Stoop

What Stoop does

Stoop (legally Port Payments Co.) is a consumer mobile application that aggregates, discovers, and consumes newsletters outside the user's email inbox. The product is positioned as a podcast-app equivalent for newsletters, with one-click unsubscribe, a read-later queue for forwarded emails and links, and direct content sharing with friends. The app is currently available on Android via the Google Play Store, with iOS support listed as forthcoming on the Apple App Store, and operates under a freemium model: the base app is free, premium features are sold as a $10/year in-app purchase, and a $10/month Premium Content Bundle has been announced but not yet launched.

The underlying technology is a mobile-first newsletter aggregation platform with no disclosed APIs, SDKs, or integrations. Distribution is entirely self-serve through the app stores, with a separate beta subdomain (beta.stoopinbox.com) indicating active product iteration. A publisher submission form on the website signals early intent to build a two-sided ecosystem of newsletter creators and readers, though no published content partnerships or publisher logos are disclosed.

Commercially, Stoop is a small, bootstrapped-looking operation with 1–10 employees, no disclosed funding rounds, no revenue figures, and no enterprise customers. The company was founded in 2018–2019 and is headquartered in Spring House, Pennsylvania. It is led by co-founders Beah Burger-Lenehan (President) and Tim Raybould (CEO). All monetization flows through consumer in-app purchases on mobile platforms, with no B2B pricing, advertising, or data-licensing revenue streams identified.

Name

Stoop

Legal name

Port Payments Co.

Website

https://stoopinbox.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Spring House

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Freemium App Model: Free base app with premium features available as in-app purchases. Users can use the app for free with basic functionality, with premium features (likely ad-free, advanced organization, etc.) offered at $10/year.
2. Premium Content Bundle: Planned premium content bundle with additional features at $10/month. This tier was not yet available at time of scraping.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Stoop is a mobile-first newsletter aggregation app that enables users to discover, subscribe to, and read newsletters in a unified interface outside the email inbox. The app is currently available on Android, with an iPhone version in development. It offers a freemium model with a $10/year premium tier that unlocks additional features such as an ad-free experience and enhanced reading tools.

Product overview

Stoop is a single, unified newsletter management application rather than a multi-module platform. The core product is the Stoop app, a free newsletter reader available on Android (with iPhone support forthcoming). Premium Features ($10/year) and Premium Content Bundle ($10/month, not yet available) are add-on offerings that extend the base experience. All offerings are distributed through the same mobile app interface.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Stoop Mobile App Stoop is a mobile application that lets individual users discover, subscribe to, and read newsletters from various publishers in one consolidated feed, removing newsletter clutter from the email inbox. Available on Android with an iPhone version in development.
• Stoop Premium

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Flipboard: Flipboard is a long-standing magazine-style content aggregator with personalized discovery feeds. It addresses the same 'replacement for algorithmic feeds' need that Stoop targets, though it covers broader content categories than newsletters alone.
• Substack: Substack is the dominant newsletter publishing platform with a built-in reader app and discovery feed. While Substack focuses on the publisher side, its reader app competes with Stoop for the same newsletter-consuming audience and incorporates many of the same discovery mechanics.

Others

• Spark Mail: Spark is a third-party email client with smart inbox filtering, send-later, and shared inbox features. While it is positioned as an email client rather than a newsletter reader, its smart filtering and inbox triage functionality partly substitutes for Stoop's value proposition on iOS where Stoop is not yet available.
• beehiiv: beehiiv is a newsletter publishing and monetization platform with a reader surface in its app. It is ecosystem-adjacent rather than directly competitive; many of the publishers on Stoop's platform are likely beehiiv users, making it a strategic partner or competing feed source.

Emerging players

• Mailbrew: Mailbrew is a newsletter digest product that lets users bundle multiple newsletters into curated daily or weekly digests. It overlaps with Stoop's premium content bundle vision and serves the same newsletter-overload persona.
• Matter: Matter is a read-later and content recommendation app that curates articles and newsletters from creators and publishers. It overlaps with Stoop's discovery and read-later functionality and targets the same high-engagement reader segment.

Direct peers

• Feedly: Feedly is the most established content and newsletter aggregation app, offering feed reading, AI-powered priority filtering, and discovery. It directly competes with Stoop in the consolidated-newsletter-reader category and shares the same target user (heavy newsletter subscribers seeking inbox relief).
• Readwise Reader: Readwise Reader is a read-it-later and highlight-focused reader app with strong newsletter ingest and discovery features. It competes for power readers who want to escape the inbox and centralize long-form content consumption.
• Pocket (Mozilla): Pocket is a read-it-later service, now owned by Mozilla, that lets users save articles and newsletters for later consumption. It overlaps with Stoop's read-later queue feature and targets the same anti-algorithm reader persona.
• Hey: Hey is a Basecamp-built reimagined email service that segregates newsletters into a 'The Feed' inbox and actively promotes unsubscribing. It targets the exact pain point Stoop addresses and shares the same anti-news-feed, anti-algorithm positioning.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/stoopinbox

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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