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SmartNews is the award-winning news app downloaded by 40+ million readers in 100+ 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.
Offline News Reading --
Fetch trending news and read it offline.
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Awarded Best News App:
- Best App of the Year, 2013 (Japan) - Google
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.
Offline News Reading --
Fetch trending news and read it offline.
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Awarded Best News App:
- Best App of the Year, 2013 (Japan) - Google
App Store
SmartNews is the award-winning news app downloaded by 40+ million readers in 100+ countries!
SmartNews analyzes millions of articles every day to deliver the top trending news stories influencing the world right now.
News From All Sides! 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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Reviews:
“Better than Feedly or Flipboard. Love it!” Jack C.
“Much better than the new version of Apple News.” - Polidoc
“Been using Google News but this is better. Much easier to share.” Eddie H.
“Literally one of the best news apps… It ranks with the likes of BBC News.” -lightspeed12
“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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Features:
Breaking News
Notifications for breaking news stories.
Trusted News
300+ top US & World news publications.
Offline News
Fetch trending news and read news offline.
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Awards:
- Best of 2013 (Japan) - Apple
- Best App of the Year, 2013 (Japan) - Google
SmartNews analyzes millions of articles every day to deliver the top trending news stories influencing the world right now.
News From All Sides! 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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Reviews:
“Better than Feedly or Flipboard. Love it!” Jack C.
“Much better than the new version of Apple News.” - Polidoc
“Been using Google News but this is better. Much easier to share.” Eddie H.
“Literally one of the best news apps… It ranks with the likes of BBC News.” -lightspeed12
“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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Features:
Breaking News
Notifications for breaking news stories.
Trusted News
300+ top US & World news publications.
Offline News
Fetch trending news and read news offline.
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Awards:
- Best of 2013 (Japan) - Apple
- Best App of the Year, 2013 (Japan) - Google
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US version is a Heavy liberal/democratic slant of news, HOWEVER the International version is not
I hated the US version. When I found out I could choose International version the ‘news’ went from 90% negative overall and downright nasty Trump articles to honest regular World news. Seriously they had negative Trump articles under the ‘Entertainment’ and ‘World’ tabs. It was ‘Trump is bad’ for almost every single tab and most of the articles featured. After switching to International - Finally decent reporting. At first I blamed SmartNews for picking biased news and then I realized the issue was the US news aggregators instead. The International version draws in British, Irish, European, and mainly Australian sources. The only biased US news is from The Guardian (expected) but otherwise good reporting/articles. When I open the World tab it truly is World reporting. This is my review of the US version and I originally gave this app 2 stars: About 90% of the ‘news’ choices are left leaning or heavily liberal news outlets. This should be renamed the ‘I hate Donald Trump’ news app because hats what it is. The world news is a joke too. I expected news from France24 or reports on Brexit or about the Hong Kong protests. But nope, they manage to find anti-Trump news and throw it in world news too. Much is from Buzzfeed and Vox too. -
Smart News is really smart
I was apparently one of the first regular user of the app and shared articles on Twitter constantly. 3 or 4 of the developers asked me for an interview via Skype and what Interested ME, was that they were all very young and what interested THEM was WHY I was so interested in the news. An earlier reviewer cited being fed too much liberal news and she should be happy with the addition of NEWSMAX which is definitely right leaning. Early on the developers said the algorithms choose the articles in your feed by the articles you actually read and your interest profile is just algorithms doing what they do but you have the option to choose a tab and read any article from any of the magazine you have added. I asked them to please keep it that was and not to start choosing ( as Facebook does ) articles to put forth an agenda, especially not a political agenda. So far I don’t see it happening. I have pretty eclectic interests and really enjoy the variety I have to choose from. This app also gives you the ability to swipe over to Reader View and read the articles without the annoying advertisements. All in all I hardly use any of my other news apps. I am afraid to count how many tabs I have on my home page! Love it!! -
Wow
Downloaded because I like these types of apps to read all the news soon as I opened it I could clearly see whoever does this has a hand in the liberal agenda to destroy America it’s way obvious then I read one of their cringe worthy articles and realize they really are scared most the new generation along with older hipsters and all the career students that racked up debt on pointless wemon study degrees etc. are so afraid they’re everyone else will pay for my bills and generally lazy lifestyle don’t fear trump doesn’t even need to campaign watch and see the deplorable will show up faster than you liberals can create voters bus them in from Mexico Canada it’s not even a possible outcome to loose I been over this whole country the last year just count bumper stickers from even the last election most elections even the winners voters take them off but they’re all still on even the Hillary jail ones and I’m pretty sure she has died already or went back to her hole she came from -
Edit: Okay, fingers crossed! I applied the update that showed up yesterday, and the app hasn't crashed once since then. Changing score from 2 to 5. Good work folks! This app (at least on my phone) is infuriating. It offers some great features that others don't, but it crashes about every 5 minutes. Some days, even with constant restarts, I never manage to make it all the way through my newsfeed. My impression is that the app must have very poor memory management.
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Would give 5 but...
First off, to anyone complaining about it being “left leaning,” use your head for more than five seconds and control your emotions. I mean that seriously. The app is customizable to allow you to choose the exact news sources you want to see, provided they are in the app. Even if (not saying it is), the app is “left leaning”, do what I do. Just read from sources you trust, just add the right leaning channels. Or, get a bit of balance and have both sides presented before you when you open the app.. which is kinda the point of the app if you’ve seen the commercials. Anyways, I would give 5 stars if there’s a bit more customization. Customization on notifications, frequency of notifications, notifications for new stories from specific channels, etc. And, I would love a “Save for Later” feature. I often find myself opening the app, scrolling through, and seeing several headlines that sound interesting but I don’t have the time or just don’t want to read them at the time. Atm I’m just saving the link to those articles in Notes. I’d much rather be able to tap a button or two that saves it within Smart News itself in a “Save for Later” tab. -
Commercials.
