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Get daily news and events sent straight to your phone, because small news makes a big difference to communities! Keep up to date with current events, live local news, business news and more!

Small news makes a big difference! NewsBreak is your #1 local news app for current events, free live news, business news, and more. Download today to stay up to date on all things local!

Local news is different. NewsBreak believes that local news helps bring neighborhoods together around the unique stories they share in common. And only local, small news has the unique ability to meaningfully inform the decisions we make throughout the day.

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And remember - we don’t just do local! Local breaking news, sports news, trending national & international news – NewsBreak’s got it all. Get everything from sports updates to national news headlines sent straight to your phone while coming together with your neighborhood to share in interesting conversations related to local news in your area.

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NewsBreak Features:

Local News Highlights
• Get a curated daily briefing on local news, traffic, events, local weather, and more.
• Live stream news on local channels: follow local news, events, and activities.
• Get local weather reports and traffic updates at a glance.

Breaking News, National and Local
• Both small news and breaking news, stay up to date with our current news coverage
• Daily news highlights delivered straight to your device
• Browse national news headlines and read comprehensive, in-depth stories.
• Use the discovery engine to discover stories from over 10,000 trusted sources.

Personalized News Feed
• Get the stories that matter to you with a highly personalized feed, relevant to your likes and dislikes.
• Get coverage on the news that matters most to you, including sports news, business news, tech news, and more
• Keep up with the latest coverage of important news and events, nationally and locally.!
• Our news aggregator collects and delivers the news that matters to you.
• Get news alerts customized to your tastes.

Your Community News
• Find local eats, small news updates, deals, shop openings, and more ahead of time.
• Read personal and vivid stories from our local news writers and content creators.
• Treat us as your personal newsstand, magazine collector, restaurant reviewer, and more.

Create Civic Value - Support the Cause
• Use NewsBreak to revive the local news ecosystem and support small publishers.
• Increase local story volume and geographic coverage to stimulate local storytelling and community power.

Follow or Block the Trend - It’s Up to You
• It’s totally cool to stay on top of some topics, or totally hate them!
• NewsBreak allows you to follow what is trending, or completely block some topics you don’t appreciate.
• You can laugh, share, think, cry, upvote, downvote, comment, reply...
• NewsBreak is a free ground that welcomes you to express emotions & opinions.

Download NewsBreak today to stay informed on local news, national headlines, and world news!

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NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts App Comments & Reviews

NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts Positive Reviews

App for local and breaking news’ loversIn the past few months, my mom and I’ve switched to get my news through Newsbreak. Its entire news feed revolves around our personal interests. I like the way they present the “Following” tab as well as “For You” tab, both delivering personalized news feed. I am also impressed by the numerous good-quality sources they have, which seems to be the key metrics for a good news app right now. The full coverage of local news is the reason my mom love this app and choose it, as my family can get the latest news from our county and the news around the world. I do not get swamped with push notifications that much. .. the notifications I do receive are nice and gentle reminders of good stories that are available to read, which also reminds me that I have the application (which is nice! ). The only glitch is that sometimes they get me the old news stories in the notification, which confused me a little bit. I am looking forward to a way to report this error to the team so that they can do something about it. General speaking, Newsbreak is my favorite news app among several for now!.Version: 3.1.5

It’s decent.. but there are some fatal flaws.I downloaded this app to keep up to date with some things in Orlando while I’m here. Upon looking through various articles on the app, not only did I find that a lot of them were irrelevant to the news I actually needed, (news about crimes, laws, COVID-19 rules and so on), I noticed that the comments of most articles are just filled to the brim with spam, toxicity and hate speech toward one race. With especially a lot of hate toward black people. Every article I saw that included a black person or had nothing to do with black people always had a bunch of users in the comments going “stupid black people are the devil race” or “black people cannot be as smart as white people”. There have been other statements and even more horrible and derogatory ones the further you look into them. There are literal accounts on this platform dedicated just to hating on another race/ethnicity and it’s as if no one is watching over the community and moderating these comments/accounts. It really does not create a positive experience for anyone on the app and it sure doesn’t create one for anyone actually leaving useful comments under the articles. Like I said, this is a decent app for keeping up with local news in your area and has the potential to be on the level of an app like Citizen, but I would really like for there to be an option to report entire accounts rather than just block them. As of this review being posted, I have deleted the app..Version: 19.26.0

