Dispatches from the open web
News you actually
want to read.
Without the walls, the banners, the pop-ups, or the guilt.
Trebuchet is a macOS news reader for people who remember when the web was just… websites. It fetches the articles you care about, strips out everything you don't, and puts the words on the screen. Quietly. Without asking for your birthday.
"The medieval trebuchet could hurl a 100kg stone over 300 metres. Ours just
hurls news into your eyeballs."
01
Clean reading, always.
Every article rendered the way it was meant to be read — no sidebars, no autoplay,
no seventeen "related stories" competing for your eyeballs.
02
No account required.
Trebuchet doesn't know your name, your email, or your star sign.
Your reading list lives on your Mac, not on our servers.
03
Zero annoyances, by design.
No ads. No cookie banners. No donation nag bars. No dark patterns.
We considered adding a chatbot and then we didn't.
04
Archive.today support
Most sites are open. Some sites, not so much.
05
Built for power users.
Native macOS. Keyboard-driven. Fast. Distributed outside the App Store
because some of us still remember what software felt like before approval queues.
Coming soon
macOS 26 Tahoe required · Apple Silicon & Intel