I have been (inundated)as of late, been looking for another platform to get my daily news needs met as I am informe and very interested in social issues in my neighborhood and my country on a daily basis,until recently, “I noticed that as I was reading or might I say(trying )to read a (interesting (ed op)I was repeatedly interrupted by the annoying commercials that you have allowed companies to interject into your forum,as I have to lost track an at times interest in what I have an interest in reading,then I must stop and look for that very small (x) and then try and tap on it with my large thumbs,because I don’t always carry a (stylus all times, well that being said I began looking for an alternative for(you)I’m not interested in commercials while I am reading,it is bad enough when I watch television,I understand you have a need to pay bills but it help if we were at least given an option to look and or listen as opposed to feeling like a (captive in your program,I do like your format as I can go to top and pick and change topics at will, but the commercials just pop up so fast that I get (frustrated,and start looking for another venue..Thank you James in (Sacramento. -
SMART NEWS is awesome. I just started using this app and I like it more then any other news outlets on the the internet. it shows articles I dont see anywhere. All of the articles are very informative and they explain alot of things going on around the world that no other news platforms are showing an interest in. Thank You for all the hard work your journalist and staff put into this app!
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Becoming more social and celebrity news source
When I first saw the app - was pleasantly surprised on the scope of of the feeds - seemed to collect from all sources. Now it seem too many - perhaps based on trends of what people are clicking on the most from each of the “news sources”. My observation : Looking at the “Top” stories tab it appears to me 50% of the stories are not what I consider news but how some socialite lost their spouse, who is sleeping with who, how a Instagram star was refused service because they were being obnoxious... I generally do not see the value of the stories on that section which is disappointing. To me those types of stories are interesting but it is not news. I know they are eye catching but feels more like buying a family size bag of tortilla chips only finding it 1/4 full of chips and 3/4 air because the product is sold by weight and not volume... I did not want the air - I wanted to chips... HOWEVER the app does most other do not - pull from sources you don’t see on others like Google News, Apple News...etc. I like SmartNews and will continue to use it as my top news aggregator but will generally avoid Top tab. -
I love the app and recommend it to all my friends. It makes catching up on the news so easy. Simple to change as my interests vary. The availability of so many sources and newly added sources helps me to be more of an explorer. Wish there were less ads!
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Solid, simple and customizable
I really like the simplicity of this app, especially the smart view of articles that strips away all the ads and such (though it does take images with it sometimes, it’s tricky). I also like that I can set a location and get local stuff mixed in. I would love a history feature where I can see a list of articles I’ve viewed, even the last like 25 would do. I often will want to share good stuff with someone when the topic comes up later in the day or I’ve even locked my phone halfway through an article, then get a notification for another interesting story and click it, only to remember I still had that other article finish which is now gone. Just a suggestion. Overall, really dig the app. Update: starting to see what others are saying about the spam-y articles seemingly being added to the “top” feed. I’ve unsubscribed to all the general channels and only follow publications now, but my top feed still has CNN and Buzzfeed mixed in. I assumed top feed was the aggregate of what I follow and nothing else. Would much prefer that.
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Good up to date news but keeps freezing up on me and I have to start all over at top of page
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I'm alerted for breaking news. I can go back and pick up news articles later and the news does not seem to be one sided. I told my wife to try it and she seems to love it also. 8/10/2020 Still great and fair. No fake news here.
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It's so nice to get news from so many outlets... And so quick too! I'm also happy to get entertainment new as well!
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I enjoy the Global highlights
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Is the time I read CNN news it is good. Thumbs up
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Facts seem accurate...
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It's great 😊
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Vote Trump,we will All Die with him???????
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Love it daily news,all day long. I love it!!!!
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I expected an app with an agenda. I was happy to be proven wrong. Smart News delivers a good mix of articles from a variety of perspectives. Once focused in on an area, however, it can tend toward the sensationalistic.
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US version is a Heavy liberal/democratic slant of news, HOWEVER the International version is not
I hated the US version. When I found out I could choose International version the ‘news’ went from 90% negative overall and downright nasty Trump articles to honest regular World news. Seriously they had negative Trump articles under the ‘Entertainment’ and ‘World’ tabs. It was ‘Trump is bad’ for almost every single tab and most of the articles featured. After switching to International - Finally decent reporting. At first I blamed SmartNews for picking biased news and then I realized the issue was the US news aggregators instead. The International version draws in British, Irish, European, and mainly Australian sources. The only biased US news is from The Guardian (expected) but otherwise good reporting/articles. When I open the World tab it truly is World reporting. This is my review of the US version and I originally gave this app 2 stars: About 90% of the ‘news’ choices are left leaning or heavily liberal news outlets. This should be renamed the ‘I hate Donald Trump’ news app because hats what it is. The world news is a joke too. I expected news from France24 or reports on Brexit or about the Hong Kong protests. But nope, they manage to find anti-Trump news and throw it in world news too. Much is from Buzzfeed and Vox too. -
Smart News is really smart
I was apparently one of the first regular user of the app and shared articles on Twitter constantly. 3 or 4 of the developers asked me for an interview via Skype and what Interested ME, was that they were all very young and what interested THEM was WHY I was so interested in the news. An earlier reviewer cited being fed too much liberal news and she should be happy with the addition of NEWSMAX which is definitely right leaning. Early on the developers said the algorithms choose the articles in your feed by the articles you actually read and your interest profile is just algorithms doing what they do but you have the option to choose a tab and read any article from any of the magazine you have added. I asked them to please keep it that was and not to start choosing ( as Facebook does ) articles to put forth an agenda, especially not a political agenda. So far I don’t see it happening. I have pretty eclectic interests and really enjoy the variety I have to choose from. This app also gives you the ability to swipe over to Reader View and read the articles without the annoying advertisements. All in all I hardly use any of my other news apps. I am afraid to count how many tabs I have on my home page! Love it!! -
Wow
Downloaded because I like these types of apps to read all the news soon as I opened it I could clearly see whoever does this has a hand in the liberal agenda to destroy America it’s way obvious then I read one of their cringe worthy articles and realize they really are scared most the new generation along with older hipsters and all the career students that racked up debt on pointless wemon study degrees etc. are so afraid they’re everyone else will pay for my bills and generally lazy lifestyle don’t fear trump doesn’t even need to campaign watch and see the deplorable will show up faster than you liberals can create voters bus them in from Mexico Canada it’s not even a possible outcome to loose I been over this whole country the last year just count bumper stickers from even the last election most elections even the winners voters take them off but they’re all still on even the Hillary jail ones and I’m pretty sure she has died already or went back to her hole she came from -
Edit: Okay, fingers crossed! I applied the update that showed up yesterday, and the app hasn't crashed once since then. Changing score from 2 to 5. Good work folks! This app (at least on my phone) is infuriating. It offers some great features that others don't, but it crashes about every 5 minutes. Some days, even with constant restarts, I never manage to make it all the way through my newsfeed. My impression is that the app must have very poor memory management.
