Appworthy
Google Play
Version 26.8.1 · 2026-09-02
No release notes were provided for this version.
Review signals only
Google Play rating3.3★580 ratings
PriceFreeIn-app purchases
Age9+Store age rating
CategoryLifestyle
DeveloperCNN
At a glance
Full reportReview signals only. Review signals, not findings. Nothing here is an assessment.
From review signals only, 18 Oct 2026.
The store currently lists version 26.8.1, updated 2026-09-02.
Preview
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
About this app
Now you can stream the CNN experience, including live coverage, 24/7 global news, award-winning shows and films, exclusive videos and more. Connect via your TV provider to start watching.
• Never miss a moment with 24/7 global news
• In-depth reporting from trusted journalists
• Go deeper with exclusive videos
• Original storytelling that inspires
• Distinguished, thought-provoking documentaries
CNN helps you navigate the world with the facts. Connect via your TV provider to watch CNN, CNN International and HLN live and watch CNN Original Series and Films on-demand.
TV Channels: Watch Live TV and full episodes on-demand with your TV provider. Simply go to Network TV in the navigation bar and connect via your TV provider to get 24/7 unlimited access to CNN, CNN International and HLN. Only accessible in the U.S. and Canada.
CNN Privacy Policy: https://www.cnn.com/privacy…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The full report
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings and evidence
No findings are published for this listing. These are review signals, not findings: nothing here is an assessment.
No recurring theme reached our reporting threshold in the reviews we scanned.
What reviewers report
177 reviews scanned. These are signals from public reviews, not findings. Nothing here is an assessment.
No recurring theme reached our reporting threshold in the reviews we scanned. That does not establish that reviewers had no problems.
Measurements
Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, never a pass.
From store data and reviews
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
No 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 app 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, not a finding.
Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
Versions and dates analysed
Review signals only. No automated analysis of the app itself has been run, so there is no analysed version to report; the signals were read from public reviews on 18 Oct 2026.
Store update history
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
Assessment record
- Status
- Review signals only
- App identifier
cnn-google-com-cnn-mobile-android-tv- Review signals scanned
- 18 Oct 2026
- Sources used
- User reviews
- Reviews read
- 177
- Package examined
- No package scan
- Measurement vocabulary
- 1.4
- Human inspection
- Not completed
Store facts
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
Google Play
- Store rating
- 3.34 ★ · 580 ratings
- Version
- 26.8.1
- Updated
- 2 Sep 2026
- Price
- Free · In-app purchases
- Age rating
- 9+
- Size
- Not supplied
- Developer
- CNN
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Listing price
- Free · In-app purchases
Purchases the store lists
What this app sells
Google Play doesn’t publish per-purchase prices, so this list covers the other store only.
Method and limits
How a review signal works
A review signal is produced automatically from public app reviews by a classifier — never by a hands-on Appworthy test, and never by a human analyst. It exists so a real, not-yet-audited app can carry more than a blank “Not yet tested” listing, without ever being mistaken for an assessment.
A theme only appears above once at least 5 distinct reviews corroborate it — one angry review can never tag an app. These thresholds are published settings and may be tuned as coverage grows.
It carries no confirmed findings — reviews are one kind of evidence, and nothing here has been hands-on tested. The moment Appworthy publishes a full assessment of this app, it replaces this signal, permanently.
Limits of this report
- A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
- Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
- Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
- A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A human review replaces this review-derived signal with hands-on, recorded measurements. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.
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