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App Imp

News apps.

Installs
4666.1M

Across 14 of 15 apps we could match.

Google News has 92% of them.

  • 15 apps
  • 7,911 reviews held
  • 5,422 negative
  • Median $49 of 15 charge.

2 gaps.

Shares of this market’s 5,422 negative reviews.

Limits & capsextreme

7.1% vs 1.8% typical store-wide.

Reviews · 3 of 387
  • Apple News1star· Sep 16, 2026

    Gone downhill — Free version now only shows a only a limited amount of stories 👎🏼

  • Apple News1star· Sep 12, 2026

    Free version is garbage — Terrible article selection and more than half of what it shows is just paywalled adverts telling you to buy the Plus subscription.

  • Ground News2star· Sep 9, 2026

    Not too useful — Expensive and doesn’t really accomplish anything. Anyone with average critical thinking skills or better doesn’t need this app at all. You still can’t read paywalled articles so the app is pointless if you have basic reading comprehension.

Named problems · 1
  • Core feature locked behind the paywall13 of 387

Adshigh

23.9% vs 10.2% typical store-wide.

Reviews · 3 of 1,294
  • AP News2star· Sep 17, 2026

    App freezes — Last couple weeks or so, my AP app on iPad (latest iOS) fas began freezing at various spots. My guess would be a certain ad is interfering. And further scrolling ceases as does use of the various options for content buttons. Even soft reboots doesn’t unfreeze. Means 2 /3 content unavailable.

  • Apple News1star· Sep 16, 2026

    Page jumps — Some ads disappear while you’re reading, causing the article to jump several paragraphs. Very annoying.

  • Ground News2star· Sep 15, 2026

    Pay to read — I think it’s a great idea. You can get all the information in one platform, however I don’t think you should have to pay for more high topic stories that you want to know about sure the algorithms might show me right leaning or left leaning stories or ads, on other platforms but at least they’re free

Also counted

ThemeOf 5,422 negatives
  • Billing1,641 · 30.3% · 15 apps
  • Performance667 · 12.3% · 15 apps
  • UX281 · 5.2% · 15 apps
  • Login & auth159 · 2.9% · 15 apps
  • Support61 · 1.1% · 15 apps
  • Accuracy40 · 0.7% · 13 apps
  • Sync & data9 · 0.2% · 6 apps

The tick marks the store-typical rate. A review can mention more than one theme, so these sum past 100%.

What Apple surfaces for “news”

41 storefronts · 14 recurring suggestions

Position in Apple’s suggestions
1510
in levels
bbc
on air
google
newstate
newsela
track stories
ground
at yacht
hub fantasy
play
medya takibi
media monitoring
ai 뉴스 요약
010203041

Countries

Measured 19 September 2026.

Is anyone looking for this?

What Apple and Google complete after news apps, in their order.

Who they're for
jaxweather updateskidschinesetech & gadgetsrokufirestickteens
Google
news appsnews apps freenews apps for androidnews apps free for androidnews apps in indianews apps that are unbiasednews apps for iphonenews apps best
App Store
breaking newschristian news app for world eventsfree world newslocal newsnews breaknews for jaxabc world news tonightbreaking news video maker

Marked App Store phrases are searched, but no app in this market says them in its name. Audiences are what Apple and Google complete after “news for” and “news app for” and “news apps for”, with the query stripped.

Potential customers

People the apps here do not serve, and what they asked for.

  • Wants lesstoo many features 31 · it used to be simpler 3 · just a basic one 336
  • Shut out by device or contextiPad 49

Counted in 1 to 4 star reviews. The small numbers are how many reviews named each thing. What they wrote is in the free trial.

Who’s in it

All 15 apps counted in this market · 2026-09-14.

Apps count as part of a market for 90 days after they last appear in it. Installs are Google Play's own count, last captured 2026-09-14. 14 of 15 apps have an Android listing we could match. A dash means we could not pair the two stores, not that the app is absent from Play.

What they charge, and what it costs them

Prices from Apple’s public pages; the share counts payment-mechanics language only.

AppMoney complaints
Ground News$0.99–$99.99 · 8 tiers7.2% of 220
BBC: World News & Stories$8.99–$89.99 · 2 tiers4.7% of 622
CNN: Live & Breaking News$3.99–$69.99 · 4 tiers4.1% of 462
Apple Newsfree3.1% of 421
USA TODAY: US & Breaking News$4.99–$169 · 9 tiers2.9% of 204
Reuters - Breaking World News$4–$45 · 2 tiers1.6% of 307
Google Newsfree1.3% of 372
NYTimes: US and Global News$4.99–$24.99 · 8 tiers1.2% of 336
NBC News: Breaking & US News$5.99–$59.99 · 2 tiers1% of 295
FOX News: US & World Headlinesfree0.4% of 830
NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts$0.99–$71.99 · 4 tiers0% of 345
SmartNews: Breaking News$3.99–$4.99 · 2 tiers0% of 289

Browse the apps behind these counts

Every app we count, with the complaint it runs furthest above the store’s typical rate.

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Is there a market for a new news app?

15 apps compete on this shelf, holding 7,911 App Store reviews. And the widest unfixed complaint, limits & caps, runs in 13 of 15 of them at 7.1% of negative reviews against 1.8% typical. Those are counts, not a verdict. The page shows what is unfixed, not whether to build.

What do users complain about most in news apps?

1. Limits & caps: in 13 of 15 apps, 7.1% of negative reviews; 2. Ads: in 15 of 15 apps, 23.9% of negative reviews.

How many news app reviews did App Imp count?

7,911 US App Store reviews across 15 apps, 5,422 of them negative. Counted on the 2026-09-14 snapshot, never estimated.

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. A market rate is pooled across every app here; the store rate is the same count across 13,217 apps. A complaint is only called a gap when at least half the market carries it, at least 20 reviews are behind it, and the market’s rate is elevated above the store’s, the same cutoff used everywhere on this site, because a problem concentrated in one app is that app’s bug, and a problem every app on the store shares is nobody’s gap. This market has no full report yet, so the per-app notes are absent rather than estimated. The anger axis is counted either way: mean star of the reviews carrying each theme, from the same classifier as the counts above.