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I find it so frustrating when friends and family are so deep in their echo chambers, they no longer can agree on a shared reality. Ground News helps change that, showing you how every story is being covered by every outlet, right, left, center. They even show you which stories are being ignored by news companies on one side of the aisle. It’s a simple idea that is executed wonderfully.

I try to be eclectic in my current events. I try. But there are too many sources and too many names to keep track of. Ground News has not only introduced me to a myriad of new outlets, but lets me know their particular outlook. I’m from the 3 TV stations era, so Ground News is a total game changer. THANK YOU!!!

This is an updated and revised review which I feel is appropriate following a very informative genuine response from the developer. My original review complained of annoying ads in linked third party articles rendering many of them unreadable or sometimes being directed to articles that were behind a paywall. I noted in that review that these ad problems are in no way unique to Ground News and that Ground News app itself is an ad-free experience but that I felt it hampered the reader experience. The developer replied with a genuine and sympathetic response but clarified some additional things including the fact that they do not in any way profit from popups. I learned from the developer that there are ways of filtering and adjusting your feed so that paywall articles can be screened. Also, the developer indicates that an external browser function is available to better deal with pop ups and such like. I’ll be trying out these features and settings but overall I am very satisfied with what Ground News does, how it helps when it comes to news biases and the sheer breadth of content. It is clearly highly customizable - perhaps in a way that I didn’t fully understand at first. And of course, any developer who takes the time to reach out personally to address a concern is serious about doing the right thing and their product.

Really like the approach and focus of the app and how it handles content. Only time will tell how I am able to appreciate its perspectives as presented and the breadth of what os covered. BUT - I do think the app as an app needs some more basic capabilities. 1) Ability to adjust text size 2) Need the ability have multiple windows (tabs is a good attempt) 3) History tracking of articles read and perhaps reviewed ~ Time will tell ~

People would be a lot more civil to each other if they all used this app. I Have always tried to get news from various leaning sources to maintain a balanced perspective on divisive issues. Ground has made this so much easier. I now preface contentious conversations with “So I Read this through ground news” and I have had family ask what I’ve seen on ground about a topic that people on social media are shouting about. I encourage everyone I care about to get this app. It’s not perfect and if you’re hard leaning one way or the other, it’s going to feel biased sometimes. I’m a US conservative (right) and a lot of the center stuff seems left biased to me. But when we try to listen to people we don’t agree with, it can both strengthen our resolve and help us realize that the amorphous “other side” is trying to do the best they can just like we are. We don’t always agree on what’s best but we agree on a whole lot more than biased media sources and party leaders would have us believe. Who benefits when we stay divided?! It’s political party’s and heavy leaning news sources. The more divided we become the more money we send them. Anyway, share this app, buy those you care about a subscription. These people are doing good work.

I have been using this as my primary news source for over a year. I value the ability to see multiple sides of a story including photos and videos relevant t the topic. I am still getting used to the new update. It definitely feels less clunky and much smoother to navigate, however, it is a real shame to see that the comments section has been removed in the new update. It was a largely unmoderated place (save a strict filter for inappropriate words) where people could speak their mind on topics. I greatly value the ability to see and discuss different perspectives . With that comes some toxicity, but that is anywhere people speak and people were free to turn it off or mute if they didn’t like it. It was so popular that many topics seemed to be exceeding the amount of space GN allotted for comments. I am very sad to see that instead of expanding it, they chose to shut it down. America is suppose to be a place where free speech is protected yet corporations continue to impede that ability more and more. There are so few venues to discus perspectives and challenge ideas because corporations continue to strangle out discussions and information that they do not like. I am not happy that Ground News chose to destroy their free speech platform (however small it was) which closed down one more venue that allowed the discussion of current events and perspectives.

Absolutely love the operating concept! To thoroughly mix metaphors, It may not immediately extinguish the warring tribal dumpster fire of a news-scape we inhabit, but it’s certainly leading the way to doing so! The tools throughout this app are wonderful for finding out more about a story’s origin, timeline and biases. The bias indicator bar below the articles is awesome. That it clicks through when you press center, left or right to another article about the topic from that viewpoint, is delicious. The full coverage analysis graph is genius, showing which sources covered the story with a dot plot graph made of badges representing each source. And there are many other ingenious little tools and features that make this a delightfully pleasurable app to expose the different vantage points and biases stories are covered from and through. Developer: Three requests to take this to the next level...smooth out the scrolling to make this app feel like the polished iOS app it’s well on its way to being throughout. Clean up the text on the “following” tiles. They look very amateurish with letters dangling down on the second line. And please make it so I could find “The Hill”, for example, for following. I didn’t see one of the tiles on offer for it and the search came up empty for The Hill despite it being used as a source throughout the app. Super Bonus: Make the little badges in the full coverage analysis graph click through to other stories by those sources.

I love everything about the app. My three suggestions would be to first: differentiate between the plus sign button on the homepage and the Discover tab. Possibly a full list of suggestions or have suggestions and half popular for the Discover tab and keep the trending topics for the plus sign. Second, no need to add the trending topics throughout the app as often as you do. Understandably, the business side most likely benefits from it, however it decreases user satisfaction with the constant pushing of a feature easily accessible from the homepage. The suggestions at the bottom are fine though. Lastly, I see that some articles specify a number of related sources but not all are listed in the full bias breakdown. I acknowledge that the articles with 100+ sources would be a bit much, but if there within like 20-50 I believe we as users would appreciate your efforts for as much transparency as possible even moreso. I do appreciate the widespread amount of sources you do provide currently, again, just my personal suggestions. Thank you kindly for creating a much needed alternative to mainstream media and allowing for individual curation of content and transparency. Truly a blessing.

