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Medium for iOS

Entertainment — Everyone’s stories and ideas
Entertainmentfreemiumest. 2014
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 19, 2026
Pulse 30.4 · 1/4
30.4
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
+22.4
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
16
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
7
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 16 observations. Pulse momentum is positive over 30 days (+22.4). Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
16 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 19, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 44% of 16 probesavg response 2309 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
medium.com
edge
behind Cloudflare
server
cloudflare
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Medium for iOS's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 19, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 7 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Medium for iOS (updated)entertainmentsimilar78%30.4+22.4— unverified
pennyposttraveltag-overlap75%8.00.0— unverified
Instapaper Dailyentertainmentsimilar75%40.00.0● live
Tip.lyfinancetag-overlap75%8.00.0— unverified
VSCO Cam 4.0designtag-overlap75%40.00.0● live
Instapaper 6.2entertainmentsimilar75%40.00.0● live
Gym Journalhealthtag-overlap75%40.0+7.2● live
Economist Espressoentertainmentsimilar71%40.0+9.6— unverified

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelfreemium
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-19 15:00Z200medium.comcloudflare2202alive
2026-08-11 14:11Z403medium.comcloudflare2064cf_block
2026-08-08 23:52Z403medium.comcloudflare2120cf_block
2026-08-05 19:44Z403medium.comcloudflare2639cf_block
2026-07-30 19:01Z200medium.comcloudflare2375alive
2026-07-26 15:41Z403medium.comcloudflare2574cf_block
2026-07-18 12:27Z403medium.comcloudflare3129cf_block
2026-07-12 09:43Z403medium.comcloudflare5153cf_block
2026-07-04 13:45Z403medium.comcloudflare1939cf_block
2026-06-23 14:56Z200medium.comcloudflare2198alive
2026-06-21 18:00Z403medium.comcloudflare335cf_block
2026-06-21 18:00Z403medium.comcloudflare2411cf_block
2026-06-20 07:25Z200medium.comcloudflare1612alive
2026-06-19 05:51Z200medium.comcloudflare1580alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Medium for iOS · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/medium-for-ios · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.