SmartNews

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R2] 5/5 · US Smart News Articles: Smart News stories are very interesting and informative.
2. [R7] 5/5 · US A review: A great way to keep up with what’s going on in the world. Stories from everywhere and very up to date.
3. [R16] 5/5 · US Smart News: I like the variety of articles offered and read some each day. This a perfect site to get the information I want.
4. [R39] 5/5 · US Wonderful source for everything informative!: Love the accuracy and diversity of news, advice, and entertainment.
5. [R9] 5/5 · US Easy Layout: I enjoy the content that I chose to receive and the way it’s presented. On other platforms I used previously it was a constant issue getting back to the main page. I find the articles have the full story and not just snippets. I’m really happy to have found this unbiased source.
6. [R10] 5/5 · US Great News Sote: Great set up. Easy to navigate
7. [R43] 5/5 · US New items not appealing: Older versions better…easier to navigate and read. But still 5 star
8. [R100] 4/5 · US Ease of the read.: All articles are written in straightforward, clear language. Informative and easy reading. Thanks for using this style!!
9. [R103] 5/5 · US Awesome News app: GR8 news app that lets you personalize what you see. Whether is Top News or Entertainment...u choose what your topics are upon setup.
10. [R269] 3/5 · CA Too many ads: So many ads, it’s probably 50% ads: it makes it hard to scroll through to find relevant articles and difficult to scroll within articles because there is so much junk. I’ve had this app for many years but unfortunately I’m deleting it and finding an alternative. I like that articles are available offline.
11. [R11] 1/5 · US Way too many biases and ads: I’m not sure how adding auto add popping up constantly help to sell anything!! All it does is irritate the reader. Trying to scroll the news and accidentally somehow touching one of the MANY advertisements… at what point does reader education trump greed??
12. [R19] 3/5 · US Mixed: Good content. Too many ads.
13. [R21] 4/5 · US Often frustrating: Nice aggregate of current news but many stories have so many ads they are unreadable
14. [R37] 1/5 · US Advertisement: Is this what you people believe is a good news app that in between every article you got some kind of a stupid advertisement that is your scrolling it starts talking you time to start looking for a new app bad choice
15. [R3] 2/5 · US Not what at once was: When I first got SmartNews, I enjoy being able to see news from both sides. However, the app is becoming much more leaning to one side more than the other. After leaving this review, I actually plan on deleting the app and finding something that that leans less than this
16. [R6] 1/5 · US Bias: As usual the smart news is bias. I am tired of you bashing President Trump and the Republican Party and the articles about Melania are cruel. I will be looking for another news source that will be more about the news not bashing the republicans.
17. [R8] 1/5 · US Smart News is a Front for USA Bias against American Values people have spilt their blood defending.: I have been a reader of Smart News for a long time. But I am finished. Your Bias against or President who I never voted for and you never cease criticizing with more radicalized articles does not get a fair chance against your concerted barrage along with the communist and left wing zealots who pub
18. [R12] 2/5 · US Every thing that Trump does is wrong. Clear case of of TDS😡: Iran is winning the war on this forum 💁😁
19. [R1] 1/5 · US Scrolling, your app sucks!: Scrolling down while reading an article, if you’re not perfect in scrolling down it switches to to all the headlines. Then you have to pick your article again and again and again. Very frustrating
20. [R63] 2/5 · US Annoying: Good news articles overall. Annoying bug causes reader to be randomly transported back to whatever the newest “first article” may be. Very annoying because of the difficulty associated with finding the article I was reading when the jump back to the start occurs. If I want to read the newest articles I’ll scroll back. Being forcefully returned back to the top is really annoying.
21. [R68] 4/5 · US Refreshes too frequently.: My only criticism is that the app refreshes the entire feed basically any time you open it up. If you close it and open it up again ten seconds later, it automatically refreshes everything. A bit annoying to my reading preferences. Not sure if it’s a setting that can be changed.
22. [R84] 5/5 · US Pages change too easily: Lots of great articles, however, sometimes they cannot be fully read because the whole site refreshes or a simple scrolling up or down, swipes it off the article you’re reading and everything refreshes and you can’t find the article you were on. Fix that and it’s 4.75 stars. 😊
23. [R4] 1/5 · US Clickbait?: Clickbait. Doesn’t show the headline you’re clicking on. Just keeps you wandering around looking for your story. Many times never to find it. Deleting SmartNews off all my devices.
