“?? — Why do you have social security non stop flashing ? Too many advertisements!”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 507 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
3.7 ★19,622 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
150 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
CBS News is your trusted source for breaking U.S. and world news, with local news reporting from our stations in Atlanta, Baltimore, the Bay Area, Boston, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Sacramento.
The CBS News app features:
LIVE STREAMING NEWS, INCLUDING CBS NEWS 24/7 CBS News 24/7 is the anchored streaming news service from CBS News and Stations, available free to everyone with access to the internet. CBS News 24/7 is your destination for breaking news, live events, and original reporting locally, nationally, and around the globe.…
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 4.22 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 4.22, updated 2026-09-04.
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 fewer than 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
1 theme 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
Under 65% 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.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
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 24 distinct reviewers (4.7% of 507 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Way Too Many Commercials — The number of commercials you have to watch to see any real news is just unbelievable. Truly.”
“Censoring news isn’t news. boycott CBS, its affiliates, Paramount and all advertisers over 60 min. — You’re dead to me and millions of Americans now.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 4.22.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.