“The worst app for a news outlet period — This app is full of ads and clickbait. It’s bad. Really bad.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 503 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.7 ★54,287 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
283 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Stay informed with the latest news, weather, and video from 9NEWS – all in one easy-to-use app. Get breaking news alerts, a personalized news feed, live newscasts, and an all-new mobile-first video experience built to help you catch up quickly. BREAKING & LOCAL NEWS • Real-time alerts for breaking stories • The latest news happening across the Denver area • In-depth investigations and original reporting • Photos, news clips, and raw video from the field WEATHER • Hourly and 7-day forecasts for your neighborhood • Updates from the 9NEWS Weather team • Interactive radar and maps • Hyperlocal severe weather alerts and information to keep you safe and prepared VIDEO • Live newscasts and breaking news coverage • Exclusive video content available only on mobile • A video player optimized for mobile viewing PERSONALIZATION • Follow topics that matter to you • Get personalized alerts and…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
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 50.28.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 50.28.1, updated 2026-09-28.
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
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.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
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: Raised by 40 distinct reviewers — 8.0% of the 503 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Live streaming is gone — I used to be able to go to this app and watch the evening news when I finally got around to making dinner at about 730 or 8 PM. I love that I could click on the news and it would just play the episode. Now it is…”
“Riddled with ads now! — This new format has some many advertisements in the stories the app is very slow. Also, some of us like to read the news, not watch videos of the story.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 50.28.1.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.