Frequently Asked Questions

No, and we will not pretend otherwise.

This app is an honest attempt to bring balance into plain sight.

We calculate these scores primarily through linguistic evaluation driven by data. This involves analysing the structure and style of the text along with the facts present, supported by editorial review where it is needed.

Ultimately, we place the summary alongside supportive and critical perspectives directly in front of you. We let you read and decide for yourself, and then you can vote your opinion on the article you just read. By refining this systematic approach day by day, we aim to consistently deliver balanced global perspectives.

Because we were tired of reading multiple versions of the same event and still not knowing what happened. Most outlets hand you a verdict along with the facts. We would rather hand you the facts, show you the disagreement honestly, and let the verdict be yours.

An aggregator collects headlines and leaves you to sort them out. We read across the coverage, write the story in plain language, put the supportive and the critical readings on the same page, and attach a score saying how balanced the result is.

Yes. No account, no paywall, no ads, and nothing to buy.

We use software as a tool in the process, not as a replacement for judgement. It helps gather perspectives and keeps the same standard applied to everything. Every piece is reviewed by a person before it reaches you.

70 and above is Balanced: multiple perspectives are represented, the language is measured, and the significant context is present. 40 to 69 is Mixed: the piece leans in places. Below 40 is Leaning: the piece reads in a discernible direction.

Where a score would not be meaningful, we show none rather than invent one.

Because there are things a consistent standard cannot see on its own. An article can be scrupulously even in its language while drawing entirely on outlets that share a single view. Promotional writing can imitate reporting closely enough to read as news. An editor who has looked across the full spread of coverage can recognise both. When one adjusts a score, that adjustment is recorded.

No. It describes how balanced a piece of writing is. It is not a verdict on whether the underlying events are good or bad, not a rating of the publications we drew on, and not a claim to have found the truth of a contested matter.

The same standard we apply to our own writing, minus the one thing a single link cannot show. It reads the piece itself: whether the language carries emotional loading the facts do not support, whether it rests on a single account of events, whether opinion is presented as established fact, and whether important context is missing.

No, and that is the honest limit of scoring a single link. One article cannot show how widely an event was reported or whose account was left out, so we do not deduct for something it could never demonstrate. Judging breadth takes more than one piece, and that is where most of our own work happens.

No, and the two are not comparable. The tool reads a single document. A score on one of our own articles is produced across multiple sources with human review.

You get that article's published score rather than a fresh one, so the tool and the article page never disagree with each other.

Three a day. Every score costs a small amount to produce, so there is a daily cap that keeps the tool available to everyone. If you reach it, it resets the next day.

To keep the tool available and prevent abuse, we record the address you submit and the score we produced, and we count how many checks come from your connection each day. That record is deleted after thirty days. We do not store the page's content, we do not keep your IP address, and none of it is used for advertising or shared with anyone.

Every article carries a vote, so you can record your own read of it alongside ours. Neutral News is free on Google Play and the App Store.

Settings, then notifications. You can choose which regions alert you, set quiet hours, change how often we notify you, and mute words you would rather not see.

Yes. Notifications are entirely optional and you can turn them off at any time in Settings.

Yes. Saved articles live under Saved and stay on your device.

Yes. Settings has a text size control, and a light theme if you prefer one.

Yes. Open an article and use Listen. You can choose the narration voice in Settings.

Tell us and we will look. When we get something wrong we would rather correct it openly and say what changed than quietly edit it away.

Please do. Write to us at contact@neutralperspectives.com. Small teams miss things and we would rather hear it from you.

Share it with someone who would find it useful. That is honestly how we grow, and it costs you nothing.