Amazon / Sports / POTTERS NEWS+
REVIEW
Potters News+ is the kind of fan app the official club never bothered to build.
A free, single-developer news aggregator for Stoke City supporters on Amazon Fire — narrow in ambition, honest about it, and useful if you happen to be in the audience of one.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
The unofficial fan app is one of the small, durable genres of mobile software — a single supporter, usually working alone, building the thing the club’s marketing department refuses to build. Potters News+ is exactly that. It collects Stoke City coverage from across the football press, lays it out in a feed, and gets out of the way.
The audience is narrow on purpose. Stoke supporters with an Amazon Fire tablet who want their club’s news in one place are not a large market, but they are an underserved one. The official Stoke City app is a marketing surface; the national football apps treat the Potters as a tile on the lower half of the Championship-or-Premier-League ladder. Neither does what this app does.
What it does, it does the way a hobby project does — competently, slowly, with the rough edges a single developer never gets around to sanding. That is the deal.
Unofficial fan apps live or die on whether they save you the trouble of opening five browser tabs. This one does.
FEATURES
Potters News+ is a feed reader scoped to a single Premier League club. The home view aggregates Stoke City coverage from the working set of national papers, regional outlets, and fan blogs that cover the Potters with any regularity — match reports, transfer rumours, academy notes, the occasional opinion column. Tap an item, read the source page inside an in-app browser, swipe back.
There is a fixture list, a results view, and a section that pulls in social mentions of the club. No push notifications worth speaking of, no audio commentary, no live match-thread chat. The screenshots show what the app shows: a list, a date, a thumbnail, a source line.
It is a Fire tablet app. There is no companion iOS or Android build from the same developer, and the layout has clearly been tuned for the 7-inch Fire HD rather than the 10-inch. On the bigger tablet it reads as a phone app stretched wide.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The single thing this app gets right is the editorial brief. It picks one club, picks the half-dozen outlets that actually cover that club, and saves the supporter the trouble of bookmarking each one. That is a real job and the official Stoke City app — bigger, slicker, and run by a marketing department — does not do it as cleanly because it will not link out to rival publications writing about transfer business.
It is also free, with no in-app purchases and no obvious ad load. For a one-person side project that has lived on the Amazon Appstore since the mid-2010s, the lack of monetisation pressure is itself a kindness.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The app has not been meaningfully updated in years and it shows. The source list is stale — feeds that have moved domains or gone behind paywalls render as broken thumbnails, and the in-app browser does nothing to help when a source paywalls the article. There is no offline cache, no dark mode, no font controls, and no way to filter the feed by topic (transfers only, match reports only).
More structural: a club-specific fan app on Fire OS in 2026 is asking a lot of its audience. Most Stoke supporters who want this exact thing have already migrated to a phone-based RSS app or a Twitter list, and the Fire tablet is a strange home for the genre.
CONCLUSION
Potters News+ is honest about what it is — one supporter's curated feed for a specific club, kept alive on a platform that does not get many fan apps. If you own a Fire tablet and follow Stoke City, install it; the catalogue of relevant outlets is the work, and the developer has already done that work. Everyone else can move along.