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Permissions Required

This app may request the following permissions:

• find accounts on the device
• add or remove accounts
• approximate location (network-based)
• precise location (GPS and network-based)
• view network connections
• measure app storage space
• full network access
• read sync settings
• run at startup
• use accounts on the device
• control vibration
• prevent device from sleeping
• toggle sync on and off
• install shortcuts
• uninstall shortcuts
• read Google service configuration
• read sync statistics
• receive data from Internet

Recent Reviews

Harry Minster

1.0★

used to be a good app. now not so much. too many items hidden behind pay walls. need a way to suppress those. I don't want large pictures in the feed index. this recently changed. I want to read the news not look at pictures. I'm not sure if there is another app that does this but I'm looking. 8/23 now borders on useless. no mini cards at all. I want news not pictures

A Google user

1.0★

I HATE that I had to get rid of the Google News and Weather app. I loved the weather widget, and there are none like it that show you in one row the weather for the next few days, with the highs and lows. Also, can't find a good app to show you the weather in the app quickly for the temp, humidity, precipitation and wind nicely. FINALLY, where are the Local sections? Those were my favorite pieces...

A Google user

2.0★

I got this for a magazine subscription as Google Assistant already gives me general news links. But it's really bad for magazine management. If you're reading a long article, short story, or novella, it forgets your place when you return to the app. Navigation within the magazine requires too many steps to get around. The magazines you purchase are hard to find. It's good for single short articles, but the UX doesn't do full issues well at all.

Gary Finley

2.0★

This app has gotten more frustrating to use. First, they don't offer any kind of protection against aggressive ads. It's extremely common for the entire page to be covered with ads, forcing me to open the article in a different browser, just to read it. And the app keeps only half loading pages. I'll be half way through reading an article, when the words stop and it's just a white page. Very disappointing.

A Google user

2.0★

Unlike the older version, I could no longer login to my current Washington Post subscription due to bugs, so I couldn't read more than a few stories a month in my subscribed newspaper. It also wouldn't remember that I was logged in to my local paper subscription, so I had to login again any time I saw a headline that I wanted to check out. When I contacted customer service (about the first issue, which seemed most pressing), I received no reply. Another annoyance is that the only available widget is the large one. The old version had a smaller widget that didn't include large pictures, and it fit my screen better. It would be nice if they had kept that as an option.

Miguel Muñoz

1.0★

Terrible. First of all, the stories often freeze while I'm scrolling through them, making it take forever to read them. I often don't make it all the way through. It seems to freeze mostly as it's loading an ad that I'm trying to scroll past, so I end up stuck on a blank, unloaded ad that I won't be reading anyway. Even worse, if I rotate the phone, it reloads the entire news story and restarts at the top, so I lose my place. (It's easy to do this accidentally if I move across the room to, say, take something off the stove. It happens all the time.) On top of that, some the news sites limit me to maybe 3 stories a month, and when I rotate the phone and it reloads the page, that counts as another story. I can reach my limit on a single story. Overall, it's a very poorly thought-out and poorly written app.