Everyday apps that feel like paper on your desk
Reader, Casts, Sky, Days and Lists. Five friendly, flat apps for iPhone, iPad and Mac, built for the things you check every day, all sharing one calm design. No clutter, no glow, nothing shouting for your attention.
Fresh off the desk
The latest round of updates touches all five apps, from finding feeds by name to tapping a calendar event and seeing it on a map.
Find any feed by name
Type "Gizmodo", or even "gizmdo", and Reader finds the feed. A site's address works too. No more hunting for RSS links.
Read as you scroll
Cards can mark themselves read as they pass. Pull to refresh tidies away what you've finished, and "Mark all as read" waits at the end.
Chapters, everywhere
Marks on the scrubber, chapter art and one-tap jumps. Casts even finds chapters tucked inside the audio file itself.
New-episode alerts you choose
Pick exactly which shows can tap you on the shoulder when a new episode lands. Everything else stays quiet.
Video, or just the audio
Video podcasts play right in the player, full screen or picture in picture. Prefer to listen? Switch to audio only.
Month and Agenda views
Four ways to see your time: Day, Week, Month and a running Agenda. Arrows beside the month name flip ahead or back.
Tap an event, see the map
Every event opens to its date, times and address, with a map that hands off to Apple Maps in one tap.
Edit right from the details
Change the title, time, place, calendar or notes in seconds. Repeating events ask whether you mean just this one.
Icons that go dark
Every app has light, dark and tinted icons. Turn on Dark Mode and your Home Screen switches to the pitch-black set.
Five apps, one desk
Each app does one job well. Together they share a color system, a set of shapes and a single settings model, so learning one means you already know the rest.
The morning paper, without the endless scroll
Reader gathers every site, blog and newsletter you follow into a single page called Today. Stories arrive in the order they were written, not the order an algorithm thinks will keep you hooked. When you reach the end, you're done, and Reader tells you so.
Articles open in a clean reading view with comfortable type, so a long essay feels like a magazine instead of a website fighting you for attention. Save anything for later, highlight a passage, or send it to a friend with the quote already attached.
Adding a source is a search, not a chore. Type a site's name, typos and all, and Reader finds the feed. Each story sits on its own outlined card, and as you scroll past, Reader can quietly mark it read.
Clean reading view
Ads, pop-ups and cookie banners are stripped away automatically.
Newsletters, too
Get a private address and read subscriptions outside your inbox.
Search everything
Find any article you've read, by word, site or highlight.
Offline ready
Today's stories download overnight, so the train ride is covered.
Find feeds by name
Type "gizmdo" and still get Gizmodo. A website address works too.
Read as you scroll
Cards mark themselves read as they pass, and "Mark all as read" waits at the end.
Every show you love, and none of the clutter
Casts opens on Listen now, a short list of new episodes from the shows you actually follow. No charts, no "trending" shelf, no autoplaying trailers. Tap play and the episode settles into a slim mini player at the bottom, out of the way until you need it.
Under the hood, Casts does the careful work. It trims long silences without making voices sound rushed, evens out volume between hosts, and remembers your speed for each show. Episodes download quietly on Wi-Fi and tidy themselves up after you finish.
Find a show by typing its name, host or topic, misspellings welcome. Chapters show up as marks on the scrubber with their own artwork, video podcasts can go full screen, and a double-press on your AirPods skips ahead.
Smart speed
Trims dead air and saves about 40 minutes a week for a typical listener.
One simple queue
Drag to reorder. Up next always shows what's playing after this.
Sleep timer
Fades out gently at the end of a chapter instead of mid-sentence.
Tidy downloads
Keeps the next three episodes and clears the rest automatically.
Chapters, built in
Jump between chapters and see each one's art, even when they're hidden in the MP3.
Alerts per show
Choose which shows notify you about new episodes. The rest stay silent.
Video your way
Full screen, picture in picture, or audio only. Your call, every time.
Find shows by name
Search by name, host or topic. Typos are fine.
Know what to wear before your coffee cools
Sky leads with the three things you actually need: the temperature right now, the high and low, and whether anything unusual is on the way. Everything else, from the hourly strip to the 10-day bars, sits in tidy cards below.
Alerts only appear when they matter. A coral chip flags a wind advisory or incoming storm, and tapping it explains what to expect in plain language. No flashing red maps, no doom-scroll radar, unless you go looking for it.
Next-hour rain
Minute-by-minute precipitation for the next 60 minutes.
Calm radar
A soft, readable map that loops only when you press play.
Saved places
Home, work and where your family lives, one swipe apart.
Gentle alerts
Severe weather only, with a clear "what this means" note.
A calendar that spots trouble before you do
Days shows your week as a simple strip and your day as a stack of colored tiles. Blue is a call, green is something confirmed, and coral means two things are fighting for the same hour. You'll see the conflict the moment it happens, not when you're already late.
