Uncover: Learn History

True stories/facts/events from history that're so interesting you’ll want to tell someone. Learn something new each day.

Uncover turns history into short, vivid stories you read in a few minutes. Every story is its own feed: swipe up to go deeper, swipe left for the next one.

STORIES YOU WON’T BELIEVE YOU NEVER HEARD • A rocket sent to study the northern lights made Russia’s president open the nuclear briefcase. • The heir to the Ottoman throne lived above a Manhattan restaurant. • Abraham Lincoln’s son stood near three presidential assassinations, and was once saved by the killer’s brother. • Cleopatra lived closer to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid. - And much more.

From the ancient world to the space race, war and spies to mysteries, inventions and remarkable lives.

PICKED AND CUSTOMIZED JUST FOR YOU Pick a few interests to start. Uncover learns from what and how you read, and creates your next stories on the fly. You’ll never see the same story twice.

TOLD WITH CARE • Short, clear cards with maps, timelines, numbers and pictures. • Sources on every story, with links to read more. • Pictures credited on every card, all from public-domain and openly licensed collections.

KEEP THE BEST PARTS Bookmark any card and come back to it anytime. Your bookmarks, interests and reading history are saved to your account, so they follow you to a new phone.

ONE NOTIFICATION A DAY, AT MOST Turn on daily stories and we’ll let you know when brand new stories are ready. Zero notification spam.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN Sign in with Apple or Google. Uncover stores only your email, never your name, has no ads and doesn’t track you. Delete your account and everything we keep about it from inside the app at any time.

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