One spot for news - with a caveatUpdate: I’m my review below, what I was seeing was a web site I was directed to with more ads than news. I had erroneously thought that NewsBreak was responsible for the plethora of ads. However, this particular web site appeared more than once in my feed, and I was getting frustrated. With that being said, and understanding what’s going on, I do wish there was a way I could target that web site not to appear in my feed. I understand ads are a major way that revenue is created to keep these feeds going, but some go to far and I try to keep from giving them that income. I have been getting the email notifications and would go to the source to read the story. I decided to install and use the app - and that’s when I realized that the space given to advertising was almost 3 to 1 over actual news stories in the app. And I was forced to scroll through the ads to read part of a sentence, then scroll through another ad, to read another small sentence - all the way through the story. And trying to scroll on a phone without the app launching an ad is frustrating at best. I’ll stick to the email and read the stories from the source. The app is just to frustrating to use when you spend more time dancing around advertising than what the app purports to be..Version: 22.8.0

MY OPINIONHello I will take a minute to share my opinion of NewsBreak. One of the primary things I enjoy about this site is that they allow you to write you opinions on articles and stories. Most of the other news sites could care less about their readers opinion which is obvious if they don’t allow comments. Other news sites will allow you to comment if you subscribe to their rag. I personally do not like to be coerced into paying for subscriptions to sites that are not good to begin with. There are a few sites that post articles with a significant amount of misspelled words and grammar errors. You start to wonder who are these people writing the articles, do they not have spell check or they just don’t care about what they write. It makes me think that what ever they are trying to write about isn’t reliable. So far NewsBreak meets all the criteria and seems to do a through job at reporting the significant events all around the world. Great Job.Version: 23.11.0

Grammar Matters!Where are the journalists—and more importantly, the editors—who went to English class? The NewsBreak articles are very reliable in terms of real-time happenings; however, some of the articles lack the grammatically-correct impact they should provide. A more broad use of descriptions (adjectives) would be welcomed, too! (Find an online thesaurus?) For example, how many times did we have to read ‘restaurant in Southern California’ in the story about the San Pedro Fish Market (I believe that’s the name of it…!) that seats over 3,000 people?! Yes, I was born, raised, & reside in Southern California, & I am encouraged to visit San Pedro to experience the food & views (from beautiful photos, not details in the article), but why don’t we learn a little about the city & (on the marina) location (in San Pedro, California, if that wasn’t too obvious—but there are ‘many other locations’ mentioned, as well), until the address is listed at the very end?! It also would have been nice to learn where ‘the other locations’ can be found. Overall, this Catholic School Girl truly appreciates the NewsBreaks. I just wanted to provide some constructive criticism. Thank you!.Version: 19.24.0

App needs a search and filter featureApp is pretty good, but needs the ability to search the headlines for keywords. Also needs a filter so that certain sources may always be omitted from results, e.g. always exclude CNN, etc. Also, the ability to mark story categories that you don’t want to see anymore would be useful. Say a story pops up about sex or gender issues, and you just prefer not to see those type of stories anymore. Also, big ads which appear as if they are stories are repeating or often shown. It would be nice to mark or tag the ad and say “I’ve seen this, I’m not interested, please don’t show it to me anymore thank you”. The app is surprisingly fast and responsive. There are so many news apps out there, this one seems to distinguish itself by it’s responsiveness — its very fast. The big ads appearing as if they were stories is an interesting take on generating ad revenue, but they are not obtrusive (at least in 2 column landscape mode on an iPad since real stories appear on the left, while the ads feed appears on the right column with other real stories.) The app needs more features as I have mentioned to make it more appealing..Version: 3.7.2

Good for a fast read.I started out loving this app. It was great for my local news. It gave stories sometimes first, sometimes those I couldn’t get elsewhere. I started using this app in February. By April it started having so many bugs it was barely useable. If you actually get linked to a story shown, and then want to follow on to another shown below, it won’t follow the link. So then you think ok, I’ll open it in Safari, but then you get the first story and can’t find the one you wanted to read on the homepage of that news outlet to which have been directed. It is terribly frustrating. This app has the potential to be one of the best news apps for local news and has done a great job of keeping readers up to date on the corona virus and its ramifications in my area. But it is not quite at being fully integrated. I end up loving and hating it at the same time. I admit to being a news junkie so I always want to read MORE. Developer, please, bring this to the next level. For those who want a fast read of generally what’s happinging in your area, give this a try..Version: 3.6.2

