MediaDesk | Newsroom ERP with Flutter Mobile App

MediaDesk is a complete news website and newsroom management platform: a fast public reader site, a newsroom ERP where editors plan, write, review and publish, AI Studio writing tools, marketing and automation tools, a monetization suite (advertising, membership, classifieds, donations) with finance reporting, and a Flutter mobile app for Android and iOS. It ships as a Web + Mobile App package: a Laravel 13 backend with 51 REST API endpoints that the app and the web both use.

Run a daily newspaper, a magazine, a local news site, a TV or radio portal, or a digital-only newsroom from one install. It is multilingual by design: four built-in languages (Bangla, English, Arabic with right-to-left layout, French), per-language articles, URLs, SEO tags and hreflang, an editable phrase editor, and the option to add more languages from the admin. Eleven reader skins, light and dark mode, e-paper, live blogs, podcasts, shorts and web stories are included.

AI Disclosure

AI features in the product: AI Studio (rewrite, shorten, expand, translate, summarize, headline, SEO and tag suggestions) and AI intake (URL, text or PDF to draft) send the text an editor selects to the AI provider the buyer configures: Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini or an OpenAI-compatible API. They are optional and stay off until you add your own API key; the provider’s usage charges are paid by you and are not included in the item price. AI output is a draft: an editor reviews it before anything is published, and AI drafts never publish themselves.
AI used to create this item: AI tools (Anthropic’s Claude) assisted with writing and reviewing parts of the source code (Laravel and Flutter), the documentation and README files, and the scripts that render the listing graphics. The listing graphics are HTML/SVG layouts and screenshots of the real application; no AI image generation was used. All code and content were reviewed and tested by the author, and the item ships with its automated test suites.

Live Demo

Demo Instructions

1. Super Admin
Login URL: https://mediadesk.bugbuild.com/login
E-mail: superadmin@bugbuild.com
Password: 12345678

2. Admin
Login URL: https://mediadesk.bugbuild.com/login
E-mail: admin@bugbuild.com
Password: 12345678

3. Ads Manager
Login URL: https://mediadesk.bugbuild.com/login
E-mail: ads@demo.mediadesk.test
Password: password

4. Marketing Manager
Login URL: https://mediadesk.bugbuild.com/login
E-mail: marketing@demo.mediadesk.test
Password: password

5. Reader Site & Android App (Premium Subscriber)
Login URL: https://mediadesk.bugbuild.com/en/account/login
E-mail: demo-subscriber-1@example.test
Password: demo-pass-1

6. Advertiser Portal
Login URL: https://mediadesk.bugbuild.com/en/advertiser/login
E-mail: advertiser@demo.test
Password: advertiser-demo-1

The admin and advertiser login pages also have one-click Demo access buttons that sign you in with these accounts. The demo admin accounts are read-only: you can open every screen, but saving, deleting and uploading are disabled, and API keys are masked.

Admin Panel

Newsroom ERP, CMS, AI Studio, ads, membership, finance, marketing, automation and settings. Sign in as Super Admin to see every module, or as a role account to see what that role can access.

Reader Site

URL: mediadesk.bugbuild.com

The premium subscriber account opens paywalled stories and the membership screens. You can also register a new free reader account.

Advertiser Portal

The portal shows the advertiser’s campaigns, invoices and payments.

Mobile App

Android demo app: Download the demo APK

The app connects to the live demo. Sign in with the premium subscriber account above.

Documentation

URL: mediadeskdocs.bugbuild.com

The demo resets periodically. The weather, stock market, prayer-time and advertiser figures on the demo are sample data. These demo accounts exist only on the demo server: a fresh installation creates only the administrator you enter in the installer.

What You Get

Laravel Web Backend — reader site, newsroom ERP, admin panel with 190 screens, 780 routes and 16 toggleable modules.
Mobile App (Flutter) — Android and iOS app for readers: home feed with breaking bar, categories, articles, search, e-paper, live blog, podcasts, membership plans, notification settings, saved articles, reading history and settings (4 languages, light/dark/system theme, text size).
Both platforms are included — the Android and iOS projects of the one Flutter codebase are in the package.
Full source code, database migrations, demo seeders and documentation, all in the main download as Main_Files/WebSourceCode, Main_Files/AppSourceCode and documentation. Composer packages (vendor) and compiled build folders are not included: you install them once with composer install and npm ci && npm run build, as shown in the documentation.
Plain, readable PHP and Dart — no encoded files and no licence server.
Safe web installer — installs only into an empty database, never drops tables, and locks itself for good after the first run (storage/installed), so it can never be reopened to overwrite your data or database settings.
Easy to rebrand — the documentation lists where to change the app name, bundle identifier, icon, splash screen, colours and fonts; README files for both projects.
Module manager — switch AI Studio, Marketing, Advertisement, Membership, E-Paper, Podcast, Video, Shorts/Stories, Live Blog, Newsletter, Analytics, Bangladesh Pack, Mobile API, Classifieds, Automation and Finance on or off.