Adding an event is one sentence. Type "Lunch with Sam Thursday at noon" and Days fills in the rest. It also finds the open time across your calendars and suggests it with a green "Free after 4 pm" chip, so planning takes seconds instead of a thread of emails.
Switch between Day, Week, Month and Agenda, and flip months with the arrows beside the name. Tap any event to see its date, times and address on a map that opens in Apple Maps, then edit it right there. Changed your mind about a new event? One tap on the × clears it.
Natural language
Type it the way you'd say it. Days handles dates and times.
Conflict check
Overlaps turn coral right away, with a one-tap fix.
Every calendar
iCloud, Google, Exchange and Outlook in one view.
Works with Lists
Reminders with a due time appear right on your day.
Four views
Day, Week, Month and Agenda, with arrows to flip between months.
Details and a map
Tap an event for its times, address and a map. Edit anything in place.
Get it out of your head and onto the desk
Lists opens on Today: the handful of things that need doing now, with a round checkbox beside each one. Tick it and it turns green, slides to the bottom and the progress bar fills a little more. Anything you missed yesterday gets a coral "Overdue" chip, once, without nagging.
Adding a to-do takes one line. Type "Call the dentist tomorrow at 9" or "Buy milk when I leave work" and Lists sets the date, time or place for you. Groceries, Work and Home each get their own list, and any list can be shared, so the whole household sees the same shopping run update live.
One-line quick add
Dates, times, places and lists are picked up from what you type.
Time and place reminders
Get nudged at 5 pm, or when you arrive at the store.
Shared lists
Invite family or roommates. Everyone sees checks as they happen.
Works with Days
Anything with a due time shows up on your calendar automatically.
Same desk, bigger screens
On iPad and Mac, every Cutout app opens up into a sidebar and roomy panes, while keeping the same cards, outlines and colors. Pick an app to see it on both.
Room to spread out
The sidebar keeps every feed, show, place or calendar one tap away, and the main pane gives your content space to breathe.
- Split View and Stage ManagerRun Days next to Reader and drag an article into an event.
- Apple Pencil highlightsMark up articles and transcripts by hand.
- Keyboard shortcutsHold the Command key in any app to see them all.
- HandoffStart on iPhone, pick up on iPad or Mac exactly where you left off.
Pick the color of your desk
Every Cutout app sits on a single pastel background. Choose one for all five apps or give each its own. Try it here: this page changes with you.
Icons that follow your Appearance
Every Cutout app ships a light, a dark and a tinted icon. Turn on Dark Mode and your Home Screen swaps to the pitch-black set on its own. Reader and Days keep their desk colors after dark, while Casts, Sky and Lists trade navy ink for light lines.
The good stuff comes standard
Every app in the suite shares the same foundation, so the features you rely on in one work the same way in all five.
Synced through iCloud
Saved articles, podcast progress, places and calendars follow you between iPhone, iPad and Mac within seconds. No account to create.
Private by default
No ads, no third-party trackers and no selling data. Your lists and calendars never leave your devices or your iCloud.
Widgets that match
Home and Lock Screen widgets in the same paper style, from a tiny temperature tile to a full day of events.
Shortcuts and Siri
"Play my next episode." "What's on Thursday?" Every app ships with Shortcuts actions out of the box.
Accessible by design
Full VoiceOver support, Dynamic Type up to the largest sizes and color pairs that pass contrast checks.
Works offline
Articles, episodes and your last forecast are cached, so a dead zone never leaves you with a blank screen.
People keep them on their first screen
"Reader is the first news app that ends. I read my feeds, it says I'm caught up, and I get on with my morning."
"Days flagged a double booking the second my boss sent the invite. The coral tile is impossible to miss."
"They all look like they belong together. My home screen finally feels calm instead of like a casino."
Start free, upgrade when you love it
Every app has a free tier. Paid plans start with a 14-day free trial, and you can cancel any time from Settings.
Free
- Core features in all five apps
- Up to 50 feeds and 10 shows
- Butter desk color
Single app
- Every feature in that app
- All seven desk colors
- iPhone, iPad and Mac
The whole suite
- Reader, Casts, Sky, Days and Lists
- One desk color synced everywhere
- Matching widgets and app icons
- Early access to new apps
Lifetime
- Everything in the suite
- All future updates
- Family Sharing for up to six
Good to know
Is there a free version?
Do I need all five apps?
Which devices are supported?
Where is my data stored?
Can I bring my feeds and podcasts with me?
Do the app icons change in Dark Mode?
What happens after the free trial?
Clear off your desk
Swap five noisy apps for five calm ones. Download free, try the whole suite for 14 days, and keep the ones you love.