Worked in news for some years and learned to hate it. I worked when there was a new ISIS or mass shooting event almost daily. Stopped following news altogether once I left that gig. I knew that if I wanted the real news, I needed to do legwork and compare articles, sources, find a 3rd party commenter, but i have little desire to do this for every story. This app makes it simple to compare headlines, and even quickly read articles from different leanings of sources. Sometimes just for a laugh from fringe stories, but it helps me quickly get a balanced view that I can dig into with ease. I want the devs to keep thinking and finding new ways to accomplish this, but features like blindspot and personal stats are great starts to making me feel like comprehensively understanding the local and world news stories are a few easy taps away. If you understand anything about the news climate, you’ll see the immediate value in an app like this. In its current state it does still feel like a nice beta, but it’s got the right idea and is on a path toward something not just great, but necessary for navigating online news content.

I don’t write many reviews but when an app is good enough to put an end to years of searching, the developers deserve the praise. I have tried many news apps and been dissatisfied with them all until Ground News. Not only does it do an excellent job of aggregating the news, but it provides a very intuitive and clean way to compare multiple sources. I also love the ad-free reader. This app is perfect for users who don’t like being spoon fed news from only one angle. If you like to think for yourself and don’t want to fall prey to spin and manipulation, this is the perfect solution. The Blind Spot is a great addition that helps fulfill the apps mission and my search to educate myself on news events without falling prey to confirmation bias. I have chosen to pay for this app both because it is truly worth it and because I want to ensure the developers are encouraged to keep up the good work. I truly hope that many more find this app and that it can help many to be able to think for themselves and see through bias in these increasingly divisive times.

Firstly since I know these first lines will definitely be seen more, DOWNLOAD THIS APP!!! With all the tension throughout the world that has been linearly increasing at dramatic rates as of recent, I as well as many others understand just how difficult it is to find any trustworthy, truthful media sources out there and have spent so many hours of my life’s just trying to find news sources that would report without biases. Ground News, you have single handily solved this massive issue with biased media by providing your users with not only their right to gain factual knowledge, but also their right to choose for themselves, bravo👏🏼👏🏼. I really cannot applaud the whole team behind ‘Ground News’ enough, thank you for having morals and representing what journalism truly looks like! THIS SHOULD BE THE INDUSTRY STANDARD I would like to say you guys have helped restore some faith in humanity for me, but because of your app I now know WWIII is basically in full effect😂🤣(only laughing because i’m not sure this much else to do besides that at this point).

Update Feb 2022: The app got a major overhaul. Cool features to analyze your social feeds to see what kind of bias you’re seeing and more importantly the comments seem to be gone at my first glance. Raising my review. I’ll use the app more for a while and maybe give it a final rating. The app is well designed and easy to use. Getting an overview of how the news headlines are rated doesn’t take long since it’s pretty intuitive. I’ve added this to my regular news routine and might move to a subscription plan if it continues that way. The comments in the app are almost entirely right wing and certainly an echo chamber. Honestly this makes me skeptical of the app itself if the user base is heavily skewed to one end of the political spectrum. I know you can turn off the comments but I wonder why they even exist. The slanted nature hurts the trustworthiness of the brand. UPDATE: The comments are a 1 sided conservative cesspool that add no value. The app’s basis seems sound, but until they disable comments I would not recommend it and will not subscribe. The fact they permit that makes me question their motive.

Ground News is light years ahead of all the other news aggregator services & apps giving the user nearly unlimited options for customization…From local city & state news to geopolitical news as well as the ability to filter out any news sources w/paywall. Ground News is also a teaching tool & led to a truly eye opening realization for me when it comes to which individual news sources have a track record of accurately reporting the news, where they fall on the political spectrum & who owns them… …To those who are truly interested in honest accurate reporting based on verifiable facts will deeply appreciate this information…However, those who are less interested in accurate reporting & more concerned about reading/listening to “news” or information that’s inline with their preconceived ideas might not like how their favorite “news” sources are rated. Which should be a great thing, it was for me! Learning is liberating & Ground News is a great tool to help those who seek the most accurate news covering most topics!!

The antidote for …. Control what they know and you control what they believe. The factual rating is what makes this service ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ in my eyes. I had high-end, state-of-the art ai analyze and compare: ai’s analysis to Ground News in terms of Factual ratings of each news outlet. Factual is a paid Ground News service so I would post the individual news outlet comparisons …. But here is the ai ‘s summary: ### Comparison and Analysis **Findings:** - **Left-Leaning Outlets:** My ratings align closely with Ground News, with slight variations in the order based on perceived reliability and factual accuracy. - **Center-Leaning Outlets:** Both my ratings and Ground News agree on the high factuality of centrist sources, with minor differences in ranking. - **Right-Leaning Outlets:** There is a general agreement on the factuality of right-leaning sources, though some outlets like Breitbart and Newsmax are rated lower due to mixed factual accuracy. **Reasons for Differences:** - **Methodology:** Differences may arise from the methodologies used. My ratings consider a combination of factual accuracy, bias, and reliability, while Ground News may weigh these factors differently. - **Sample Size:** Ground News ratings are based on a broader range of articles and user feedback, which can influence the overall perception of an outlet's factuality. - **Subjectivity:** Both my ratings and Ground News involve some level of subjectivity, especially in assessing bias and reliability. In summary, while there are some differences in the specific rankings, both my independent research and Ground News generally agree on the factuality and bias of major news outlets. This comparison highlights the importance of using multiple sources and methodologies to assess media bias and factual accuracy.

I've only subscribed to the basic plan but it's been really helpful to see more news sources and in particular to see what stories are under reported on either end of the political spectrum and how the headlines phrase the exact same story. This is useful not only as a source of news but as a tool to observe the media and HOW they report on the news. Pro-tip: if you're in the US, you can reverse the colors on the UI spectrum band, just look for the gear icon in the settings tab. Elsewhere in the world, the political right is represented by blue and the left by red. USA always gotta be a little bit different.😉 One UI suggestion though, when I'm scrolled further down each panel (such as international news), I can't tap or scroll right or left to go to another panel (such as US news) without having to scroll all the way back to the top where those tabs live. Either make the tabs invisible when I scroll down, or make them tappable. But don't show me UI elements that are not functional. Thanks!