Application Features

Public Reader Site

11 reader-selectable skins: Modern, Classic, Magazine, Night, Compact, Local, Alo, Times, Wire, Broadcast and Star, each with light and dark mode
Four languages out of the box (bn, en, ar with RTL, fr); admins can add more languages and edit every phrase
Visual theme editor: set the site colours in the admin, preview them as a draft, then publish
Installable PWA, bookmarks, reading history, follow topics and authors, For You and Following tabs
Reader accounts with email sign-up or Google sign-in (your own Google OAuth keys)
Comments with reactions, polls (also placed inside articles), newsletter sign-up with double opt-in and an optional sign-up popup, cookie consent
Interactive post formats: trivia and personality quizzes, recipes, sorted Top-N lists, table of contents, events and captioned galleries
Sidebar widget builder for the home page and article sidebar: popular, latest, tags, poll, newsletter, ad, social and custom HTML widgets, drag to re-order
Live blog, podcasts, e-paper (HTML reader plus real PDF editions), web stories, shorts and video
Classifieds, donations and support, reader story submission, archive calendar, topics, author pages and search
SEO: sitemaps, news sitemap, JSON-LD, RSS and llms.txt; robots.txt and AI-crawler rules edited from the admin

Newsroom ERP

Story desk board (Draft, In Review, Approved, Published), deadline calendar, My Desk, and desk team and performance views
News inbox with RSS, API and press-release feeds; assign, convert to draft or ignore
Newsroom tasks, trusted authors, revisions, fact-check and corrections
Post format builders in the article editor (quiz questions and results, recipe, list, table of contents, event) with per-language text
Rich article editor with per-language content, headings, lists, links, tables and inline images; unsafe HTML is sanitised automatically
Media Library with reusable image, video, audio and document uploads; responsive image conversions, alt text, credit, licence and source fields
Article cover image for hero, cards and social sharing preview (Open Graph / X); galleries, video poster, audio and attachments per story
Article editor with categories, topics, workflow status, premium flag and geo-restriction (allow/deny by country, needs a CDN country header)
Time-limited signed preview links for saved draft, in-review and scheduled stories, rendered in the real reader template and kept out of search engines

MediaDesk newsroom workspace: story desk, news inbox and desk team

AI Studio

Choose Anthropic Claude (default), Gemini or OpenAI; keys and token budgets are set in admin
Rewrite, shorten, expand, translate, summarize, headline, SEO and tag suggestions
AI intake: turn a URL, pasted text or a PDF into a draft article
Optional and off until you add your own provider key

See the AI Disclosure at the top of this page.

MediaDesk admin: articles, AI intake, analytics and modules

Rule engine: triggers such as article published, views threshold, ad campaign expiring or a schedule; actions such as social package, push, digest and notify; with a run log
One-content-everywhere social packages, social calendar, accounts and UTM presets

Marketing

Newsletter campaigns and daily digest, subscriber lists and segments
Web push and FCM mobile push, push campaigns

Monetization

Advertiser CRM, ad campaigns, placements, invoices, sponsorships, advertiser self-service portal and AdSense
Membership plans, coupons and payment proofs, paywall and premium articles
Classifieds, donations, author revenue share and rewards
13 payment options: Stripe, PayPal, SSLCOMMERZ, bKash, Nagad, Razorpay, Mercado Pago, iyzico, PayTabs, Paystack, NOWPayments (crypto), bank transfer (with proof upload) and manual

Payment services: Stripe, PayPal, SSLCOMMERZ and the other gateways are third-party services. Buyers must create and maintain their own merchant accounts, credentials, webhooks and compliance settings and are responsible for all transaction, currency-conversion and provider fees.

