Springboard

🔍 Overview

Powered by the Full-Text RSS API, Springboard is the most comprehensive and effective shortcut to bypass paywalls and access restricted content online! Springboard is highly customizable, allowing users to design their in-app viewing screen with their choice of fonts, colors, and more, and includes features for translating and summarizing* articles.

Much like ad blockers, bypass (or “article extraction”) tools are now a necessity as online news & media outlets continue to lock more and more content behind paywalls.

*Feature currently in testing to be included in v4.0 which is set to release in early August 2024.

📖 How to Use Springboard

[!IMPORTANT] Springboard requires an 🔑API key to use.

Get your 🆓 API key here. Select the Basic plan, then follow the steps on screen.

Springboard is run from the share sheet in Safari (or your preferred browser). When you hit a paywall, simply tap the share sheet icon at the bottom of the screen and select ‘Springboard’ from the menu.

[!NOTE] Full 📝 instructions can be found here

🎨 Custom Screens

Springboard allows users to customize the in-app viewing screen.

Watch the 📼 video ⬇️ below to learn how!

🚁 Bypass Paywalls from

• The Athletic (theathletic.com)
• The Atlantic (theatlantic.com)
• Boston Globe (bostonglobe.com)
• Business Insider (businessinsider.com)
• Chicago Tribune (chicagotribune.com)
• The Cut (thecut.com)
• Daily Beast (thedailybeast.com)
• Daily Telegraph (dailytelegraph.com.au)
• Economist (economist.com)
• Esquire (esquire.com)
• Financial Times (ft.com)
• Foreign Affairs (foreignaffairs.com)
• Foreign Policy (foreignpolicy.com)
• Fortune (fortune.com)
• The Guardian (theguardian.com)
• History Extra (historyextra.com)
• Houston Chronicle (chron.com)
• Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)
• Medium (medium.com)
• Miami Herald (miamiherald.com)
• The New European (theneweuropean.co.uk)
• New York Times (nytimes.com)
• New Yorker (newyorker.com)
• Nikkei (asia.nikkei.com) (partial)
• Portland Press Herald (pressherald.com)
• ScreenRant (screenrant.com)
• Slate+ (slate.com)
• Substack (substack.com)
• Telegraph (telegraph.co.uk)
• Texas Monthly (texasmonthly.com)
• The Things (thethings.com)
• Vanity Fair (vanityfair.com)
• Washington Post (washingtonpost.com)
• Wired (wired.com)

🚧 Limitations

Springboard does not work for the following publications:

• Wall Street Journal (wsj.com)
• Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)

Lists are updated as needed.
Last Update: 7.25.2024 _____________