USA TODAY

- September 1, 2016

Everyone

News & Magazines

( 43,894)

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Description

From Pulitzer Prize winning storytelling, photography, videos, full 360-degree experiences and virtual reality, we’re now able to not only tell the news, but allow you to be completely immersed in it. Browse headlines and read about breaking news happening nationally and locally including News, Sports, Entertainment, Technology, Travel, Money, and Weather with a swipe. The new app design has also been streamlined to give you a deeper, richer, more visually-stimulating storytelling experience so you can get in, get out, and get on with your day.

FEATURES:
• USA TODAY NETWORK: National and state-by-state stories keep you connected, covering the issues that matter most to you 24/7. Elect to add up to five of our local properties to get your community news added to your feed.
• BREAKING NEWS: Get news as it breaks by opting in for push notifications on News, Sports, Life, Money or Tech.
• PHOTOS AND VIDEOS: Experience headlines through captivating videos and photos. Amazing galleries cover everything from news to entertainment, sports and tech, to weather and money.
• VIRTUAL REALITY: Be in the center of where the news happens with 360-degree video and virtual reality content.
• SCORES: Join the most active and engaged community of sports fans in America. Stay up to speed on your favorite players and teams with scores, schedules, and in-depth stories. View all the latest sports scores for NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS, and more.
• ENTERTAINMENT: See the stars and get inside access. Go behind the scenes and know what’s in and what’s out with celebrities, fashion, music, movies, TV, awards shows, books, and more.
• STOCKS: Get a clear picture of the financial world, from stocks and IPOs to taxes and takeovers. Get personal finance tips and advice to improve your portfolio.
• ANDROID WEAR: Receive news alerts for stories as they happen and save to read later.
• WEATHER: Live weather, hourly to 10-day forecasts. Customize location settings and always be prepared with daily forecasts from your hometown or any major city in the nation and around the world.
• NIGHT MODE: Enable this feature in Settings to view the app using switch/view my app with a black background and white text.
Enable location services to customize local weather news and other location-based services. (Continued use of GPS running in background can decrease battery life.)

TELL US WHAT YOU THINK:
Our app features are constantly being improved based on your feedback, so we welcome you to tell us what you love and what you’d like to see more (or less) of. Contact us at: usatodaymobile@usatoday.com or on Twitter @usatodaymobile. For additional information, please visit http://www.usatoday.com/mobile-apps.

Reviews

4.1

43,894 total

5 23,118

4 10,504

3 3,868

2 2,028

1 4,186

Richard Buchanan

Screen scrolls to ads Ever since the last update, the screen automatically scrolls to the ad displayed on that page. I have gone to hit a link in an article many times just to have it scroll to the ad and I hit the ad instead of the link. It is annoying and just feeds USA Today's pocket with ad money. Will gladly stop using the app if this continues, I can get my news elsewhere.

Mike Brodeur

Good App but very intrusive ads Been using the app for a while and, while I like it, the ads are becoming more and more intrusive. Try scrolling down through headlines and the screen actively jumps around as ads load. The news stories are inundated with them. Many of them flash which is distracting...in a bad way. I don't mind ad supported content but this is getting out of hand.

David B

Ad Issue and Liberal Leanings Like others have said, the app tends to jump around as ads load, causing mis-clicks on the articles. Also, I have noticed a steady shift to left biased articles over the last year as the election nears. I used to love USAT because of the fact that the articles always appeared neutral... Not anymore. Disgusting.

Harry Rivera

As untrustworthy as crooked hillary If you're going to trying to destroy Donald Trump, do it in your editorial section. Don't spin the facts in favor of another candidate that has failed in every aspect of leadership and steals from the very same people she claims she is trying to help. I'm deleting this app in favor of a REAL journalism app.

Joseph Fong

Unstable app and too many in-your-face-face ads USA Today was my go-to app for news and interesting articles. However, the app is very unstable and hangs. Sometimes it's very difficult to go back in. Also, while I'm a supporter of ads, the app now is aggressively showcasing the ads. The pages jump as the oversize ads loads and oftentimes as I am clicking to read a certain article, I end up clicking the wrong link. Will use for the next week to see if any improvement. If not or if plain annoying, I will delete the app. Maybe time to end the madness!

