SmartNews: Breaking News

Name: SmartNews: Breaking News
Rating: 4.6 (928593 reviews)
Author: SmartNews, Inc.

By: SmartNews, Inc. App

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Overview

Version:

26.7.40

Last updated: 2026-07-28

Features & Capabilities

SmartNews: Breaking News combines premium journalism with expert curation to help you stay informed—and feel good about your reading. Build your feed around your passions and access quality articles from trusted publishers across global, local, travel, politics, entertainment, sports, and health topics.

Features include location-based local coverage, travel updates, and balanced reporting from Bloomberg, TIME, Reuters, The Atlantic, The Verge, Vox, USA Today, AP, and more. Read offline, customize channels, and enjoy award-winning journalism designed for busy, curious readers.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App News & Magazines

By:

SmartNews, Inc.

Rating:

4.60

(928,593) 28 new ratings

Version:

26.7.40 Last updated: 2026-07-28

Version code:

888692064

Creation date:

2014-10-01

Compatible devices:

Size:

236.35MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-08-02

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 449 ▲ 1

Other rankings

#8 in news keyword 30 #26 in break keyword 10 ▲ #26 in smart keyword 33 ▲ 4#61 in reddit keyword 48 ▲

For Developers

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Developed by:

SmartNews, Inc.

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/smartnews-breaking-news/id579581125

Website:

https://www.smartnews.com/

User Reviews

Users praise SmartNews for a clean, diverse, usable news experience but complain repeatedly about intrusive ads and performance slowdowns. They dislike the new gamification of reading, reduced filtering options, and occasional mis-targeting of content by location. Overall sentiment is positive when it works, but the ad-heavy model and feature changes harm the experience.

Pros

Clean, direct news experience without engagement-driven tactics.
Diverse topics and high-quality content across sources.
Good layout and strong overall usability.
Long-time reliability and trust; regarded by many as a top news app.

Cons

Ad-heavy experience with intrusive ads and larger placements.
Ads cause performance problems, leading to freezes, slowdowns, and device overheating.
Gamification of reading with incentive points; no opt-out and undermines the reading experience.
Filtering and customization degraded: cannot block biased sources and 'see less' is ineffective.
Localization mis-targeting: US settings sometimes deliver UK news.

Recent reviews

Just dont add anymore ads!

by Lo*****, 2026-07-16

7/16/2026 App works well at first, but the longer I read articles, the slower it gets scrolling and closing. Soon the whole thing freezes up my iPad and affects it even after closing and clearing cache. The only remedy is to shut down the iPad and reboot it. It’s got to the point where I hesitate to read even interesting articles because of the anticipated downtime awaiting me. This needs to be fixed soon or I will not be using this again.