Name: SmartNews: Local Breaking News
Rating: 4.63672 (816230 reviews)
Author: SmartNews, Inc.

87.7LEGITIMACY SCORE
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SmartNews helps you discover balanced, unbiased stories—for free. Connect with the world around you through editor curation and state-of-the-art algorithms. Whether it's politics, local coverage, sports, or entertainment, feeling good about being informed has never been easier.

Stay in the loop with news from top publishers: NBC News, MSNBC, USA Today, TIME, The Huffington Post, Bleacher Report, Quartz, The Verge, VICE, VOX, AP, Reuters, Buzzfeed, Fast Company.

SmartNews has 50 million downloads, 2+ million 5-star ratings, thousands of trusted publishers, and was the "Best Local News App" of 2022 according to BestApp.com.

INTRODUCING SMARTTAKE
Skip the misinformation, sensationalism, and biased news with SmartTake. A free comprehensive daily digest of balanced information focused on helping you feel good about being informed. Thoughtfully curated by our team of award-winning editors, SmartTake is here to feed your brain—not your bias—with local, entertainment, sports, politics, and science. Say goodbye to endless doomscrolling, and say hello to enriching your understanding of the world around you.

Balanced News
- Get access to stories that are free of bias—no paywalls ever.
- See coverage from every angle and all sides.
-Discover balanced, non-partisan information you can trust.

Political News
- Get prepared for the polls today with top stories from across the political spectrum.
- See trusted political news for free with up-to-the-minute insights.
- Understand political candidates and elections in your local area.

Trusted Sources
-We partner with thousands of credible publishers to bring you unbiased news from all sides.
-Our team of award-winning journalists validates content to ensure it meets our high-quality requirements.
- Read reliable breaking news coverage for your area for free.

Entertainment News
-Get an inside look at entertainment in Hollywood with updates about all things celebrity from movie stars to reality TV
-Discover news about upcoming movies or TV shows featuring your favorite actors.
-Set notifications and follow entertainment topics so you never miss a breaking celebrity story.
-Read news about the Oscars, Hollywood, Movie Stars, Fashion Week, and more.

Local News
-Get relevant local stories from top trusted publishers based on your location.
-Easily learn about the latest coverage and information for your hometown with the Local tab.
-Discover local updates, traffic, events, local weather, new restaurants, family activities, and so much more.

Sports News
-Welcome to your spot for sports stories.
-Get daily articles highlighting the latest games, teams, players, and sporting events.
-Set custom notifications for your favorite teams.
-See news about football, basketball, golf, tennis, soccer, and more.

SmartTake
-Stay informed while prioritizing mental health and advancing overall well-being.
-Get the balanced news in the form of three trending articles delivered straight to the top of your feed for free.
-Easily discover featured uplifting, informative, and important news stories alongside easy-to-digest summaries.

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SmartNews in the News

"Browse headlines quickly, customize your channels, and read the news offline. SmartNews is an excellent free alternative to other popular news apps."
- CNET

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SmartNews Awards

Best News Aggregator, 2023 (US)
Lifewire

Best Free News App, 2023 (US)
MakeUseOf

Best News App, 2023 (US)
AndroidCentral

Best Local News App, 2022 (US)
Bestapp

Best App of the Year, 2013 (Japan)
Google

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Reviews

"Better than Feedly or Flipboard. Love it!" Joe C.

"Much better than the new version of Apple News." - Donald B.

"Been using Google News but this is better. Much easier to share." Nikki H.

"Literally, one of the best news apps… It ranks with the likes of BBC News." -Lorraine C.

*Terms of Service
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https://www.smartnews.com/terms/

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✓ Too many annoying pop-up adsI like this app to get news across many different sources. It is good except for one glaring annoyance, the pop-up ads that make you sit there and wait for an x to appear. I have been using this app for years and have watched it get more and more annoying with the pop-up ads. The latest is where it brings up the ad and makes you wait until the x slowly fades in to close it. Even worse, if you click on the x before it fully fades in, it takes you to the link in the ad that you are trying to close. This is so annoying that I refuse to be part of it. When that type of pop-up ad appears, I close the app, and get my news from other sources. Not one time has that type of ad worked with me. Waiting for an ad, that I can read in one second or less, to fade in the x so I can close it has not resulted in me wanting the app or service advertised. I have never, on purpose, clicked on the link. What it has accomplished is me closing the app. I support having ads on this free app. In order for this app to remain free, there needs to be revenue creation. This particular ad style is not the way. It does not, at least for me, help achieve the revenue goals that are desired..WarpstreamVersion: 23.2.20

✓ ReviewI absolutely love this application I found it by accident within the first 30 days you came out and I’ve been using it since I recommend it to all of my friends but there is one floor that fathers actually two floors that I would like to correct first floor is the ability to leave a review about an article read through your service and I would like the ability or have an area where we could have reviews for article and then go and find them or leave them etc. because some of the stories that you put out through no fault of your own make people look like a circus clown and I would like to comment on this check Rudy Giuliani for example there’s nowhere else to go with that one anyway moving forward if you could add that feature I appreciate it second feature if there’s a way to send a News app I guess so better to my phone saying breaking story if I want to add that feature is that available?t do you only problem is too many commercials..MlanceVersion: 23.9.10

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✗ The Era of dumb apps continuesAfter reading an article and going back to main screen, the application reloads the articles and jumps you to the top. Thanks for losing my spot for two new articles that are actually days old and I’ve already seen, you think. Then begin to scroll through the articles again to try to find where you previously were. With no help at all from the app, this will happen over and over. So you open up the settings believing the creators would give you the ability to prevent such a thing, applications used to provide customizations for almost everything, surely there is a way to prevent this madness. Unfortunately, you only find a couple of unhelpful options and details about the app and/or how to leave a review. The creators appear to know exactly what we want, so I suppose there is no need to let us configure anything. If you’re thinking, all the other iOS news apps do the same thing, you’d be exactly right. Now you know this app does it too and will hopefully save you time from trying this app thinking you’re going to get something better. Which I guarantee is what they want you to think based off their unique name..WxwyzVersion: 6.0.3

✗ Fox is not newsFox News is propaganda and The Province is a trash tabloid that doesn’t report facts. This is NOT smart news..JerMumfVersion: 6.13.0

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Is SmartNews: Local Breaking News legit?

✅ Yes. SmartNews: Local Breaking News is 100% legit to us. This conclusion was arrived at by running over 816,230 SmartNews: Local Breaking News user reviews through our NLP machine learning process to determine if users believe the app is legitimate or not. Based on this, AppSupports Legitimacy Score for SmartNews: Local Breaking News is 87.7/100.

Is SmartNews: Local Breaking News safe?

✅ Yes. SmartNews: Local Breaking News is quiet safe to use. This is based on our NLP analysis of over 816,230 user reviews sourced from the IOS appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 4.6/5. AppSupports Safety Score for SmartNews: Local Breaking News is 90.2/100.