Ground News

it has so much potential, but just like other news aggregators they just kill it by their efforts to lock everything down. I'm constantly running into pages that won't load properly in the app, but there's no option to open a page in an external browser (so I can actually watch a video or read a full article)... and they won't let you share links that work for people that don't have ground news subscriptions. If that's not added soon I'm canceling my subscription

Downgraded. Widget not working! Other than that, it is a solid news app. No nonsense Hollywood news clogging up the alerts. Very well laid out, customizable and has articles from multiple outlets for different perspectives. Keep up the great work. No need for another app. There is also a desktop web version that syncs with your account. Fantastic! 😊

UPDATING: I'm updating to 5 stars. Customer service was pretty quick to respond after I sent them an email, and my issue was resolved in probably less than an hour. Thank you Ground News staff for being so quick and helpful. It WAS 5 stars, but now the app just won't work. I can't sign in at all. I've followed the steps that the help articles provide. Uninstalled and reinstalled many times. I may have to cancel my subscription. Bummer this was one of my go to's for news 😕

Offers superior aggregation with excellent control of topics of interest. It is visually too busy. Spreading things out a bit would improve readability (at least on mobile screens). The "open in browser" control only works part-time, and you can't configure it to automatically open in your preferred browser. Many of the items appearing are redundant, and "old news" seems to hang around too long. A control to filter only content in a selective period of time would be a great feature.

Best source for the news by far. Very unique and you will not miss a single story. I love the ability to filter the headlines by left, center, or right. I was thinking it would be really nice to have more options to filter through especially for everything outside of politics. for example; sensational/neutral, opinion/straight reporting, positive/negative framing, and even independent journalism/corporate journalism.

has full bias coverage and all the important headlines, the free version works very well (no ads, just less features) but I got the $10 yrly subscription and love it. it also doesn't encourage "the scroll" like other apps; you get on, you read what's happening today and thats it, there's the bottom of the page. it makes me feel like I'm not wasting time while also staying informed. 11/10, 6 stars if I could

I thought I would enjoy a right, left, or center based news app, this one is hard to navigate, the ads and articles they push to you are mostly subscription based unless you pay for "their" subscription. The overridden ads on every article are annoying and having it asking me every time I enter to subscribe is quite unnerving. I'll be moving on to my browser where I can control the ads I see, or never see, and I can pick which sites I want. Trying to push notifications on my phone🤦 is another -

The app functions, but the bias and factuality breakdowns are AI generated, hard to verify, and frequently not present at all. It aggregates articles, but it's kind of hard to tell how the algorithm decides which ones to include, because a quick web search will often turn up sites it didn't mention. It doesn't so much make it easier to find and be sure of facts as it provides access to and summarizes opinions and non-news that I was trying to avoid in the first place.

Claims to be transparent about the news but they sure aren't transparent about their subscription costs. You won't find the cost in the app, you have to go to the site to find out there are three tiers, and if you accept the trial, you're on the hook for the middle tier at $29.99/year. The cost doesn't bother me but not putting the subscription costs is a deal breaker.

Watched a YouTube ad and then went through the sign-up process before anything was mentioned about a paid subscription to unlock all the features. It's in the fine print, but they definitely try to trick people into downloading the app before discovering it. If they were honest up front and offered a free trial, I may have subscribed. It's actually a decent app. However, tricking people just like the media companies they are exposing is a dirty trick. For that reason alone, it deserves 0 stars.

Exceptionally valuable, I use a few different new apps, but ground news is my favorite. It gives me articles I might miss, I can read right, left, and center articles to determine what is fact, what is opinion, and and shouldn't even be considered. The small subscription fee is underselling it, but I am glad for the costs to deliver such a great service.

My favorite news app, good for keeping things clear as things continue to go sideways here in the US. If I could make a request to the team though: it would be nice if we could set more than one location for "local" news. I'm a college student studying far from home, and it would be nice to be able to set a couple of different locations as "local" for that purpose.

Seems pretty cool so far; it does what the YouTube pitchers promise. But I don't like how it uses, as many apps do these days, an embedded browser instead of the one I set as default in my device's settings. Yes, you can click an icon in the upper right of an article and it will then send you to your preferred browser, but this requires you to first load the article in the embedded browser. I'd like the ability to have all links skip the embedded browser and jump straight to my preference.

It's a great service. The app could use a little improvement. My main issue is when reading articles in the built-in browser, there's no way to properly go back if I click a link in the article. The links work and will go to the right page, but using the back button/gesture exits the article back to the story summary, making me have to find the article again and reload it (the browser is a bit slow at loading). A little tedious in those cases. But overall good app and insightful service!

I have set my notification preferences three times and the app is still trying to have me turn on notifications. If I can change it anytime in the settings, then stop nagging me. If I want notifications, I'll enable them. I don't. As for everything else, most things appear to be locked behind a paywall and the "news" is just snippet text. At that point, just show the headline only if we have to click through anyway.

Does not work well with dark mode. It used to, but one of the more recent updates must have broken it. I used to pay for premium, but don't anymore. I think, other than a few minor annoyances removed, premium doesn't get you much. You still have pay walls from individual sources blocking access. The most useful thing is that you can see who has covered the topic, and then it's often better to open the source of your choice in your browser, because reading in the app can have issues.

it's a pretty useful app in times like these, but there's two criticisms I have. the right being blue and the left being red really messes with my brain, since it's the other way around in america. Also, I don't know if the app filters out AI articles, and since it isn't stated, I'm going to assume nope. filtering out AI articlez is something that will become increasingly important as AI progresses.

it's okay... I don't really get the hype. Interface is clunky. Articles are often obnoxiously short and riddled with ads, popups and links, everything but substance. The bias trackers and other "features" are mostly useless, and probably biased themselves. I got the pro plan it's cheap and still doesn't feel worth it. I thought I would use it all the time. I consume news, politics and economics probably more than I should. Maybe my expectations were off, I'll update if my experience improves.

I really wanted to like this app, as it appeared to have priorities straight. However, the privacy is a major concern with this app. A tracking blocking software reports that within just 10mins of use over 10,000 tracking attempts were blocked and this app feeds 70! companies that collect personal information from within my device: birthdate, GPS location, gender, email, first name, cookies etc. That is unacceptable, especially for a subscription based service.

This is a great app if you are into the news. It's been one of the best news hub in the form of the app that I have ever found. I even paid for the yearly subscription on their high tier plan but unfortunately in just a few days, I deeply regretted my act. It's due to the serious security issues. This app opens the gate to countless trackers and ads when you like to access the source of the news you are interested in reading. And if you know how to block those issues, you get nothing. Two stars.