“The frequent pop-up videos overwriting the text I'm reading are extremely annoying to me!! Follow-up: Your response to my being annoyed about frequent pop-up windows covering what I'm reading (and to other reviewers with the same…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 406 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.0 ★68,133 ratings
1M+Downloads
9+Age rating
—App 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
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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 5.20 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 5.20, updated 2026-09-02.
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
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.
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 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 19 distinct reviewers (4.7% of 406 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“SO many ads...”
“This app has become unusable, with small pop up ads that can't be closed and follow you as you scroll, making it nearly impossible to read an article.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 5.20.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.