Kimchi Kim

Perfect They have comprehensible articles over a wide variety of subjects. Even so, a wide variety can be found within each subject. There are a few typos at times, but that can only be expected. There are adds, but not too many and it really doesn't interrupt the reading. They have political cartoons, videos, and articles. Perfect for a quick news update or a morning reading at the table.

User reviews

Richard Buchanan September 8, 2016

Mike Brodeur September 7, 2016

David B September 23, 2016

Harry Rivera September 22, 2016

Joseph Fong September 7, 2016

Kimchi Kim September 2, 2016

Chris Perez September 12, 2016

Format change is terrible Aside from the screen jumping around to pull their ads into view while reading something, Twitter links and videos open within the USA Today app instead of the native app, so you can't actually watch the things. Annoying and useless.

Ronnie G. September 6, 2016

Great app setup, but issues with bias This app has a great user interface. It all makes sense when you use it, it really works well. When I first got this app a few years ago, it had very little bias in the standard news they show. Now, around election time, there seems to be a much stronger left-wing bias within the app. If you are looking for that, it's a great app, but don't use it thinking that it is unbiased.

Kathy Tweed September 2, 2016

What happened? Appears that I'm having the same problem as some other folks, can't get the app to stay opened. Tried deleting & reinstalling, changing backup options, launching from main app and still not working. If there is a USA Today person reading the reviews, let me know if fix coming or just delete the app. Thank you!

Robert Brodeur September 9, 2016

App is working, but content blah! App works and gives good updates on breaking news. Although the Liberal Media side of report is too strong. They used to be pretty fair and impartial like a true news source should report only the facts. Not twist the news to meet personal agendas.

Susan Manley September 18, 2016

Frustrating app could be great With the latest update, I can't just scroll through the stories. The app "jumps" to the ads I'm apparently supposed to see. Then I have to scroll back up to the headline I was looking for. Since there are so many ads, it's even more frustrating to use the app now. Please fix this issue.

Mike Zottola September 19, 2016

Need to reconsider # of breaking news alerts I wish the app had a notification feature to only receive the significant/ major news stories. i.e. 1-2 notifications a day, MAX. I like USA Today, but an important feature of a news app to me is the ability to get not.s if (and only if) something is news worthy. I disabled all notifications in the app except the "breaking news" box and still manage to get 10+ notifications a day. Sometimes I get 3 in a stretch of just a couple minutes. If addressed, I'd change my rating to be 5 stars.

Pat McCoy September 5, 2016

Not very accurate Weather section says Jan on all the past and future dates, even though today is Feb 26. REALLY? Info is not accurate either. Latest update has ruined what used to be a nice app.

Renaldo Gordon September 14, 2016

Intrusive Ads The new impeded ads are horrible as they make smooth scrolling nearly impossible and cause the screen to constantly jump around. On a side note, pay no attention to the trolls complaining of "Liberal bias." USA Today has never endorsed any candidate for President and they always have editorials from BOTH sides of the political spectrum.

USA TODAY June 29, 2015

Hi Renaldo, thanks for updating your review. We are troubleshooting the feed issue right now, hopefully it will stabilize very soon. We appreciate your readership! - The USA TODAY Android Team

Alvin Shin August 31, 2016

Love USA TODAY but app is jinxed See USA TODAY (paper form) launched in the 80's, went to a college that got donations from Gannett and then work for USA TODAY...how cool is that! But I can't even kept it open for more than 30 seconds.S U C K S!

Rob Hamilton September 2, 2016

Ads Out of Control The ads in this app are insane. There are unstoppable streaming video ads within text articles that load automatically over mobile that waste precious mobile data. Gotta draw the line somewhere.

Mark Thomas September 1, 2016

Like but huge app I like this news app. Very good reporting of major issues. The file size is 209 mb. If it gets any bigger I'll have to delete it.

Stephen Miller September 20, 2016

Update fail App wont stay open after latest update. Why do they have to keep messing with what used to be good? To cram more ads in I guess. Goodbye USA today!

Brant Burgiss September 18, 2016

I want news, not sensationalism Older versions of this app were good. Straight news, photos, and videos. Now there is this horrible eye-candy version, which offers no redeeming quality. If I wanted little more than a veiled advertisement app, I would have installed Candy crush. Uninstalling.

