NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts

Particle Media Inc.

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About this app

Get daily news alerts & updates on current events sent straight to your phone, because a small news reader makes a big difference to communities! Keep up to date with news that impacts you & your community! Read trending headlines on live local news updates, international news, weather alerts, & more!

Small news makes a big difference! NewsBreak is your #1 local news app for current events, free live news, local weather alerts for your community. Download today to stay up to date on all things local!

Local news is different from national US news, trending headlines or global news. NewsBreak believes that local news helps bring neighborhoods together around the unique stories they share in common. Only local, small news has the unique ability to meaningfully inform the decisions we make throughout the day.

Are there any weather alerts or winter storm updates for my area? What about traffic updates? What important events are happening nearby? Stay updated with a crime map for the neighborhood & check for local weather alerts. Join NewsBreak’s growing local news community & see why over 45M people across the United States have helped make us the nation’s #1 local news app!

Remember - we don’t just do small news! Local breaking news, sports news, trending national & international news – NewsBreak’s got it all. Get everything from sports updates to national news headlines & live stream news sent straight to your phone while coming together with your neighborhood to share interesting conversations related to local news in your area.

Join the 45M+ locals across the U.S. that trust NewsBreak as their #1 local news app!

NewsBreak Features:

Local News Highlights
• Get local news, traffic, events near by, local weather alerts, news widget, & more in a curated daily briefing
• Live stream news on local channels: follow local news, events, newspapers, & activities
• Get local weather reports & traffic updates at a glance

Breaking News, National & Local
• Both small news & breaking news, stay up to date with our current news coverage
• Daily news aggregated right onto your device
• Browse national news headlines & read comprehensive, in-depth stories
• Use the discovery engine to discover stories from over 10,000 trusted sources

Personalized News Feed
• Get the stories that matter to you with a highly personalized feed, relevant to your likes & dislikes
• Get coverage on the tv news that matters most to you, including sports news, business news, tech news, health news, real estate news, science news, finance news, celebrity news, market news, & more!
• Keep up with the latest coverage of headline news & events, nationally & locally!
• Our news aggregator collects & delivers the news that matters to you
• Get news alerts customized to your tastes to make NewsBreak your personalized news reader

Your Community News
• Find local eats, small news updates, traffic alerts, deals, local shopping, & more ahead of time
• Read personal & vivid stories from our local news writers & content creators
• Treat us as your personal newsstand, magazine collector, news picker, blog reader, restaurant reviewer, & more
• Stay updated with daily life, events near you, & neighborhood crime with the local safety map

Create Civic Value - Support the Cause
• Use NewsBreak to revive the local news maker ecosystem & support small US news publishers
• Increase local story volume & geographic coverage to stimulate local storytelling & community power

Follow or Block the Trend - It’s Up to You
• It’s totally cool to stay on top of some topics, or totally hate them!
• NewsBreak allows you to follow what is trending, or completely block some topics you don’t appreciate
• You can laugh, share, think, cry, upvote, downvote, comment, reply...
• NewsBreak is a free ground that welcomes you to express emotions & opinions

Download NewsBreak today to stay informed on local news, national headlines, & world news!

Better informed, better life.

Ratings and reviews

More ads than news. Plus, once I fell asleep while reading an article and since there was an ad on the screen (that popped up after I fallen asleep) and my phone's 5 min timer of inactivity did not turn off as it thought I was watching 2 hours of ads. So my phone stayed on for 2 hours while I dozed off, draining my battery. How dumb.

I am frustrated with two things in the Newsbreak app. First, the app doesn't have the capability to view articles on the web, unlike other news apps such as Google News and Flipboard. Second, I am concerned about the continued display of video ads, such as Temu ads and ads from other entities. I have repeatedly marked these ads as "inappropriate" through the feedback function, but they continue to appear. This is frustrating and disruptive, and it makes me less likely to use the Newsbreak app!.

It is nice to read local news, but headlines are repeatedly filled with click bait statements that aren't even true. The ads are also intrusive in that my phone cannot easily close the app once an ad begins unless I force close the app. I don't want to be stuck on an ad when I just read a few sentences of an article and am trying to back out of the app.