About Curiate
Curiate is built for interest exploration, not engagement — your data helps you discover, never sold to the highest bidder.
Two ways to explore your interests: Curations and Curiate's Feed. One is a short path that ends somewhere. The other is a feed you steer, that stops when you do.
Curations
A short, ordered path on one subject — usually four pieces — that starts somewhere easy and ends at the key book on the topic. Every step says what it adds and why it follows the one before it.
What Makes It Special
- Four pieces, one subject: An entry point, something concrete, often a video, and a book
- A deliberate order: Each step is labelled with what it adds and why it follows the one before it
- It ends somewhere: The last piece is a real book you can buy, not another link into the scroll
Try Curations
Browsing the public library is free — read them, vote, and join the discussion. Subscribers can also generate their own from their interests and publish them.
Curiate's Feed
Articles, videos and books drawn from your interests, with a dial for how far from them you want to go. Nothing scrolls forever: you decide when to pull more, and whether it stays close to home or heads somewhere else.
Four ways to explore
A dial, not a switch — from your comfort zone out to the opposite of it.
Normal Mode
Your personalized feed based on your saved interests.
Shift Mode
Break into similar users' interests. Discover what people with similar tastes are exploring.
Flip Mode
Flip into totally different perspectives. Venture into completely different viewpoints and topics.
Friend Mode
Discover through your friends' saved content. Get recommendations based on what your friends have liked and saved.
Pulling more, on your terms
Two separate controls, and the difference matters: one rolls a fresh set of queries, the other digs deeper into the ones you already have.
3 Queries, ~3 Results Each
Each page generates roughly 3 interest queries from your profile, each yielding around 3 results.
Refresh for New Queries
Not liking what you're seeing? Reclicking the mode selector — or clicking the New Queries button — generates a completely fresh set of queries.
Show More Keeps the Thread
Clicking Show More Results keeps the same queries but fetches additional content.
Your Interactive Knowledge Map
Visualize how your interests connect and evolve over time with our unique knowledge mapping system.
What It Shows
- Topic Connections: See how your interests naturally cluster and relate to each other
- Co-occurrence Patterns: Understand which topics you explore together
- Custom Exploration: Add new topics to see how they might connect to your existing interests
- Evolution Over Time: Watch your knowledge network grow and change as you save more content
- Saves or Hours: Size each topic by what you saved, or, with Premium, by the Focus Time you gave it
Find It In Your Interests
Visit the "Your Interests" page to explore your personal knowledge map and discover unexpected connections between your saved content.
Level Up Your Expertise
Track your journey from curious beginner to subject matter expert. Levels are counted per subject, so the ranges below are saves within one topic, not across everything you have saved.
Curious
0–9 saves
Just getting started on your discovery journey
Explorer
10–24 saves
Building your interest profile and exploring new areas
Apprentice
25–99 saves
Developing deeper expertise in your chosen topics
Graduate
100–199 saves
Advanced knowledge with sophisticated understanding
Doctorate
200–499 saves
Subject matter expert with deep, connected knowledge
Curator
500+ saves
You have read enough to have a point of view worth following
How Progression Works
Each piece of content you save in a category contributes to your level in that topic. Higher levels unlock deeper personalization, better recommendations, and more sophisticated content discovery.
Focus Time: Your Hours, Counted
Levels show what you saved. Focus Time shows what you actually gave your attention to — hour by hour, topic by topic — so your expertise is measured in time you put in, not links you collected.
It Counts Itself
A piece open in Curiate, a video playing, or time at a source after you tap through — each minute lands on the topic it belongs to. Anything under a minute is skipped, so the hours are real ones.
A Daily Goal and a Streak
Choose how much focused time earns a day — five minutes or thirty. Meet it and the day is stamped; your streak is the run of days you kept.
Books Count Too
Mark a book read and it is tallied on its topics. Reading one now? Time it, and those minutes count toward your focus time.
Also in Premium
- Your map, sized by hours: View your knowledge map and interest levels by Focus Time instead of saves
- Curations from your saves: Generate personal curations built from what you have actually been saving
- Unlimited Focus Quizzes: Prove what you learned with a quiz on every curation; your first one is free
- Time in your history: See how long you spent on each piece you opened, read or watched
How Long, Never What
When you tap through to a source, Curiate measures how long you were away and nothing about what you did while you were gone. Premium starts with a free trial.
Supporting Communities Through Books
When you purchase books through our recommendations, you're supporting both Curiate's development and supporting small businesses.
Supporting Curiate
When you click our book links and purchase through Bookshop.org, a portion of the affiliate revenue helps us continue improving our platform, maintaining our recommendation engines, and keeping the core of Curiate free for curious minds everywhere.
Supporting Local Bookstores
All book purchases happen through Bookshop.org, which distributes a portion of every sale to independent bookstores nationwide. This helps local bookstores thrive in communities around the world, preserving these vital cultural spaces.
Every Purchase Makes a Difference
When you buy books through our Bookshop.org links, you're not just growing your personal library – you're investing in a more curious, connected, and literate world.
Take Control of Your Content Streams
Break free from algorithmic feeds that keep you in echo chambers. Curiate prioritizes your curiosity and provides tools to explore new perspectives.
Traditional Algorithms
- • Designed to be addictive
- • Do not prioritize learning
- • Reinforce existing biases
- • Limited control over content exposure
Curiate's Approach
- • Encourage curiosity and exploration
- • Show alternative perspectives
- • Liked content grows your interest graph
- • Provide cross-content learning journeys