SmartNews: Local Breaking News

SmartNews, Inc.

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About this app

SmartNews is the award-winning news app downloaded by 50+ million readers in 150+ countries!

SmartNews analyzes millions of articles every day to deliver the top trending news stories influencing the world right now.

SmartNews delivers high-quality news headlines and breaking news from top news publishers: NBC News, MSNBC, USA Today, TIME, The Huffington Post, Bleacher Report, Quartz, The Verge, VICE, VOX, AP, Reuters, Buzzfeed, Fast Company and more.

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“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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Breaking News --
Notifications for breaking news headlines.

Smart Mode --
Readability mode for optimal news reading experience.

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Awarded Best News App:
- Best App of the Year, 2013 (Japan) - Google

Ratings and reviews

I like the app but all of a sudden, it starts playing music/voices which come our of nowhere narrating ads. Always unexpected, always at a bad time, and always incredibly annoying. There is no way that I can find to silence the sounds on just the smartnews app. I had this problem a few months ago, and it resolved on its own. But now its back! I cannot open the app at work or around other people. Kinda sucks. This is the only app that does this, so it isn't my phone.

Useless notification system. Turned off all notifications. It will give you a notification of a need story. Then you click the story. The story doesn't open. It opens some thinned down home page with like 10 stories in it and the one I clicked isn't even in there half the time. The old system was much better. Just common sense. Click the story, open the story. How is that difficult?

Absolute garbage. Originally the app loved to block news content with junk ads, also forcing an ad overlay whenever you'd try to go back to main list of articles. Now it plays some junk music, all the time, no matter where in the app you are, while there are no ads to close. Quality of news articles compiled in this app are nowhere near the top anyway, and there are better options available. Not worth the time it took to install it. Devs had years to improve it, but instead chose the opposite.

What's new

- New publishers include TBR Football, Gfinity Esports and more!