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SMART NEWS is awesome. I just started using this app and I like it more then any other news outlets on the the internet. it shows articles I dont see anywhere. All of the articles are very informative and they explain alot of things going on around the world that no other news platforms are showing an interest in. Thank You for all the hard work your journalist and staff put into this app!
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I love the app and recommend it to all my friends. It makes catching up on the news so easy. Simple to change as my interests vary. The availability of so many sources and newly added sources helps me to be more of an explorer. Wish there were less ads!
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I like using the app for my news update when I am not able to sit and watch so far I haven't had any problems at all and the news is pretty fast to update I have received phone call from friends and family to tell me about things I read hours before or in some cases a day or two before depending on their news outlet and the fact that it compiled all the different news outlets to one single app i love it
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Smart, direct, honest
This is one of only 2 apps that I use for news. I prefer news that is just that: news. The feeds come from a variety of sources and one can choose what one reads. In our unhealthy news climate, there is a present danger of buckling to the insanity of fringe news from actual non-news sites that cater to a select type wishing to reinforce their agenda. This app keeps the news as it is and unfiltered. For those who only want to read their own talking points back and forth in a limited circle squeezing each other off, they can probably tweak their choices to arrive at that too, but how sad. The news is about fair coverage as it is given by long established and sincere journalists. I appreciate such a well written app and the plethora of offerings from news of all types. Please keep up the good work. Do not succumb to those tiny voices who wish to change the very definition of news. -
It keeps me up to date on important news and information on everything from covid-19 and my local news and information. I love it. Better than any other apps I have used so far! Keep up the great work guys 👍!
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Smart news has all of the up to date news. The channels are so userfriendy app. Right after the news happens, I receive a notice that something has taken place around the world that is very interesting and have covered all the facts that a source could gather to bring to the table.
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Would give 5 but...
First off, to anyone complaining about it being “left leaning,” use your head for more than five seconds and control your emotions. I mean that seriously. The app is customizable to allow you to choose the exact news sources you want to see, provided they are in the app. Even if (not saying it is), the app is “left leaning”, do what I do. Just read from sources you trust, just add the right leaning channels. Or, get a bit of balance and have both sides presented before you when you open the app.. which is kinda the point of the app if you’ve seen the commercials. Anyways, I would give 5 stars if there’s a bit more customization. Customization on notifications, frequency of notifications, notifications for new stories from specific channels, etc. And, I would love a “Save for Later” feature. I often find myself opening the app, scrolling through, and seeing several headlines that sound interesting but I don’t have the time or just don’t want to read them at the time. Atm I’m just saving the link to those articles in Notes. I’d much rather be able to tap a button or two that saves it within Smart News itself in a “Save for Later” tab. -
Solid, simple and customizable
I really like the simplicity of this app, especially the smart view of articles that strips away all the ads and such (though it does take images with it sometimes, it’s tricky). I also like that I can set a location and get local stuff mixed in. I would love a history feature where I can see a list of articles I’ve viewed, even the last like 25 would do. I often will want to share good stuff with someone when the topic comes up later in the day or I’ve even locked my phone halfway through an article, then get a notification for another interesting story and click it, only to remember I still had that other article finish which is now gone. Just a suggestion. Overall, really dig the app. Update: starting to see what others are saying about the spam-y articles seemingly being added to the “top” feed. I’ve unsubscribed to all the general channels and only follow publications now, but my top feed still has CNN and Buzzfeed mixed in. I assumed top feed was the aggregate of what I follow and nothing else. Would much prefer that. -
I appreciate the coronavirus updates, data and format. The data is appreciated as it holds consistent with other research databases. The other news suggestions are ok too. I wish they would include actual research article links instead of some of the rags, but perhaps trashier/spamier, less centrist sites pay the bills. Overall, I recommend smartnews over most other information aggregates. I'd actually give it a 4.5.
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Oh Please
So many comments from conservative folks about the “fairness” of the news on here. News is only supposed to be factual. It’s just supposed to be the reporting of events and what folks said. So when the news reports on that terrible thing Donald Trump said or did and you can’t believe that - even though there may be video right in front of you of DT doing or saying these things - maybe you need to get help to realize what is actual reality and what is Donald Trump’s reality. I’m in fact on the opposite end. Seeing “news” from Pluralist, FoxNews, TheBlaze when the reality of these outlets is outright lying and propaganda designed to only help Trump - it makes me want to delete SmartNews. That crap isn’t news. I wish the developers of this app well as they are in a tough position. Hopefully one day the Fairness Doctrine can be implemented again. Although I have a feeling conservatives would label the Doctrine some sort of liberal conspiracy. Or whatever crazy thing Trump drills in their heads. -
Lots of news from multiple perspectives
I really like being able to customize my newsfeed to suit my reading habits without having to pay or subscribe to a particular news source. If I want to read more about a particular story there are links to other articles about the topic. There is lots of interesting information available from multiple perspectives in one place. Here is my personal pet peeve. While I can add or delete topics I cannot add or delete a particular source. I would like to be able to delete individual “news” sources, as I don’t consider some of them to be reputable and would prefer them not to clutter up my feed. I just do not want to know the latest malicious gossip about the royal family of England, and I have strong negative feelings about outlets that report that kind of dreck. Yes, you IBT!!!! There is a reason that I don’t have a gossip tab on my feed. Please allow me to make this go away! -
A breath of fresh air in a climate where corporate media is so biased
I’m incredibly grateful for finding this app. I get to read both sides and make my own judgment on a topic versus relying on corporate media to shove biased, agenda-driven news down my throat. One thing I’d like to see added to give it a full 5 stars: a save article or bookmark article function. Twitter and Reddit have this function that saves things in a personal “saved posts” or “saved tweets” section within the app so that you can find an article if you’d like to refer back to it or you’ve saved it for later viewing. The reason I find that such a big deal here is that the news articles on your personal feed are constantly changing and an article I might have seen in my feed but wanted to read later due to time constraints will no longer be there next time I open the app since the the feed has updated by then. I’ve lost many articles I’d have love to have read but didn’t remember the topic due to this and it’s pretty frustrating. Other than that, this app nailed it for people that are tired of feeling like they’re being spoon-fed garbage news from corporate media channels. Their jobs as corporate media companies is to force their hidden agendas on us viewers and not to give us news straight. A much needed app in this climate of so much misinformation. -
Just dumped Apple News!