Ground News provides a lot of really good data on the accuracy of the information in the news and links to LOTS of different news sites around the world. It reports the frequency with which certain stories are being reflected in media, whether there is a political bias to the reporting, and gives short fact based summaries of the news and how many sources picked the story up. It's significantly easier to figure out how biased the news you're consuming, stick with the big picture facts and stay out of the doom spiral. A bonus is that the free version is great - but the premium version is only $30/year. I have been using the free version since last summer, and just paid for the subscription today because it looks like we're going to be living in a vortex for the foreseeable future. Honestly I've found the subscription isn't much different than the free version, but it's a small price to pay for sanity so I paid them mostly in thanks for that!

I’ve been reading the Drudge Report for decades even though I’ve been well aware of his biases and tendency to misrepresent articles’ contents in his links. But the past year has seen the site become nearly unusable with the frequent page reloads and ad popups. I tried switching to Apple News+, which is very good but I still found myself frequently going back to Drudge. Then I tried Ground News. This thing is Drudge on steroids. Every topic link doesn’t take you to just one article, but rather several along with a quick glance of bias and factuality ratings. The search function is frankly better than Google for finding news stories. While the app is excellent, Ground News really shines when viewed in a proper web browser on a larger screen. Also, it’s important to keep in mind that (like Drudge) this is a link aggregator, and therefore you may still encounter annoying behavior on the linked websites that have nothing to do with Ground News.

I’ve been using the app for a while now and I can say that the service this team provides is great. I worry about being trapped in my own information bubble on the internet, getting sources and articles curated to appeal to my interests and biases in how they are told. This app helps prevent me from getting stuck in such a bubble! The comparison ability is not a first among news services, however Ground News does it very well and I additionally appreciate the ability to see how much a side of the political spectrum reports on a story, which shows the level of importance an issue is to a side or if the story itself may be told in a twisted way. I eventually paid to get the Pro version of the app to support this service. The small team personally reached out to thank me and told me to contact them for any recommendations on how to improve the app. That level of involvement was extremely nice to see. I agree with some others that the comment section of the app isn’t really needed, I personally ignore it. I feel this app’s purpose doesn’t really mesh well with the commenting feature. Though Ground News makes this feature easy to ignore if you wish, yet accessible if you would like to contribute to it. Overall I really enjoy this service, haven’t had any problems with it software wise, and would recommend supporting the team if you enjoy it too by subscribing to one of the paid models, since they’re so cheap.

I almost never review apps, because few are worth my time to do so. Ground News however, is among my most used and favorite apps. I spent YEARS looking for a news conglomerate app that would help me avoid getting stuck in a bubble, but also let me read the news from places I wanted to read. Ground News does this perfectly, and stays out of the way by not pushing any particular agenda. With the Blindspot viewer you can easily see what side is ignoring what issues (at times some of the ignored subjects have genuinely surprised me). You can easily flip through news articles about a particular story and see what the different sides of the spectrum are saying and how they are portraying it, with just the swipe of a finger. One of my favorite things I haven’t seen mentioned is that you can adjust the bias rating of each news source, so if you come across one that you disagree with the analysis on (which only rarely happens, for me at least), you can set that news source to the bias you believe they have. Another wonderful under feature that Ground News has been expanding is your own personal report on what news you’ve been consuming. Their report tool (on their website, mobile hasn’t been updated in awhile), let’s you see how your bias breaks down (what biased sources you’re reading from), who OWNS your the new sources you’re reading, what subjects you focus on, etc. It’s really an incredible thing to check and see if you’re getting the full story in the news. Keep up the incredible work team!

I am revising my initial four star review to a full five stars. The development team actually listens and did not ignore my feedback. I have forty years of IT experience helping developers and I know a great development team when I see one. Their response was quick and their execution is top notch. Modern news agencies feel like they only work part time because the exact same stories repeat for weeks in standard feeds. Most mainstream media apps simply copy each other anyway. This duplication makes complete sense when you realize the corporate landscape is monopolized by just a few massive agencies that own nearly all the outlets. They look independent on the surface but they are not. Ground News solves this problem completely. There is a very minor learning curve to optimize your feed but the app gives you full control. By utilizing the personalized settings and the hide read stories filter you can completely eliminate stale repeats and topics you have zero interest in.  The platform functions as an independent aggregator tracking over sixty thousand global sources. It maps out media ownership and presents the news through a data driven lens that shows left center and right coverage side by side. It strips away the corporate spin and reveals the blindspots that standard agencies try to hide.  Kudos to the team for building something we desperately needed. The app is fair priced and works exactly as advertised. I have deleted all my other news apps. Great job Ground News.

A common recommendation for enhancing media literacy is to read a diverse array of perspectives to avoid bias and misinformation. Traditionally this has been difficult because there’s been no centralized place to parse stories from different outlets, with the exception of RSS feeds, internet forums etc. But even in those cases it’s easy to select sources that conform to our biases and preconceived notions. Ground News makes it easy to not just read takes on a topic from multiple sources, it also provides a handy guide for the flavor of perspective you can expect whether that be left, right, or center. And if you disagree with their labels you’re free to submit what you think is a more appropriate selection. This has been a very useful app for wading through an ocean of information. This fact, combined with the responsiveness and customer service of the team makes me wholly comfortable recommending this app to my friends and family.

