Inkline is a media monitoring app for iPhone and iPad, built for journalists, communications professionals and anyone who reads for a living. It tracks the topics, publications and people you choose across a registry of 817 hand-picked, feed-verified sources spanning 55 markets and 34 languages, compares how titles cover the same story, writes a private morning brief on your device, and reads it to you as a spoken briefing. No dashboards, no accounts, and nothing you read leaves your phone. Inkline is free to download and free to use; Inkline Pro adds monitoring, spoken briefings, analysis and unlimited publications, from £2.99 a month in the UK with a week free.
Who makes it
Inkline is built by Michael White, Director of Intelligence at a communications consultancy, where he co-leads an intelligence function building media monitoring for corporate clients. He is a longtime Wikipedia editor and writes about communications, AI and corporate reputation. Inkline is the tool he wanted to exist for the job he actually does; the directory is maintained with the same discipline as client monitoring, because it started as exactly that.
How verification works
Every source enters the registry by hand, against a written rubric that admits only publications whose facts can be established from public record. Before each app release the whole registry is machine-verified: every feed is fetched and parsed, and sources that fail drop out, so only working feeds ship. Where a publisher offers no public feed, the registry records that too, and the app covers the title through open-web headline queries instead.
"Verified" therefore means two things, and the site claims both precisely: a person chose the source, and a machine confirmed the feed worked at the dated pass shown on every page. Publishers change things without notice, which is exactly why the pass is repeated before every release.
Corrections
A registry of 817 publications will contain errors, and pretending otherwise would undermine the claim the site makes. When an error is found or reported, the page is corrected, the verification date updated, and material corrections noted on the page itself. Reports are welcome via the support contact route and move a title to the front of the re-verification queue.