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Best News Apps for iPhone (2026)

The top 11 news apps on the US App Store, ranked by number of ratings. Leading: X, Reddit, Apple News.
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11 of 11 apps · 11 free · average rating 4.7

  1. 1X app iconXX Corp.4.6(11.1M)· Free
  2. 2Reddit app iconRedditREDDIT, INC.4.8(3.5M)· Free
  3. 3Apple News app iconApple NewsApple4.6(1.6M)· Free
  4. 4NYTimes: US and Global News app iconNYTimes: US and Global NewsThe New York Times Company4.8(797.7K)· Free
  5. 5The Wall Street Journal. News app iconThe Wall Street Journal. NewsDow Jones & Company, Inc., publisher of The Wall Street Journal.4.7(551.9K)· Free
  6. 6Substack app iconSubstackSubstack, Inc.4.9(485.3K)· Free
  7. 7Watch Duty: Wildfire & Floods app iconWatch Duty: Wildfire & FloodsSherwood Forestry Service, Inc.4.9(49.9K)· Free
  8. 8CrimeRadar Dispatch Audio app iconCrimeRadar Dispatch AudioScoopz Inc.4.9(37.8K)· Free
  9. 9PressReader: News & Magazines app iconPressReader: News & MagazinesPressReader Inc4.7(18.5K)· Free
  10. 10Inoreader: News & RSS reader app iconInoreader: News & RSS readerInnologica4.7(4.4K)· Free
  11. 11The Post-Standard app iconThe Post-StandardThe Post-Standard4.3(1.8K)· Free

News chart movers

Apple's own News chart over the last 7 days (2026-10-08 → 2026-10-15), not the list above.

Biggest climbers

8

Biggest fallers

8

New on the News free chart

8

Dropped off the chart

8

A drop-off means an app left this genre's top 100, not the App Store. Movement describes what happened, not why. See movement across all categories.

How chart movers work

Positions come from the App Store's top News charts for the US storefront, recorded daily. A top-100 news position is far easier to read as competition than the overall chart, which is all household names. A slide can be a rival's launch, the end of a promotion or seasonality as easily as anything the developer changed.

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About this news list

This list shows top-ranked iOS apps in the News genre, compiled from public App Store metadata and updated daily. 11 of the 11 are free, and the average rating is 4.7. Tap any app for its App Store stats, rankings, keywords and reviews. For general rankings, see the popular apps directory; to find and track keywords for your own app, use the App Store keyword tool. Every one of the free App Store optimization tools works on any app in this list.

To launch or grow an app in News, it helps to know who publishes here and what people search for. Browse the major app publishers, or put rivals side by side with the app comparison tool. The ASO guide explains each listing field, and the ASO checklist walks through them in order.

Start from a seed term in the keyword research tool to see which news phrases Apple's autocomplete returns, then follow them with the keyword rank checker, or audit a listing with the ASO metadata checker.

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