1 - The new format is too convoluted. It takes too many screens to get to the actual story and even more to get back out. Readers should be able to go directly back to the main headline feed and/or the source page after reading an individual article. 2 - headline feed needs a “return to top” option. Nobody wants to scroll back to the top from several pages down. 3 - on the headline feed, chopping off the top of photos is so unbelievably annoying. You may think it’s a clever disguise to maximize clicks, but it is a psychological irritant. As a retired human interface quality expert, i suggest you shrink the photo and display the whole photo to the left with the headline and the source list to the right. Allow readers to choose at the headline where they want to land on the political spectrum and let them go directly to the desired source. You can put the source spectrum at the bottom of each article so readers can jump to the next source when they are finished reading. 4 - you need a ‘return’ to headlines’ button at the top and bottom of each full article. I am a retired engineer. Therefore I feel justified in making these criticisms. I am also a woman who was forced to retire because of discrimination against women in my profession. It pains me that a woman developed news aggregation site (such a great idea) is so poorly designed that it actually drives readers away.

I used to try to read a balanced selection of news sources on both sides of the ideological spectrum, but it got harder and harder to weed out sources of frequent misinformation. Ground makes it significantly easier to see what different Americans are receiving in their information diet. It surfaces news items that I definitely would not have seen otherwise, and it even makes it pretty obvious when a news item is planted from propaganda sources. The other thing I’ve noticed is that it doesn’t encourage doom scrolling. Each article has a quick summary at the top, and once you’ve looked at the major stories and their summaries, you’re pretty much fully informed about today’s news. Oh, there’s also no social aspect to the product. There aren’t any comments or any way to debate the stories. Folks can’t weigh in on the news. It’s pure news, not an editorial system pretending to be news.

My favorite app for news. Other news apps should take note. TL;DR: More than worth the download and it’s definitely worth a subscription. 1. Non-biased summary. It provides a summary of each news topic, excluding opinions. 2. Transparency. It offers transparency and lets the reader know if the source is left, right, or center. 3. Control. It offers the reader control over the sources provided. International, national, and local sources are available. It also has numerous filters to help curate those news sources. There are filters for left, right, or center sources, as well as filters for free and paid sources, and a variety of other filters for numerous options. 4. Price. A one year subscription is affordable to most users. I honestly believe a one year subscription is worth more than what they charge. But please don’t raise the price because I was just laid off.

Fantastic concept, as soon as I heard this existed I immediately downloaded and subscribed. People make more sense when you see the bubble they’re living in. The only way to change your worldview is to burst your own bubble. It’s not fun, not easy, but it’s necessary, and I’ll sign up to have my bubble burst any day. Unfortunately, and I hope I’m wrong, but my faith in humanity is such that I don’t actually think people will be willing to sign up to have their bubble burst. People want to take comfort in having what they already believe reaffirmed. It feels too good to be right and it’s too easy to think you’re right. Letting people live in their bubble, and inflating their bubble, that’s where the money’s at. Social media giants (or their AI algorithms) understand that. I wish ground news the best of luck and I’ll try to get as many people as I can to subscribe.

I’ve been using Ground News since 2020 to keep track of global news across different topics. As a former news editor, I found it to be a brilliant resource for comparing sources and identifying which way articles lean politically and ideologically, and how bias or factual these sources are. I also appreciate being able to see how much coverage a specific topic gets, and how it’s being covered across the spectrum (if at all). The framing of “blindspot” is also an interesting take, because if we only see one side or one source, how full of a picture are we getting of what happened (aside factuality)? I recommend this app for everyone to use. It’s helped me keep track of news in the USA and around the world in a grounded way, especially around topics that are controversial or hot-button. To be clear, the app itself doesn’t take sides; it just presents the news with a brief summary, headline, and photo, and the listed articles sorted by publication and leaning. I have a premium annual subscription, which allows me to review a full bias breakdown, unlimited article comparisons, blindspot feed, factuality breakdown, hide “read” stories, factuality rating per source, and manage my sources and topics. If you want to take back control on how you consume news and real events, Ground News is a great app to have. It also has widget support.

I think I pay like $30 a year for this and I may just be a weirdo but I read so much with this that it almost feels like I’m stealing. The value for what you pay is so unbelievably worth it that it’s probably the single best value for purchase I spend in a given year. I rarely spend money on me but this is easily the best “Treat Yo Self” I’ve ever got myself. I read several articles through it every day and sometimes read for hours a day. The political bias tags, factuality tags, and other disclosure and transparency tools are so fantastic that I can’t even put it into simple words. This app is the single best news app there is for anything not hyper-local in small towns. NewsBreak is probably still best for that, but Ground News is the single best for everything else. Maybe not sports or finance stuff sometimes, but anything political or events Ground News is the GOAT 🙌

Great News App! If you want to stay informed on current affairs, you could download every single news outlet's app. But that would be a lot of work. Instead, make it easier on yourself and download Ground News Pro. Ground New Pro collects articles from a large pool of sources, and incorporates different types of reporting, so not everything comes from the New York Times or a local news station. It tells you if the source leans left, right, or center. It learns from your reading style and directs more articles from your choices to you. Great news from all over. International to domestic. If you really only want updates from your regional newspaper, go ahead and download that dedicated app. But for news stories from around the world and across topics including entertainment, science, tech, politics, and beyond, get Ground News Pro. You won’t be disappointed.

In a time where it is difficult, at best, to determine what is fake news or real facts, Ground News comes through with an clear look at the headlines of the day. This is the APP that everyone needs right now. I love the Bias score and the ability to see the reporting from multiple media sources and how it bends the truth and plays on the emotions of the reader. Frankly, this gives the reader a very different perspective on the stories that are out there today. I have told several people about this app already and the biggest complaint is that it costs money to use. My reply is always the same, “it is sad that the truth is not worth $45/year for you.” The fee is 100% worth it to be able to consume information and be informed about what is going on in the world with a clear view.

