VOA News

VOA (Voice of America)

About this app

The free, *official* Voice of America (VOA) mobile / tablet application serves news to your mobile device or tablet. VOA operates one of the world's largest international news media networks on TV, radio and digital properties with a total weekly audience of more than 200 million people around the world, including Africa, The Middle East, Asia and beyond. To do this, VOA employs more than 3,500 journalists, focused on countries without a free or established press or free and open internet access.

The news application features:

- Enjoy photos, video, audio and text content
- Hear podcasts and newscasts on demand
- Download stories, videos, and photos for offline reading, watching, and listening
- Customizable interface
- Stream multimedia
- Offline-downloading and saving of news content for later enjoyment
- Social media sharing on Facebook, Twitter, email and other platforms

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Ratings and reviews

This app was really good but suddenly it is not. Now there are "forced" notifications of news articles (which I could block) but this major new version of the app (unannounced) truncates articles at a particular number of lines so you can not read the whole article! The new version also starts playing audio by default which is really bad since often that is not appropriate. The developer feedback email address bounces and office 360 says it does not exist.

I listen to VOA programs ever since I was a little kid. Now it's already my habit to listen to those VOA guys talking almost every day. Thank you and would you please explore more happy programs for us to listen daily. Global situation too heartbreaking in recent years.

I was glad to find this app. It brought back memories of how I found VOA and others channe surfing on sw and mw. However, nostalgia won't make up for the lack of background playback! I can't put on some headphones, lock the screen and throw my phone into my pocket! I can't even navigate away from something I'm listening to browse other content! It seems this and some other functionality used to be in older versions. Please put them back! They are fundamental to a good media playback experience.

What's new

The VOA app has a new design and improved access to VOA content! The features you enjoyed before are include along with built-in support for circumvention tools and access to VOA content in 40 languages.