The app is fairly rudimentary, as the site is. But it has some functionality issues. There are times where having the application open will pause background music/podcasts and you have to restart your music and close the app. That could be fixed. The “alerts” or “breaking news” pings are absolutely dumb in the way they work. There’s also a cache issue with photos that were on the page associated with links - you can see as you’re scrolling the images get replaced. Old images remain cached and aren’t properly replaced or cleared in a timely fashion upon opening the app again. Overall, Matt Drudge (if he even runs the site anymore) should be ashamed that this application runs so poorly. It’s not hard to find a company who could make an iOS app better than this. Even if it’s a simple site, the application should work properly as such.

Drudge Report used to be a decent (a term I will use loosely) fairly unbiased new reporting source. Fast forward 5 years later and it’s become nothing but a propaganda based, over the top leftist shell of its former self. When you are constantly posting stories from Yahoo, you know that a company has truly hit Rockbottom. Some of the absolutely worst “news” website used as links on the DrudgeReport page, have made in an irrelevant source for any reliable news. But hey, if you like senseless gossip sites like the Dailymail UK, TMZ, andthe National Enquirer, then you’ve come to the right place. Read, be angry and be stupid.

Once a titan of conservative aggregation, the Drudge Report has devolved into a tabloid-style doom machine hellbent on vilifying President Trump at every turn. The bias is blatant—headline after headline reads like it was crafted in the back office of a Resistance fan club. You’d be hard-pressed to find anything remotely fair or supportive about Trump’s policies or administration. Drudge doesn’t inform; it inflames. It doesn’t unite; it divides. Conservatives and liberals alike walk away angrier, more paranoid, and more isolated. It feeds off drama, dresses it in bold red font, and pushes it out like the world is ending again—every 30 minutes. The only redeeming quality left? The layout. The minimalist, 1998-coded aesthetic still works. Everything else? It’s become the apex predator of pessimism, the ultimate doomsayer cloaked in nostalgia. If you’re looking for fair reporting, look literally anywhere else.

For those up in arms that Drudge is no longer conservative, I say it is the MAGA movement that has moved so far right, they can’t even see the center of their once honorable party. As an independent who used to vote Republican a majority of the time, I watched the party disintegrate into performative outrage and a willingness to cow to the Big Liar who made misinformation part of the platform along with tactics that the Grand Old Party who drafted the 14th amendment would be ashamed to see. If that’s your cup of tea, you can scroll right by this truly balanced new aggregate and binge watch Tucker.