Watch billingelevated
37.1% here · 26.4% in its market · 30.8% store-wide.
USA TODAY: US & Breaking News
USA TODAY
4.50star241,618 ratings
5 decisions.
Shares of this app’s 197 recent negative reviews.
Watch adshigh
21.3% here · 25.6% in its market · 10.2% store-wide.
Watch UXelevated
8.1% here · 5.2% in its market · 4.9% store-wide.
Skip performance and limits & caps work
Performance, Limits & caps all run at or below the store’s typical rate.
Protect support, login & auth and accuracy
Support, Login & auth, Accuracy all run well below the store’s typical rate.
n = 12. Too thin to act on. We recount weekly.
Read those two together. Ratings are cumulative, reviews are recent. A 4.50star average beside 63% negative is the finding, not an error.
Ratings.
241,628 ratings · Apple’s own count, fetched daily
5star167,966
4star49,170
3star11,449
2star3,398
1star9,645
The market in numbers
All 11 panel members · 2026-09-02 snapshot.
| App | Ratings | Billing |
|---|---|---|
 CNN: Live & Breaking News | 1,664,076 | 69.3% |
 Apple News | 1,626,835 | 42.9% |
 Ground News | 47,599 | 40.8% |
 Reuters - Breaking World News | 7,547 | 38.3% |
 USA TODAY: US & Breaking News | 241,618 | 37.1% |
 NBC News: Breaking & US News | 150,691 | 31.9% |
 Google News | 226,205 | 16.8% |
 NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts | 1,383,152 | 11% |
 FOX News: US & World Headlines | 568,820 | 6.5% |
 SmartNews: Breaking News | 928,798 | 6.3% |
 AP News | 359,214 | 3.5% |
Counted from real App Store reviews · 2026-09-02
How this is counted
Every number is arithmetic over the reviews we hold, re-counted weekly: nothing modelled, nothing scored. Themes come from a frozen pattern classifier rather than a model reading reviews, so the same review always lands in the same bucket. Shares are of this app’s own recent negative reviews; the market figure is its rivals with this app excluded. The graded words have fixed cutoffs against the store’s typical rate: elevated from 1.15, high from 2, extreme from 3.5 times it. The page says what is broken and how it compares, never how to fix it, and never whether this app can win.