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HQ Discovery

One story. Every outlet. The people you follow.

When a celebrity moment breaks, a dozen outlets report it. HQ Discovery groups that coverage into a single story, adds a short summary written by our editors, and lists every source so you can read the original. Follow the people you care about, keep up with the trends around them, and save what you want to come back to — without creating an account.

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HQ Discovery home screen: today’s most-covered story and the people in the edition
An HQ Discovery story with its photo credit and the list of outlets that reported it
Category
News · Entertainment · Lifestyle
Platforms
iPhone, iOS 16.4 or later · Android 7.0 or later
Language
English (US)
Price
Free · No ads · No in-app purchases
Account
None · An anonymous profile only if you save or follow
Version
1.0.0
What it does

Built around the story, not the headline count

Most feeds repeat the same event once per outlet. HQ Discovery treats one real-world moment as one story, and gives each part of it a job.

  1. One story, every outlet

    Coverage of the same moment from different publishers is grouped into one story. The home feed shows how many outlets reported it, so the most-covered moment of the day is easy to spot.

    Duplicate reports never appear as separate stories.

  2. An editor’s summary, then the source

    Each story carries a short summary written by our editors — never a copy of an article. Every outlet is listed by name with its publication date, and one tap opens its original piece.

    Full articles stay on the publishers’ sites.

  3. Follow people, not keywords

    Every celebrity has a page with their latest stories and moments. Follow them and a Following feed shows only what is new about the people you chose.

    Following needs no sign-up.

  4. Trends, explained

    Discover gathers what is drawing attention right now — from quiet-luxury tailoring to red-carpet beauty — with an editorial explanation of why it matters and the stories behind it.

    Highlights, Celebrity and Trends in one tab.

  5. Search people, trends and stories

    One search box across the whole edition. Recent searches are kept on your phone only.

    Search terms are not stored on our servers.

  6. A library you control

    Save stories and people to your Profile. If you want, the library is backed up to an anonymous profile you can restore with a recovery code — and delete at any time.

    Profile → Delete my data removes it everywhere.

Screenshots

Running on iPhone and Android

Captured from version 1.0.0 on the iPhone 17 Pro Max simulator (iOS 26.5) and the Pixel 6 emulator (Android 16). Content is the demo edition used for testing; every photo on screen is a freely licensed Wikimedia Commons image, credited in the app and below.

  • Home: today’s most-covered story and the people in the edition
    Home: today’s most-covered story and the people in the edition
  • Story: photo credit, the editor’s summary and every outlet
    Story: photo credit, the editor’s summary and every outlet
  • Celebrity page: follow, stories and moments
    Celebrity page: follow, stories and moments
  • Discover: the trends moving right now
    Discover: the trends moving right now
  • Search across people and stories
    Search across people and stories
  • Profile: your library, recovery code and Delete my data
    Profile: your library, recovery code and Delete my data
  • Home: today’s most-covered story and the people in the edition
    Home: today’s most-covered story and the people in the edition
  • Story: photo credit, the editor’s summary and every outlet
    Story: photo credit, the editor’s summary and every outlet
  • Celebrity page: follow, stories and moments
    Celebrity page: follow, stories and moments
  • Discover: the trends moving right now
    Discover: the trends moving right now
  • Search across people and stories
    Search across people and stories
  • Profile: your library, recovery code and Delete my data
    Profile: your library, recovery code and Delete my data

Photos in the screenshots. From Wikimedia Commons, by: Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0 / 3.0), Colin Chou (CC BY-SA 3.0), Danorton (CC BY-SA 4.0), Lou Stejskal (CC BY 2.0), Peter T from Brooklyn (CC BY 2.0), SWinxy (CC BY 4.0), Kevin Paul (CC BY 4.0), PhilipRomano (CC BY-SA 4.0), Toglenn (CC BY-SA 4.0), Jay Dixit (CC BY-SA 4.0), Sara Komatsu (CC BY-SA 4.0), SkywalkerEccleston (CC BY-SA 4.0), MTV International (CC BY 3.0), Joey D'Amato (CC BY 3.0), Sam Rubin (CC BY 3.0), News18 Assam/Northeast (CC BY 3.0), Renan Katayama (CC BY-SA 2.0). Creative Commons licences (Open the official page).

Editorial principles

  • Credit is not optional

    Every story names its outlets, and every photo shows its author and licence. Our publishing tool refuses an image without a licence.

  • The click goes to the publisher

    HQ Discovery shows a headline, a summary and a lead image, then sends you to the original article in an in-app browser.

  • No implied endorsement

    Photos of public figures are shown to report on them. Nobody shown is presented as endorsing HQ Discovery.

  • Corrections are one email away

    Publishers and rights holders can ask for a correction or removal at the address on the support page.

How it is built

A small, deliberate stack

One codebase, two platforms
React Native with Expo for iPhone and Android, with native navigation, image caching and system secure storage.
Its own editorial backend
A NestJS API on PostgreSQL serves the public edition, and a Vietnamese-language CMS lets editors group sources, write summaries and check image licences before anything is published.
No third-party SDKs that watch you
No advertising, analytics, attribution or crash-reporting SDK. The app requests no camera, location, contacts or photo permission.
Deletion built in
Delete my data removes the profile on the server first, then on the phone, and says so plainly if you are offline.
Privacy and policies

Almost nothing to collect

You can read HQ Discovery without giving us anything. Only when you save or follow does the app create an anonymous profile — no name, email or phone number — so your library can be restored or deleted.

Data linked to you
An anonymous profile ID, plus the stories you save and the people you follow
Tracking
None — no advertising ID, so no App Tracking Transparency prompt
Shared with third parties
Nothing, except hosting providers that run the service on our behalf
Deletion
In the app (Profile → Delete my data) or by email, without the app

The Apple and Google rules these pages meet

Store terms: Apple standard EULA (Open the official page) · Google Play Terms of Service (Open the official page)

Developer: Waebox Media (WAEBOX MEDIA COMPANY), 242/05 Dien Bien Phu, Chinh Gian, Thanh Khe, Da Nang, Vietnam.

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