only bulk mail, one way, to a private address. Your personal and financial email never leaves Google's servers. We process just the newsletters, drop the promotional ones and purge the raw mail when your morning audio cast is ready. Delete the filter anytime and the pipe is gone.
“Your bank statements are none of our business and it shouldn’t be anyone else's either.”
How it works
① Set one Gmail filter, once, in about a minute. You create it and control it; every future newsletter flows in on its own. We show you step by step during onboard.
② We sort the mail, real newsletters kept, marketing dropped, raw mail purged once we pull together the audio cast for the day.
③ Every morning, a simple text with a link to your audio cast so you can feel ready for the day. Five minutes, and you're ready for any conversation from the board room to the carpool.
Today's Featured Newsletter · Our Editorial Review and Why It May Be for You
Why it sounds different
Your sources, not our picks. We use only the newsletters that you curated to fit your curiosity and needs. No Hark editorial desk, the daily audio cast is built only from what you subscribe to. No two are the same!
Synthesis with a point of view. “Everyone called the pause expected; only WSJ flagged the bond market.” We dedupe stories, analyze where different media have different angles and point out all of the nuances so you have the full picture.
Capped at five minutes. A briefing, not a feed. It ends.
Sources one tap away, for every story, always.
Small pleasures
The price
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Then $5 a month.
Try free for an entire week.
No tiers. Cancel anytime from your account settings.
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