# Good News Network — user reviews > 224 indexed App Store user reviews of Good News Network by Good News Network, LLC, rated 4.50/5 from 820 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/good-news-network/id1044963284/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/good-news-network/id1044963284.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 642 · 4★ 65 · 3★ 33 · 2★ 39 · 1★ 41 ## What do users think of Good News Network? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🌟 Uplifting and inspiring stories - 👍 Provides a positive news alternative - 🌍 Covers a wide range of good news globally - 💡 Restores faith in humanity - 😊 Brightens the day **Cons** - 🔍 Inconsistent content quality - 🔍 Occasional political bias in articles - 💤 Stale or outdated content - 🔍 Lack of relevant news coverage - 🔍 Excessive and intrusive advertisements **Commonly reported bugs** - Frequent crashes and app instability - Broken article links and unresponsive content - Slow loading times and performance issues **Most requested features** - Dark mode option - More frequent content updates - Ability to share articles easily - Better categorization and filtering of news - Paid subscription option to remove ads ## Newest reviews (16 of 224) ### 2/5 — Too many Ads *2026-04-11, version 3.2* The app is full of ads making the articles jump and impossible to read comfortably. Furthermore, there are popup ads randomly opening, sometimes like 5 one after another. I appreciate the good news, but this advertisement scheme is just way too bad. ### 3/5 — I love the idea of this app… *2026-03-29, version 3.2* …and most of the articles but right now it’s not working. It just opens to a blank page. Is it broken for good? ### 2/5 — Articles and feeds are glitch *2026-03-29, version 3.2* Often the app doesn’t load any pages ### 4/5 — Good News *2026-03-29, version 3.2* It nice to read something that is up lifting instead of over dramatizing. ### 3/5 — Can’t open stories *2026-03-26, version 3.2* This was my go to for my dose of ‘ everything is ok in the world’ but I can’t open any of the stories anymore. Great intention though. ### 2/5 — Unreliable *2026-03-26, version 3.2* Sometimes it opens, most of the time (for “on this day”), the page won’t open, no matter where or how long I hold the touch. 2 is for the number of days in a week I can open it. ### 2/5 — Used to be *2026-03-18, version 3.2* Used to be a great app, but forced ads have destroyed it. You have to sit through bad ads to get to good news. Makes the app pointless. ### 5/5 — Bugs *2026-03-03, version 3.2* Do you use AI to find the stories that you post on the app? ### 3/5 — Ads ruined *2026-02-23, version 3.2* Letters moving up and down, slow loading, annoying ads all over ### 5/5 — Bugs *2026-02-13, version 3.2* Sometimes I can’t open the article that you guys send and some of the lists of the other ones don’t load up As of feb 13, 2026 I can’t read the comments for some reason 😢 ### 2/5 — Bad news: horrible ad overload *2026-02-05, version 3.2* I installed it a few years ago and genuinely liked it. After ignoring it for years, I opened it again, and found it to sadly have become more ads than content - the ads now dominate everything, disrupt you every minute, and this total ad overload makes the app more of an annoyance than a joy to use. Uninstalled - good riddance, enjoy your higher income earned by annoying the hell out of your users. This is how good news turns into bad news fueled by greed. ### 2/5 — Great Idea and Stories but… *2026-02-01, version 3.2* Virtually unusable because the ads pop up about every 2-3 seconds and make the story text all jittery. App often crashes or goes back to home page list. I think it’s becoming more of a frustrating experience than reading all the negative mainstream news media elsewhere. ### 3/5 — So many ads *2026-01-16, version 3.2* There are so many ads that jerk the text around, it makes it hard to read. But of course you can pay to get rid of them. ### 5/5 — A Must Have for Everyone *2025-12-21, version 3.2* I’m a 15 year old and even I need this. In all of the news, they need to cover breaking events. And that is often chaotic tragedies. This app solves that! With just the right amount of notifications, this will make you feel complete. There is a new story ALWAYS available, you can get lost in the positive! And leave a review because the amount of effort into this is much more deserving of 500 reviews! Trust me on this, THIS is not a waste. ### 3/5 — No fee for no ads?? *2025-12-14, version 3.2* Love to have this at my fingertips but seriously