SmartNews: Breaking News

25.11.20

SmartNews, Inc.

3.72

638,977 reviews

50,000,000+
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Free

Trusted sources, breaking headlines, and local stories all in one place.

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About SmartNews: Breaking News

SmartNews: Breaking News is a news & magazines app developed by SmartNews, Inc.. The APK has been available since March 2013. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded about 120 thousand times.
It's top ranked.
It's rated 3.72 out of 5 stars, based on 640 thousand ratings. The last update of the app was on November 6, 2025. SmartNews: Breaking News has a content rating "Medium Maturity".
SmartNews: Breaking News has an APK download size of 58.32 MB and the latest version available is 25.11.20. Designed for Android version 8.0+. SmartNews: Breaking News is FREE to download.

Description

We combine the best of quality journalism with expert curation to help you stay informed—and feel good while doing it.

More data about SmartNews: Breaking News

Price	Free to download
Total downloads	56 million
Recent downloads	120 thousand
Rating	3.72 based on 640 thousand ratings
Ranking	Top ranked
Version	25.11.20
APK size	58.3 MB
Number of libraries	54
Designed for Android	8.0+
Maturity	Medium Maturity
Ads	Contains ads

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App Achievements

#20 in News & Magazines Apps

#19		Quora: the knowledge platform
#20		SmartNews: Breaking News
#21		Newspoint: Public News App

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Downloads over time

SmartNews: Breaking News has been downloaded 56 million times. Over the past 30 days, it averaged 4.1 thousand downloads per day.

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Comments on SmartNews: Breaking News for Android

★★★★★ I enjoy the variety of articles from a variety of sources.

★★★★★ Great news app. Diverse coverage & POVs. Though content selection list has truncated "click baity" titles.

★★★★★ Smartness is amazing! Smartness allows you to pick time slots from morning, afternoon and evening.

★★★★★ Good diversity of National AND local News. I'm able to spot the "fake news" by cross-referencing different sources. Keep up the good work 👍.

★★★★★ Stops after scrolling like every five seconds. Freezes and crashes frequently. If that was fixed I'd give more stars. Having to delete it again. I click on stories I want to read, and the screen is black. Takes forever to load because the huge ads have to come first. After every update I often have trouble opening the apps. They are black screens that never open. I restart afterward but it doesn't always fix

★★☆☆☆ The ads are horrendous. Every other article you read, you have to endure the ads. This app also hasn't loaded in 2 days. I thought maybe I need to uninstall and reinstall, but nope. Done with it, I'll find something else.

★★☆☆☆ Every time I open the app it asks me to enable notifications. This is done with a banner over the news topic headings forcing you to click on the banner each time to reaffirm my no response. Can't remove/block news sources. Even after closing "see less often" I still frequently see unwanted sources. Many articles are written as advertisement clickbait and not really news. I gave 3 stars because other so-called news aps are worse.

★★☆☆☆ I'm tired of news sites not allowing me to block them from my feed. It seems the ones that do it are about the same type of content. Done with this on all my devices

★★☆☆☆ The news is okay. But the advertisements are very misleading in scams. These people need to clean up their act and put advertisements that are worthwhile instead of scams. Don't click on any of the advertisements.

Google Play Rankings

Top rankings

Rank	Country	Category	List
9	Japan	News & Magazines	Top Free
16	United States	News & Magazines	Top Free
4	Japan	News & Magazines	Top Grossing
9	Iran	News & Magazines	Top Free
77	Canada	News & Magazines	Top Free
19	Iran	News & Magazines	Top Grossing
85	South Korea	News & Magazines	Top Free
105	Mexico	News & Magazines	Top Free
125	Indonesia	News & Magazines	Top Free
42	Saudi Arabia	News & Magazines	Top Grossing

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