“The ad frequency is worse than any other App I have used. It's a 20 second ad every 2 minutes. I don't understand how others can tolerate it. The newspapers relied upon to provide the feeds are mostly tabloid. It is largely slop for the…”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 504 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
Opera News: breaking & local
OperaStay informed with the latest news you care about — now with real-time U.S.
4.5 ★707,126 ratings
100M+Downloads
12+Age rating
—App size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Stay informed with the latest news you care about — now with real-time U.S. weather alerts. Your personal news feed delivers breaking news, local news, trending stories, weather warnings, and headlines from trusted sources. Get live streaming, live football scores, short videos, and daily news roundups directly on your phone.
Key Features:
✔ Breaking News & Weather Alerts Get instant notifications for breaking news, trending headlines, and urgent stories — including Flood Warnings, Heat Advisories, Severe Storm Alerts, Tornado Watches, Blizzard Warnings, Ice Storm Warnings, Snow Alerts, and other extreme weather alerts issued by NWS (National Weather Service) and NOAA.
✔ 15,000 Local News Sources Stay connected to your community with top local news from over 15,000 trusted sources.…
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 14.2.2254.84245 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 14.2.2254.84245, updated 2026-09-14.
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
From the package we downloaded and read — version 14.2.2254.84245, scanned 2026-09-18.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
6 or more requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
1–2 found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
10 or more found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
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 2
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.
Multiple ad networks bundled
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
What we saw: Bundles 10 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Chartboost and 6 more
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 30 distinct reviewers — 6.0% of the 504 reviews scanned on this store leg (Google Play).
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Asks for more sensitive permissions than similar apps
The package requests substantially more of the device's sensitive permissions than the typical app in its category. This is a measurement, not an accusation: a permission is granted because a feature needs it, and a wide request list is a reason to look rather than a finding on its own.
What we saw: Requests 6 sensitive permissions (ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION, CAMERA, READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, READ_MEDIA_IMAGES, READ_PHONE_STATE, SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW); the median for 22 scanned apps in News & Magazines is 2
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Too much ads comes at the time of reading news.It makes me angry.useless”
“way too many ads”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 14.2.2254.84245.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.