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Best News Reading Apps for iPhone (2026)
Google News is the top-ranked of 40 news reading apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.6/5 from 226,174 ratings.
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Free download · ★ 4.6 · 226,174 ratings · score 96 - 2
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 1,654,174 ratings · score 95 - 3
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 329,127 ratings · score 95 - 4
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 26,037 ratings · score 94 - 5
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 18,998 ratings · score 94
What belongs in this list
Read the latest news from many sources in one app.
Not here: Single-publisher article reading alone; RSS reading alone; A general browser alone; A news briefing summary alone; A general chatbot alone
More lists: Best Live News Apps · Best Local News Apps
How we pick
For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →
Compare every app
- 1Free download · ★ 4.6 · 226,174 ratings · score 96 · best in class
- 2Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 1,654,174 ratings · score 95 · best in class
- 3Free download · ★ 4.7 · 329,127 ratings · score 95 · best in class
- 4Free download · ★ 4.6 · 26,037 ratings · score 94 · best in class
- 5Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 18,998 ratings · score 94 · best in class
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Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 48,638 ratings · score 93 · best in class - 7
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 1,239 ratings · score 93 · best in class - 8
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 638,935 ratings · score 92 · best in class - 9
Free · ★ 4.8 · 28,620 ratings · score 92 · best in class - 10
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 929,027 ratings · score 92 · best in class - 11
Free + IAP · ★ 4.2 · 27,548 ratings · score 91 · excellent - 12
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 24,468 ratings · score 90 · excellent - 13
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 1,392,339 ratings · score 87 · excellent - 14
Free · ★ 4.5 · 3,048 ratings · score 86 · excellent - 15
Free download · ★ 5.0 · 6 ratings · score 85 · excellent · provisional - 16
MSNAFree download · ★ 4.6 · 124,255 ratings · score 85 · excellent - 17
Free download · ★ 5.0 · 4 ratings · score 84 · excellent · provisional - 18
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 26,747 ratings · score 83 · excellent - 19
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 2,888 ratings · score 82 · excellent - 20
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 46,477 ratings · score 82 · excellent - 21
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 21,770 ratings · score 81 · excellent - 22
Free · ★ 4.4 · 68,547 ratings · score 79 · good - 23
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 10,664 ratings · score 79 · good - 24
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 7,007 ratings · score 78 · good - 25
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 17,137 ratings · score 76 · good - 26
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 706,836 ratings · score 73 · good · provisional - 27
Free download · ★ 3.7 · 19,638 ratings · score 72 · good - 28
Free · ★ 4.7 · 71,740 ratings · score 71 · situational · provisional - 29
Free · ★ 4.8 · 29,443 ratings · score 70 · situational · provisional - 30
Free · ★ 4.7 · 58,636 ratings · score 70 · situational · provisional - 31
Free · ★ 4.8 · 26,994 ratings · score 70 · situational · provisional - 32
Free · ★ 4.8 · 29,726 ratings · score 70 · situational · provisional - 33
Free · ★ 4.8 · 28,592 ratings · score 70 · situational · provisional - 34
Free · ★ 4.8 · 19,232 ratings · score 70 · situational · provisional - 35
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 29,124 ratings · score 70 · situational · provisional - 36
Free · ★ 4.7 · 19,543 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional - 37
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 9,021 ratings · score 69 · weak · provisional - 38
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 19,570 ratings · score 69 · weak · provisional - 39
Free · ★ 4.6 · 19,422 ratings · score 69 · weak · provisional - 40
Free · ★ 4.6 · 16,024 ratings · score 69 · weak · provisional
Beyond the top 40
New in the last 30 days
- Feedly - Smart News Reader (S)
- PressReader: News & Magazines (S)
- Opera News: Breaking & Local (S)
- Daily Mail: Breaking News Live (A)
- Financial Times: Business News (A)
- Inshorts (A)
- HuffPost - News & Politics (A)
- Dailyhunt - News & Magazines (A)
- Business Insider: News & more (A)
- Conservative News - The Report (B)
- Newsworthy (B)
- Espresso: World news in a shot (B)
- AOL Mail, News, Weather (B)
- CBS News: Live Breaking News (B)
- TODAY Show (C)
- Knoxville News from WBIR (C)
- 13WMAZ: Central Georgia News (C)
- Indianapolis News from 13 WTHR (C)
- Atlanta News from 11Alive (C)
- ABC7 Chicago News & Weather (C)
- NEWS CENTER Maine (C)
- THM News (D)
- LA Times (D)
- KSTP 5 Minneapolis-St. Paul MN (D)
- ABC7 Bay Area (D)
Questions people ask
- What is the best news reading app for iPhone?
- Google News, S tier, ranked #1 of 40, rated 4.6 by 226,174 people.
- Which news reading apps are free?
- 40 of 40 are free to download: Google News (S), Apple News (S), Flipboard: The Social Magazine (S), Feedly - Smart News Reader (S) and more. 15 of them sell in-app purchases. 13 report no in-app purchases.
- Which news reading app has the best App Store rating?
- Espresso: World news in a shot at 4.8 from 17,137 ratings.
- How many news reading apps reach S or A tier?
- 21 of 40. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.