ALBA PLAY

Wellbeing. Evolved.

The day begins when you hear it.

Alba Play is the audio app from ALBA — Digital Dawn Studios. Every morning, the Alba News briefing, free. And whenever you want more: podcasts and audiobooks narrated in Spanish.

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iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and CarPlay. All audio is in Spanish; Alba News is free, today and always.

Staying informed is also caring for your mind.

Alba Digital exists so that wellbeing can evolve. Alba Play is the part you listen to: half an hour a day to understand the world without the anxiety of the infinite scroll, without notifications interrupting you, without an algorithm deciding for you.

One broadcast a day, with a beginning and an end. When it's over, it's over. That limit is the design.

The content

A daily briefing and a catalogue that keeps growing.

All produced by Alba Digital, in Spanish, from Monterrey. Alba News is free; podcasts and audiobooks live inside Alba Premium.

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Alba News

Daily briefing

World news, Mexico and what's happening in Monterrey, in about 30 minutes. Hosted by Ixchel Ávalos. With an archive of past broadcasts and offline downloads.

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Voces del Alba

Podcast

In-depth interviews and analysis to understand the day ahead. A weekly space for conversation, unhurried and free of ad breaks.

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Audiobooks

Originals

Fiction and non-fiction narrated in Spanish, chapter by chapter. Starting with Cuentos del Amanecer: short stories to begin the day, read by the voice of the house.

The app

Built for the commute, the gym and breakfast.

You open the app and the first thing you see is today's broadcast. One tap and it plays. Nothing else gets in the way.

Offline downloads

Download the broadcast at home and listen on the subway, up a mountain or on a plane. No data needed.

CarPlay

Today's broadcast and your downloads on the car's screen, without touching your phone.

Apple Watch

A remote on your wrist: play, pause and skip without reaching for the iPhone.

«Today's capsule» widget

The day's broadcast on your home screen. One tap and it starts playing.

Pick up where you left off

Your progress is saved per episode and per chapter — on your device, not on our servers.

No accounts, no ads

No sign-up, no password. Not a single ad — with Premium or without it.

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Alba Premium

What keeps the free briefing free.

No ads and no sponsors deciding what gets covered. Whoever wants more audio pays a small subscription, and that's what keeps Alba News free for everyone.

Alba News
$0
Always
Free
  • The daily briefing, every day
  • Archive of past broadcasts
  • Offline downloads
  • No ads, no account
Premium monthly
$49 MXN
per month
  • Everything in Alba News
  • Full podcasts, every week
  • Audiobooks narrated in Spanish
  • Unlimited downloads
Premium yearly
$499 MXN
per year
2 months free
  • Everything in the monthly plan
  • Works out to $41.58 a month
  • One charge a year
  • Cancel whenever you want
Alba News is free, today and always. There's no paywall over the news and no "trimmed" version for those who don't pay. The subscription opens the catalogue, not the information.

Prices in Mexican pesos, subject to change. The subscription is purchased inside the app, lives in your Apple ID and renews automatically until you cancel it from your Apple account settings. No sign-up, no passwords and no payment data on our servers.

Transparency

The voice is AI. The reporting isn't.

We say it out loud in every broadcast, and we repeat it here: we'd rather you heard it from us.

Ixchel Ávalos
AI-generated host

How each broadcast is made

Ixchel is not a real person and we never claim she is. She is a synthetic voice that Alba Digital produces and controls. What she reads, on the other hand, comes from the work of real news organisations.

  • Sources cited on air. Story by story, we say where the information came from.
  • A disclosure in every broadcast. The synthetic nature of the voice is declared inside the audio itself, not in fine print.
  • No cloned voices of real people. Ixchel imitates no one.
  • Informational content, not advice. Alba Play informs and keeps you company; it does not replace professional advice of any kind.
Launch

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