Best News Apps for iPhone (2026)
The top 11 news apps on the US App Store, ranked by number of ratings. 11 of them are free, and the average rating is 4.7★. Leading the chart: X, Reddit, Apple News. Tap any app for its full App Store stats, rankings, keywords and reviews.
This curated list shows top-ranked iOS applications in the News genre, compiled from public App Store metadata and updated daily. Explore our comprehensive popular apps directory for general rankings, or leverage our App Store Keyword Tool to discover and track high-performing keywords for your own application.
Showing 11 of 11 apps
X
X Corp.
REDDIT, INC.
Apple News
Apple
NYTimes: US and Global News
The New York Times Company
The Wall Street Journal. News
Dow Jones & Company, Inc., publisher of The Wall Street Journal.
Substack
Substack, Inc.
Watch Duty: Wildfire & Floods
Sherwood Forestry Service, Inc.
CrimeRadar Dispatch Audio
Scoopz Inc.
PressReader: News & Magazines
PressReader Inc
Inoreader: News & RSS reader
Innologica
The Post-Standard
The Post-Standard
News chart movers
Who gained and lost ground on Apple's News charts over the last 7 days (2026-08-10 → 2026-08-17). This is Apple's own genre chart, not the list above — a top-100 news position is far easier to read as competition than the overall chart, which is all household names.
Biggest climbers
Next Spaceflight
Law & Crime Plus
Space Coast Launches
Very Local: News & Weather
Tijuana Good News
FOX LOCAL: Live News & Weather
Clubhouse
Podbean Podcast App & Player
Biggest fallers
Frontline Wildfire Tracker
The Guardian - US & World News
Blind - Professional Community
中国领事
Al Jazeera - الجزيرة
NBC News: Breaking & US News
PressReader: News & Magazines
PressReader Inc · News
Local News & Weather: Haystack
New on the News free chart
Hawaii News Now
10TV WBNS Columbus, Ohio
KHON2 News - Honolulu HI News
WIVB News 4 - Buffalo
KING 5 News for Seattle/Tacoma
Denver News from 9News
NBC10 Philadelphia: Local News
DarkShort - Watch Crime Short
Dropped off the chart
WTOL 11: Toledo's News Leader
Straight Arrow | SAN
FidiKetabi
Forbes
WSJ Print Edition
NewsNation: Unbiased News
Feedly - Smart News Reader
BuzzFeed - Quiz, Trivia & News
Positions come from Apple's public News RSS charts for the US storefront, snapshotted daily. A drop-off means an app left that genre's top 100, not the App Store. Movement describes what happened, not why — a slide can be a rival's launch, the end of a promotion or seasonality as easily as anything the developer changed. See movement across all categories.
ASO & Search Insights for News
To successfully launch or scale an app in the competitive News category, you need to understand search trends and developer portfolios. You can browse all major app publishers or compare multiple competitors side-by-side using our app comparison tool. For targeted optimization, check out our comprehensive ASO guide and follow our step-by-step ASO checklist to ensure your store listing is fully optimized.
Additionally, you can track performance using our keyword rank checker or audit your listing page with the ASO metadata checker to boost your visibility and search rankings in the popular apps directory.