# Opera News: Breaking & Local

> Local News & Headlines

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1444253126](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1444253126)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1444253126`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Opera Norway AS
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (28,599 ratings)
- **Version:** 8.9.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-08
- **First published:** 2019-02-03
- **Size:** 92 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-24
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/opera-news-breaking-local/id1444253126)
- **Website:** [https://www.opera.com](https://www.opera.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://legal.apexnews.com/privacy](https://legal.apexnews.com/privacy)

## Description

Opera News is a personalized news aggregator that delivers national and international breaking headlines from 500+ trusted publishers. It highlights stories that matter to you with breaking and trending headlines, customizable categories and topics, a data-saving mode, and offline reading of saved articles. 

Trusted by over 350 million users, Opera News keeps you informed with fast updates, push notifications for important events, and easy bookmarking of favorite stories for later.

## Rankings

- #9,148 — Overall
- #41 — news
- #77 — break

## Review summary

Users generally praise Opera News for timely, accurate reporting and overall content quality. However, multiple reviews highlight major downsides: intrusive ads and pop-ups, clickbait headlines, frustrating navigation and access to stories, disruptive alerts, and the lack of a read-later/favorites feature. These recurring issues significantly detract from the experience, suggesting the app’s value is marred by ads and usability problems despite its solid news content.

### Pros

- Accurate and timely news delivery
- High-quality, informative reporting
- Generally positive user reception and perceived value of the content

### Cons

- Excessive ads and intrusive pop-ups that disrupt reading
- Clickbait and misleading headlines that lead to Home pages or hinder trust
- Navigation and article access issues (difficulty finding/opening stories, redirects, limited in-app search)
- Constant alerts/notifications that interrupt use
- Cannot save articles or favorites (no read-later feature)

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