SmartNews vs Univision Noticias

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. [R10] SmartNews 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
2. [R19] SmartNews 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??
3. [R61] Univision Noticias 2/5 · US Liberal: Es una canal con favoritismo a la información de los liberales. No es un canal como en los años 80’s. Lástima
4. [R76] Univision Noticias 1/5 · US Noticias falsas: No muestran la realidad de las cosas , solo escuchan y no investigan nada
5. [R18] SmartNews 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.
6. [R40] SmartNews 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.
7. [R69] Univision Noticias 3/5 · US Broken app: Notifications take me away from the story and back to safari or App Store. Then the story is lost.
8. [R81] Univision Noticias 3/5 · US Buena: Me gustan las noticias de Univision pero la app tiene problemas ya que se congela y cuando vas pasando las noticias estas se repiten.
9. [R9] SmartNews 3/5 · US Mixed: Good content. Too many ads.
10. [R105] Univision Noticias 2/5 · US Slow loading: After the last update, the home page it takes to lone to load, and most of the titles with those white letters on the pictures, you can read them.
11. [R97] Univision Noticias 1/5 · US Se come la batería: No uso mi teléfono durante el día por mi trabajo y cuando llegaba a casa mi teléfono está por quedarse sin carga. En la mañana lo tenia al 100% y 12 horas después a 14%. Corre el sin estar abierta y destruye la batería. No la recomiendo.
12. [R1] SmartNews 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
13. [R5] SmartNews 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.
14. [R85] Univision Noticias 1/5 · US Adds: Too many adds
15. [R103] Univision Noticias 1/5 · US not worth it: full of comercials i cant even watch a video without having to watch a minute of comercials
16. [R21] SmartNews 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
17. [R107] Univision Noticias 1/5 · US This new update app: Is not as good as the previous it needs better update
18. [R101] Univision Noticias 1/5 · US Univisión año: I don’t like your new set up and it’s hard to read the headlines when they are written in white and the background is white as well. I don’t like that you don’t have a choice of skipping the commercials, you make me watch something that I’m not interested.
19. [R79] Univision Noticias 1/5 · US Mentirosos y manipuladores!!!: Considero que la verdad deve ser su biblia de edición! Y nos damos cuenta que son medios vendidos y manipuladores. Especialmente lo que tiene que ver con política Mexicana!!
20. [R4] SmartNews 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
21. [R58] SmartNews 1/5 · US Overwhelmingly Far Right Bias: While I love the layout/look the “news” sources are overwhelmingly from far right conservative sources including some that are well known for publishing conspiracy theories (Blaze Media, Daily Caller, Just The News, etc.). I don’t mind Fox or other conservative sources as long as they’re legit. I was really hoping for a more balanced news aggregator with reputable an