# NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts

> Weather, Safety & Crime Alerts

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1132762804](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1132762804)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1132762804`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Particle Media Inc.
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (1,385,221 ratings)
- **Version:** 26.37.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-12
- **First published:** 2016-07-15
- **Size:** 199 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-16
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/newsbreak-local-news-alerts/id1132762804)
- **Website:** [https://www.newsbreak.com](https://www.newsbreak.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.newsbreak.com/privacy](https://www.newsbreak.com/privacy)

## Description

**NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts** delivers local, national, and global news directly to your iPhone. Get personalized updates on breaking news, weather, traffic, sports, business, technology, community events, and more from thousands of sources.

Explore curated daily briefings, local channels, safety and crime alerts, neighborhood stories, deals, and trending topics. Customize your feed, follow or block subjects, and join community conversations by reacting, commenting, and sharing.

## Rankings

- #303 — Overall
- #7 — news
- #14 — break
- #91 — update

## Review summary

Users praise NewsBreak for local, timely news and useful audio features, plus broad coverage. However, frequent ads, a push toward premium access for AI content, questionable AI-generated summaries, perceived political bias, and reliability frustrations (loading problems, broken links, erratic alerts) are common criticisms. The app’s value hinges on local, rapid updates and audio perks, but is hampered by ads, paywalls, content quality concerns, and stability issues.

### Pros

- Local news coverage and timely updates that are useful on the go
- Broad coverage across local and national topics
- Audio options attached to stories for quick listening

### Cons

- Excessive ads and pop-ups that disrupt reading experience
- Forced premium/subscription pressure for accessing AI-generated content
- AI-generated summaries replacing full articles and concerns about content quality
- Perceived political bias or propaganda in coverage
- Reliability and usability issues (stories not loading, broken links, erratic alerts/UI glitches)

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1132762804)