Great news consolidator appThis is my favorite news consolidator app. Does a great job presenting a wide cross section of top news items without obvious bias (possibly embedded but not obvious). Not sure but suspect there are some restrictions about the available sources but still hope to see continued expansion. A few wish list items: Restore simple view - this option was recently deprecated. Too bad. I really appreciated the ability to just view the raw content. Much quicker to navigate. Probably had issues with source providers. Source selection - would be nice to have the option to turn off sources (not just topics) that are uninteresting to me. Article ordering - it would be great if articles covering a “similar” topic were presented together in descending date order. I know that “similar” is a high bar. One of the principle reasons i use this app is to view diverse perspectives on the same topics. It would help if they were presented accordingly..Version: 22.33.0

The Best App Right NowEverything about this app has been what I should have expected expect only one tiny thing. I’ve been using this application lately because of Coronavirus news, and to be honest, I don’t complain, but as I just noted earlier, if you guys can just add this one feature, it will be helpful for not only me, but maybe for many others out there. I think you should add a search field especially for countries and/or cities, so people can search for specific locations/country to get the news they want to know first. Many among us are separated from our families. Therefore, for those who are concerned, their first intentions when they open your application, they intend to look for news about the countries where they came from for their loved ones if covid-19 has worsened or not. This is before anything else. But again, I love you your application and I use on daily basis..Version: 3.6.0

DecentI do like getting notifications throughout the day and that I can control how many notifications I get and when. I wish the comment sections weren’t so toxic, but free speech *is* good to have. It’d just be nice to see more respectful discord and less trolling happening, but alas. I thought there was a search function, but I can’t find it for the life of me. It’d also be nice to search for stories you are looking for especially when you open the app & it displays a story just to disappear a second later. That’s frustrating. It would be nice to see less depressing stories. I like keeping up with world, national, local and events, but don’t necessarily want to be inundated with depressing information all day long. I also like that it attempts to stay non-partisan. I prefer my news to be non-partisan so I can make my own decision, but also like seeing opinions from the left and right to better understand people’s positions. It is nice that there is a scale in your settings so the algorithms can try to give you want you want. All in all a good app..Version: 8.0.0

I like this app but...I like the news, I like being able to track the virus cases in my city and I like being able to track the protests. Of course there are some repetitive articles, but this app doesn’t report the news it compiles it in an easy place for us all to see. What I really hate about this app is the community, doesn’t matter what article you go to you’ll find terrible terrible bigots in the comment section. These comments really need to be moderated, and a lot of those people really should be put on a watch list. They think because they’re just sitting behind a phone screen they can say what they want, but that’s not how it is. Everyone needs to learn that the comments they leave effect people, it’s not what you meant to say it’s how other people perceive what you say that matters. Some of these comments are just so heinous and terrible skewed towards incredibly racist undertones and even sometimes it’s so blatant you’re just surprised. If we’re talking about the actual app though, it’s pretty great, but I think you should disable the comments seriously..Version: 3.6.9

FLUOXETINE (A.K.A. GENERIC PROZAK)I Have been sober for two years now. What I have noticed is that methamphetamine and amphetamine keeps showing up in my UA, whereby I am being sanctioned by one of the medication that has been given to me by a doctor and or nurse practitioner. I am trying to make the public aware of this in case this happens to them as well. I attend Olympic personal growth whereby I get great counseling, but I’m starting to question the labs validity in their UA’s. The medication that is in question that I take is called fluoxetine, the generic brand to Prozac. Fluoxetine has been issued to me to help me with my post traumatic stress disorder. I’m not embarrassed to talk about it. It is who I am and who I was will always be. I am a beautiful woman. I speak my mind and I always will. I hope that somebody can benefit from this so that they don’t become a victim of something that they are not guilty of when they know in fact that they are innocent..Version: 24.8.1

5 starsThe newsbreak app is super good for me because I like to know what’s going on and I like getting notifications and you also don’t know you can choose not to get notifications if you choose not to get notifications and Ignant tell you about a whole bunch of things like for Mia to notify me about hurricane Italia in shootings and stuff that’s going around in my neighborhood and my place so I love it is my favorite app so far in it a lot of people like it us whole lot and that’s why I gave it a five star rating because I can choose not to get notifications up at hardest said that and they get their notifications come really fast and it’s super cool to have the app so that’s what you should get it Also most people really love it and I like it because sometimes it notifies me when I really want to know about something that’s going on.Version: 23.35.0