Thank you for a decent alternative! I’ve used a few other news apps over the past years - and when Apple News came about, I admit the “appealing magazine view attracted me. But now I’m tired of forgetting every APPLE story requires a “subscription” as well as many other “sources” that I couldn’t seem to remove. This App also allows me to go directly to the topic I wish to read - rather than scroll and scroll. CONS: The overall look of topic pages aren’t as aesthetic - the column/row set up seems very outdated in design, but admittedly practical and after just one day, I am tired of seeing the green arrow “Smart View” (straight story vs. Web source view) arrow EVERY click to a story, but the PROS (the actual offering of the Smart View is wonderful, the topic choice tabs, and LOCAL news, has made this a better choice for me! Thank you! -
Shouldn’t mix conservative news into main news feed
I was very disappointed with SmartNews when I saw a scientifically untrue story mixed into my main newsfeed today. I started to read it then realized it was it was scientifically untrue then I saw it was from a “conservative news source.” I realize the right wingers are bugging you to add conservative sources but you should only add news sources that have journalistic integrity. If you add news sources that feed viewers misinformation you are doing your SmartNews readers a disservice. If you think you have to have conservative news feeds in your mix DO NOT mix them into news feeds of people who have not selected that they want “alternative facts” instead of real news! At the very least I would like to be able to specifically block all articles from “alternate fact” channels from appearing in my newsfeed. -
A More Than Adequate News App with Many Reading Choices
I was probably Reading the ZITE news app while most of your programmers were still in high school. Then along came FLIPBOARD, who purchased ZITE, and I, of course, moved on to FLIPBOARD, (FB). One programming item I have very much enjoyed with FB is the ability to copy, and save, articles for later reading, and/or review. With FB, I can create my own “magazine,” into which I post/save articles of interest for group studies, or more reading. My magazines are also segregated by subject matter, i.e. wine, computer software, health, etc. I have even saved articles from your program into FB. However, with browsing SMART NEWS for news articles with both conservative leanings, (my obvious favorite), and liberal content, (a big joke), I enjoy reading both sides. I have, through your DISCOVER section, designed, and ranked in order of reading, my selected news and entertainment publications. Unlike several of your reviews, I like your program. It’s my choice, which I usually choose, to skip over left leaning junk from CNN, HUFF, ETC. I find more than ample, conservative leaning articles, to suit my tastes in news presentations. Nice program. In the mornings, I enjoy perusing my SMART NEWS App, over a Morning Cuppa Joe. -
The banner is back! - - Please bring back the coronavirus stats!
UPDATE: Hooray, the coronavirus stats banner is back! Thanks for working to reinstate this popular and very useful feature! The banner went away without warning! I have been telling anyone who would listen about this cool feature, which no doubt generated more interest in the app. Then Saturday, it was gone without any warning. The banner was such a helpful way to stay informed during these anxiety-riddled and uncertain times. I was hoping it was a glitch and have been refreshing the app relentlessly. Disappointingly, however, based on the developer’s selective responses to all the reviews from yesterday, we readers/app users won’t be getting an answer any time soon, if at all. Guess I’ll have to put this app on the back burner, then.
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Commercials.
I have been (inundated)as of late, been looking for another platform to get my daily news needs met as I am informe and very interested in social issues in my neighborhood and my country on a daily basis,until recently, “I noticed that as I was reading or might I say(trying )to read a (interesting (ed op)I was repeatedly interrupted by the annoying commercials that you have allowed companies to interject into your forum,as I have to lost track an at times interest in what I have an interest in reading,then I must stop and look for that very small (x) and then try and tap on it with my large thumbs,because I don’t always carry a (stylus all times, well that being said I began looking for an alternative for(you)I’m not interested in commercials while I am reading,it is bad enough when I watch television,I understand you have a need to pay bills but it help if we were at least given an option to look and or listen as opposed to feeling like a (captive in your program,I do like your format as I can go to top and pick and change topics at will, but the commercials just pop up so fast that I get (frustrated,and start looking for another venue..Thank you James in (Sacramento. -
Becoming more social and celebrity news source
When I first saw the app - was pleasantly surprised on the scope of of the feeds - seemed to collect from all sources. Now it seem too many - perhaps based on trends of what people are clicking on the most from each of the “news sources”. My observation : Looking at the “Top” stories tab it appears to me 50% of the stories are not what I consider news but how some socialite lost their spouse, who is sleeping with who, how a Instagram star was refused service because they were being obnoxious... I generally do not see the value of the stories on that section which is disappointing. To me those types of stories are interesting but it is not news. I know they are eye catching but feels more like buying a family size bag of tortilla chips only finding it 1/4 full of chips and 3/4 air because the product is sold by weight and not volume... I did not want the air - I wanted to chips... HOWEVER the app does most other do not - pull from sources you don’t see on others like Google News, Apple News...etc. I like SmartNews and will continue to use it as my top news aggregator but will generally avoid Top tab. -
SmartNews is able to keep me in the know and I appreciate your fourth estate trying to help keep things from completely spinning out of control. Thanks. Mike G. What's up with the ads? I'm willing to pay for upgrade b/c I think the news gathering is awesome but the pop-ups are super annoying.
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Smart News, Bias Notifications
I downloaded this app because I heard good things about it. Let’s face the facts here MSN is dominated and ruled by liberal bias. You can scream and shout and say otherwise but don’t let that cognitive dissonance get in the way, it is. Conservative/Republican MSM is Fox News and A.M. radio. Thats it. I have to admit, when I first downloaded this app, The homepage was almost split with different news sources. I’d say 40-60 split with liberal news still dominate. But fair. I really enjoy the food and wine pages and some of the entertainment. It’s good to see the contrast for political stories as well. The issue is with the push notifications. Why am I constantly getting news sources pushed to me that are anti-GOP, anti-Trump, and bias news favoring the left? I mean Jesus Christ...I got a couple notifications from sources like Huffington post...they’re nothing more than a glorified blog with bias points of views and zero fact. I like the notifications on my iPhone and watch. But I’m turning them off. I’ve never seen one pro conservative news story pushed to me. There is still a bias here and it’s obvious. -
Thanks for bringing back the Covid data that was briefly absent..it is an excellent feature. Wish it had more specific categories, like health and fitness instead of including in the broad category lifestyle for example. -2*s because of startling, annoying full screen pop up ads.
