Beta · for macOS

Close the tabs.
Open Signal.

News, sport, X, YouTube, Pinterest, Reddit, Substack: every feed you follow and everything you save, on one board that keeps itself current on every Mac, up to date before you open it.

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Requires macOS 13 Ventura or later · Apple silicon & Intel

The Signal dashboard: a sidebar of sources beside a dense masonry board of saved items.
A saved 3D lettering render.
A saved vintage camera photo.
A saved watch photo.
A saved interior design photo.
A saved sports photo.
A saved car poster.
A saved retro computing poster.
A saved news photo.
A saved race car photo.
A saved YouTube video.

One roof, every source

RSS feeds YouTube channels Watch Later X Bookmarks Pinterest boards Atom feeds Any web page Newsletters

A tab is a terrible way to say “I care about this.”

Your tab bar is doing two incompatible jobs at once. Work tabs are transient: you close them when the task is done. Keeping-up tabs are permanent: you want them every day. They fight for the same finite strip of screen, and work always wins, because work is urgent.

So the personal ones get buried twenty deep, or closed by a stray ⌘W, and finding the source again becomes its own small task. None of it matters on its own. Across a day it’s real, repeated time, spent navigating to things instead of reading them.

Signal makes those sources subscriptions instead of tabs. You can’t lose one, it doesn’t sit in your work window, and it’s current before you open it.

Inside the app

A cockpit for everything you follow and keep.

DashboardEverything, newest first
RSSAny feed you follow
ReadingArticles open beside the board
VideoPlays without leaving
YouTubeEvery channel you subscribe to
Watch LaterSaved, not lost in a playlist
X BookmarksCaptured automatically
Saved postText, images and video
PinterestBoards kept in sync
BoardsBrowse what you pinned
BoardsFilter by board
DetailTag it, file it, open it
DetailColours pulled from the image
NewsA board per source
SearchOne keystroke to anything

In the app

Built to keep you in, not bounce you out.

Watch

Play videos without leaving.

A saved YouTube video plays right in the detail view: title, channel, view count and all. No round trip to a browser tab to watch the thing you already saved.

A saved video playing inside Signal's detail view, with the channel list beside it.
Read

Articles open beside the board.

Click a headline and it opens in a reading pane next to the grid, so you keep your place in the feed instead of losing it to yet another tab.

A Guardian article open in Signal's reading pane, beside the feed grid it came from.
Capture

Save from anywhere on the web.

Bookmark a post on X or add a video to Watch Later and it lands in Signal automatically: text, images and video, captured in full and yours to keep.

A saved X bookmark expanded in Signal, showing the full post with its media.
Find · ⌘K

Everything, one keystroke away.

One shortcut opens search across every item, source and collection, plus recently viewed and the commands you use most. Keyboard-first, the way a tool you live in should be.

Signal's command palette open, showing recently viewed items and a jump-to-source list.

The detail view

Open anything, and the full context comes with it.

Every saved item opens full size with its own panel: the colours pulled straight out of the image, the original source a click away, and somewhere to tag it and file it without leaving the view.

A saved poster open in Signal's detail view, filling the window, with its side panel on the right. The detail side panel close up: a colour palette pulled from the image, the title, source link, tags and collection controls.
A saved Volkswagen Golf GTI poster open in Signal's detail view, filling the window. The detail side panel close up: the colour palette pulled from the poster, its title, source link, tags and collection controls.
A saved Swiss-typography brutalist poster open in Signal's detail view, filling the window. The detail side panel close up: the colour palette pulled from the poster, its title, source link, tags and collection controls.

“I built Signal because I was losing an hour a day to my own tab bar.”

On any given day I’d have a tab open for news, one for sport, one for X, one for YouTube, plus Pinterest, Reddit and Substack, all in the same window as everything I was actually working on.

So I’d spend the day clicking between them. Hunting for the sport tab among twenty work tabs. Accidentally closing one and having to go and find the site again. Opening a second window just to see two of them at once. No single instance is worth complaining about, but it happens all day, and it adds up to real time spent navigating instead of reading.

What finally bothered me was realising a browser tab is a terrible way to say “I care about this source”. It’s a page held open by hand, it remembers nothing about what I’ve read, and one stray ⌘W destroys it.

Signal is what I wanted instead: the sources I check every day as subscriptions rather than tabs, on one board, already current when I open it, and the things I save landing in the same place instead of three different apps.

Simon KeaneBuilt Signal

From the wall

Early beta, already one roof.

Aisling K. @aislingk

Shut about 40 tabs and stopped checking six sites a day. Signal is the whole routine in one place now.

Laura W. @lauraw

X bookmarks land automatically now. I used to lose everything I saved, it's all searchable in one library.

Kevin O. @kevino

The keyboard shortcut to jump between sources is the sleeper feature. I'm through my whole morning read in minutes.

