SmartNews: Breaking News

Contains adsIn-app purchases
3,7
692K reviews
50M+
Downloads
Content rating
Teen
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About this app

We combine the best of quality journalism with expert curation to help you stay informed—and feel good while doing it. With quality articles from trustworthy publishers, you can easily curate your feed based on your passions and topics that interest you most.

Discover top news from premium publishers: Bloomberg, The Atlantic, USA Today, TIME, The Huffington Post, Bleacher Report, Quartz, The Verge, LAT, VOX, AP, Reuters, Buzzfeed, Fast Company.

Local
-Get informative stories from premium publishers based on your location.
-See the latest local news on government, traffic, weather, politics, school boards, and more.
-Read news about local cultural events, hidden gems, restaurants, family-friendly activities, and your summer farmer’s market.

Travel
-Discover the best spots wherever you go with location-based news and updates.
-Learn about top travel tips from your favorite publishers.
-Plan your next vacation with trending news on the best destinations, travel hacks, and flight deals before you depart.

Politics
- Get prepared for the elections, polls, and debates with stories across the political spectrum from Democrat to Republican.
- Understand candidates, ballot measures, debates, results, and city council elections near you.
-Find voter information, campaign finance stories, verified election reports, and expert election analysis you can trust.

Quality
-We partner with thousands of trusted publishers for premium, balanced news.
-Our award-winning journalists validate content to ensure it meets our high-quality standards.
- Read trustworthy breaking coverage for your area for free.

Entertainment
-Get an inside look at entertainment.
-Discover top movies or TV shows with your favorite actors.
-Follow entertainment topics so you never miss a story.

Sports
-Get daily articles highlighting the latest games, teams, players, and sporting events.
-Set notifications for your favorite teams.
-See breaking news about football, basketball, golf, tennis, soccer, and more.

Health
-Discover the healthcare news that impacts you all in one free app.
-See what experts say about wellness, aging, and mental health from top publishers.
-Follow stories about pain relief updates, exercise trends, and home remedies.



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SMARTNEWS IN THE PRESS

“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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AWARDS

Winner of the 2025 May Award Contest - Best Mobile App
Best Mobile App Awards

Best Local News App, 2024 (US)
Bestapp

Best News Aggregator, 2023 (US)
Lifewire

Best News App, 2023 (US)
AndroidCentral


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REVIEWS

“Better than Feedly or Flipboard. Love it!” Joe C.

“Much better than the new version of Apple News.” - Donald B.

“Been using Google News, but this is better. Much easier to share.” Nikki H.

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Terms of Service
The SmartNews Terms of Service are linked below. Please read and confirm these terms before using our services.
https://www.smartnews.com/terms/
Updated on
17 Oct 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Location, App activity and 2 others
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 4 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3,7
639K reviews
Alex Palmateer
21 October 2025
This app is terrible. It floods your notifications constantly regardless of settings, and even though it clains to allow you to block particular sources, it continues to shove multiple articles from blocked sources to you through your notifications. Their support is slow and drawn out, and attempting to fix this was going to take multiple days, and given that the app can't handle something as simple as "don't show me articles from this site", I do not trust that it would have even been fixed.
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SmartNews, Inc.
22 October 2025
Sorry for the frustrating experience. We understand how important notification and source controls are. The “See less” option helps guide your feed but doesn’t fully block sources. We’ll share your feedback with the team as we work to improve these features.
Shawn Peterson
19 October 2025
It seems like this rate the app pop-up tends to show up whenever this starts happening again. After opening a few links the app freezes up and won't load the article. Nor will it load anything again until you close out and restart the app. So of course the article you wanted to see is gone as the feed refreshed itself. If I were to guess, I'd say this is happening because an ad won't load. This is not a new problem. It's happened regularly for years. Please, fix it.
8 people found this review helpful
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SmartNews, Inc.
03 August 2022
Hello, Thanks for your feedback. Our support team can be reached via support@smartnews.com with information about your device including screenshots, screen recordings, URLs so that our team may investigate. Please be sure you have updated the app to the latest version. If you use a VPN, try disabling it or change server location. - SmartNews
Pedro Flores
23 October 2025
l have change to my opinion of this. They made change a couple of years ago and not for the better. It continuely crashes even after multiple updates. I even deleted it and reapplied the app but it continues to be apiece of junk. It's very frustrating. My wife has the same issues. So I'm wondering if others are experiencing the same.
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SmartNews, Inc.
10 February 2020
Hi Pedro, We appreciate your review of SmartNews! User feedback is what makes SmartNews become even better. Please feel free to pass on SmartNews to your friends and family members if they enjoy seeing news from both sides. We are here to assist you with any questions or suggestions to make SmartNews even better! :) - Nathan @ SmartNews

What's new

- Performance improvements and bug fixes to enhance your reading experience.