Dailyhunt, an application that provides news and content in local languages, has today announced the launch of its new application — Newzly. It is a news-in-brief app for Android users that offers summary of trending news articles across multiple genres such as regional, international, entertainment, business, sports and technology.
The content of the mobile application will be available in nine languages – English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali and Gujarati. It basically presents a summary of stories in a simple minimalist design, in the form of cards that can be swiped horizontally to seamlessly sift through subsequent news.
The app allows users to read the full article by simply swiping vertically. The company says that with Newzly, consumers can also customize their feed on the basis of topics of interest. Users can also bookmark cards and share stories on social media including Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
Commenting on the launch of Newzly, Virendra Gupta, Founder and CEO, Dailyhunt, said,
India has a large local language population with diverse needs and the launch of Newzly is part of our expansion of the product portfolio to serve those needs. Newzly app is designed to serve the needs of users who have less time on hand and wants to stay updated with the summary of major breaking & trending news. This app is currently available in 9 languages and we are likely to expand it into more languages in the coming months.
With such offering, it will be competing against the likes of Inshorts, which has raised over ₹185 crore in about six funding rounds. It has also made one acquisition — Retention, which enables developers, product managers and entrepreneurs to make sense out of their mobile data.