24. [R5] 2/5 · US Semi useful at best: Smart News started of with delivering decent and interesting news. Then it jumped the shark by sensationalizing their headlines without following up with matching content. There are headines that make you think there is a video included, and there is not, or it's just an ad video, multiplied many times as you scroll. Then there are the imbedded ads for scam products that they
25. [R18] 4/5 · US Too sensational: I especially like your reporting, which is up-to-date, about Donald Trump. I do feel some of your facts are slightly exaggerated and the Charged language titles pull you in. The article itself doesn’t really seem to be as exciting as your title.
26. [R53] 3/5 · US Electronic “Enquirer”: A little bit of everything, including sensationalism, recycled stories, and the possibility of an element of truth in most stories. Don’t take anything as gospel.
27. [R28] 1/5 · US Content is great: Content is great. I enjoy most of what I read. But, the mere one star rating is because articles don’t open or drop mid-reading. While this could be attributed to a weak WiFi signal I have no trouble with Apple News.
28. [R40] 3/5 · US Mr.: So many times when I click on a notification, I don’t get transferred to the article but instead to the home page.
29. [R45] 3/5 · US Review: My phone gets hot when I on the app. Too much tracking
30. [R79] 1/5 · US Blank pages: Why are are the medical headlines blank when you click on them for the info that pertains to the headlines
31. [R14] 3/5 · US Stop: You constantly ask g for a rescue u
32. [R41] 3/5 · US Popups again: Mostly garbage news sources these days. And full page popups are back. Nope nope nope. Delete. Update: Developers respond to requests, so that's nice. Wanted to be able to block specific publishers to try and limit the fluff and sure enough they added the feature. Current issue keeping me from using the iPad app at all now, and to some degree the iPhone as well, is the damn gamif
33. [R50] 2/5 · US Nagging “Rewards” alerts!: Wish I could turn them off!
34. [R62] 2/5 · US Was great: I really liked this app until they had to gamify it. Now it’s pretty terrible. NewsBreak is a better alternative if you prefer one that’s not gamified.
35. [R17] 1/5 · US Can’t adjust video feed: I wish there were a way to tell the app “I don’t like this video” or “I do like this video; show me more like this” it’s available for articles but not videos
36. [R24] 1/5 · US either MMA violence or Mandatory immature sexual innuendo: FIRST ,, ADS ON EVERY ARTICLE THIS MORNING THEN absolutely deceptive telling you you can curate and block sites as a matter fact if you try to block a site it shows up more than ever, all the childish sexual innuendo at mandatory that keeps being jammed into my feed about panties and bras is disgusting bunch of sexual perverts, then it's
37. [R25] 1/5 · US Decent but Biased App: This app will not let you block biased media companies that shill for a specific party. I should be able to block news from fringe left and right sources.
38. [R32] 1/5 · US Pushes conservative garbage: Doesn’t let me block republicans
39. [R35] 3/5 · US Incorrect titles on news articles: Wondering if any proofreading is performed on news articles as titles and articles sometimes have glaring differences in content. For instance, the Justin Choy written article from the New York post from 2 days ago has a title about Paradise, California and content about Carmel by the Sea, California- 2 completely different cities.
40. [R42] 1/5 · US AI junk: Not even good AI - junky articles that don’t make sense.
41. [R57] 2/5 · US Smart news -fake news with too many ads: I love to read smart news but lately there are a lot of questionable articles that are not totally true. I thought fake news was a buzz word, maybe not so much any more
42. [R70] 3/5 · US Articles: I liked this App for a long time but some of your articles are ridiculous and clearly untrue. Some are really awful. There still is a good one at times but the bad outweighs them. I have removed your App.
43. [R55] 2/5 · US Battery drainer: This app drains my battery faster than any other app on my phone. Like the different sources of news and information. However any time there is a big story, end up seeing 15 different news outlets with the same story.
44. [R66] 1/5 · US Latest update is a downgrade for your battery life: The latest update is a battery hog. It ate through 20% of my iPhone battery in 1 hour
45. [R77] 5/5 · US Love/hate app: It’s a different type of app only it would be nice to interact with stories something is missing from this app. My biggest concern was it drained my iPhone battery. There are other newsworthy apps that I will try.
46. [R49] 1/5 · US Ruined by ads: Seriously more ads than news
47. [R210] 3/5 · US Pretty Good But…: I like the app. The one thing that irritates me is when I click to see a news source “less” it doesn’t do anything. Seems like I see the news source more. Should be able to block certain news sources.
48. [R51] 1/5 · US Extraordinarily Obnoxious Advertising: You cannot see or read any article as there are end to end moving video advertising in constant motion. It’s way overdone and will never allow anyone to digest anything but advertising. It’s the worst experience and ive just signed up for paid news to avoid this platform.
49. [R124] 3/5 · US Too many pop up ads: You can’t read an article without being bombarded with pop-up ads