Please Explain

One Trick Pony LLC

In-app purchases

About this app

Three story timelines free. No account, no card.

Please Explain rewinds the news so you never feel lost. Tap any headline and follow it back to where the story began, one key moment at a time.

Most news assumes you were already paying attention. If you were not, you get today's update with no idea how it connects to anything. Please Explain fixes that. Every story comes with a clear timeline of the moments that led here, in order, so you can see how it started and how it reached today.

HOW IT WORKS

- Pick a story from the daily feed, paste a link, or type a topic you keep hearing about
- Please Explain builds a timeline of the key moments, in order
- Read from the beginning, or jump straight to the part you missed
- Ask a follow-up question if something still does not make sense

WHAT IT IS GOOD FOR

- Catching up on a story you have been ignoring for months
- Understanding a headline that assumes background you do not have
- Getting the backstory on an election, a conflict, a court case or a company
- Explaining current events to someone else without pretending you knew already
- Preparing for a class, a meeting or a conversation you would rather not bluff through

WHY IT IS DIFFERENT

- No ads. Nothing interrupts the story to sell you something.
- No endless scroll. You come for one story, you get one story, you leave.
- No opinion columns. Just what happened, in the order it happened.
- Built by a small independent studio, not an advertising business.

WHAT IT COSTS

Your first three story timelines are free, with no account and no payment details.

After that, a subscription gives you up to 50 timelines a day:

- 4.99 USD a month
- 24.99 USD every six months
- 49.99 USD a year

Subscriptions renew automatically and can be cancelled any time in your Google Play account. Deleting your account does not cancel a subscription.

Please Explain is made by One Trick Pony, an independent studio in New York.