NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts Reviews

NewsBreak Reviews

Published by on 2025-02-12

🏷️ About: NewsBreak is a local news app that provides daily news and events to users' phones. It aims to bring neighborhoods together around the unique stories they share in common. The app offers a highly personalized feed, relevant to users' likes and dislikes, and cove... Show more


       


Overall Customer Experience 😎


😎 Positive experience
55.3%

🤬 Negative experience
30.6%

🫥 Neutral
14.0%

~ from Justuseapp.com NLP analysis of 1,209,417 combined software reviews.



Summary of Customer Reviews (Takeaways): 💎

- Personalized news feed based on interests

- Numerous good-quality sources

- Full coverage of local news

- Not swamped with push notifications



Read 48 Customer Service Reviews 😠💢

4.8 out of 5
App needs to be shut down and under investigation

You get 1 star for sharing the news and that's it! NewsBreak only does one thing right and that's report the news. But please explain to me why there's no consequence to the racist comments you allow in the comment section? There shouldn't even be a comment section!! This isn't FB or IG nor Twitte... Show more

What you’re really getting

A feed of article headlines and pictures ranging from what Kim kardashian wore to bed (and you’re not gonna believe the reaction) to more serious presidential news. All taken from a diverse spectrum of prestigious news organizations to rinky-dink news outlets I am unfamiliar with that with the clic... Show more

Used to get vital info but now....

I really used to appreciate the this app notifs because they were new and informative. In past two months though I have gotten, literally, 3 notifs a day about the Second Stimulus that there has been no new info about especially while Congress is on break. Why do you keep torturing those of us who... Show more

So, I have a friend I’d like you to meet...

In this day in age.. where all news is biased. A friend of mine shared one of your articles. So I do the natural thing. Download your app just so I can read it. Even allow the “push notifications.” Because, As rare as it is, I actually, genuinely, still want to hear what people have to say!!! I ... Show more

Repetitive posts

I like NewsBreak for the fact that I can can pretty current local news. The biggest down side is that there is a repetitive almost and onslaught to just make a news break about the stimulus check. The post are over and over saying when you will get your stimulus or how much you will receive them b... Show more

good for news, bad for comments

i love the news break app and was introduced to it by a friend in march when covid was getting serious in the US, for more information. i love how you can have local news and national news alerts and covid stats in one place. however, there’s a few issues that need to be fixed. the comment sections... Show more

Overwhelmingly Negative

I downloaded NewsBreak almost a year ago. I’ve loved it because it does provide notifications on what’s happening in my local area. However lately with the current COVID-19 crisis, it’s all NewsBreak has become about. It’s great for staying up to date on what’s happening with the corona virus, ho... Show more

Daily CORONAVIRUS information (State links to DPH) outdated

I can only speak for Georgia; the state's Department of Public Health (DPH) link has been outdated for over a month... the link takes you to a "Page Not Found" error. A little editorial work, or delegation thereof by the this app editors (or even allowing email feedback on the this app app - I tr... Show more

Has potential, but hostile comment sections are causing me to delete the app.

NewsBreak has potential. I like being able to quickly get news without going to Twitter or somewhere else. It’s a quick click. For the most part articles sent to notifications have been relevant (although the frequent click bait stimulus articles have been annoying).

However, the comment s... Show more

I like this app but...

I like the news, I like being able to track the virus cases in my city and I like being able to track the protests. Of course there are some repetitive articles, but NewsBreak doesn’t report the news it compiles it in an easy place for us all to see. What I really hate about NewsBreak is the comm... Show more

It’s decent.. but there are some fatal flaws.

I downloaded NewsBreak to keep up to date with some things in Orlando while I’m here. Upon looking through various articles on NewsBreak , not only did I find that a lot of them were irrelevant to the news I actually needed, (news about crimes, laws, COVID-19 rules and so on), I noticed that the c... Show more

Good for a fast read.

I started out loving NewsBreak. It was great for my local news. It gave stories sometimes first, sometimes those I couldn’t get elsewhere. I started using NewsBreak in February. By April it started having so many bugs it was barely useable. If you actually get linked to a story shown, and then ... Show more

Once Upon a time

This was a go to app to find out about local information and what was going on around the world. I mean really that’s what we’re all looking for is the truth something we can trust. At one time you could believe in what you read on here but because money became more important then the truth! Did yo... Show more

App needs a search and filter feature

App is pretty good, but needs the ability to search the headlines for keywords. Also needs a filter so that certain sources may always be omitted from results, e.g. always exclude CNN, etc. Also, the ability to mark story categories that you don’t want to see anymore would be useful. Say a story po... Show more

One spot for news - with a caveat

Update: I’m my review below, what I was seeing was a web site I was directed to with more ads than news. I had erroneously thought that this app was responsible for the plethora of ads. However, this particular web site appeared more than once in my feed, and I was getting frustrated. With that be... Show more

Decent

I do like getting notifications throughout the day and that I can control how many notifications I get and when. I wish the comment sections weren’t so toxic, but free speech *is* good to have. It’d just be nice to see more respectful discord and less trolling happening, but alas. I thought there w... Show more

Grammar Matters!

