“Great news, if you can find it between the ads. — MSNBC has become expensive, and they pay for this with advertising- a LOT OF ADVERTISING! Cheap, crass, brainless advertising, stacked up in long strings of ad after ad….. If you can stand…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 620 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.0 ★33,753 ratings
100K+Downloads
12+Age rating
204 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
The new MS NOW app gives you more ways to stay informed and connected, without the overwhelm.
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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 14.4.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 14.4.0, updated 2026-10-01.
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
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
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.
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Cheapest and priciest options are far apart
The disclosed in-app purchases span an unusually wide price range. Published as context: the cheapest and priciest items may be different kinds of product entirely, so the spread alone deducts nothing.
What we saw: In-app purchases run from USD 7.99 to USD 189.00 — a 24x spread across 3 items
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 6 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 620 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 620 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“MS NOW Horrible auto open of ads when scrolling — Love msnbc news but am ready to delete the new app because of the automatic opening of ads while scrolling when reading article. The ads take over the screen the same as if you clicked on…”
“ALL Ads! — No kidding. I tried to watch for like 10 minutes and the ads just kept on coming. Seriously NOT worth the time to download.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 14.4.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown3
Lowest$7.99
Highest$189.00
MS NOW Members Subscription Monthly$7.99
MS NOW Members Subscription Annual$79.99
MS NOW Founders Subscription Annual$189.00
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.