I’m very interested and extremely close to using this app to replace all my news reading apps. The single thing holding me back with the app is not having the option to jump straight into the browser view when looking at a full article. I love that it has a button that lets you do this once you open an article and LOVE that it loads straight into reader view and loads all my extensions because I get a dark mode view with my content blockers all working. I just wish we could have a toggle that makes it the default, like other apps have. Something that says “open in-app or use reader mode in the built-in browser.” Short of that little nitpick, I’m blown away by this service. This is what I have been looking for and having to do on my own for years and years. Bless you for making this service. I will be referring ALL of my friends and family to this.

If your just looking for a solid app to find multiple news sources I really don’t think you can find a better one. It’s really well organized and makes sure to keep the most relevant information up front. As a news app it really has everything you’re looking for and I love that I get information from sides I wouldn’t normally see. But the bias rating system is definitely skewed by Ad Fontes Media. They have a lot of left leaning publications as center and many center as lean right etc. You can very easily tell this by looking at any publication and you will notice how something like CNN, AP News, MSNBC is only leaning left while FOX is just right. I understand fox being right but acting like CNN etc. aren’t as far politically as fox is, is absolutely wild and absurd. I would look into another bias rating company tbh.

This app is amazing. Being able to scroll through the bias, location, and timing of a news story adds an incredible amount of context. The sources are truly international, and inline translation works well. I am now significantly more informed about how the world is seeing events unfold. This is something that google news, apple news, or any of the other aggregators do not give. Furthermore, the developer support is REAL, and it is handled quickly and correctly by one of the co-founders. I had an edge case issue where my second device created a dummy account and I used a different email for my subscriptions. The developer wrote back the same day multiple times and we were able to resolve the issue. Bam! I am a huge fan. Well worth the year subscription. Give the free trial a go, and you’ll be hooked.

I like Ground News a lot, because as a news aggregator it is effective at what it does and the free access isn’t super restrictive. It allows you to do exactly what a news aggregator is supposed to do, allow you to compare, and contrast reporting and track news stories. On top of that it lets user to tailor it to the topics and regions you are most interested in. What I think would make it better is if they did away with the comments section. Taking one look at the toxicity of most comments there, it is distracting and detracts from the positive experience to be had on the app. I know they allow you to turn comments off, but I still strongly think they ought to be removed. The focus should be solely on the news and not people’s two-cents. That’s what social media is for and not a news aggregator.

I have used a variety of news aggregators over the years with increasing frustration so I was so happy to discover Ground News. When it seems like everyone else want to degrade the UX so they can push nor clickbait Ground seems to be marching towards an actually useful app for getting informed about the world. Ground provided a much larger number of sources that the big competitor apps and I regularly get exposed to international news that I never see elsewhere. But what I am most excited about is this new set of features they are calling Ground News Pro. I got to test the pre-launch version and I can attest that there is nothing else like it on the market. The Pro features include a bunch of filters for seeing the political and geographic bias of a news source as well as date of publication. Note I said news source. As a news junkie I currently scan a number of outlet to get a overall feel for the coverage of a story. Ground aggregates coverage and the uses these filters to let you see the biases of the news source before I start reading. It gives me sort of a fake new vaccination. On the occasion there is really polarized coverage of story...like only left or right leaning publications covered the story...then I know to take the overall story with more skepticism. The app is not without flaws. I am still trying to tie the topics so I get the coverage I want and I have been requesting the addition of more topics that I care about. I also prefer to have a list view on the main feeds without photos which I hope they add at some point. So I recommend giving Ground News a try. I feels like the path out of the big tech dominated news echo chamber.

I recently heard about Ground News and was blown away when I checked it out. To my knowledge there is no other news site like it. It is incredibly impressive. Being able to customize my news feed for the news topics I care about and then to get notifications when articles from any of over 50,000 news sources from around the world publish articles on those topics - and to be able to check the bias and factuality of those particular journalistic sources at a glance, just wow. Well worth the small price for a premium subscription for anyone who wants to stay informed and who also wants to know the integrity of the news sources they read. Kudos to everyone on the Ground News team and to the software engineers who make it happen!

Ground news is a great app and the subscription is well worth it - a modest annual fee for access to personalized recommendations, information about biases and factuality, and the ability to easily navigate between multiple similar articles to compare and contrast the information you see. In this age of social media being most peoples’ news source (myself included, until I downloaded this app) it’s hard to take anything at face value - there’s so many ways information can be left out or even simple word choices can affect how you respond to a headline. Ground news does a great job of giving you the information to consider articles critically and feel confident in the information you’re consuming.

Ground News makes it so much easier to see the bigger picture. I love how it shows different outlets side by side so I can spot bias and catch stories I’d otherwise miss. Super clean app that has been really eye-opening for me.

Better than twitter. Honestly less "noise" and more focused stories that matter

A phenomenal interface and idea. This will be how I read all my news going forward because of the ability to browse the map and customize for the content I want!

I love how there are various tools to analyze and compare the different news sources. It makes it so easy to automatically distinguish which one to trust and not. Love the interactive globe!

Ground fills me in on the news I need to go, on the go. I love how it’s relevant to my interests, and confirms everything is real. Totally converted me from getting all my news from twitter :)

Great concept but kinda frustrating that you can only choose between US and international news. You should be able to choose between other countries, I’m Canadian and want an app like this but focused on Canadian news.

A breath of fresh air and a neccessary addition to view conflicting aspects of the media and make an informed decision as to what is truth and what is politically motivated fiction. Great work!!

Love the new update ❤️💙

I love using the map. Such a creative unique way for digital readers to get hold of newss. Thank You

I like the local news

It’s the best app ever. I love it 🔥💯

Love checking the news using the map.

This app is amazing. But clearly all news sources are to the left in Canada, could you please add Rebel news as a source?

Considering the amount of lying done by today’s journalists, this app is useful if only to determine which sites are credible, and which aren’t. I seek out objective journalism, and this is the app which helps me to make sure that I am not being fed propaganda from either side. Its subscription fee is also dirt cheap considering what you get, so it makes sense to pay the annual fee for clean information.

