Ground News Reviews – Page 5
5/5 rating based on 67 reviews. Read all reviews for Ground News for iPhone.
Ground News is free iOS app published by Snapwise Inc.
Best attempt at balanced news app I’ve seen
munchings
I’ve been searching for a balanced news app for so long. Others that would claim to be balanced seem to be conspicuously missing news sources from one side or other. Been using this for maybe a week and it’s the best attempt at balanced news I’ve found so far in my years of searching.
Creepy.
ArchaicSoul
This is actually a pretty good app with a ton of sources and news topics to customize your feed content. However, if you want to get more involved than that you have to make an account and if you want to leave a comment... it REQUIRES YOUR LOCATION! Yes, they will 100% obstruct any attempt at commenting on a story without turning on location services. Please, fellas. I’ve been victim of enough opinion based hacking/stalking thanks to internet scum and stupid programming choices like this. It claims it NEEDS your location to “read, report and share local news”... to make a comment.
I can see!!!!
Shadowkit13
I love the ability to see the same type of news story and have the ability to compare the reporting narratives. It’s wonderful to be able to focus on news areas for non-headline stories. I’m excited to see more of the world through others eyes and not just from the western point of view. I’d really like an edit button for comments though...first post and auto- correct just took over. :P
Great but needs some UI work
notsnowden
The idea and progress of this app thus far are great. My biggest ask is to provide a setting option to hide arrows that allows shifting from one source to another on the same topic. Given a user can easily swipe from side to side it doesn't make sense to obstruct a user's view.
Isn’t balanced like they claim
Someone who expects quality.
More left wing than right wing news available. Always notifies me about something “wrong” the right does while the left gets praised. Had for over 5 months and just gets more and more disappointed
Broader view
Mr Victor H
Get the same story from different sources allows for a more balanced view. Also provides articles I would have not otherwise have seen.
Next gen news app
Tiickle
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.
Interesting idea but the app needs more improvement
Fffgzzzz
The only complaint is that the scrolling is very choppy at the moment.