CLUSTER MAGAZINE-MOBILE-MONTHLY · 3 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2011-11-01
niche magazine mobile apps
This cluster consists of mobile apps that deliver periodical magazines on specialized topics: strange phenomena and UFOs, extreme metal music, and paranormal/fringe-science from a scientific perspective. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from — only 3 dated entries exist before the index start, so it predates the index or its members are undated. Traction leaders, based on activity signal, are Fortean Times Magazine, Skeptical Inquirer Magazine, and Decibel Magazine, each with 0 stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 2 unlabelled
Operator · 3 commercial
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 3 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01Fortean Times Magazine0★2 yrabandonedlivecommercialMobile app delivering a monthly magazine of news, reviews, and research on strange phenomena, myths, monsters, and UFOs.
- 02Skeptical Inquirer Magazine0★2 yrabandonedlivecommercialMobile app that provides access to a bimonthly magazine evaluating paranormal and fringe-science claims from a scientific perspective.
- 03Decibel Magazine0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedcommercialMobile app that delivers a monthly magazine covering extreme metal music, reviews, and entertainment.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.