I studied in political science and philosophy and i approve this message. Long live the information king! Hurray! Hurray!

Mostly all the news i’ve watch on tv or youtube always go a certain narrative. I don't know but i’ve started paying attention more. Then I’ve discovered ground news and ohh boy. This app’s the real deal. Would recommend to my friends and family definitely. Love the app

Provides a way to see the same topic from different angles.

I was looking for this for a long time. I realised how important it is for the public to have access different news sources with a knowledge of what level of political bias. This helps them to form their own perspective. Thank you!

A must have to keep yourself informed of how spin is implemented.

Such an improtant service..and great UI too. I am proud to pay for their premium service, and have told all my friends about it.

I love this app. It’s subscription price is super reasonable, it allows you to identify your own biases and offers such a simple interface to navigate different news sources on the same topic! As someone who is trying to understand what’s going on in the world without being flooded by bias, it makes finding several sources easy so I can better form my own opinion/perspective on events.

I came across ground news through a colleague of mine. Allows you to: - compare news from different sources in an easy swipe motion - identify news source bias but more importantly, helps identify your own bias - cool features like choosing the type of news for your feed, save articles and well developed search mechanisms I had thought about creating something similar to this in the past but never spent the effort to do it. I'm really glad you did :) Thank you for making this app !

Comparing by news stories by bias is really useful. Somewhat scary how one news story can be reported on so differently by sources on opposite side of the spectrum. My new go to news app

Have been using the app to stay informed on the COVID19 pandemic. Has kept me better informed than other news companies. Love the mission and find the bias rating feature interesting, not something I’ve seen before but I’m glad someone did it!

In the past I had a dozen or so news apps on my phone so I could get a broader perspective on coverage, now I have one. Ground news allows quick and easy access to all + more. The new bias feature is ok I guess. I tend to prefer to gauge my on bias as every author is different. The map feature is excellent to glean local coverage of stories you’re interested in.

Best news source app I’ve used yet. Helps give you the tools to decide for yourself whether it’s real news or bull 💩. Try it and see for yourself. And no I don’t work for Ground.

I am very glad to have just one news app that lets me find what I look for in one place , it is so great and helpful. Thank you..

I really like the follow feature that allows you to keep up to date with updates on certain new stories. I also like how you can see the different news sources that cover the story.

It’s so hard to trust what you read via social media platforms. Ground is on point with its content on top of an amazing user experience.

It’s great panning around the map and seeing whats going on around the world. There is a list mode as well, but the map is where it’s at.

IOS app works as expected. MacOS accepts TouchID then just remains on the screen and never actually logs in. Signing in as a Guest shows the private relay and says that I have a subscription but it remains on the free (which makes sense since that was the “Guest login”). Not sure what the issue is but it is disappointing.

Beware that this company jacks up the price if you want manage your account through Apple, and the install a Safari extension without permission.

I have removed and reinstalled the app twice after it starts giving me a blank screen.

I just downloaded the app and tried it out briefly, but have already developed some thoughts. My main idea is that I would like to see this operate more the perception gap online test. It anonymously uses two surveys to first gauge participants on their personal views and ask which side of the spectrum they consider themselves to be on, and then a second survey quizzes participants on what they think the opposite side of the spectrums views are. At the end it shows you how far off your perception of the opposite side is. Very enlightening. I saw an add for this news app and thought that it could be very useful in a similar sort of way. My big worry is that this app appears to use fact checking organizations. While reading some of the fine print I came across this: All bias data is referenced from third-party independent organizations dedicated to monitoring and rating news publishers along the political spectrum based on published articles and news coverage. This is concerning because people and organizations promoting themselves as “independent” or unbiased sources of facts is a big reason why the news media is in the current state that it is. Everyone has a bias or personal filters through which they view the world that influences their reporting. This only worsens the muddy waters when you add more “independent” organizations to fact check news articles. That aside I was surprised to see some news companies labeled as one certain side of the political spectrum or the other, but that could just be me. I also like that you can use the app free.

Just got Ground a few weeks ago and started paying for the highest tier the same day. I was very glad to find an aggregate of important news composed of different sources from across the political spectrum, and was transparent on where it’s sources lied on the spectrum. That hasn’t changed with this update, but man does the app look gross now, and it makes things look more confusing. In the previous update it was simple: flat color background (it was black to me but that could just be because I have dark mode on for my phone) with red for conservative, gray for center, and blue for liberal sources. Clean and easy to see. Now it’s a weird light colored gray for the background and a beige highlight. The color for the biases are the same, but now they feel the need to add a gradient to the colors so it just looks like a giant gray bar with some red mixed on the right and some blue mixed on the left. I get that the point is to show an intensity in bias, like the more solid the color the stronger the bias is. However it looks ugly, and I much prefer the old view to the new one. I appreciate what they were going for, but wish they had kept it simple. Please fix, or at least give us the option to switch back to the old color pallet if we want to.

It’s been better again lately interestingly enough but BEFORE the election my review still stands because they were pushing hard to make people move left. My review for pre election: It’s been great for months but all of a sudden I’ve got “Trump asks judge to drop hush money case” 10 times in a week… it’s done this only on left leaning, anti conservative stories. I’m so sad to see this go. It was great until now. It also says things are factual that are not in fact “fact” and are more unprovable than factual. It’s calling the left leaning consensus fact and inferring the right is conspiracy theory when either side has any real evidence. Similar to the argument about the existence of a god…to say god exists or doesn’t; neither is FACTUAL, but this will call the atheist argument factual. There is a clear left bias among the individuals putting the thumb on the scale of factuality. So insidious how the left is trying to manipulate all news outlets. I bet (speculation only) they let some truth come to pass in the conservative side for the last year or so only to gain the trust of people, and now they have a reputation for being factual and unbiased, the true intentions come out. To push the left wing narrative now they’ve gained trust.

