# SmartNews: Breaking News

> Read in English or Spanish

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id579581125](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id579581125)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id579581125`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** SmartNews, Inc.
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 4.60 / 5 (928,822 ratings)
- **Version:** 26.9.10
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-07
- **First published:** 2014-10-01
- **Size:** 231 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-14
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/smartnews-breaking-news/id579581125)
- **Website:** [https://www.smartnews.com/](https://www.smartnews.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.smartnews.com/privacy](https://www.smartnews.com/privacy)

## Description

**SmartNews** brings trusted journalism from thousands of publishers into one personalized news app. Read breaking local, national, and global stories from sources including Reuters, AP, Bloomberg, TIME, USA Today, and more. Follow politics, sports, entertainment, health, weather, traffic, and travel news in one convenient feed.

Translate articles into Spanish, Chinese, and other languages with one tap, customize your news channels, and catch up wherever you are. SmartNews also offers rewards for reading articles and completing daily missions, with eligible users able to redeem points for gift cards or charitable donations. Rewards availability is limited to qualifying residents and regions in the United States.

## Rankings

- #457 — Overall
- #8 — news
- #27 — break
- #52 — smart
- #77 — reddit

## Review summary

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.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id579581125)