Drudge Report (Official)

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Last verified 31 Jul 2026

1.3 1030 ratings · App Store

1. 1/5Literal Fake News Aggregator

   Drudge was supposedly sold off to a Chinese-linked corporate interest several years ago. It’s why they link to the most clickbaity, nonsensical “news” they can find. It’s hard to even call it left wing because I think it’s purely about rage baiting right wingers and getting clicks. For example, just the other day they linked to a story, and the link said “JD VANCE ADMITS HIS MARRIAGE IS UNDER PRESSURE JUST AFTER HIS WIFE IS SEEN WITHOUT RING”. But then you click on the link, read the story, and realize that the story states that JD Vance said “We laugh at the rumors. Our marriage has never been stronger.” One of my favorite headlines from Drudge over the past 5 years was “THE NIGHT IT ALL ENDED” after the Trump vs. Kamala debate, implying that he lost the election that night. That didn’t age well, did it? Then, just before Election Day, they were hyping up that nonsensical Selzer poll showing that Trump was losing Iowa (they constantly shill biased polls and act like polls matter, despite the past 10 years being evidence to the contrary). It’s basically just a Trump Derangement Syndrome/TMZ aggregate at this point. I miss the days of old when Drudge was actually a quality collection of news articles. 0/5 stars

   TimMMJR · 31 Jul 2026

2. 1/5Why

   Why did you think it would be a good idea for the app to load in full page mode as the default? The text is so tiny on a mobile device. That means as soon as I start the app I have to find the little almost invisible column button to read anything. Then when I switch to that view I get an enormous ad that takes up the top third of the screen making it impossible to see anything while I’m scrolling. The app used to be my go-to app for news in part because I could read things so quickly. Now it’s cumbersome and painful to use. I’m clearly not the only person displeased. Please revert to an earlier style!

   Wdihtgyafn · 31 Jul 2026

3. 1/5Good content, horrible UI

   Deeply bad UI, an absolutely amateur job by any reasonable standard. The semi transparent unusable column buttons at the bottom are ridiculously unhelpful. Have you looked at any other existing app that renders news content before making this? Chatgpt would have done a much better job for free, I guarantee you. Everyone here complaining in the app store comments clearly loves Drudge (the site, the content) and wanted this app to work out. But this is a terrible, embarrassing mess. You can safely fire whoever built this and get actual professional help from a competent app agency and redo this from scratch. This is truly one of the worst app experiences I’ve had in a very long time. So disappointing! Definitely tarnishes the Drudge brand for me.

   Jamesb1994 · 31 Jul 2026

4. 1/5Garbage UI, garbage content.

   Where do I start in reviewing this dumpster fire? 1) The user interface defaults to the desktop view of all three columns at once. Maybe ok on a 13” iPad, but absolute trash on a phone. Sure I can switch it to one column at a time, but there’s no way to have a single column containing all the article links like we’ve been used to for years. 2) The ads. Ads at the top, ads at the bottom, a third of the dang SETTINGS page covered in ads. And heaven forbid you actually tap a link; there’s a good chance you will get an ad so large that it covers the entire screen even after zooming out. And you can’t close the ad. You literally have to force quit the app, relaunch, and hope you can open a link without the ad. 3) Content. This isn’t specific to this version of the app, per se, but it seems worse than before. The most click-baity headlines from UK gossip rags I’ve ever seen. Sites that are 80% ads and 20% AI slop articles. 4) Timely updates are a joke - Did you read about the quake in Japan yesterday? No? Because it never made the headlines despite every other news source covering it. We get stale headlines that sit there for 24 hours+ If you want news I recommend any other app out there. If you want to give your phone cancer from garbage sites, all while lining Matt’s pockets with ad revenue then, by all means, use this new app.

   mistersimon · 31 Jul 2026

5. 1/5Horrible “Update”

   Congrats Drudge! You have now taken an amazing user friendly app and made it about as frustrating as possible! The new “update” is horrible on an iPhone! You now have to manually zoom in to read the headlines and many links don’t seem to be operational. Not to mention the immediate pop up add that forces you to zoom out in order to click the tiny “close” button in the top right corner. I’ve used Drudge Report since it was first published and have always been a huge supporter. Unfortunately now it seems I’ll need to find another alternative for news. Not because I want something new but because this is no longer a viable platform…sad way to self destruct for no apparent reason. I’ve heard Sub-Stack and News Underground are good alternatives…

   LowertheBOOM · 31 Jul 2026

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