# Hey News — One command, all your news > One command, all your news (iPhone/iPad app by Rex Chekal.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hey-news/id6817902136 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Rex Chekal](https://appshunter.io/developer/6778479403) - Category: News, Entertainment - Price: Free - Age rating: 9+ - Requires: iOS 26.0 · 8 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-10-28 - Data updated: 2026-11-01 ## What is Hey News? Hey News plays your news podcasts in the order you set when you say "Hey Siri, play the news." The first time you open it, the app offers the shortcut that makes that phrase work. Without it, "Hey Siri, play the news in Hey News" works too. I built it because Google changed its "play the news" command, and the habit of hearing what happened today while I made dinner broke overnight. Hey News does that one thing, the same way every day, set by you. Find your shows by name, or paste a show's RSS link. Private feeds from paid subscriptions work too. Then put them in the order you want to hear them. Say the words and Hey News plays your first show's newest episode, then the next show's, down the list, and stops at the end. Every time you ask, it starts again from the top with each show's newest episode, picking up anything you left unfinished. Hey News remembers what you've heard. • An episode you've heard 90 percent of is skipped until a new one comes out. • Turn on Hold Unfinished Episode for a long show and it keeps your place, even days later, and plays that episode before the newest one. • Without Hold, a show keeps your place for the rest of the day. Siri isn't the only way to start it. Small, medium and large home screen widgets start it, plus extra large on iOS 27, and so do controls for the Lock Screen, Control Center and the Action Button. Spotlight has a one-tap Play Hey News too. In the car, CarPlay puts Play the News at the top of the screen. While it plays you get the Lock Screen player and the Dynamic Island, AirPlay and Bluetooth, and 15-second jumps, with playback speed in the app. Hey News has no account and no server, and it collects nothing. Your shows and what you've listened to stay on your device. Hey News is made by Rex Chekal. ## Is Hey News safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Hey News. ## Is Hey News legit? Hey News has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Hey News is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.2 — 2026-10-31 Hey News now works in CarPlay. Play the News sits at the top of the screen with the cover of the show it starts with, and tapping any show below it starts the news from that show. Shows always play in the order you set. The Latest First sort is gone, since picking the order yourself is the point. Two items in the menu on the Shows page have shorter names, Hide Played and Add Siri Shortcut. ### 1.1 — 2026-10-29 Hey News now runs on iPad. The playing show's cover sits at the top with every show below it, and a back button returns to the previous show where you left it. Redesigned widgets show the playing episode and the minutes left, and the larger sizes let you tap a show coming up to start from it. Now playing has a Hold switch and a speed box under the scrubber, and the scrubber moves only when you drag it. A show you add while the news is playing plays after your other shows. In Add Shows, a show you uncheck stays until you close Add Shows, so checking it again keeps its place. On iPhone, the nothing-to-play alerts offer Add Shows or Show Shows, a failed search offers Try Again, and a failed RSS link stays in the field. At the largest text sizes, the Shows page puts the cover above the episode title. ### 1.0 — 2026-10-28 No release notes. ## More apps by Rex Chekal - [File Genie](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/file-genie/id6778479401) All apps by Rex Chekal: https://appshunter.io/developer/6778479403 --- *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 2026-11-01.*