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Too soon to judge, but.....
I’m giving 3 stars because I just downloaded and opened and have not yet explored enough to give it 1 or 5 but wanted to address a common thread in the reviews and review responses I saw before downloading: many users complaining of left-leaning bias and developers responding with a canned response stating the app is optimized for balanced news and to just go add FoxNews or NY Post or Blaze. That’s all fine and good, but it should be balanced from the start and then tweakable. The first thing I saw upon opening was a barrage of “top stories”, 90% of which from left sources. That is inherent bias from the start. The default state of the app should reflect its claim of balance. Basically, if you’re liberal, you’re already set up. If you’re conservative, you have to work at it. Now I will customize and see if it delivers and will update my review accordingly. My recommendation to developers would be to eliminate the bias from the start. In its default state it is a big turnoff to half of your potential users. -
Broad array of news
Overall, this app is pretty good. It does provide a broad array of news, political news, sports, sciences, and such. Overall, I can’t complain. It is a bit difficult to find more conservative leanings, but is provided if you do some research and digging on your part. I wish and hope there would be more faith based or religious news being reported, but there is some. Just more of faith though. Definitely worth getting and having. I’m looking at this app merely from the point of view of getting the news, no matter how biased it may be, or its leanings, but merely to get the news and let myself decide from there. I’m not particularly happy with it’s left/liberal leanings, but that’s ok. I want to hear their side, but offer more right/conservative leanings though, so all voices have a chance to be heard and presented. A wonderful and good app though. -
A Cartoon view of the world
The nice thing about this app is that I don’t have to pay money to be up-to-date with Left-wing perspective. The bias is fantastic. If it’s a problem on the Left, well, responsible people have taken note and are responding accordingly. If it’s a problem on the Right — perceived or otherwise, well, Godzilla-like people are messing things up massively and they just have to be stopped! Given the range of populist uprising throughout the entire world right now, there is an important current of thought crying out that enough is enough with Leftist social and political innovation. Interesting articles that explore the phenomenon, seeking understanding , showing empathy for people who are fed up? A willingness to consider that things have moved too hard, too fast? A little humility, even just a decrease in Leftist hubris? Look elsewhere, but enjoy the cartoons. -
Great! But it could use a night/dark mode.
I’m actually very satisfied with this app. I would make this app the main news app I use. I like that it has multiple sources and tells you where it comes from. The “smart” feature that reduces unnecessary graphics, but not key images/figures that support the story, is very impressive. However viewing at night is hard on my eyes and so I can’t use this app as regularly as other apps. Also a feature that reduces the photos on the headline page to see the just the headlines (but not reducing photos in he article) would be very handy and reduce data use. Please upgrade the app with this feature and to be able use and night/dark mode maybe using shades of grey for tabs and dark grey for background and this app will be 5stars for me! -
Lost impartiality.
When you started you said you were going to be impartial and present the news, or at the very least , present both sides. As time goes on, you have become increasingly more like the rest of the main stream media. (Driven by an agenda). Get back to your roots, and keep readers like me who are constantly searching for news that is presented fairly, accurately, and verified. instead of crazy left(cnn, msnbc, NY times, and now to a lesser extent YOU, etc.) or stupid right (Fox, OAN, etc.). Please get back to your original ideals and satisfy the news needs of all of us in the middle, who like to get the facts and possible impacts and make up our own minds. There really are more of us than the agenda driven NUTS on both sides. It will prove to be a good and large audience for you!
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This app used to be amazing!! It was one of my only sources of news. In the last few weeks the ads have gotten ridiculous. I have to close the app down and open it again multiple times a day because there's no way to get rid of some of the intrusive pop up ads after reading an article. I will be uninstalling if this is not corrected soon. I actually would pay for an ad-free version of this app, if they offered it, and they stopped showing ads that there's no way to exit from.
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App should be named MSNBC2
Being fed up with pretty much all media outlets having a noticeable political bias and wanting to JUST k ow what happened, not someone’s analysis of it, I’ve been looking for an app that just gives the news. Let me figure out what it means. an app that I can open up, see what happened in the world today and close it. I gave this app about 4 months. Every time I opened it it seemed to get worse. If there was a Trump/Republican bashing article anywhere on the net, you’ll find it on the front page here. You don’t even have to read the articles to see that everything on this site is for liberals. The titles are hilariously liberal. Don’t think I’ve seen a single article pertaining to the US government or the White House or republican that wasn’t a negative liberal opinion piece. I scrolled through about 5 minutes ago and it was ridiculous. Finally decided to delete it. This isn’t a news site. If you really just want to know what happened in the world today, this is not the site for you. Update: Based on the developers feedback, it’s obvious that anyone who points out that this is a liberal leaning site is told to try Fox News for your conservative views. I’m not even a conservative. Just someone looking for unbiased news and this poser is telling everyone that points out their obvious bias that they’re a conservative and need to look elsewhere for their conservative views. This won’t be around long. -
Like others have said, the ads have gotten ridiculous, especially the full screen ads after reading an article. I'm going to find a new app soon. Also, I wish I could select which news sources pop up, so I don't have to scroll through articles that look like they are written by middle school girls (I'm looking at you buzzfeed).
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Too many updates throughout the day. Cannot access an article from earlier than the most current updated "news". Extremely partisan politics to the point of being laughable. Was hoping for more credible news, but see the same garbage every day. Tried it out for a couple weeks, am now removing.
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Constantly displays the same news over and over. Refreshes to slow and displays dead news over latest breaking news. To many slow loading advertisements that really are worthless, yet results the same ad several times throughout a single article which wastes time and space. I frequently have to close app then google or bing the article that I want to read because of ads. Many ads open while trying to scroll through article. Article restarts constantly to beginning.
