# CGTN

> China Global TV Network

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id922456579](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id922456579)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id922456579`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** China Global Television Network Corp.
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 4.40 / 5 (395 ratings)
- **Version:** 6.6.5
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-08
- **First published:** 2014-11-05
- **Size:** 137 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-18
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cgtn/id922456579)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.cgtn.com/privacy](https://www.cgtn.com/privacy)

## Description

CGTN is a multilingual news app that delivers a balanced mix of global and China-focused coverage. It features exclusive breaking news, in-depth stories, and live streams across politics, business, technology, science, sports, nature, and culture.

With five languages, rich audiovisual content, notifications, offline reading-friendly design, search, and the ability to like, save, and share stories—plus AI and AR features and zero ads—the CGTN extension keeps you informed on the go.

## Rankings

- #81,915 — Overall

## Review summary

Reviews consistently praise CGTN for offering non-Western perspectives, especially Chinese viewpoints, and for being ad-free with abundant news. Users also cite strong usability and language/translation features. Recurrent concerns focus on perceived bias toward China, notification handling problems, and several UI/UX glitches (settings, live TV orientation, audio controls). Overall, the app is valued for accessibility and breadth, but reliability of notifications and some interface issues are commonly flagged.

### Pros

- Provides diverse international perspectives, including a Chinese viewpoint, beyond Western media
- Ad-free and free to access
- User-friendly design with a modern, updated interface
- Rich content with lots of news and multilingual/translation options

### Cons

- Perceived political bias or propaganda toward Chinese/anti-Western viewpoints (bias concerns)
- Notification issues: activation is unclear, notifications can clear other alerts, and occasional disruptive push timings
- Usability/UX glitches reported by multiple users (e.g., settings screen blank, live TV orientation issues, and audio control problems)

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id922456579)