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Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 416 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
AP News: World & Local
The Associated PressBringing you breaking news from the Associated Press and hundreds of trusted…
4.3 ★145,506 ratings
1M+Downloads
9+Age rating
—App size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Bringing you breaking news from the Associated Press and hundreds of trusted local and international sources, AP News is your trusted source for real-time world news coverage anytime and anywhere. With articles in both English and Spanish, AP News by The Associated Press provides a personalized news experience, the most important and timely headlines and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism.
Here's some of what you'll see inside: · Live coverage of important local news stories as they happen · Curated content hubs for deeper insights into major world news events, sports news and story lines. · AP's award-winning photography from U.S. and global news events · Quick, informative videos that capture the stories that you and your friends are talking about. · AP Top 25 Sports Polls.
AP News. Advancing the power of facts.
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 6.29.1 PROD of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 6.29.1 PROD, updated 2026-09-25.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
2 themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 13 distinct reviewers (3.1% of 416 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Tracking and data collection concerns
The app ships session-recording or a wide tracking stack, holds permissions that read personal data, or is reported by users to sell, leak or over-collect it. The evidence line says which of those was observed.
What we saw: Data & privacy concerns: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (1.7% of 416 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Probably the worst news app there is regardless of content. Riddled with these little sneaky pop up ads designed so that as you scroll you end up touching them and you get redirected. So annoying that I would rather poke myself in the eye.”
“The growing adds ruined the app. First they started popping in or loading late so they appear where you're trying to click an article. Then they somehow changed to be easier to click, like even touching one to scroll down opened the add…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 6.29.1 PROD.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.