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Big Time Liberal News Aggregator
Look here, it’s not smart news when I have to physically add stories and sources. If you had good AI, you would know what I read and don’t read, which would give you a sense of what I am interested in, instead of spamming me with all kinds of liberal political news. And here’s the kicker, you defend your system, vice taking my recommendations to make your system better. The fact you refuse to make changes tells me that 1) the system is doing what you want, or 2) you lack the maturity and business sense to operate the business you are selling. UPDATE: Now why don’t you tell the truth? Almost all the stories are big-time left wing stories. Every once in a while you you toss in a conservative website origin story, and you call that balanced. Sometimes I would search for a conservative story and have to dig pages into searches. How about news that is not political, period? Or like I have seen quite a few liberals who think that media such as MSNBC and Huffington Post is centrists...maybe you actually believe that. Anyways, as long as you keep this business model, you will keep me away. Tried a long time but almost all the news is extreme liberal news. There is no balance...and it certainly could not figure out I want real news, not politics. -
Really?
Fair and balanced? It is not! Primary stories are from Huff Post, NYT, Washington Post, NBC, etc. Really? Fox News and just a handful of more conservative media is at the very very end of the list. Any use who gave this app a high rating must be a very progressive liberal. Very despicable of Smart News people to try to deceive the public. This app does not fairly display the stories from ALL media outlets. It just doesn’t. I tried it so I could see for myself. And I will delete this app. Note to the Smart News responder .. “if you want a more conservative view you should add add Fox News, blah blah .. “. why didn’t you program it in there to begin with, so that the app would appear as you advertise it will be on your lame commercial? Why should CONSERVATIVE people have to tweak the app? It should be FAIR to begin with. You see, a very liberal person will think this is great and will continue to believe they are getting fair news. THEY ARE NOT! Shame on YOU! I received an inadequate reply from Nathan telling me exactly what I thought he would say .. same as above. They just don’t get it. What I’m saying is that they should set up a FAIR sampling of media outlets in the first place. Instead, they are setting up LIBERAL publications, and then I have to change my selections. Why can’t you be more fair? -
First, most news links are subscribe only but this is relatively small. The amount of ads packed into the content is ridiculous. Ingo sources are questionable at best. It seemed good at the beginning but now it's more ad and spam ad service. It gets worse, some links cannot be open in smart and links get bizarre, stay away
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Fox News/The Washington Examiner?
I enjoy the app but I wish there weren’t horribly biased “news” services mixed in with reputable ones. Some “news” outlets are gossipy, completely without merit, or are laughable propaganda. I can’t control the contributors on “Top” news for instance. “TheBlaze, Popsugar, Footwear News, US! Weekly, or People” are not offering headlines that are worthy of my time, in fact, someone perusing the top headlines should rightly conclude that Meagan McCain is the most important person in the world, Brian Kilmeade is second, and Kirstie Alley is tied for third with some random “Real Housewife of Where Ever.” This makes the world look nightmarish. It’s wearing me out sifting through the garbage. I have never clicked on Fox, TheBlaze, PopSugar, Footwear News, TMZ, Vogue, Mediate, The Pluralist, or Entertainment Tonight, yet I am not seeing any diminishment in their prominent representation in the top stories of the day, in fact, I’m finding that the more you don’t click on a news source, because you find it disgusting, the more you see it. Maybe the algorithm is broken. How can I successfully navigate through the day without seeing the”Top” news stories concerning the Kardashians, Tomi Lahren, or the Bachelorette? The advice I’m getting so far is not getting the Jessica Simpson out of my “Top News.” Sad. -
7/24: Updating back to 1 star. Ads are back that you are forced to watch, just shorter. This is no better and you have to click elsewhere to exit, back button does nothing. Intrusive ads should not exist, outside of games where I consent to them for an in-game reward.
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A lot of garbage news that isn't factual.
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I do not like your bias. Every article you publish about Predident is negative. I basically keep you for my hometown news. 🙁
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Daily updates on oorn star (Mia Kalifa). No thanks, I am out of here.
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More Biased Media
Just another Left Leaning Lame Stream Media App. Disappointed but sadly not surprised 😒. -
Liberal/Communism Synonyms
When allowing feedback on Your Public Information Site , it’s not exactly “Open” , if you choose to Restrict , Eliminate or Decipher to Your Liking .... , anyone’s Statements , Thoughts or Input . .... If this is your idea of “Free , Liberal Thinking” , then allow Free Thinking !!!! .... Otherwise , “Your Just Another Communist Progressive” . -
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Blood and guts
Why can’t I stop all the killing animal news feeds? I can’t stand all this killing SmartNews feeds me. Half the videos don’t work or can’t be found, nonexistent. I just don’t click on stories like that. SmartNews don’t read these reviews anyhow. Hopefully someone will read and find a app. -
Bias
This app has become so bias against Trump since I signed up. Not showing both sides at all. Really too bad. -
Too many ads
I wish I knew how to stop from getting an ad between every 3 to 4 articles. Also, I dislike having 50% of the articles contain gossip/celebrity information even if it is not a topic I chose. -
Too much
Remove me from this BS.
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Like others have said, the ads have gotten ridiculous, especially the full screen ads after reading an article. I'm going to find a new app soon. Also, I wish I could select which news sources pop up, so I don't have to scroll through articles that look like they are written by middle school girls (I'm looking at you buzzfeed).
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Too many updates throughout the day. Cannot access an article from earlier than the most current updated "news". Extremely partisan politics to the point of being laughable. Was hoping for more credible news, but see the same garbage every day. Tried it out for a couple weeks, am now removing.
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Not a bad app but!!!
