“they have too many ads. I can understand it is the way to monetize. But why are you stopping background play and lowering volume to zero next to an ad? Everytime my music stopped in the background and the volume lowered, the hate for the…”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 842 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
Way2News Daily News App
Way2News ( Formerly Way2SMS )🌟 Discover Way2News: Indian Hyperlocal Short News App 🌟 Way2News, India’s l…
4.6 ★1,217,965 ratings
50M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
🌟 Discover Way2News: Indian Hyperlocal Short News App 🌟 Way2News, India’s largest Hyperlocal short news App, is your go-to source for daily local news in various vernacular languages presented in a short-summarized format, trusted by millions of Indians.
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Get daily tailored news updates based on your preferred language & location, including the latest election news with live updates and results for 2026. Experience diverse short news updates spanning Entertainment, Politics, Business, Weather, Sports, Astrology, Technology, Finance, Health, Fitness, Beauty, Cinema, Agriculture, and more with the Made in India news app rated top for Telugu news and Tamil news.…
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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 9.58 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 9.58, updated 2026-09-16.
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 9.58, scanned 2026-09-22.
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
3–9 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 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.
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 6 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, Fyber / Digital Turbine Exchange, Google Mobile Ads (AdMob / Ad Manager), Meta Audience Network and 2 more
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, ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION, CAMERA, READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, READ_PHONE_STATE, RECORD_AUDIO); 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
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 7 distinct reviewers (0.8% of 842 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“No news, only ads..happy ga undu mowa.. editing after 3 years...still the same issue..ad for every 2 news posts..Amazon prime kante worst ga undhi ads frequency..money antha sampadinchi jagrathaga save chesuko mowa..”
“So Many Ads”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 9.58.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.