Ground News for Android

This app is gold! It shows many sides of the same story… instantly. Thanks for all the hard work to make this so easy. Excelsior!

I’ve enjoyed the content so far, however their “bias” seems skewed. If an article is critical of the left, it’s right bias; if an article is critical of the right it’s centered bias. Rarely if ever is an article Left bias.

**Edit** the ‘Major’ bug seems to have been resolved. Thanks GroundNews Devs!! I am going to leave the 3 stars for now for 2 reasons: 1. I am still being flashed the “Get Subscribed” banner even though I’m already subscribed. I have sent screen recording to one of the Devs about this and they did not reference to me that this was going to be looked into. 2. GroundNews uses its own browser to pull up news articles. This leaves you less then 4in of reading space and depending on the website you’ll most likely get a banner blocking the content due to cookie preferences or an ad. I insist to add in settings to have Safari be the default browser! Manually having to change to Safari on each article is annoying. Love Ground News, pay for their Premium subscription, but there are a few too many problems they need to fixed before this becomes a 5 star app. Minor: Every time I open the app I’m flashed with a pushy message wanting me to subscribe. I’m already subscribed! It’s annoying to see it every time I open the app. I use their widget most of the time to view interesting articles. Half of the time it doesn’t register or just brings be to the homepage instead of the selected article. There needs to be a ‘use default browser’ settings button. What I mean by that is I want an article to open automatically using Safari. I don’t want to use the browser inside the app then select ‘use Safari’. This will make it so much more enjoyable to use. Major: The app has a tendency to stop responding when I’m scrolling through articles on the homepage. This is really aggravating considering I paid for a service. I have a Android 13 Pro by the way. Ground News in its entirety though is essential for this day of age to get out of your comfort news and get a more rounded perspective. I implore everyone to use it!

I am a new member and LOVE this app, but I have an issue with it freezing when O log onto the app. Is there something I can do to fix this, because no other app does this. Good app but freezes

I have been a user of this app since the first month or so of it’s release well over a year ago. I have recommended it to dozens of people. I pay for the yearly subscription. I’m a HUGE fan. That said, don’t get this app just yet. It’s currently broken to the point of unusable. I am unable to scroll through my feed. The dev team recommended to me, and many users in the reviews, to turn off autoplay. This does not have any effect on my Android 12 Mini. As an owner of a software development company, software development is hard. I can attest to that and give a lot of leniency to issues. That said, they nailed it in the past! They had a near perfect app. They then released a worse / broken version? The fix is simple, roll it back to a couple releases ago and chalk up the newest work as a loss. Don’t be afraid to scrap it. It was so good a good app, now it doesn’t exist as an app. Hopefully I can find a similar competitor or the app gets rolled back within the next few days. Side note, as someone who isn’t good at designing logos and app icons myself… the new icon is hilariously bad. The icon used to say GROUND or GROUND NEWS. The app icon now literally reads, if you really read the letters, “GBNIINn” because they decided to cut the bottom 10-15% of the word “GROUND” off… an R with the lower 15% of the character missing is also an uppercase B… yikes. Not sure if they added some epic new feature that makes the app worth it’s unusable state, or if they brought in a new dev team that’s not fully up to speed yet but this hilarious update (for weeks now) screams “roll me back to previous version”.