I read a lot of the reviews on here and every one is I thought you said this app is “balanced” news. But everybody is complaining it’s not balanced because all there looking for is one side of the story. There either for Trump or against him. They don’t want to hear the other side. To Trump supporters of its not Fox News it’s Fake news. So why are you looking to find “balanced” news when you really don’t want to hear it??? The same goes the other way. The second thing. The reason I gave this app a low score is because I understand you have a free app and you need revenue but the pop up adds and all the advertising is absolutely ridiculous. There are news sources that don’t even let you see the news because there advertising for you to buy something from them. CNN has at least 4-5 pop ups in the first 10-15 seconds. I couldn’t even go into a comments section because it just kept popping up to the same exact spot even if I tried to scroll up or down. It is ridiculous. I think I’ve had enough of this app. I’ll find my news (on both sides) somewhere else. -
NOT BALANCED NEWS
The devs want you to think that their app is balanced and "optimized" to provide news from both sides. If you prefer more conservative news or even some kind of balance from 98% left leaning news, they recommend adding FOX News or Washington Examiner tabs. That's just TWO sites that they offer among hundreds of left leaning news sites. Doesn't seem so balanced to me. Today, Feb 27...Cohen is lying (some call it testifying) to Congress today. Trump is meeting Kim in Vietnam for possible peace talks. So far EVERY notification today was about lying Cohen. The HISTORIC meeting between the US President and the NK leader is the fourth story. This is day in and day out. Smart News does have a nice layout. But don't be fooled by the developers. They have NO intention on making this app balanced. If they did, they would allow you to remove the extreme news sources from BOTH sides, but you can't. I've been patient for months waiting for this so called "optimization" to occur (yes with the conservative news apps selected). But it doesn't happen because it's not in their algorithim to do so no matter what they spout. -
Fake News is Present on this App
I love the idea of this app and enjoy the interface. The developers did a nice job designing an app that people will enjoy using. Unfortunately, I started getting articles that were pure nonsense. These were tech and sports articles that were nothing more than angry journalists who were out to slander particular people with no basis for the “facts” they were claiming. I know that by “unbiased” the developers mean it is optimized to give the views of both political sides, which is fair I bet they did their best on that. However, this is not a political issue, as I customized the app to filter out all political topics, I mainly read sports and tech, which is straight forward. And still, somehow the TOP article on the tech page is from the New York Post and is completely absent of facts. This “journalist” (which btw, the article did not even state the authors name), was simply writing sensationalism with no in-depth analysis of facts. Very tabloid-like, and if this this the TOP article in the section about technology then there has to be a better news app out there. -
The way the alerts work is extremely irritating
I love perusing the stories that are selected for me, but I find it extremely frustrating that when I click on one of the alerts, all the other alerts I’ve received then vanish, so I can’t click on those stories. Also, some time ago, some alerts started to be combined into three stories per alert, and when I click on that kind of alert, it doesn’t take me to any of those stories. If the Alerts persisted when I clicked on them, and if clicking on an one of those alerts that has three stories took me to a screen that showed me the three stories in the alert (without having to scroll through dozens of other stories, or more if I waited a while before clicking), then this would easily be a five star app. As it is, I keep thinking about deleting this app, just because dealing with the alerts is such a source of frustration, and there are other news apps there which might not be as well-curated, but which don’t have these kinds of problems with their alerts. -
Like the content have App issues
I do like the content of this app. I have had to remove it from my phone several times because it makes my iPhone 7plus freeze and shut off. I had the same trouble with my iPhone SE. With both phones I have plenary of space and do not have a ton of apps on my phone or running in the background. I put it back on yesterday and the phone froze today. Disappointed because I like the content best of all the general news apps. I do not have this problem with freezing and shutting off when the app is not on my phone. It is 4 weeks later. I received feedback from Apple that sent the developers info regarding my phone. I just removed the app - again- because it causes my phone to close apps and functions randomly. I have over 50 g of available space and close apps when I am done with then. I am again disappointed I hoped the feedback from Apple would help but tonight Safari kept closing, smart news kept closing. I uninstalled it again. Phone is not auto closing now. -
Great Sometimes, But the Bias is Evident
SmartNews advertises themselves as an unbiased, all-sides, free journalism kind of app, as opposed to other news apps, which give you a one-sided, biased view of the world. And they’re right, at least on a global and national scale. But the local articles that I use SmartNews for the most, because most other apps don’t even have local news options, are HEAVILY biased. Now I don’t know how their algorithm works, but if it’s a person curating the articles in each region, I can tell you whoever’s working the PNW is alt-right. They consistently put hardly disguised white nationalism into my notifications for local articles, and while the national news has been firmly centrist in opinion since the George Floyd protests have erupted, my local articles have been echoing the president in calling for a military coup against local governments. Honestly, I wouldn’t even be able to tell that this wasn’t the consensus opinion if not for my ability to google other local articles on the same topic. Tl:dr, the local articles are weirdly far right -
Notifications/bookmark
I like having notifications set so I can see the headline quickly & decide if I want to further read the story. Most of the notifications I get from SmartNews have multiple stories in the notification so when I click the link it takes me to the main SmartNews home page where all stories are listed rather than opening the link directly for the 1 story I wanted to read. If you wait several hours to click on the link instead of immediately when the notification comes through you’ll never find the story. If I have say 5 notifications from SmartNews & want to read 2 different ones, if you click on the first one then all the other SmartNews notifications disappears (IOS). It’s very aggravating & I’m just about to turn it off altogether. If I had time to read all the stories then I wouldn’t need the notification. Also, seems like having a save button or bookmark to read later would just be a given but no such luck with this app. -
Needs a lot of work.
I seen an ad for this application while watching the news. I thought that this would be a great app to see both sides of current issues. This was not the case. Probably the biggest issue right now in the US is the Kavanaugh nomination. The only conservative articles I seen on this app was totally unrelated to current events. I don’t mind a left leaning organization to lean left nor a right leaning to lean right but I do mind when an organization/app claims to be unbiased but does not provide both sides. Most people will see through this dishonesty so I recommend getting it fixed. I will leave the app installed for a few weeks and if you fix the obvious bias I will keep and recommend to others. If not I will remove and share that I have tried it and removed because unlike advertised this app does not provide an equal amount of both sides. For this I only give two stars. Fix it and I will change that.
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This app used to be amazing!! It was one of my only sources of news. In the last few weeks the ads have gotten ridiculous. I have to close the app down and open it again multiple times a day because there's no way to get rid of some of the intrusive pop up ads after reading an article. I will be uninstalling if this is not corrected soon. I actually would pay for an ad-free version of this app, if they offered it, and they stopped showing ads that there's no way to exit from.
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App should be named MSNBC2
Being fed up with pretty much all media outlets having a noticeable political bias and wanting to JUST k ow what happened, not someone’s analysis of it, I’ve been looking for an app that just gives the news. Let me figure out what it means. an app that I can open up, see what happened in the world today and close it. I gave this app about 4 months. Every time I opened it it seemed to get worse. If there was a Trump/Republican bashing article anywhere on the net, you’ll find it on the front page here. You don’t even have to read the articles to see that everything on this site is for liberals. The titles are hilariously liberal. Don’t think I’ve seen a single article pertaining to the US government or the White House or republican that wasn’t a negative liberal opinion piece. I scrolled through about 5 minutes ago and it was ridiculous. Finally decided to delete it. This isn’t a news site. If you really just want to know what happened in the world today, this is not the site for you. Update: Based on the developers feedback, it’s obvious that anyone who points out that this is a liberal leaning site is told to try Fox News for your conservative views. I’m not even a conservative. Just someone looking for unbiased news and this poser is telling everyone that points out their obvious bias that they’re a conservative and need to look elsewhere for their conservative views. This won’t be around long. -
Constantly displays the same news over and over. Refreshes to slow and displays dead news over latest breaking news. To many slow loading advertisements that really are worthless, yet results the same ad several times throughout a single article which wastes time and space. I frequently have to close app then google or bing the article that I want to read because of ads. Many ads open while trying to scroll through article. Article restarts constantly to beginning.
