Noa: Listen to audio articles

Noa News Ltd

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About this app

Get up to speed faster by listening to interesting and insightful audio articles from top-tier publishers. You can enjoy thousands of human-read, professionally narrated articles while you're busy and on the move.

Noa brings you the world’s best journalism, curated by editors and read aloud by professional voice actors. We aim to provide multiple perspectives on trending news topics, through a highly-involved curation process where Noa’s editors hand-pick the very best articles from the world's best publishers.

Listen while exercising, driving, cooking, or walking.

What publications can I listen to on Noa?
• The Economist
• Harvard Business Review
• The Washington Post
• The Telegraph
• Bloomberg
• The New York Times
• Fast Company
• Insider
• MIT Technology Review
• Foreign Affairs
• The Independent
• The Conversation
• And more.

What features are available on Noa?
Along with the usual audio features, you’ll find:
• Android Auto,
• Offline Listening/Downloads,
• Sleep Timer,
• Playback Speed Adjustment,
• An editable Article Queue, and
• Rewind 15 seconds.

How much does Noa cost?
To get the most value from Noa you need to become a Premium member. By choosing to support Noa with a monthly or annual Premium membership you’ll get unlimited, ad-free access to over 25k audio articles (and counting) from the world’s best publishers, including our Premium-only publications. We would love to welcome you as a member of Noa’s growing community.

What are Noa's editorial principles?
1. Multiple Perspectives: Offer multiple perspectives from trusted sources and empower listeners to make up their own minds on where they stand on a topic.
2. Thought-provoking: Present audio articles that inform, inspire, and offer fresh insights, through both a global and a national lens. Focus on opinion, feature, and analysis articles.
3. Storytellers: Be storytellers and educators. Help our listeners understand global topics, and perspectives, while also telling the stories of the people behind the headlines.
4. Global Impact: Ensure coverage and raise awareness of important topics, regardless of a topics popularity or ability to drive “clicks”.
5. Fourth Estate: Uphold journalism’s values as a democratic check on power. And always celebrate great journalism.
6. Embrace Complexity: Encourage thought and avoid black and white explanations that aren't followed with depth. The world is complicated and can seldom be explained in minutes. Our goal is to help listeners navigate it.

Who reads the articles on Noa?
Listening to the best journalism is a great way to stay informed, especially when you don’t have time to read. Audio articles are produced and recorded daily by Noa’s talented voice actors – Sam Scholl, Adrienne Walker, Peter Hanly, Martin Buchanan, Les Smith and more. They’re probably in the booth recording as you read this!

What are 'Series' on Noa?
Each week, Noa’s editors select the very best audio articles and add them to topic-specific playlists. Every Series begins with a short explainer – written by a Noa editor – that provides valuable context on the subject at hand before you dive in. Within 20-30 minutes, you’ll walk away fully informed.

Are there any additional features?
We know you expect more. That’s why the Noa app also offers:
• In-app chat (we respond quickly)
• Save, Download, and Follow
• Share – articles and Series
• Read Along

Noa's commitment to privacy:
We’re real people and we take great care to protect your data. Noa does not share your data with others or allow advertisers to track you. Your data is used solely for the purpose of providing you with the best news and listening experience possible.

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Ratings and reviews

i like the concept, but the app seems pretty non-functional to me. despite having set my preferences several times it continues to put up a "set your preferences" popup over everything. the whole "choose N or more" nonsense is really annoying, i don't want to make these choices ahead of time, i just want to browse. after just randomly picking nonsense to get the pref to go away i downloaded a few articles i wanted to listen to offline, and then i couldn't find the downloaded content anywhere.

After writing feedback in app, I decided to also post it here. App settings; (In the form of selection of a few publications, and then topics) I was met with article after article from publications I didn't select about topics I didn't request. For a curated aggregate, claiming conceptually to try and be less bias/partisan, verbalizing the news, I certainly like the concept - in practice I'd give this one a hard pass as of this moment. App is filled with AI narration which you can turn off.

Hosts articles from publications that I enjoy hearing from, but 90% of articles are AI-voiced and unskippable ads are integrated across the entire platform. No thanks, I'll read a book.

What’s new

- Improved accuracy of Read Along.
- Fixed an issue where play screen was not updating after new article begins playing.
- Fixed an issue where playback controls become greyed out.