Curio - Trusted News Companion

The idea is great but, as long as text will be missing and it will be just audio, it won’t be for me

There almost no such topics… why?

You guys need to implement the sync function so episodes can be accessible on the Apple Watch when the iPhone is not within reach! Please do that!

Voices are excellent and even selection of articles are quite great but to let foreigners subscribers understand better, I recommend text (also without pics) or subtitles. Text with the possibility to look for the meaning of a word would be even more appreciated. I unfortunately ended to be a subscriber because reading so many articles is not completely for many articles. Please fix this problem and you will receive 5 stars and a sharing with all my friends

Add italian language, or just subtitles.

Manca la lingua italiana

How Not to Use AI 101: Replace every functional feature with a less functional, impersonal AI. I used to love this app for its simple interface that made it easy to navigate topics, categories, and sources. It enabled me to seek out topics I was actually interested in learning more about with intentional and was a nice reprieve from the mindless nature of other media apps. Now, it’s bloated with half-baked AI features that completely undermine its usability, charm, and value. The UI is no longer functional, and the AI-generated article readings are some of the most robotic and unnatural voices I’ve heard in 2024. Disappointed and ending my subscription.

The app interface is frustrating and most of the articles are AI voices which is beyond annoying. Articles are hardly curated. I’m paying way too much for what the offer today. I liked the previous interface and article selection.

Wasn’t sure how much worse Curio could have been to Audm, and have been awarded with this: the single greatest performance in Dumb-Infuriating-Silicon Valley Inventions. It’s so dumb you should download it, show it to your kids, and tell them this is why everything is dumb now.

When I paid for an annual subscription last year, this service was pretty awesome. Now I guess to save money they have ingested the AI Kool-Aid. There is no way to download content for off-line listening. There is no way to search through recent article releases. Worst of all, instead of the illustrious and familiar narrators with human personalities, the narrator is now a generative AI that pauses randomly at punctuation. Definitely not worth renewing to me.