“I like this news App a lot; however, there's just too many Ads interruptions and blocking news articles, it gets really frustrating sometimes, especially when I am trying to see and read important news. 😞”
Independent automated assessment · 2 signal sources · 332 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
News Today: Local & Alerts
Apps SkylineStay connected to what matters most with News Today—your personalized local n…
4.4 ★4,412 ratings
1M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Stay connected to what matters most with News Today—your personalized local news and world news reader. Get breaking news alerts, follow trending topics, and stay ready with local weather forecasts and weather alerts. From neighborhood updates to major global headlines, we curate stories from trusted publishers so you can stay informed every day.
What you’ll get - Local News Near You: Discover local updates, community stories, and city headlines—built for staying informed where you live. - Breaking News Alerts: Instant notifications for urgent updates and major events.…
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 1.17.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.17.0, updated 2026-07-21.
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
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.
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 12 distinct reviewers (3.6% of 332 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“too many ads! I spen5t more time deleting ads than reading your articles! are Excelentl!!!! overall Ratings 10 articles the positive unfortunately, I am70 with a terminal ilnes illness The news coverage 10!”
“Too many commercials”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.17.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.