Google News

Name: Google News
Rating: 4.6 (226287 reviews)
Author: Google

By: Google

Top world & local news stories

Features & Capabilities

Google News is a personalized news aggregator that helps you catch up quickly on the stories that matter, highlighting top local and world headlines. With Your Briefing, Local News, Full Coverage, and Stories For You, you’ll see what’s important to you and how it’s being reported.

Access your personalized feed across devices—pair the mobile app with the desktop site to stay up to date anywhere.

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By:

Google

Rating:

4.60

(226,287) 12 ratings

Version:

5.118 Last updated: 2026-05-28

Version code:

886206720

Creation date:

2011-12-08

Compatible devices:

Size:

161.41MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-06

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 1,838 ▼ 3

Other rankings

#2 in news keyword 33

#3 in technology keyword 44 ▲ 1

#13 in article keyword 32

#20 in info keyword 19

#22 in google keyword 96 ▲ 2

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Developed by:

Google

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-news/id459182288

Website:

https://news.google.com/about/

User Reviews

Google News is valued as a one-stop hub for headlines from many outlets, but reviews consistently condemn it for intrusive ads and paywalls that block reading, frequent rendering errors, and perceived political bias. The aggregation feature is praised by some, yet the user experience is frequently hampered by technical issues and gating content rather than providing accessible, readable articles.

Pros

Aggregates multiple news stories in one place (a convenient one-stop hub).
Offers a broad view of headlines from various outlets.
Some users find it to be a generally useful source for quick headlines.
Allows quick overview of multiple topics at a glance.

Cons

Excessive and intrusive ads, including popups and auto-loading ads that disrupt reading.
Most articles are behind paywalls or lead to subscription prompts, limiting readable content.
Frequent rendering/display errors ('content cannot be displayed', 'error displaying content') and crashes.
Perceived political bias or ideological slant in many sources.
Limited customization and source management (no night mode or font size option; inability to hide sources).

Recent reviews

It should be called gaslighting news. I have to go to actual trustworthy news websites, ABC or NBC or BBC even Al Jazeera is more reliable than gaslighting news. What do you expect from a company that decided to rename THE GULF OF MEXICO.

by Dr*****, 2026-05-28

Pop ups galore, crashes constantly auto scroll when you’re reading to move the advertisement up top. Close a pop up and it comes back 5 seconds later. Close the pop up 5 times, then the article crashes and you get oops something went wrong. Apple News never crashes. This crashes nearly 70% of all the articles I read.

by UW*****, 2026-05-23

The Google News app is nowhere near as good as just using the website in a browser. The settings don’t properly control autoplay videos, and the app constantly hangs while scrolling — then suddenly a video blasts on screen. Even worse, most story links don’t return back to the app correctly, so you end up having to completely close the app just to get back to the home page. Frustrating experience overall and I would not recommend using the app.