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Big Time Liberal News Aggregator
Look here, it’s not smart news when I have to physically add stories and sources. If you had good AI, you would know what I read and don’t read, which would give you a sense of what I am interested in, instead of spamming me with all kinds of liberal political news. And here’s the kicker, you defend your system, vice taking my recommendations to make your system better. The fact you refuse to make changes tells me that 1) the system is doing what you want, or 2) you lack the maturity and business sense to operate the business you are selling. UPDATE: Now why don’t you tell the truth? Almost all the stories are big-time left wing stories. Every once in a while you you toss in a conservative website origin story, and you call that balanced. Sometimes I would search for a conservative story and have to dig pages into searches. How about news that is not political, period? Or like I have seen quite a few liberals who think that media such as MSNBC and Huffington Post is centrists...maybe you actually believe that. Anyways, as long as you keep this business model, you will keep me away. Tried a long time but almost all the news is extreme liberal news. There is no balance...and it certainly could not figure out I want real news, not politics. -
Really?
Fair and balanced? It is not! Primary stories are from Huff Post, NYT, Washington Post, NBC, etc. Really? Fox News and just a handful of more conservative media is at the very very end of the list. Any use who gave this app a high rating must be a very progressive liberal. Very despicable of Smart News people to try to deceive the public. This app does not fairly display the stories from ALL media outlets. It just doesn’t. I tried it so I could see for myself. And I will delete this app. Note to the Smart News responder .. “if you want a more conservative view you should add add Fox News, blah blah .. “. why didn’t you program it in there to begin with, so that the app would appear as you advertise it will be on your lame commercial? Why should CONSERVATIVE people have to tweak the app? It should be FAIR to begin with. You see, a very liberal person will think this is great and will continue to believe they are getting fair news. THEY ARE NOT! Shame on YOU! I received an inadequate reply from Nathan telling me exactly what I thought he would say .. same as above. They just don’t get it. What I’m saying is that they should set up a FAIR sampling of media outlets in the first place. Instead, they are setting up LIBERAL publications, and then I have to change my selections. Why can’t you be more fair? -
First, most news links are subscribe only but this is relatively small. The amount of ads packed into the content is ridiculous. Ingo sources are questionable at best. It seemed good at the beginning but now it's more ad and spam ad service. It gets worse, some links cannot be open in smart and links get bizarre, stay away
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Fox News/The Washington Examiner?
I enjoy the app but I wish there weren’t horribly biased “news” services mixed in with reputable ones. Some “news” outlets are gossipy, completely without merit, or are laughable propaganda. I can’t control the contributors on “Top” news for instance. “TheBlaze, Popsugar, Footwear News, US! Weekly, or People” are not offering headlines that are worthy of my time, in fact, someone perusing the top headlines should rightly conclude that Meagan McCain is the most important person in the world, Brian Kilmeade is second, and Kirstie Alley is tied for third with some random “Real Housewife of Where Ever.” This makes the world look nightmarish. It’s wearing me out sifting through the garbage. I have never clicked on Fox, TheBlaze, PopSugar, Footwear News, TMZ, Vogue, Mediate, The Pluralist, or Entertainment Tonight, yet I am not seeing any diminishment in their prominent representation in the top stories of the day, in fact, I’m finding that the more you don’t click on a news source, because you find it disgusting, the more you see it. Maybe the algorithm is broken. How can I successfully navigate through the day without seeing the”Top” news stories concerning the Kardashians, Tomi Lahren, or the Bachelorette? The advice I’m getting so far is not getting the Jessica Simpson out of my “Top News.” Sad. -
7/24: Updating back to 1 star. Ads are back that you are forced to watch, just shorter. This is no better and you have to click elsewhere to exit, back button does nothing. Intrusive ads should not exist, outside of games where I consent to them for an in-game reward.
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JOKE OF A SITE
Biased left wing rag! Couldn’t even get past one topic that gave the story from the middle. UPDATE: your response to my review leaves me with a chuckle. The point of your site is to provide unbiased reporting to the people that have chosen to download this app...UNBIASED! Get it? To have me add or update Fox News et all is ludicrous... 1. I could download their apps. 2. You assume those are conservative sites. 3. You assume I’m looking for a ‘ slant’ to my news. All of which are wrong and ignorant. I’m looking for the news! Plain and simple. YOUR SITE FAILS WHAT YOU ACTUALLY ADVERTISE. I don’t care what your opinion or the opinion of who you paste and copy from is. I want the news straight and to the point. EXAMPLE? Sure... your NFL coverage of the kneeling during the anthem. 100% in line with liberal ideology. You’re nothing more than a cut and paste app. Much like the Patch sites. This is a loser of an app! A fraud! A lie! I’ll gladly let everyone I know not to waste the 10 seconds it takes to download your plagiarized cut and paste crap. Not worth the time or effort. Reviewing you however was more than worth it. You’ve been called out for the charlatan that you are. You can’t even get a simple business model right. -
The stories this app carries and promotes are mostly from far left media sources. Some are pretty much leftist tabloids and spread falsehoods, misinformation and lies. Its not smart news at all . Its Libtard rhetoric. As for changing my preferences, I still have no option to filter out the ludicrous and misleading BS leftist Rhetoric. Smartnews app is garbage. Uninstalling.
- Award-winning news app downloaded over 25,000,000 times in over 100 countries
- Condenses and delivers headlines from top news outlets: NBC, MSNBC, USA Today, TIME, Reuters, Buzzfeed, The Huffington Post, and more
- “Browse headlines quickly, customize your channels, and read the news offline...an excellent free alternative to other popular news apps.” - CNET
Reviewed by Laura S on January 11, 2018
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