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Ground News Alternative: Do You Want the Rating, or the Other Newsrooms?
Which half of Ground News do you want to replace: the left-center-right rating, or the same story as several US newsrooms wrote it? Five options, priced.
Blog · News apps compared
News apps compared.
Google News, Apple News, SmartNews, Flipboard, Artifact and the rest all promise the same thing — the news, sorted for you — and differ on what they ask in return: an account, a profile, a subscription, a share of your attention. This section compares them on the points that matter to a reader in the United States: which sources they carry, whether you can use them without signing in, what they track, and what a paywall does inside each one. GetMyNews appears in these comparisons as one option among others, with its own limits stated: US newsrooms only, and an ad-supported model with a banner and one full-screen ad every twenty stories.
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Best Free News Apps for iPhone: A Method
Ranked lists rot by spring. Three checks — account, ads, sources — that judge any free iPhone news app, and the category that matches your actual job.
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Artifact App Alternatives After the Shutdown
Artifact closed in January 2024 and Yahoo bought the technology. What its readers were really after, and the five tests any replacement has to pass.
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SmartNews vs Flipboard: Which to Pick
One ranks for you, the other asks you to assemble. The category difference that survives every redesign, plus the three checks that decide it in a week.
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Apple News Alternatives (Free): How to Pick
A free reader can replace the Apple News app, not the News+ catalog. The four questions that separate a real alternative from a rebranded signup funnel.
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Google News Alternatives That Don't Track
Leaving Google News is easy; leaving it for something that is not the same trade is harder. Four kinds of alternative, four questions that decide.