# NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts — user reviews > 1,689 indexed App Store user reviews of NewsBreak by Particle Media Inc., rated 4.80/5 from 1,379,475 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/newsbreak-local-news-and-alerts/id1132762804/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/newsbreak-local-news-and-alerts/id1132762804.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,218,205 · 4★ 93,783 · 3★ 24,824 · 2★ 12,811 · 1★ 29,852 ## What do users think of NewsBreak? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Efficient news aggregation - 📰 Diverse news sources - 📍 Useful for local news - 💬 Ability to comment on articles **Cons** - 🔍 Difficulty finding specific articles - 🤖 Excessive clickbait and misinformation - 💬 Toxic and hateful comments - 🔌 Aggressive advertising - 🐛 Bugs and technical issues **Commonly reported bugs** - Notifications not working as expected - Articles failing to load properly - Freezing and crashing issues **Most requested features** - Search and filtering options - Improved comment moderation - Ability to disable comments - Option to block certain news sources ## Newest reviews (10 of 1,689) ### 5/5 — El tiempo *2026-08-20, version 26.33.0* Una información seria y completa. ### 5/5 — Awsome News *2026-08-20, version 26.33.0* I enjoy your news it keeps me up to date ### 5/5 — Hi *2026-08-20, version 26.33.0* Hi ### 5/5 — Best app ever! *2026-08-19, version 26.32.1* This app is so much fun! You can make a channel! I love this app! ### 5/5 — nEWS!! *2026-08-19, version 26.32.1* What a LoVely nEWSBREAK GO ### 5/5 — Video quality *2026-08-19, version 26.32.1* Need to make it have ur videos at least load ### 5/5 — Ambassador *2026-08-19, version 26.32.1* The best! ### 5/5 — NewsBreak *2026-08-18, version 26.32.1* High quality application for news, local crime reports and important weather events. ### 5/5 — Timely Reporting *2026-08-18, version 26.32.1* NewsBreak offers timely and relevant reporting the public can trust. ### 5/5 — Love, love, love💕 *2026-08-18, version 26.32.1* I absolutely love NewsBreak…. I literally check it daily. It always has the best news, updates, etc.. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Scam app!!! *2026-08-23, version 26.33.0* This app gave me several viruses on my iPhone, it made me click on malicious ads where i went into an ad on the app and I met Elon musk who told me to send him 5000 in apple gift cards so I did and the he had me take out my life insurance and put it in a crypto atm. I lost everything thanks to this app. It spreads false information and made a 76 year old woman kill bet husband and poor ### 1/5 — AI slop *2026-08-22, version 26.33.0* This app used to be great at delivering local news. Over the past several years, AI has been creeping into every aspect of this app. Made me delete it so quick ### 1/5 — The most disrespectful app I have even seen *2026-08-22, version 26.33.0* Downloaded this for safety, made a few comments that were normal and was extremely disrespected, I had one guy tell me to kill myself, terrible comment moderation and the amount of AI is disappointing. ### 1/5 — Trash *2026-08-22, version 26.33.0* So look I’m over here looking through the newsbreak app and I don’t see any maps on it so that’s why it’s trash, trash, trash, trash, trash, trash ### 1/5 — Left wing outlet media *2026-08-21, version 26.33.0* The worst news media I have ever encountered!! ### 1/5 — Misleading, ad-filled garbage *2026-08-21, version 26.33.0* The single ad I saw for this app was ai slop that broadcasted the app’s ability to find sex offenders in your area. When I requested this info on the app, it directed me to a Texas government website. This app Blows ### 1/5 — democrat propaganda *2026-08-21, version 26.33.0* This app is too far left. Spreading misinformation and pushing narratives that only makes people not want to be an American citizens ### 1/5 — More news? Link broken *2026-08-20, version 26.33.0* Seriously how long does it take to fix a broken link More news doesn’t open more news going on two weeks fix it ### 1/5 — Your app is getting stupid *2026-08-20, version 26.32.1* Your app is riddled with AI. It’s getting stupid. And pathetic. ### 1/5 — Not Interested *2026-08-19, version 26.32.1* The Advertising for this app will not stop. It will not leave my phone screen. If I’m on social network, I have no interest! Stop it ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — 9 NEWS MOSTLY FOR THE WEATHERn *2026-08-24, version 26.33.0* oooooooo ### 5/5 — Nice *2026-08-23, version 26.33.0* Nice ### 5/5 — Response lol *2026-08-23, version 26.33.0* Ok, I just saw a post a girl did about having this app so she could hear police scanners and them talking 😂😂😂. I had to leave a review because I couldn’t leave a comment. So, once I stopped laughing hysterically. I grew up with a very large scanner in the kitchen and the only time it could be off is when we went to bed. Now on a normal work day, it had to be on when he was home, especially on breaks, I could turn it off when he was at work. But, when he was off, ohhh bonus days!!!! Since he also did the crime scene photos for the county. We got to listen to every city in the county!! HAPPY HAPPY!!!! You can take a guess at how much I loved his 4 day weekends. And those happened every 4 or 5 weeks. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ ### 5/5 — My news *2026-08-23, version 26.33.0* Always love, listening to it and seeing what’s going on ### 5/5 — Excellent quick news update *2026-08-22, version 26.33.0* NewsBreak provides excellent and convenient news updates ### 5/5 — Fast news delivery *2026-08-22, version 26.33.0* I receive my news from several sources. I often find that I will receive breaking news from here before any other source ### 5/5 — 5/5 *2026-08-22, version 26.33.0* Pretty cool app so far ### 5/5 — Survey *2026-08-21, version 26.33.0* Continuing Delivering Informative Content ### 5/5 — Important information *2026-08-21, version 26.33.0* Keep Up the great work ### 5/5 — I love it *2026-08-21, version 26.33.0* I love it --- *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 2026-08-28.*