It’s great but….It’s a good app, that I unfortunately had to delete because every breaking news moment sent to my phone or watch was about one particular ex president. Every. Single. Notification. I tried blocking political/ news. Nothing, as if it tried sending me more nonsense. Don’t get me wrong, political news is important, but these articles went overboard. Opinion pieces & junk news. I wanted local news which it claimed to have, if u dig on it’s app. It’s really not a face I wanted staring me down on thanksgiving, or any other day 15-20 times a day. It gets 3 stars because if you love him like a taylor swift Uber fan does then this is for you. Unfortunately I do not need to know when the man get out of bed and makes a tweet and forgets a period or an explanation point and somehow that’s breaking news. I stopped even reading the app, which I preferred over the Apple News which I ironically pay for. So we will stick to that since I can block both news and news sources I do not want to hear from..Version: 23.46.2

News for the Woke and VacuousThis app will alert you to breaking local news sometimes, which is useful. Precisely because that news is breaking, this feed cannot, of course, be fairly faulted for its lack of detailed coverage in those situations. What I find downright annoying, though, is the so-called "progressive" spin of so much of the news coverage, much along the same nauseating lines as Yahoo! News and MSNBC. A secondary drawback is its over-emphasis, IMHO, on some of the basest elements of mass culture. If you prefer your daily dose of saccharine blue pill mental analgesic, then perhaps this is the echo chamber for you. You'll also be among the first to learn when soap opera stars marry or when sports stars re-sign with their teams. But if your sense of personal integrity and commitment to the truth have led you to choose the red pill, instead, despite its bitterness, then you'll look elsewhere for your information, though perhaps holding on to this site, too, for an occasional taste of the swill others are swallowing..Version: 19.10.0

Four stars but maybe five?I love this app for having local news but some of the news outlets won’t let you read their articles without a subscription, namely the Minneapolis Star and Tribune and the Virginia, Minnesota news paper and the Hibbing Daily newspaper. I am asking you to check with the news outlets you use to see if they require a subscription or not. If they don’t I hope you will drop them because it is annoying to read a headline only to go in and find out you can’t read an article unless you pay for it. There are so many free news outlets online that I can’t imagine any news outlets not offering free reading of their news. Also, the app keeps sticking in place when I try to scroll to read the news. Sometimes this happens repeatedly and I cant do anything when it freezes up like that so I have to leave the app..Version: 3.6.7

Love app, hate notifications…I love this news app. It’s very informative, and keeps me up on my local news. What I don’t like is the notifications… I go through and clear the stories I don’t care to read, and the ones I’ve already read, and any that don’t interest me. They return the next day or within a couple of days. This morning I had 62 notifications for stories that were written as far back as 7 days ago, that I had already cleared because I wasn’t interested in reading them. How about fixing it so if I “clear” a notification I’m not interested in, it stays off my notifications… I really don’t want to turn off all the notifications. Other than the notifications, I do love and enjoy this news app. I recommend it to people quite a bit. Keep up the good work..Version: 22.27.0

No moreThis is an up dated review. Originally I only gave it 3 stars and here is why: I really used to like this app. I could get a synopsis of new stories or I could read the entire news story itself. However now there are ads appearing in the middle of the stories and they cannot be read I’m going to delete this app and I’m going to tell everybody I know not to get it until this is taken care of it is ridiculous. So frustrating to get in the middle of a sentence and then have the stupid car ad or some other ad in the middle of the rest of the story. Please take care of this problem. HOWEVER — I received a response from the developers thanking me for my review and I am now updating to 5 stars. And I want to thank the developers for being so responsive! I wish they all were..Version: 17.5.1

Great way to stay on top of current eventsThis app allows me to stay up to date with my local news as well as national news. I am also able to read articles from newspapers and news channels in the locations where my distant family members reside. I also love the ability to like the article helping the app to recommend more stories similar to it. There is also the ability to comment or respond to comments made by others. Unfortunately, there are often times lots of arguments in the comments due to difference of opinion. There should be a feature to report very offensive comments and the user be suspended for a period of time. Just be aware if you make comments rather good or bad, someone will likely counter it for their shameless entertainment. I usually pay those comments no attention. But overall the app is really great..Version: 22.4.0