I had high hopes this would be a fair site, but whenever I see most publications from the left being said as “highly factual” and most from the right being labeled low or mixed factuality I saw the picture. Also there is a bunch of left wing news articles reading as center bias. I see a “center bias” news article labeled as highly factual and then denies 2020 election interference. That is not “highly factual” as they cannot prove this as a fact, and also don’t take into account the fact the Russian collusion story was a hoax of FBI lying to a FISA court to spy on a presidential candidate, or FBI clear violation of 1A in collusion with social media to prevent a Trump presidency and even suppress a factual news article from a 100 year old newspaper. These happen to support actual factual interference in 2020 election and to deny these facts with labels of “highly factual” stories is a joke. Now after saying all that, if you completely disregard their bias and factuality ratings there is a useful way to use this service. It has a huge collection of articles from different sources that can be valuable to compare and easy to find, but you absolutely must disregard the actual fact that their factuality rating is completely nonsense.

**Edit** the ‘Major’ bug seems to have been resolved. Thanks GroundNews Devs!! I am going to leave the 3 stars for now for 2 reasons: 1. I am still being flashed the “Get Subscribed” banner even though I’m already subscribed. I have sent screen recording to one of the Devs about this and they did not reference to me that this was going to be looked into. 2. GroundNews uses its own browser to pull up news articles. This leaves you less then 4in of reading space and depending on the website you’ll most likely get a banner blocking the content due to cookie preferences or an ad. I insist to add in settings to have Safari be the default browser! Manually having to change to Safari on each article is annoying. Love Ground News, pay for their Premium subscription, but there are a few too many problems they need to fixed before this becomes a 5 star app. Minor: Every time I open the app I’m flashed with a pushy message wanting me to subscribe. I’m already subscribed! It’s annoying to see it every time I open the app. I use their widget most of the time to view interesting articles. Half of the time it doesn’t register or just brings be to the homepage instead of the selected article. There needs to be a ‘use default browser’ settings button. What I mean by that is I want an article to open automatically using Safari. I don’t want to use the browser inside the app then select ‘use Safari’. This will make it so much more enjoyable to use. Major: The app has a tendency to stop responding when I’m scrolling through articles on the homepage. This is really aggravating considering I paid for a service. I have a iPhone 13 Pro by the way. Ground News in its entirety though is essential for this day of age to get out of your comfort news and get a more rounded perspective. I implore everyone to use it!

I'm gonna make this short and sweet. You guys have 10 people on the team and it looks like 9 of you need to give most of your wages to the poor guy or girl that wrote this application on his their own. I get what you're trying to do and I support it completely. However, as an engineer I cannot support this app because, well, basically, it's broken. I wasn't even able to finish my initial testing because I couldn't get passed the very odd window sizing and resizing, and eventually it locked up my system and I now I can gladly say I can recreate the problem quite easily. That's a serious bug, I would go so far as to say that your app probably needs an overhaul from an experienced programmer. If you're interested in some free (for a time) consulting, send me an email. With that saidl.. NEWS ALERT - Your program isn't ready. Fix it and give people what you really want, not this less-than-acceptable excuse for software.

It is a good news aggregate. However, it also provides a factuality rating on the article. Too many times I have seen where the factuality is “mixed” when it is almost the same article word for word from a “Very High” article but from a different news. The only difference between the 2news publishers is where they land politically. Don’t believe the hype. This app IS deceptively biased towards one political side. Update: In response to the developer’s comment. Of your 3 trusted sources, which one of them is weighted more? I have seen studies that show Media Biased/Fact Check (MBFC) leans slightly in a certain direction along with AD Fontes Media. I understand you don’t do the ratings but you can put your thumb on the scale. Provide some transparency and I will change my review and subscribe. I acknowledge that my review and subscription doesn’t mean much in the grand scheme. Just trying to show that I think the product and idea is great. In today’s news we are getting lied to by left and right. Many pretending to be centered.

The stories pushed by Grounded have all the bells and whistles it promises, including headlines from across the political spectrum and references to outlet’s expected factuality. However, the app follows the same exact feed of stories that populate cable news, which is to say, most of the content I am show is not news but infotaiment. “Woman sees toddler walking on the highway” is not news, it’s entertainment for the morbidly curious. It affects no one’s life and is merely an oddity to grab attention. Actual news is useful information that describes events that effect the country/city/community/me. How are my tax dollars being spent right now? What is the state of the jobs market? What cities in the country are changing, and how? I’d settle for fluctuations of the price of corn and wheat! Just give me something with meaning, something that helps me look at society with a little more clarity. I want NEWS, not reality television.

UPDATE: the UI interface and tool they’re using to categorize things is bad and results in useless content without real means to refine your feed. I paid for a year subscription but still just deleted the app. Not worth the irritation. OLD: (1) The categorizations are inconsistent (e.g. things tagged to my local area having nothing to do with it). E.g. I have a NYC category. First article in that feed? “California’s corrupt Air Board” from The California Globe. Whatever tool GN is using to categorize things DOES NOT WORK. (2) GN should offer a much stronger word filter. Topics or regions I don’t want in my feeds pop up regularly despite my efforts to tell the app I’m not interested in it. (3) Should offer ability to filter news sources not for the main “for you” or “blindspot” feed but if I want a category like “financial markets”, I should be able to knock out news sources that I don’t think I have any expertise in the area. Why? Some of the news sources the app pulls from are absurd.

