Questions, answered

From the public feeds of 34 wires: peer-reviewed journals, research institutes, health services, public broadcasters, and science desks. The full list lives in Settings → Choose your wires, and every story links to the original outlet.

The freshest stories lead, with a preference for journal research in the lead slot, and no outlet holds more than three spots in a row on the wire. The masthead's volume and number follow the same scheme as mentalhum.com.

Three quiet rules govern the lead slot. A story holds it for at most one six-hour window before the next takes over, so the front page turns through the day on its own. Studies of recreational substances, and stories whose headlines lean on unsettling vocabulary, never open the paper · they run on the wire below instead. And the small refresh button on the lead card fetches the wires again; if nothing newer has arrived, it turns the page to the next-best story, with a back arrow to return to a lead you turned past.

Two house rules. Stories that are not about mental health are left out of general-health wires. And the paper carries no politicized and no government coverage at all · science, clinical, and wellbeing stories only. When a story from a good wire reads political, the story is skipped and the wire stays.

A two-to-three sentence read of the morning's most substantial stories · always in complete sentences · delivered with the optional morning notification and printed boldly on the front page each morning, where its card stays reachable all day. Tapping the notification opens the full edition; every past edition is kept under Settings → Morning editions. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence it is written privately on the device itself; its input is already filtered by the paper's neutrality rules, and the finished summary must pass the same rules again before it ships · if it ever fails, a plain headline list goes out instead. Nothing about it leaves your phone.

The small widget carries one story, the medium three, and the large five · and there are Lock Screen sizes for the lead headline. Two widgets sit in the gallery. Today's Edition always prints and rotates its headlines at the pace set under Settings → The home screen, from every fifteen minutes to holding the lead. Today's Edition, paced is the same page with the pace chosen on the widget itself: long-press it and choose Edit Widget. Tapping any headline opens that story in the app, and Reprint the widgets in Settings redraws them on demand.

On purpose. Numbers on the Urgent Help page are shown as plain text so that reaching for help is always a deliberate act, never an accidental tap. You can copy any number with one press.

Whenever you open or return to the app, every twenty minutes while it stays open, whenever you pull down to refresh, and · if iOS's Background App Refresh is on for Mental Hum · periodically while the app is closed, so the widget and the front page are fresh before you arrive.

Yes. The Library and Urgent Help are built in and always available. The front page keeps its last printing and says so, and new stories arrive when the connection returns.

Save keeps a full copy of a story's headline and summary on your device, on the Saved shelf in News. Saved stories stay even after the archive trims itself, can carry a one-line margin note, and can all be exported together as one file from Settings.

The whole paper follows your iPhone's text size: Settings → Display & Brightness → Text Size. For a different typeface, the type button on the front page offers easier reading in OpenDyslexic.

Summaries arrive exactly as the outlets write them, and journal abstracts in particular can be dense or oddly clipped. The full, properly typeset piece is always one tap away at the source.

Please do · write to the address on the Support page. Wires must be unbiased, non-politicized, and offer a public feed.

Completely. Nothing you read, save, or search leaves your phone. See the Privacy Policy for the full picture.