Finance

Revenue dashboard by stream, ledger, profit and loss, receivables and ad invoices

Live, Audio and E-Paper

Live blogs with key points, pinned and timed updates; breaking news bar
Podcast episodes and podcast shows with seasons, episode numbers, per-show RSS feeds (iTunes tags), transcripts and members-only episodes with protected audio streaming
Web story editor, shorts and breaking-news push alerts
E-paper with daily editions, archive and PDF download (PDF generation needs headless Chrome on the server)

MediaDesk live blog, podcasts, e-paper and rich media

Flutter Mobile App (Android + iOS)

Home with breaking bar, hero and latest; categories; article; search
E-paper, live blog, podcasts, membership plans
Sign-in and accounts, saved articles, reading history, newsletter, contact and about
Notification settings, deep links and offline cache; 4 languages, light/dark/system theme, text size
Membership plans and pay-per-post open your website checkout in the device’s external browser (no in-app purchase); a build switch hides the purchase buttons for stores or regions that do not allow external purchase links
FCM push needs your own Firebase project and configuration (Firebase is a Google service with its own terms and possible usage charges)

Platform, Security and API

Roles and permissions (RBAC), two-factor authentication, activity and login logs, system health, database backup
REST API (api/v1, Sanctum) with 51 endpoints and an OpenAPI document; API clients and tokens
Token-authenticated partner syndication feed and an article write API for pushing stories in from other systems
Signed outgoing webhooks (HMAC-SHA256) for article, comment, subscriber, membership and invoice events, with retry and a delivery log
WordPress import (WXR export file) for moving an existing site
Redirects, SEO tools, home layout builder, navigation builder, visual theme, sidebar widgets, fonts, mail templates and phrase editor
Demo mode for showcase sites, diagnostics page and a mediadesk:doctor command

MediaDesk visual theme, widgets, AI crawler rules and post formats

Bangladesh Pack

Optional module with prayer times, weather, stock market (DSE) and currency widgets. The bundled values are demo data; connect your own sources for live figures.

Technologies Used

Laravel 13 (PHP 8.3+), Blade, Tailwind CSS 4 and Vite
MySQL 8.0 or newer
Laravel Sanctum for API authentication
Flutter 3.44 / Dart 3.12 (Android and iOS)
Firebase Cloud Messaging for app push (your own project)

System Requirements

Web Backend

PHP 8.3 or newer with gd (WebP support), intl, mbstring, pdo_mysql, exif, fileinfo and curl extensions
MySQL database; Apache or Nginx with URL rewriting
Composer 2 and Node.js 20+ to install dependencies and build the front-end assets once
Writable storage and bootstrap/cache directories
Cron for the scheduler (schedule:run) and a queue worker for automation, push and campaigns
Optional: headless Chrome (photo cards, invoices, e-paper PDF) and poppler (pdftoppm)

Mobile App

Flutter 3.44 (stable) with Dart 3.12; Android Studio for Android, Xcode on macOS for iOS
A Firebase project for push notifications
Your own Apple developer team (none is set in the project) and your own app name, bundle identifier, icon and splash screen
Apple Developer and/or Google Play Console accounts to publish

Important Notes About Third-Party Services

External costs and your own accounts: Stripe, PayPal and the other payment gateways, e-mail delivery services (SMTP, Mailgun, Postmark, Amazon SES, Brevo), Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) push and AI providers used by MediaDesk are external third-party services. To use them you must set up your own merchant and service accounts (for example a Stripe or PayPal merchant account and a Firebase project). These providers may charge their own fees, such as transaction, subscription or usage charges, which are not included in the item price.

Hosting, domains, email/SMTP, Firebase, Apple/Google developer accounts, AI provider usage, payment gateway accounts and fees, and any other third-party service are not included in the item price. You supply your own API keys and credentials. Payment gateways, AI providers, web push, FCM and social publishing were verified during development with simulated (faked) HTTP responses; test each integration with your own sandbox credentials before going live.

Sample photos, video clips and audio on the live demo are Creative Commons works from Wikimedia Commons. They are not included in the download; the optional demo data uses generated placeholder thumbnails instead. Fonts and Composer/Flutter packages remain under their own licences (see the documentation for credits).

Documentation

Installation, configuration and app build guides: View Documentation. The same files are in the documentation folder inside the download.

Changelog

Version 1.0.0

Initial release:

Public reader site with 11 skins, visual theme editor, 4 languages, PWA, live blog, podcasts and podcast shows, e-paper, web stories and shorts
Interactive post formats (quizzes, recipes, lists, table of contents, events) and a sidebar widget builder
Newsroom ERP: story desk, inbox and feeds, tasks, revisions, fact-check and corrections
AI Studio with Anthropic Claude, Gemini or OpenAI, plus AI intake
Automation engine, social packages, newsletters and push campaigns
Advertising, membership, classifieds, donations, finance reports and 13 payment options
51-endpoint REST API, partner syndication and article write API, and Flutter app for Android and iOS
RBAC, two-factor authentication, signed webhooks, WordPress import, backups and a module manager

MediaDesk – AI News Portal, Newspaper CMS & Newsroom ERP with Flutter App