Fiona N. @fionan

I moved my entire reading life over in an afternoon. Newsletters, RSS, saved posts. The import is shockingly quick.

Dan M. @danm

Watch Later finally gets read. The YouTube import pulled my whole list in and the videos play right in the app.

Cian B. @cianb

News, sport, design boards and my saved posts, one surface, zero tabs. The tab bar finally means something again.

Aoife O. @aoifeo

I cancelled two newsletter apps. Signal reads them all and the reading pane is genuinely comfortable.

Paul C. @paulc

Everything I follow, one board. The upgrade to live everywhere is a no-brainer for the feeds alone.

Róisín O. @roisin

Pinterest boards, RSS feeds, bookmarks, all in one board. I stopped hunting through apps and just read.

Eimear N. @eimearn

Set it up in five minutes and it just works. Feeds, boards and saved posts, all synced between my Macs.

Niamh M. @niamhm

The unread dot on each source is enough to keep me honest. Nothing slips past anymore.

Oisín D. @oisind

The extension is the part I didn't expect. Save a page anywhere and it's in my library before I switch back.

James P. @jamesp

The extension saves anything I bookmark and it's in my library before I switch back. That's the whole pitch.

Tom G. @tomg

The colour palette strip under each pin is a small thing but I use it constantly. Design references finally organised.

Darragh B. @darraghb

Search across everything I've ever saved, pins included. That alone replaced two other tools.

Sarah F. @sarahf

Feeds stay current without me opening anything. I open Signal like I used to open the paper.

Seán M. @seanm

The feed grid on a retina screen is gorgeous. I actually look forward to opening it.

Gráinne H. @grainneh

The archive flow is so fast I actually use it. Everything I've read is one click away from gone.

The digest

Your day, already collated.

Digest

Send me the digest.

A daily digest of new items from your feeds, bookmarks and YouTube subscriptions, delivered at the time you choose. Pick your sources, set the hour, and let Signal do the collating. AI collation arrives with Signal Pro.

Signal's AI settings: the daily digest toggle on, delivery time and channel set, source chips selected.

Yours, separated at the database.

Everything you save lives in your own account in the cloud, so your feeds stay current and your library follows you between Macs. It stays private: your data is walled off from every other account, so only you can open it.

Signal never posts on your behalf, and the browser extension only sends the pages and posts you explicitly save.

Isolation
Row-level security. Enforced by Postgres on every query.
Portability
Standard Postgres. Exportable and yours to take elsewhere.
Capture
Explicit only. Nothing is collected unless you save it.

Pricing

Free on your Mac. Live everywhere is the upgrade.

Signal
€0free

The whole app, on your Mac.

  • All your feeds: News, X, YouTube, Pinterest, Reddit, Substack
  • Capture from anywhere, saved in full
  • Boards, collections and categories
  • Search and filters across everything you save
  • Feeds refresh while Signal is open
  • Your data, always exportable

Everything Signal does, on one Mac. Free.

Download free
Signal Pro
€4.99/ month · €49 / year

Live on every Mac. Plus AI.

  • Every Mac in sync, your board follows you
  • Current even when Signal is closed
  • Daily AI digest of what you saved
  • Ask your library: find anything in plain language
  • Auto-organise: tags and categories as items land
  • Summaries of long reads

The AI features are in development, arriving after Signal 1.0.

Get Pro

The app is yours free on one Mac. Pro makes it live on all of them, and adds AI on top.

What is free?

The whole app on one Mac: every feed, capture, boards, search and export. Your feeds refresh whenever Signal is open.

What does Pro add?

Your board live on every Mac, kept current even when Signal is closed, plus the AI layer. The AI features arrive after Signal 1.0.

What happens if I stop paying?

Your library stays on your Mac and stays exportable. You drop back to the free single-Mac experience, nothing is deleted.

The Chrome extension

Chrome and Signal, connected.

Signal captures what you save across the web: X bookmarks, YouTube Watch Later, Pinterest pins. The Chrome extension is how that gets from your browser into your board: connect once, and it runs quietly in the background.

Get the Chrome extension Free · from the Chrome Web Store
The Signal Capture popup for Chrome: connected, with auto-capture toggles and one-click import.

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Close the tabs.
Open Signal.

A native Mac app. Download it, connect your sources, and let your reading list finally behave like one list.

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macOS 13 Ventura or laterApple silicon & IntelExtension for Chrome

First time opening Signal?

Open the downloaded Signal.dmg, drag Signal into your Applications folder, then double-click it. The first time you open it, macOS shows a prompt saying it can't verify the developer. That's normal for apps outside the App Store. Click Cancel (not "Move to Bin"), then right-click Signal in Applications and choose Open, and click Open again. You only need to do this once.