# Hourly Newsy — Single Tap Hourly News Player!

> Single Tap Hourly News Player! (iPhone/iPad app by Mike Lapchick.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hourly-newsy/id6773385526 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Mike Lapchick](https://appshunter.io/developer/6773385528)
- Category: News, Magazines & Newspapers
- Price: $4.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.1 · 80 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-07-22
- Data updated: 2026-08-20
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hourly-newsy/id6773385526/reviews.md

## What is Hourly Newsy?

Hourly Newsy is a fast, flexible, one-tap audio news player for people who like to stay current throughout the day. With 60+ hourly and daily global feeds covering business, tech, politics, and world affairs, plus presets, favorites, continuous playback, and fresh feeds, Hourly Newsy keeps your news just a tap away. 

Hourly Newsy was designed to do something podcast apps just don’t: make fresh, rolling news feeds easy to organize, update, and play. Keep your podcast app for everything else.

Features:

• Choose from 67 news sources (new sources added regularly)
• Save custom source presets  
• Favorite sources for quick access  
• Continuous playback across selected sources  
• Skip played episodes  
• Sort sources by approximate episode length  
• Hide unselected sources for easier ordering  
• Group sources by publisher  
• Drag sources into your preferred order  
• Refresh feeds to check for new episodes  
• Remember playback position by episode  
• Native lock screen and AirPods controls  
• Playback speed controls  
• Sleep timer  
• Share episodes  
• Background audio playback  
• Dynamic source artwork and card colors  
• Optional audio messages between episodes  

Included sources:

• ABC Australia: The World Today  
• ABC News: ABC News Update  
• ABC News: ABC Start Here  
• Al Jazeera: Al Jazeera News Updates  
• Associated Press: AP Headline News  
• BBC: BBC Global News Podcast  
• BBC: BBC Newscast  
• BBC: BBC World Service 5-Minute News  
• BBC: Newshour  
• BBC: Tech Life  
• BBC: World Business Report  
• Bloomberg: Big Take  
• Bloomberg: Bloomberg News Now  
• Bloomberg: Bloomberg Tech  
• CBC: As It Happens  
• CBC: CBC Front Burner  
• CBC: CBC The World This Hour  
• CBC: CBC World Report  
• CNBC: CNBC Squawk Pod  
• CNBC: Morning Call  
• CNN: Amanpour  
• CNN: CNN 5 Things  
• C-SPAN: C-SPAN Washington Today  
• Democracy Now!: Democracy Now! Audio  
• Deutsche Welle: DW News Brief  
• Deutsche Welle: Inside Europe  
• Financial Times: FT News Briefing  
• Fox News: Fox News Hourly Update  
• France 24: Focus  
• France 24: The Debate  
• Marketplace: Marketplace  
• Marketplace: Marketplace Morning Report  
• Marketplace: Marketplace Tech  
• Monocle: The Briefing  
• Monocle: The Globalist  
• Monocle: The Monocle Daily  
• NBC News: NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas  
• New York Times: NYTimes The Headlines  
• New York Times: The Daily  
• NHK: NHK Asian View  
• NPR: NPR News Now  
• NPR: NPR Up First  
• NPR: State of the World  
• PBS: PBS News Hour - Supreme Court  
• PBS: PBS NewsHour - World  
• PRX: The World from PRX  
• PRX: The World Latest Edition  
• Punchbowl News: The Daily Punch  
• Reuters: Reuters World News  
• RFI: International Report  
• RTE: World Report  
• SBS: SBS News Headlines  
• SBS: SBS News In Depth  
• TechCrunch: Daily Crunch  
• TechCrunch: Startup News  
• The Economist: The Economist The Intelligence  
• The Economist: The World in Brief  
• The Guardian: Guardian Today in Focus  
• The NewsWorthy: The NewsWorthy  
• The Washington Post: The Washington Post The 7  
• United Nations: UN News - Global Perspective  
• United Nations: UN News Today  
• USA Today: USA TODAY The Excerpt  
• Vox: Vox Today, Explained  
• Wall Street Journal: WSJ Minute Briefing  
• Wall Street Journal: WSJ The Journal  
• Wall Street Journal: WSJ What's News

## Chart rankings

- #8 in Top Paid · News (US App Store)


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-07-22

No release notes.

## Related topics

[hourly newsy](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/hourly-newsy)

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