No longer worth the subscription
This app was great at first, with well-curated multi-source news stories. But ‘hard’ news is now few and far between, and are only refreshed every few days. If you filter out all the celeb trash and life-hacks you’re left with 3-day old news stories.
Excellent
Content and presentation is excellent! Two drawbacks 1) service is slow to present breaking new news, other news feeds have new news many hours (like 18 hours) before it shows up on inkl 2) the price is steep for news that is no longer “new”.
Good idea poor execution
Great idea but in the end App UI and core features awful to use - thumbs down article and similar keep showing up - Small buttons make it impossible to thumb down an article in a single shot of it worked - This is 2026 if you can't figure out an easy way to use and customize the UI you're cooked.
Abandonware
Not updated in a year and app is light years behind in both UX andand UI for iOS 26. News update are infrequent too. Waste of subscription money.
Can’t leave
Poor customization. Poor functionality by design. You can buy subscription in app, but you can’t cancel. Designed to be a bad experience.
it is really brilliant
the app is very clean, no ads. I can read articles from major sources without paying for it
Great concept, execution needs work
I really wanted to love this app. Too bad I’m not American (or British). How is it that the only trusted news sources seem to be in those two places? I have tried tuning my preferences to show more content from anywhere else in the world but I still see almost nothing but American news. I asked to see news about the Toronto Blue Jays. Apparently nothing unbiased was written about them since the World Series and none of the recent sources are Canadian.
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World
It is a reliable source of very informative and comprehensive latest news of the world.
A CRUEL JOKE
This app claimed ‘ your trial has ended ’ , immediately after I installed and signed in. It’s a scam.
Awesome news
All the news from all the sources in 1 place.
Not without Paywalls
Used for a couple of weeks before I eventually came across a dreaded Paywall. Worst of it was it was Inkl’s own pay wall with two substitution options and no way to skip it. The article I wanted was inaccessible. Gone back to Google News
Real news!
News from many sources and none afraid to tell the truth!
Best new app
I paid for this app but its worth the amount I paid amazing app
No distractions, but limited sources and no support
The great: I read more news with inkl because I’m not carpet bombed by ads.
The not-great Sources are very limited. 50% of the top 10 articles I see for many of the topics I follow come from a single publication.
The even less great: I contacted support 3 times over the last month of paid use and haven’t received an acknowledgement or reply. I don’t know if anyone is on the other end of this company.
The not-great Sources are very limited. 50% of the top 10 articles I see for many of the topics I follow come from a single publication.
The even less great: I contacted support 3 times over the last month of paid use and haven’t received an acknowledgement or reply. I don’t know if anyone is on the other end of this company.
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AWFUL
This app installed but didn’t even open after I submitted my valid Apple ID.
Mostly amazing
Argh. I’m sorry I have to update my review after using this app for several months. It’s a great concept, but the execution is unfortunately very poor. If there is curation, I don’t discern it. It just feels like any other news feed, only with lower quality sources, and stale topics. There are a few great sources, but the large majority I’ve never heard of. One I see often I went to the website and it’s just a news feed with no other information - sketchy. Also, some “news” clearly is paid advertising, like for VPNs.
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Mostly amazing
Not dealing with ads and knowing my payment supports excellent journalism from a variety of trusted sources alone makes this app well worth it! I hope there are more major media outlets that participate - it’s impossible to subscribe individually to all the sources I’d like to read. I’ve noticed Inkl is not great for breaking news. Sometimes the Our Picks and Good News sections are a little random, like stuff about raising indoor plants and why wire hangers are ruining your clothes. I do want these curated sections, but I’d prefer news of consequence - move Fluff to another section. I’d also like more long form deep dive journalism, maybe a curated section for it? And the difference between the Comment and Analysis sections is not clear to me. I’d like to read powerful opinions from a variety of points of view that both resonate with me and challenge me. Finally, the Technology section is a little weak, unless you enjoy reading all about EVs. It would also be cool to have a “follow this story” option where if I selected this on a certain story I’d get more news on it as it emerges.
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Heavy UK focus
5 stars for the design of this app. 5 stars for the thought process and journalistic integrity. Beautiful interface and no annoying ads. However, it’s heavily UK focused, especially with sport. Every other story was on formula one racing which I have no interest and even though I kept hitting the thumbs down to see less content it still heavily focused on UK and needs more US focus in news and sport. I’ll come back later for a second look down the road but for now didn’t serve my purpose.
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A needed take on news apps
I like how it filters out trash clickbait articles and allows you to explore topics outside one’s bias. Maybe with an AI feature in the future we could see more bias reduction features. For now it’s great still.
Lots of issues almost nonexistent support
The app is waste of money, hardly any national news, language segregation issue, national international segregation issue, frequency of update is slow. Support is almost non existent and blank promises.
