Google News

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Last verified 30 Aug 2026

4.6 226206 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5Quick Free Source To Keep Up 2 Date

   I was originally using Apple News but then I decided I didn’t really want to pay an extra ten bucks a month when I can get all my day 2 day news from this app for FREE! I love how I can pick and choose the topics that interest me and get news feeds on it in real time. Don’t get me wrong I liked the idea of using Apple News as my main goal is to integrate all my stuff over to Apples ecosystem but I feel that 10 bucks a month for News nowadays is just asking a bit too much when people have so many other avenues they can go down which are either cheaper or in this case completely free. I will stick with my Google News for the time being as it gets the job done and it does it in style plus when someone is looking for anything what’s the term they tend to use??? Oh yeah! That’s right! They say “let me Google that” lol

   $ugar$hane89 · 30 Aug 2026

2. 1/5Just shutter this app already

   Worst news app with so much potential. First your google searches, gmail and any other google product you use absolutely factor into the news you are fed in this app. That’s not 100% bad but they fail to establish a threshold on what really matters to readers. If you search for cybertruck prepare to see 90% of the feed be about cybertruck for a week. If you tap on an article you will now see 30% more articles about that same article even if it is literally the source or a sourced article from the article you tapped on. Worst is the 3 dots by each article are specifically hard to tap on so even if you meant to block or have fewer shown you usually end up opening the article which just means you will see more articles on the same topic. This app appears to use a punishment model in that if you open any article you will now see that same article for weeks, even if new news comes out, that’s irrelevant to you bc you haven’t tapped on it yet. And the fact that you aren’t able to tap on it bc it hasn’t appeared in your feed 3 days later is probably your fault. Also ads break most articles. This app is still better than Apple News tho bc that is just like 5 articles per year or pay for every magazine you’ve ever heard of and read magazine news which is a month outdated… basically there are no good news apps on iOS so if you find a good news app never tell anyone bc it then bc awful due to greed (reddit).

   Nurlip · 30 Aug 2026

3. 1/5Avoid at All Costs

   Google stands astride our planet like a colossus, raking in billions of dollars per second, tracking each mouse click of every man, woman and child on the internet. So how is it they make an app that’s as lousy as this one is? First off, it’s a battery-killer. Don’t open Google News if you’re not near an electrical outlet or you’ll quickly be out of juice. Once it is open, expect the stories you click on to load very slowly. That’s if they load at all. There’s a one in three chance that the page won’t load and you’ll see that stupid Google ice cream cone that says this app won’t work because it’s lousy. Maybe it’ll wait until you’re halfway through the story when the app freezes, the page locks, and then gives up and decides not to work. You could copy the link and read the story in Chrome but, if you do that and come back to News, the app resets itself. That means that, if you were looking at the “For You” section, all those News stories you were looking at will be gone, so if there was something you’re interested in that you haven’t read yet, you’re out of luck. Those are just the major ways this app is lousy. There’s plenty of small things that it messes up, too. Google should be ashamed that, not only do they put out a stunningly awful app, they’ve done nothing to fix it for years now.

   ruby651 · 30 Aug 2026

4. 2/5Ruining a perfectly good app with “new & improved”

   Google, are you listening? We all came to love your services for their simplicity and focus. What was wrong with the Google News app which I’ve loved for years? Why are you dumping its simplicity for this over-engineered under-thought product? More and more you are rolling out offerings which feel more like products of Apple or Facebook. If I wanted dumbed-down, bloated apps that make decisions for me I would not be coming to Google for a solution. Why does this app not have a dark or night mode? Why are the articles with their pics so large I can only sew a couple or a few on my phone at a time —how hard would it be to add a menu option for a condensed headlines view? If I needed a Apple news app view, I would use the Apple News app. This is Google Reader all over again —killing off your most-beloved products in leu of something that integrates features your fan base don’t care about while dumping those that do. It would not be hard to add a traditional or classic view to this app for those users who prefer the layout they’ve been using for years with the prior Google News app. I just deleted this app, and I’m not returning to it until you at least provide a sensible, condensed view free of clutter and massive article photos.

   AnalogDuck · 30 Aug 2026

5. 2/5Too slow... gotta go

   The improvements are great. I had deleted the previous version because it was unreliable - some features would just randomly not work. Though the new version doesn’t seem to have that issue... I found myself waiting up to 30 seconds (or more) for an article to come up after I’d clicked on it. This is on a new phone, with the latest OS, often using WiFi at home. I tried with no other apps running - same thing. I’m surprised that no one else seems to mind the lag. Sometimes I only have 2 or 3 minutes to check the news. If I want to review more than 3 articles, It’s likely I’ll spend most of that time just standing there, staring at a processing icon. I don’t know about everyone else’s news reviewing habits, but to me, an app with this much lag time between articles is simply not useful. I’m better served using that time on email and waiting to do my news surfing on a computer. Or just using another app. The Apple news app does not have this problem at all. If the speeds were the same, I’d prefer the Google news app; content and customization features are better. However, as is, I just can’t justify making the switch, as much as I’d like to - can’t afford the downtime. I’ll check it out again in another 6 months or so.

   MrCrownCity · 30 Aug 2026

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