About this app

Get your daily dose of latest & breaking news and more on Biskutt. We are a short news app that combines news from various reputed sources and serves it to you in short, concise paragraphs. Bookmark and share things you find interesting, in-app. Short on time? Choose Biskutt!

Features:

Customization is the powerful feature #Biskutt provides. You will only see news articles based on the feeds you've added. Add only those feeds you love to see news of, for example, if you love to read only technology news articles, then add only technology feeds. This will only show the news articles for technology.

1. Short news - We provide you with the latest, trending and breaking news in a palatable format, using as less jargon as possible. Our news content writers check and verify the source news first, and only when they are satisfied, post the content. So you don't have to worry about faux/fake news. Swipe away!

2. RSS News Reader - Subscribe to your favorite RSS feed, and read the articles without ads.

3. One app, all publishers: Add any news publisher from a set of more than 1k publishers.

4. News categories - On Biskutt, we serve people ranging from Bollywood gossips lovers to political pundits. You choose what you want to see. Only interested in the new technological advances? Select Technology in the category tab and enjoy. We have 10+ categories catering to your custom needs.

5. Daily Briefing - Get titles from stories posted today, for each day. This is very useful when you haven't got much time in your day to read news throughout and just want a glimpse of the day.

6. Weekly Briefing - What interesting events occurred in the previous week? We have a screen just for this. We look at major events that happened and provide the story titles to you in a separate screen, which resets every Monday.

7. Videos - We bring you the latest trending videos straight from the internet. Be it a company announcing a new product or Binod trending on social media, we got you covered.

8. On this day - Did you know that on the day I'm writing this, King Henry II of England was crowned King of England in 1154? Interesting right? We on Biskutt show you interesting events in history like this on a given day.

9. Local News: Read your current city's news directly in the application and stay updated with your surroundings.

10. What's Trending: Get insight about what's trending in your country from all over the internet.

11. Share - Share what you find interesting with your friends and family! You can share to Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Instagram and more.

New features

* Fixed small bugs

App Permissions

Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows an application to read from external storage.