need to offer a fee or subscription to deal with the ads. They pop up every 2 seconds and cover 80% of the articles. Please just allow us to pay to support the work you do. ### 5/5 — Finally *2025-11-03, version 3.2* Focus on positive in life ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — It won’t even run *2026-03-29, version 3.2* It won’t even run for me now. I had the sub because of the awful ads but cancelled it because all I get when I open the app now is a blank screen. ### 1/5 — Good idea. Poor execution. *2026-03-20, version 3.2* The news articles are good but the “this day in history” link has stopped working. ### 1/5 — Of course it’s full of spamy ads. *2026-01-29, version 3.2* The first article I clicked immediately opened multiple spam pages ### 1/5 — Awful *2025-12-31, version 3.2* Great concept, good news to read admist all the terrible things, BUT, they now have the most obnoxious advertisements that flash and jump around the screen - can't take it and dropped app. TERRIBLE ### 1/5 — Useless…for now *2025-10-19, version 3.2* What happened? None of the news stories open any more. ### 1/5 — Contains scam links *2025-10-15, version 3.2* Contains scam links… fake IQ tests etc that attempt to take money and lock you into hidden subscriptions.,, better off going cold turkey on the news than hoping for good feels ### 1/5 — I can’t access the stories at all now *2025-10-04, version 3.2* I have had this app for a few years and it used to bother me because of all the adds but I loved the articles, then I started being unable to open the app so I would close it and reopen in 5-10 times before something showed up, but now I haven’t been able to read off see anything AT ALL for months, it says bad request when I open it and I can’t read anything. I’m upset. Please fix. ### 1/5 — Great stories terrible app *2025-06-08, version 3.1* Love the good news network. Tried the app but it is so buggy I cannot read the news. Better to just search online and read that way. Please fix. The app is definitely Bad News. ### 1/5 — I tried *2025-05-23, version 3.0* I’ve had this app for 5 minutes and have already had 4 full page popups from Google Doubleclick popup. Nothing loads, just blank white pages. It sounds like the full page popups are intentional, which is unfortunate because the stories and feed seems like something I would enjoy scrolling. However, this is unusable. ### 1/5 — Horrible App *2025-04-25, version 2.9* I say Horrible because for example on the “This day in history” the Ads pop up and take over the whole screen every 30sec-1min and also after every couple minutes the entire screen goes Blank. You have to close out and reopen and then try and find where you where. Very Frustrating for an app that’s supposed to help you get in a better mood. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Keep up the good work *2026-06-27, version 3.2* We love it ### 5/5 — Review *2026-05-04, version 3.2* Review ### 5/5 — Unreadable *2026-03-31, version 3.2* The app is now crashing every time I try to open it ### 5/5 — One way to have optimism! *2026-03-29, version 3.2* Enjoy reading GNN BC IT has things I don’t ordinarily see, and it’s a great break from doom scrolling ### 5/5 — Refreshing *2026-03-29, version 3.2* So refreshing to visit a site that focuses on the good going on, as that so often gets lost in all the bad going on in our world these days ### 5/5 — Daily Devotional *2026-03-27, version 3.2* Every Day I do my Daily Devotional, I ALWAYS Go To My GOOD NEWS app!…to GIVE ME HOPE that Everything GOOD is STILL HAPPENING!…despite all of the terrible things that are going on around the world 🌎🌍🌏…. Thank You 🙏 from the bottom of my heart 💜 Thank You for My GOOD NEWS app!…😃👍 ### 5/5 — Truth *2026-03-27, version 3.2* In these days, it’s really nice to have good news backed up by facts! So many people are willing to go down this big scary, awful path. There are good things happening in the world and we have to be reminded. ### 5/5 — Great way to end your day *2026-03-27, version 3.2* The stories remind the reader that there is a lot of good in the world. This day in history is a great reminder of past events. ### 5/5 — Wonderful *2026-03-26, version 3.2* This has been a game changer through everybody’s life. I go to bed at night looking at it. I get up in the morning when I’m driving and look at it and give people some good information from you guys. Keep it up. ### 5/5 — Stay positive *2026-03-26, version 3.2* A daily dose of fresh air in a world infested with darkness. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-09.*