Your coverage, in front of the fans who care most

From the feeds you already publish: your site's RSS or Atom feed, your YouTube channel, or your podcast feed. Items are normalized, de-duplicated, sorted by park and topic, and grouped with other outlets' coverage of the same story. Nothing is scraped from your pages, and nothing behind a paywall or login is touched — if it isn't in your feed, it isn't in the app.

What your feed provides: the headline, your summary or excerpt, your artwork, and always your outlet's name, logo, and publish time. Tapping the card opens your page. There's no anonymous "content" view — attribution is part of the design system, on every card, in every feed.

Yes — that's the model. Story taps load your page in an in-app browser: your layout, your ads, your analytics, and your subscription prompts all work exactly as they do in Safari.

News+ subscribers can choose a Reader view, which reformats the page they've already navigated to on their own device — the same way Safari Reader does. DIScovery News doesn't republish your article text from its servers.

Videos play through the official YouTube embed, so views, watch time, and monetization count exactly as they do on your channel. If you've disabled embedding for a video, the app respects it and links out instead.

Podcasts stream — and download — directly from your own feed's hosting, so every play shows up in your podcast analytics like any other app, and your dynamically inserted ads ride along untouched.

Feeds are polled about every couple of minutes so breaking news lands fast — but always with conditional requests (ETag / Last-Modified), so an unchanged feed answers with a tiny 304 and costs you almost nothing. The crawler identifies itself honestly as PhoenixAggregator rather than pretending to be a browser. If you'd like a slower cadence for your feed, just ask.

Ranking blends how fresh a story is with how readers engage — opens, plus each signed-in reader's own follows and votes. A diversity rule keeps any single outlet from crowding the feed, and when a story is covered by many outlets, the earliest report leads the cluster with a "Broke this story" credit. Being first genuinely matters here.

Email hello@monorailnews.com with a link to your feed, channel, or show — that's genuinely all it takes. Readers also request outlets from inside the app, and those requests shape the catalog too.

First-party outlets — a brand's own blog or channel — carry an Official badge so readers can tell a company announcement from independent reporting at a glance. The badge is rendered in the app's own iconography, never in a brand's artwork, so it marks provenance without borrowing anyone's identity.

Logos come from what your own site declares in its HTML (YouTube channels use their channel avatar), so keeping your metadata current usually keeps the app current. Want a specific mark or a name change? Email us and we'll set it directly.

The app mirrors your feed: update or retract the item there and the change flows through on the next poll, within a few minutes. For anything urgent — a story that needs to disappear right now — email us and we'll remove it directly.

Email hello@monorailnews.com and we'll deactivate your source promptly — your feed stops being polled and your stories leave the app. No forms, no friction, no hard feelings.

There are a small number of sponsored placements in the app, and they're always labeled as such — sponsorship never masquerades as news. If you'd like to talk about a placement or a deeper partnership, say hello at hello@monorailnews.com.