Breaking News

This app does exactly as promised - deliver news the moment it breaks. By scanning more than a dozen news feeds from around the world, the app delivers up to the minute information! The developer should create a similar app with up to the minute info related to business news, markets, commodities, etc. Admittedly, I have only tried a few business-related apps, but so far, the ones I have sampled don’t seem to have the same, up-to-the-minute updates as does this one, nor are their notifications as prompt. Again, kudos for an app very well done!!

I love this news app! The quick news alerts are great, the ability to select which sources I want news from is great too! In fact, whenever North Korea shoots off a missile I know about it before anyone else, which lead a co-worker to ask how I knew so fast every time North Korea launched a missile. I told him about this app and he insisted I help him download it to his phone. I just wish I could get the capabilities of this app in my chrome web browser on my laptop.

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Had this last year, and was so impressed on all the breaking news alerts I was getting. I’ve got family scattered across the world, and this was perfect keeping a watch on them, as well as our ever changing world. Seems like since the new year, I’ve been flooded with nothing but sports, crap. Sorry, but I’m not interested in Manchester’s football/soccer team. It’s an all day stream of who got traded. Who got signed. What team they’re now with, etc. this has turned into an ESPN app. I haven’t changed my news settings. In fact, I’ve got sports stations turned off. I was getting a good mix of world of events, but not anymore. Deleted.

This app is even better now that I found out how to turn off “news” alerts from sources I don’t care to hear from (ESPN, NFL, Sky Soorts etc.)! The “Newscast Radio” option allows you to hear updates from various sources, rather than reading them. Long-press on a headline allows you to easily share it as well!

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I have used this app for several years, but I won’t be bothering anymore. As of a month or so ago, you now have to pay if you want more than one news alert show up in your Notification Center or on your lock screen. This may sound like a stupid complaint to some, but the whole purpose of this app used to be that you had multiple news outlets posting alerts as notifications, so if you wanted to go in and read more of the story you could. Now it’s just another news aggregator.