“Most articles, now require subscription — After being a user of NBC News for years and enduring the countless ads and taking over audio when launching the app, they have now made it where most articles require a subscription. This seemed…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 508 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.7 ★150,703 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
106 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Stay informed with trusted journalism from NBC News — your source for breaking news, latest news updates, live video, and in-depth reporting, all in one powerful app. Whether you’re tracking election results, following political news from Washington, catching up on world headlines, or watching live breaking news, the NBC News app keeps you informed wherever you are.
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Follow the latest politics news, updates, and results of the 2026 midterm elections, including live election results, congressional races, and in-depth coverage of House and Senate candidates across the country. Track key battleground states, major campaign developments, and real-time vote counts with expert analysis from award-winning journalists.…
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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 14.3.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 14.3.0, updated 2026-09-09.
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
Says 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
80–89% 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 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 8 distinct reviewers (1.6% of 508 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 8 distinct reviewers (1.6% of 508 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Poorly programmed — Immediately cuts off music when opening app, app also doesn’t remember where you are in the article and puts u you back to top. A lot of ads You’d think this was an independent news agency with how cheap the app turned…”
“Too many ads — very disappointing - there are more ads than news lately . Very confusing when I want to see current news”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 14.3.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown2
Lowest$5.99
Highest$59.99
NBC News Monthly Subscription$5.99
NBC News Annual Subscription$59.99