Thursday, July 31, 2025
The New finlight Web App Is Here – Smoother, Smarter, Stronger
If you're building with real-time financial news or market data, the new finlight Web App is designed for you. As a financial news API platform, finlight now makes it even easier to explore, test, and integrate financial data into your applications.
Whether you're an API power user or just starting out, this update is built to make your experience faster, easier, and way more intuitive. Let’s break it down.
What’s New?
We didn’t just give the app a facelift – we rebuilt core parts of the experience to help you get more done, with less friction.
Sleek New UI
First things first: the interface got a full redesign. Cleaner layout, smarter navigation, faster loading – all designed to help you focus on what matters.
Smarter API & WebSocket Testers
The API & WebSocket tester now makes it easier to test real-time market headlines, breaking financial news, and data sources across exchanges – helping you validate your integrations with speed and confidence.
- Intuitive helper texts guide you through each request.
- Quick-select buttons for
sources
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make testing lightning fast. - Responses and errors are easier to understand and debug.
It’s all about making exploration and integration more seamless than ever.
Feature Previews Built In
Want to know what’s coming next?
Now you’ll find a “Coming Soon” section right in the app navigation, giving you early access to planned features.
Improved Settings & Plan Overview
No more hunting through docs or guessing limits. The new Settings view shows:
- Your current plan
- Active features
- Usage quotas & limits
Clear. Transparent. Handy.
💡 Why This Matters
This update is more than just polish – it’s a major step forward in making finlight the most intuitive and developer-friendly way to explore and connect with financial data. Whether you’re running one test or building a whole product on top of our API, things just got a whole lot smoother.
📊 What is finlight?
finlight is a developer-first financial news API platform that provides access to curated, real-time market headlines, economic updates, and sentiment-rich data from multiple sources – all through a single, intuitive API.
🔗 Try it now: https://app.finlight.me/
Got feedback? We’re all ears. Your input is driving what we build next.
Let us know what you think – and stay tuned.