Great appThis app is perfect to keep up with local news and other topics of interest. I love the push notifications and would give it a five star if it wasn’t for one frustrating glitch. Whenever a notification of a story pops up on my phone, and I click on it to read, the story opens for a brief second and before I can click on it to read, the app refreshes it’s stories and I can’t find it anymore. I’ve resorted to seeing if I can beat the refresh moment..so it’s part of the fun. But seriously can you make it so that the notification actually open the story directly? There have been times I wasn’t able to find it and had to resort to searching on safari or just not reading it. This app is wonderful and that glitch doesn’t take away from its great features. There isn’t another app like it that I can find, so I will make it my go to. Thanks for developing it. Great work..Version: 3.5.3

Avoid the commentsUpdate 2: It appears the devs have allowed the blocking of news sources soon after my first review. You earned a star! Still, those comments are terrible though... Update 1: This app needs to disable the comments section completely or at least give people the option to disable it themselves. They are worse than Facebook. Probably equally as bad as Twitter. Though I admit I’m not on either anymore. People say the most vile, hateful things to each other and about the world in general. It really detracts from the purpose of staying up to date with current events. Original: I love that I can just get the top news stories and local headlines. However, I’m tired of accidentally clicking on certain news sources. There are certain ones I want to block and never have my data affiliated with, yet there is no way to do that currently. Please fix that..Version: 3.8.3

Would have given 5 until they made this 1 changeI really enjoyed this app because unlike most others, it’s not an echo chamber of the same side of the isle stuff over and over again. They are a little left biased somewhat but that’s just because of how awful the media is minus a small percentage. But..now they want you to sign in using google or Facebook or to create an account so they can continue to track your speech. I used to be able to comment anonymously without needed to sign in with one of my accounts but not anymore. You can still upvote and downvote comments but you can’t comment yourself anymore. Which wasn’t how it always was and I like it that way. If anyone says something inappropriate or threatening, you can still report it and you would do that even if you didn’t have an account with a user name before. But not anymore and that’s a major drawback for me..Version: 19.14.2

Some good, some badIt’s a nice layout, the main/top stories are presented nicely, and overall pleasant to look at, but the fake Clickbait articles are awful & plentiful. Some of the editors don’t seem to try with actual content and rely on misleading headlines to generate a click. It makes the experience of using any news app less trustworthy. It also seems that the keyword or “cookies” system is broken, just because I clicked a random article about roller-coasters or bacon, it does not mean that I want 100s of news articles about that targeting me forever. I find myself going through the headlines but afraid to click as to not generate a cookie on a topic that I’m not interested in. Overall it can be an entertaining app to use, and there are some reliable articles but the whole thing is over saturated with fake news and click-bait type of stuff, bringing the overall experience down..Version: 23.27.0

Up to date newsI enjoy getting news bulletins and keeping me up-to-date in the Tampa area..Version: 9.0.0

Love it!I like all the news hi lights,I am a news junki. I just found this app. and I am enjoying it very much. Thanks. SB.Version: 19.3.0

CoverageThey cover a wide range of topics from all over the world..Version: 22.7.0

Which BurlingtonI simply want to see news from Burlington, Ontario. I think I get more news fromBurlington, Vermont which I am not the least bit interested in..Version: 19.18.0

Great up to date app but …Love the up to date news that the average news would never keep us covered on however the amount of junk mail I have been receiving since I signed up is horrendous. My up to date junk blocking isn’t able to keep up !.Version: 22.9.0

Excellent news sourceI thoroughly like the NewsBreak app. It gives me up to the minute details on happenings in or around my home. Thank you.Version: 22.6.0

NewsBreakI really love reading NewsBreak it keeps me up to date and what is happening around the world. Please keep up with the updates.Version: 22.6.0

NewFor accurate news they are the best.Version: 22.4.0

Good news sourceGood news source..Version: 19.24.0

ReviewSeems like a good news apt sooo far ,,, As long as I’m not reading an article then some ad comes up 😊.Version: 22.2.0

NewsBreakI no am enjoying seeing all the news clips that I am interested in. I just can’t figure out how to get rid of some of the notifications once I have read the clips..Version: 19.10.0

BreakingAwesome buddy, doing great work Keep the good work going 👍👍.Version: 19.4.0

Version françaiseÀ quand une version française pour le Canada (Québec) ? Votre application est extrêmement utile mais malheureusement uniquement en anglais pour le Canada! Sinon je vous accorderais un 5 étoiles.Version: 19.10.0

Great news appIn this day and age it is a good thing to be aware of what is going on around us. I feel that this news app does a great job.Version: 19.2.1

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