Google News

Name: Google News
Rating: 4.6 (226262 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

(226,262) 3 ratings

Version:

5.119 Last updated: 2026-06-16

Version code:

886990812

Creation date:

2011-12-08

Compatible devices:

Size:

162.80MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-07-02

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 1,858 ▼ 4

Other rankings

#2 in news keyword 34

#4 in technology keyword 33

#13 in article keyword 30

#18 in info keyword 23 ▲ 2

#24 in yahoo keyword 29 ▼ 3

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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

This used to be my "go to" news source. Now, almost every item of news has a paywall, and you have to go somewhere else to get even the basic facts. Also, there is more sports stories than anything else, and you can't filter out this worthless junk.

by r1*****, 2026-06-28

I spent more time closing ads in the news stories than actually reading them.

by Ev*****, 2026-06-27

The world news section is an embarrassment. Maybe 10 articles at most, that’s it. Other sections may have twice as much, but as far as world news goes, it’s a joke. This is Google, not a myopic high school news paper