Where are the journalists—and more importantly, the editors—who went to English class? The this app articles are very reliable in terms of real-time happenings; however, some of the articles lack the grammatically-correct impact they should provide. A more broad use of descriptions (adjectives) wo... Show more

The Best App Right Now

Everything about NewsBreak has been what I should have expected expect only one tiny thing. I’ve been using this application lately because of Coronavirus news, and to be honest, I don’t complain, but as I just noted earlier, if you guys can just add this one feature, it will be helpful for not on... Show more

App for local and breaking news’ lovers

In the past few months, my mom and I’ve switched to get my news through this app. Its entire news feed revolves around our personal interests. I like the way they present the “Following” tab as well as “For You” tab, both delivering personalized news feed. I am also impressed by the numerous good-... Show more

Local News

I love reading local news when I am not at work. Bigger papers do not cover important news in my community and I need to be informed to feel comfortable living in Islip. I grew up in Islip at the time when the only local news was the Islip Bulletin which we had a subscription for at home. With the ... Show more

Could have been great (read on)

So I, like so many in the world today, are looking for a reliable source for news without bias and nonsense, something that is not falling into this latest trend of “fake” news (and at least tries to be balanced).
Since the Apple news app has such limited options if you don’t want ridiculous alt... Show more

Freezes

I enjoy NewsBreak (when I’m able to read the story that I receive the alert for). When I tap on the alert an advertisement usually for a game comes up which I have to watch prior to viewing the story however 80% of the time at the end of the advertisement I am unable to tap the “X” to opp out of t... Show more

I Loved It At First, But.......

This was a terrific app at first. I particularly loved the ability to see local news stories. But NewsBreak gives the headlines, and a sentence or two, and then has a READ MORE, and you click that to read the entire article. The articles themselves open from a separate news source, a newspaper etc... Show more

Mine is obsessed with horoscopes

Seriously, you supposedly can tell it you don’t like something and it will stop showing you that. Ha! Instead, it now, instead of small articles interspersed, not only headlines it at the top of my page twice as large as any other articles, I get pop up notifications on my phone! I sent feedback ab... Show more

Ehhh

I kept seeing this pop up on IG & while I thoroughly enjoy keeping up with my local news & some major stories world wide, I’m a bit disappointed in NewsBreak only because when I finally decided to download it after much deliberation & reading reviews, I can no longer continue using it.... Show more

News break app: the strait dope and more

Great for keeping up to date with all the latest crime news and more. I haven’t found anything that even comes close to this app and a single news station app or even several local station apps leaves much to be desired especially covering multiple breaking national news stories in a single feed.... Show more

Not sure yet

I was pleased to see an app that would keep me informed about local news. And I liked getting notifications of what I thought would be breaking news. I've only had this for a short time, and just a few minutes ago, I got a message about an accident near here that harmed six people. I was about t... Show more

News Break

News Break is my favorite news app!!..i’m so impressed w/news stories from around Mich...ie..the Upper Penninsula & northern part of Lower Penninsula..stories i wouldnt know about otherwise since i live in mid- Mich..for instance i learned that the West side of the state has a school to teach p... Show more

This app rocks for local news

News break is the best app I’ve tried for getting local news. I’ve tried many, but for most of the others, that means news from the nearest large cities. I live in a rural town and finding truly small town local news news online is difficult. Yes, you can go to your newspaper’s site, but that’s jus... Show more

App

Enjoy NewsBreak! I like that it provides local and global news,tracks what I read to curate a feed specific to my interests and updates to provide local content whenever I'm traveling! I have one tiny issue though, which is certain headlines will only allow you to read a few sentences before requi... Show more

My wish list regarding the app abilities

Great job try to offer your views in categories such as: gun violence/Drug arrest/missing persons/political/ ect./ then program NewsBreak to give us the ability to search the topic of our choice. Such as the ability to parsay narrow an dial in the subject matter of our choice along with the city a... Show more

Amazing for local news

I thought the last thing I needed was another news app with content from a lot of different sources. For some reason, at some point, I went ahead and installed News Break. I’m very glad I did. There’s good coverage of national, international, entertainment news, etc., all in a minimal, very easy to... Show more

Most Outstanding Up to date News!!!

The Updates and continuous live feed to the public is the most helpful and convenient way to stay in the know of all surrounding news and crime occurring around us! Most importantly, it helps us avoid and prevent our children from going in the path a crime or hostile environment may be taking plac... Show more

Relative Useful News - Beautifully Done News Break!

Finally a company creates and excellent News app with a great and comfortable experience!!!
News Break app I just want to give a shout out to your company and team. Normally I don’t care about news reporting agencies. However, the news break app is so far the best service I’ve ever used to date.... Show more

Best News App!!