Richard Bentoski September 14, 2016

News with inappropriate Ads I've been a longtime user of USA Today both in app form and online but recently the ads being shown in the app are more frequent and often times inappropriate. Each time I see one of these ads I mark it as such and open it later only to see either the same ad or one just as bad. I posted on social media and tagged USA Today in it as a show of frustration for this reason. If I saw another inappropriate ad I was deleting the app and using a different service. Today was that day. Good for news, bad for ads.

J Jac September 1, 2016

No longer working Crashes after the last two updates don't waste your time installing. For a major news organization do not understand why they can't get an app to work. No longer a USA Today reader.

Mel Rothkin September 12, 2016

Does not work on my Samsung tablet. Starts to open, then shuts down and goes right back to my home screen. Does work on my Samsung 7S smartphone though. I prefer using the bigger screen on my on my tablet for reading the USA TODAY.

Bill Blose September 3, 2016

Downhill, bad This used to be my go to app for news and information. All the ads, videos, and autoscrolling have turned it into an aggravating mess. Hogs data, and forces you to ads abruptly. I'm moving on to a new source for news. Bye Felicia!

Kerry Wilkinson September 7, 2016

Jumps to ads?! One of the recent updates has the main page and article pages jumping down to ads once they load, even if you've already gone past it. It's extremely annoying and makes it difficult to keep one's spot. I don't read for the ads, so don't yank me to them.

Sierra Marie Smalley September 11, 2016

Stopped working on my tablet App worked fine for months and the most recent update won't open the app at all. Very frustrating.

Dan MacKinlay September 4, 2016

Data hog I like the app but it eats up way too much data. Burned through 150 mb in one day. Actually used more than Netflix. Not sure what it is downloading.

Jane Perryman September 14, 2016

The article just posted by Nate Scott regarding the ACC pulling out of NC is surprisingly opinionated. ACC has LBGT's back??? Who has the back of the remaining 96.5% of us? I'm unsubscribing!

August 30, 2016

Crash constantly The app crashes every 2 minutes on LG F Pad. Don't know if it 's the app or the tablet. I am sending the tablet back to LG service center.

Timothy Booth September 14, 2016

May as well be Entertainment Tonight Not one hard news story on the Dakota Access Pipeline battle, but at least 2 on New York Fashion Week and another on America's Got Talent. If you're looking for legit news, look elsewhere.

Alan J September 6, 2016

Hate it..new layout sucks.. New layout sucks for mobile use. Big bubbles for stories is crap..time to dump the ap. What caused form to trump function.

Rudy M September 14, 2016

Too many moving pics. Get dizzy while trying to read.

Michael Gibbons September 1, 2016

Junk Installed adaway to get rid of the DAMN ads you people want to shove in my face. Thank you for making it adfree. Works very well thanks to adaway!!!!

Lorrie Michener September 4, 2016

Will not open, crashes 9/4/16 New install 8/25 did not fix. Only thing that works is alerts. Don't install! Uninstalling until fixed.

Nora Bello September 8, 2016

After last update, can't access app When I try to get into app, I get kicked out, can't access news. Please fix.

Michael Arlt September 5, 2016

Burns data Used to be good, now it frequently crashes. It burned through 1.25 GB of mobile data running in the background overnight. Uninstalling.

T Peter September 2, 2016

New update, same issues... Starts then looks like it's loading then self terminates. Can't use it. Waited long enough... Good bye.

September 3, 2016

Really Loved and used USA hourly over the years, first the new format and now full page ads. I have to delete my old friend..

Kyle Bernander September 5, 2016

Typical free news Article quality is weak but timeliness is strong. App eats data from unnecessary photos

Jeff S September 18, 2016

News is good...ads suck! Annoying popup ads! Time to get rid of them...or give them their own category.

August 31, 2016

Stop auto scrolling to ads!!!!! I get you need ads but for the love of God quit with the auto scrolling, was a great app before but this has me seriously reconsidering where I get my news from.

What's New

• NIGHT MODE: Enable this feature in Settings to view the app using switch/view my app with a black background and white text.

• WEATHER: Get instant weather information for your location by tapping on the new geo-locator icon on the Weather module and in the Weather search screen.