The best news apps. Chosen by the community.
38 news apps, chosen by the community. Top of this view: Deutschlandfunk — #32 overall. The overall rank spans all apps and changes with every vote. How the ranking works →
News apps are newspapers and magazines, aggregators, RSS readers and alert services. People searching here generally want to reach reliable information faster, without spending the day in the stream.
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Useful distinctions: who is behind the app, and is the imprint easy to find? Is paid content labelled as such? Is there a chronological view, or only a recommendation feed? Can push notifications be tuned so that not every breaking story wakes the phone? With subscriptions, what matters is what the price includes, whether it works abroad, and how straightforward cancelling is. And for all of them: news apps are usually ad-funded — looking at how many tracking services load at start-up, and what the consent banner actually offers, says more than any store description.
This list shows which apps the community recommends, ordered by upvotes minus downvotes. It rates the app and how it works, not the editorial line behind it — which sources you read stays a decision no ranking can make for you.