Ground News publishes fake news on a daily basis, labeled as a “left-wing blind spots”. The headlines and summaries on these stories are AI-generated based on the articles being collated, so they are only as good as the source material, which is often bad. Notably, I have seen and reported several stories about the LGBTQ+ community, that Ground picked from sources that it labels “Low” or “Mixed” factuality. These are tagged as “blind spots” for the left, rather than the outright lies that they are. Queer people are already under attack, and amplifying fake news about us is not helping at all. I’ve been cataloging the “blind spots” that Ground publishes. In the past week, I’ve captured approximately 100 stories from the left and 100 from the right. Stories that are labeled as “left blind spots” (stories where the coverage skews strongly to the right) tend to have significantly worse sourcing than stories labeled “right blind spots”, per Ground’s own factuality labeling. Right-leaning stories this week have had an average of 3.7 high-factuality sources, 8.7 mixed-factuality, and 3.6 low-factuality. Left-leaning stories had an average of 12 high-fact sources, 4.9 mixed-fact, and 0.3 low-fact. This leads me to believe that Ground is promoting “false balance”, giving equal weight to both sides of issues that actually don’t have two sides. In other words, they are promoting fake news.

I’ve loved Ground News for a long time now, and have really appreciated the work that they’ve put into showing all sides and biases. Unfortunately, this seems to have attracted a community of toxic hyper partisanship where users just see their side as “telling it as it is”, the center as “watering down the truth”, and the opposite side as the “MSM lies”. The comment section has gotten so out of control that I had to turn it off. Even then, I can’t feel good about funding a forum where people get “thumbs’d up” for insulting and making conspiracy theories about the capitol police officers who committed suicide (my last straw). These are the same people who’ve driven any semblance of moderacy away from the community and drag Ground News down like an anchor. Again, I really do appreciate what the creators of the app have put together, but I just don’t want to fund the toxic environment that it hosts.

Interesting idea, yet there should be a place when I can see "my top stories" based on the content of what I'm following, without having to manually select each one. Other content agregator have the save issue. Please give me some top stories of my content and let go of the rest. I don't need no Biden and Trump news :)

With this pro version you cannot even basic compare the different publishers on stories & so much more but this alone was one of the biggest things that attracted me to this app. Being able to compare and form my own decisions. This subscription model ruins the app & i will no longer be recommending this to friends & family. Would’ve given this 5 stars before.

I like the idea. But separating media in simplistic boxes like “left” and “right” doesn’t do much to provide any diversity in the news. Nor are these terms very accurately applied. It’s just twitter organized differently. It’s got potential tho.

I live in Canada, so I would love a way to Canadian-ize the app. We don’t have nearly the volume of news agencies as in the U.S., but we have some that are left and some that are right leaning. It would be nice to have the option to localize the app to Canada, the States and possibly the World. Is this something that you would consider for a future version?

This app is not showing the real far-right nor the real far-left. It’s a good thing, but the far left and far right are regular leftists and right wingers.

Loaded the app after hearing the creators being interviewed on the radio. Looked at it a few times but found the interface way too crowded and confusing to decipher every time I just wanted to read about an event. For some unknown reason it spontaneously started issuing notifications so I opened and noticed they are rating the CBC and PBS as centrist news sources... um no they are pretty far left. Don’t trust this app any more, deleted it.

Waste of money in Canada. Says all the left wing outlets are center. Laughable…

Seems very right biased for reporting top news

The app promotes far right news and content, many times promoting conspiracy theories. They bragged on social media about being mentioned and promoted by Trump during his presidency. So if you want Trump-promoting news, this is for you. If not, it’s not worth your time.

I am a big fan of what you guys do and subscribe because you offer something unique. Only thing I have an issue with, is on the mobile app the left is red, right is blue. On this app however, it's backwards. Please fix.

In order to make more money off of you, they now require to use your GPS local news. Because you probably don’t know what city you live in. And if you do, maybe you can’t spell it so they won’t allow that. Just give them your constant GPS location …

This app could use a compass realignment. Instead of focussing on the individual political silos, there should be a focus on the impact that advertising and corporate ownership has on news sources. There should be an “unbiased” category and one that highlights media sources that don’t rely on advertising or corporate money. The real issue with our news sources is money, not political bias. Political bias is the result of a corrupted system.

I downloaded the app some months ago. After looking all around, I find out that it was just not for me. No the kind of news I was interested in. I uninstalled the application. It’s very, very easy to subscribe. No need to search, in every page you will found 2, 3 even 4 places to do so. After close to 3 months, without the app, I still received their mails, regularly, like a clock, they don’t missed to send you one. The first time I received it, I go at the end of the page, spot the “unsubscribe” link. Where it bring you to a page where No place to unsubscribe. But to subscribe, there’s plenty of link. I write and write, over and over again, begging them to tell me the step to unsubscribe to what I consider now to be a junk mail. Still no answer. Do yourself a a favor, found a news app who’s honest. Period.

Not a bad product, but does not meet my needs. I found it impossible to unsubscribe during the free trial. No instructions on the site or in the app. I would not recommend the trial.

Removing the comments section is a big move backwards to what the original vision of the app represented; to provide a platform free of adulterated news, creating a well informed and critical community. Removing the comments from the platform to discuss the content from mainstream media implies that the information they provide is factual and requires no public scrutiny. There is no time more crucial than now to create and maintain platforms where people can openly discuss their thoughts. Ground News needs to take a step back and reassess if they want to join the model of the failing media or be part of the change the public and their customers are demanding. GN has a great opportunity here, I hope they make the right call before I cancel my subscription and support someone that will.

Not interested in somebody's opinion in a summary of the story. We will make our own summary after we read several angles on the same story. Three clicks to get to the content is irritating and unnecessary.

New format isn’t nearly as good as the previous one. I’ll most likely delete the app if it stays the same

It’s a good news app but it doesn’t let me use the blindspot feature even though I’ve paid for my premium subscription. It is still asking me to get premium

No way to turn off the bell alert icons number AND having to manually delete each one at a time.... 🙄👎👎 Cancelled my sub, this app is not worth the price

I can’t believe if without saw it by myself that in Ground News, the Chinese state-owned propaganda tools like CGTN, People’s Daily, Global Times, and Russia’s state-owned propaganda tool like Russia Today (RT) are positioned as “centre”. Really doubt if this app is actually backed by China and/or Russia government.