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. Every one of our free App Store optimization tools works on any app in this list.
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 (2026-08-14 → 2026-08-21). 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
Very Local: News & Weather
Spectrum News: Local Stories
Financial Times: Business News
Enigma: What’s that in the Sky
NBC10 Boston: News & Weather
Narwhal for Reddit
Barron’s - Investing Insights
The Guardian - US & World News
Biggest fallers
Frontline Wildfire Tracker
Atlanta News First
The White House
FREECABLE TV: News & TV Shows
Overcast Podcast App
Snopes
TrueShort - Stream True Crime
ABC News: Live Breaking News
New on the News free chart
AwareCA
MobilePatrol: Public Safety
NRA
Space Coast Launches
Next Spaceflight
DarkShort - Watch Crime Short
Knoxville News from WBIR
ReelTale: Stream Real Dramas
Dropped off the chart
KTLA 5 News Los Angeles
ABC13 Houston News & Weather
FOX19 NOW
NBC 5 Chicago: News & Weather
FOX5 Vegas - Las Vegas News
WKRN – Nashville’s News 2
Alerta Sísmica México - SASSLA
WTVM News Leader 9
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.
Start from a seed term in our keyword research tool to see which news phrases Apple's autocomplete actually returns, then 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.