Hands down best news app! I get notifications about local news before my local news apps most of the time. It also updates your location automatically - I went on vacation and was on the way back from snorkeling and saw police boats go flying past me...as soon as I got to shore I got an alert that ... Show more

Jody Becker
2023-10-12

I liked NewsBreak because it was local news, no longer. A recent article with an obvious right-wing slant drew mostly negative comments. However, it wad the "contributor's" rude, smart-aleck responses that did it for me. It felt like a radio talk show with the host's only goal was making people ang... Show more

Cj
2023-07-27

When I select a story it does not load and a grayish screen appears with thick vertical lines that look like shadows and they go across the screen. I have an Android.

R
2022-06-26

News Bresk censored all my comments and replies to other comments because it is very biased.

Jeannie
2021-07-25

Approximately a week ago I saw an ad on here for a lady in Bloomer Wisconsin trying to sell a necklace and got beat over the head my knowledge it was not a true story no one in the area around bloomer knows anything about it

Deweybingham
2021-06-27

Newsbreak app is not working

Linda
2021-05-04

This is a great app .But not when it comes to trolls and peoples accounts being cloned . BEWARE !! Unable to get any response from its admin . And the appropriate governing body will be informed .

A’Vonyce
2021-03-30

So I feel as if y’all app is racist..I had a white woman leave me a msg.talking so much trash about black ppl..A lot of racist mess,so she talked about black women wearing horse hair..I replied back and told her white women hair is thin and fragile and that they wear extensions..My comment was not c... Show more

Thomas P Tristani
2021-02-26

This news app makes me very angry and it trigger's me to say things that are not very nice. This is because a majority of the stories here are anti-white anti-police articles that produce many racist comments by both black and white readers. It is biased and unbalanced and should have been flagged f... Show more

Brian Hogan
2020-11-22

When I click to see someone's profile it shows me their location but my picture.And now when I try to reply to a comment it just shows my profile and their location,with no option to reply.Now i can't even reply to any comments.And I know I haven't said anything offensive.So I have no idea what's go... Show more

Jackie
2020-10-31

Total lib psycho fest. Also The reviews are so obviously fake they’re either perfectly written by the marketing team or it’s somebody that obviously doesn’t speak English as a first language that Finley trying to not appear to be Chinese which is where this app is from I wouldn’t put this on my phon... Show more

Calvin Hannam
2020-09-11

Come on News Break, you were developed by the people that created TikTok, moderate your news feed. Please stop the Russian Troll's on your platform spilling hateful speech.

KCDESIGNS
2020-09-06

Deleted this app. It’s very Conservative, Racist and ‘Trumpy’. No thank you!

Ruby Finney
2020-08-29

News break allows people racist words , like calling black people monkey, talking about black kids are ugly , saying blacks hang from trees , and all thee other disrespectful things, and you complain they don't do anything, and when your talking positive they will send you a message, like its ok... Show more



Is NewsBreak Safe? 🙏

Yes. NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts is very safe to use. This is based on our NLP (Natural language processing) analysis of over 1,209,417 User Reviews sourced from the Appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 4.8/5 . Justuseapp Safety Score for NewsBreak Is 64.4/100.

Safety Analysis

87.5% of users say app is Safe 👍
87.5%

9.4% of users have Some Concerns ⚠️
9.4%

3.1% of users say app is Risky 🚨
3.1%


Is NewsBreak Legit? 💯

Yes. NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts is a totally legit app. This conclusion was arrived at by running over 1,209,417 NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts User Reviews through our NLP machine learning process to determine if users believe the app is legitimate or not. Based on this, Justuseapp Legitimacy Score for NewsBreak Is 80.7/100..

🔏 Privacy & Data Safety

NewsBreak collected the following data from you:

  • Data Used to Track You:
    • Location
    • Identifiers
    • Usage Data
  • Data Linked to You:
    • Location
    • Contact Info
    • User Content
    • Identifiers
    • Usage Data
  • Data Not Linked to You:
    • Diagnostics

Payments 💸

**Pricing data is based on average subscription prices reported by Justuseapp.com users..

Pricing Plans Amount (USD)
NewsBreak Tips $0.99
NewsBreak Tips $4.99
NewsBreak Tips $9.99


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Features

- Curated daily briefing on local news, traffic, events, local weather, and more

- Live stream news on local channels

- Local weather reports and traffic updates

- Breaking news coverage, both small news and national news

- Daily news highlights delivered straight to users' devices

- Browse national news headlines and read comprehensive, in-depth stories

- Discovery engine to discover stories from over 10,000 trusted sources

- Personalized news feed based on users' likes and dislikes

- Coverage on the news that matters most to users, including sports news, business news, tech news, and more

- News aggregator that collects and delivers the news that matters to users

- News alerts customized to users' tastes

- Local eats, small news updates, deals, shop openings, and more

- Personal and vivid stories from local news writers and content creators

- Support for small publishers to revive the local news ecosystem

- Increase local story volume and geographic coverage to stimulate local storytelling and community power

- Option to follow or block trending topics

- Free ground that welcomes users to express emotions and opinions.

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