About the Daily Repeater

A minute repeater is the complication that chimes the time when you ask it to. The Daily Repeater does the same for watch news: open it and it tells you what every watch publication has written since you last looked, newest first, with the stories that several of them covered gathered into one card.

What it shows, and where it sends you

Every publication gets the same card: the headline, a sentence or two of summary, and the article's lead image. Tap a card and you go to the article on the publication's own site. The Daily Repeater never shows the article itself, so every read is a visit to the people who wrote it.

Search

Search reads the full text of articles from publications that allow it, so a search for a calibre or a reference finds the article that mentions it in the ninth paragraph. For the others it searches the headline and summary. Results show a short passage around the words you searched for, then send you to the article.

Following

Follow a brand, a model or any phrase and the Following tab gathers every new article that mentions it, with a count of what is new since you last looked. Turn on alerts there and your phone tells you when a new article mentions one of them. On iPhone, alerts work once the Daily Repeater is added to the Home Screen.

How it reads the publications

It reads each publication's public RSS feed every fifteen minutes. Where a feed leaves out the image or summary, or where search covers the full text, it also reads the article page once, slowly. It identifies itself as DailyRepeaterBot and follows every robots.txt rule and crawl delay.

For publishers

If you publish one of these titles and want it shown differently, or not at all, write to hello@dailyrepeater.com and it will be changed the same day. The same address takes requests to be added, and permission to show more, such as your images or your full text in search.

Advertising

One card in ten is an advertisement, clearly labelled. Advertising pays for the site, and no publication is ranked, shown or hidden because of it. Brands interested in sponsoring that space can write to the same address.

The Daily Repeater is independent and is not affiliated with any publication or watch brand.