NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts 12+

News Updates, Alerts, & More

Particle Media Inc.

Designed for iPad

    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

Description

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.

What’s the weather like in my area? What about traffic? What important events are happening nearby? Join NewsBreak’s growing local news community and see why over 45M people across the U.S. have helped make us the nation’s #1 local news app!

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.

Join the 45M+ locals across the U.S. that trust NewsBreak as their #1 local news app!

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!

Better informed, better life.

What’s New

Version 24.11.0

Bug fixing and performance improvements.

Ratings and Reviews

4.8 out of 5
1.1M Ratings

1.1M Ratings

Chrisz Duff ,

App for local and breaking news’ lovers

In 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!

Developer Response ,

Thanks for your positive feedback, Chrisz!
To keep focusing on “local news,” News Break will be initiating a series of updates that revolve around your local community. From Local Classifieds to inviting more media publishers in your neighborhood to partner with us. Please stay excited about the updates!

Glkelly2003 ,

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.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for downloading NewsBreak. We're sorry you encountered inappropriate racial comments in the app. We're working hard to remove them as we speak. We do NOT support racism or intolerance of others. Please report comments as you see them, we are actively monitoring reports. 

AA6TC ,

One spot for news - with a caveat

Update: 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.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your feedback regarding this issue, we're constantly fine tuning our ad experience to improve the app for everyone. To expedite our efforts, would you kindly share a screenshot of what you are seeing along with a brief description to business-help@newsbreak.com? Appreciate your help!

App Privacy

The developer, Particle Media Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Used to Track You

The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:

  • Location
  • Identifiers
  • Usage Data

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • Location
  • Contact Info
  • User Content
  • Identifiers
  • Usage Data
  • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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