Ground News App Reviews

Version 4.0.1 redesign was a mistake. Just got Ground a few weeks ago and started paying for the highest tier the same day. I was very glad to find an aggregate of important news composed of different sources from across the political spectrum, and was transparent on where it’s sources lied on the spectrum. That hasn’t changed with this update, but man does the app look gross now, and it makes things look more confusing. In the previous update it was simple: flat color background (it was black to me but that could just be because I have dark mode on for my phone) with red for conservative, gray for center, and blue for liberal sources. Clean and easy to see. Now it’s a weird light colored gray for the background and a beige highlight. The color for the biases are the same, but now they feel the need to add a gradient to the colors so it just looks like a giant gray bar with some red mixed on the right and some blue mixed on the left. I get that the point is to show an intensity in bias, like the more solid the color the stronger the bias is. However it looks ugly, and I much prefer the old view to the new one. I appreciate what they were going for, but wish they had kept it simple. Please fix, or at least give us the option to switch back to the old color pallet if we want to.

Awful reading experience. iPhone annual subscription experience: The rapid inclusion and selection of sources is really good, but— much of the time you will meet a paywall instead of an article, especially with many of the major sources. In hindsight it’s to be expected, but nonetheless without subscriptions to NYT, WP, WSJ and many others you’re left with a very different landscape including too many niche and sloppy sources. If you have subscriptions to the major news gatherers, why also this app?- If to deep dive into one subject at a time, or for news junkies to uncover yet more, okay. This is what I originally wrote: And way too many of the “free” sources are over the top with parallax and pop-up ads and the reading experience is an awful mess. Ground responded to my review, pointing out two very helpful features, which is why I added more stars: “We recently created an external browser that gives our readers a better news reading experience. To use this feature, click on the golden icon in the top right corner of an article. It makes for a less choppy news reading experience for articles that are inundated with unfortunate pop ups. Additionally, as a Ground News subscriber, whenever you open the newsroom to see the full range of sources reporting on a story, you can select “Sort & Filter” and remove paywall sources from that collection of stories. I hope this improves your experience.”

The way news should be. My initial review of this was based on the idea that even though this app fulfils a need and dream I’ve had for awhile, it had some bugs and inconsistencies. But since my first review I’ve seen updates that have addressed most of the issues. This is indeed a good team of devs that are actively listening to their community. Normally I don’t bother looking at all the sources for every piece of news because it’s too time consuming. I just try to get a general idea without taking on too much bias, but despite my best efforts I’m sure I’ll take on the point of view of the first few articles which are being fed to me via some personalised algorithm. This app fixes that, not only can I get a clearer idea of the biases, I can also compare each side or location and get even more information.

False balance is not “fairness”. This app is causing harm.. Ground News publishes fake news on a daily basis, labeled as a “left-wing blind spots”. The headlines and summaries on these stories are AI-generated based on the articles being collated, so they are only as good as the source material, which is often bad. Notably, I have seen and reported several stories about the LGBTQ+ community, that Ground picked from sources that it labels “Low” or “Mixed” factuality. These are tagged as “blind spots” for the left, rather than the outright lies that they are. Queer people are already under attack, and amplifying fake news about us is not helping at all. I’ve been cataloging the “blind spots” that Ground publishes. In the past week, I’ve captured approximately 100 stories from the left and 100 from the right. Stories that are labeled as “left blind spots” (stories where the coverage skews strongly to the right) tend to have significantly worse sourcing than stories labeled “right blind spots”, per Ground’s own factuality labeling. Right-leaning stories this week have had an average of 3.7 high-factuality sources, 8.7 mixed-factuality, and 3.6 low-factuality. Left-leaning stories had an average of 12 high-fact sources, 4.9 mixed-fact, and 0.3 low-fact. This leads me to believe that Ground is promoting “false balance”, giving equal weight to both sides of issues that actually don’t have two sides. In other words, they are promoting fake news.

does not work. safari plugin does not work. does not show website rankings. the dowenload has a seperate app that never loads its contents- blank screen. useless.

Best news app for people who think for themselves!. I don’t write many reviews but when an app is good enough to put an end to years of searching, the developers deserve the praise. I have tried many news apps and been dissatisfied with them all until Ground News. Not only does it do an excellent job of aggregating the news, but it provides a very intuitive and clean way to compare multiple sources. I also love the ad-free reader. This app is perfect for users who don’t like being spoon fed news from only one angle. If you like to think for yourself and don’t want to fall prey to spin and manipulation, this is the perfect solution. The Blind Spot is a great addition that helps fulfill the apps mission and my search to educate myself on news events without falling prey to confirmation bias. I have chosen to pay for this app both because it is truly worth it and because I want to ensure the developers are encouraged to keep up the good work. I truly hope that many more find this app and that it can help many to be able to think for themselves and see through bias in these increasingly divisive times.

So close to perfection. I’m very interested and extremely close to using this app to replace all my news reading apps. The single thing holding me back with the app is not having the option to jump straight into the browser view when looking at a full article. I love that it has a button that lets you do this once you open an article and LOVE that it loads straight into reader view and loads all my extensions because I get a dark mode view with my content blockers all working. I just wish we could have a toggle that makes it the default, like other apps have. Something that says “open in-app or use reader mode in the built-in browser.” Short of that little nitpick, I’m blown away by this service. This is what I have been looking for and having to do on my own for years and years. Bless you for making this service. I will be referring ALL of my friends and family to this.

Helpful Developer Response. This is an updated and revised review which I feel is appropriate following a very informative genuine response from the developer. My original review complained of annoying ads in linked third party articles rendering many of them unreadable or sometimes being directed to articles that were behind a paywall. I noted in that review that these ad problems are in no way unique to Ground News and that Ground News app itself is an ad-free experience but that I felt it hampered the reader experience. The developer replied with a genuine and sympathetic response but clarified some additional things including the fact that they do not in any way profit from popups. I learned from the developer that there are ways of filtering and adjusting your feed so that paywall articles can be screened. Also, the developer indicates that an external browser function is available to better deal with pop ups and such like. I’ll be trying out these features and settings but overall I am very satisfied with what Ground News does, how it helps when it comes to news biases and the sheer breadth of content. It is clearly highly customizable - perhaps in a way that I didn’t fully understand at first. And of course, any developer who takes the time to reach out personally to address a concern is serious about doing the right thing and their product.

Helpful. I like Ground News a lot. One of the most helpful ways of knowing whether you're in a bubble is to get outside information. Ground News shows you various takes across the spectrum and, as important, shows who funds the publication. Follow the money. Thanks, Ground News.

A tool for seeing both sides. I have been using this as my primary news source for over a year. I value the ability to see multiple sides of a story including photos and videos relevant t the topic. I am still getting used to the new update. It definitely feels less clunky and much smoother to navigate, however, it is a real shame to see that the comments section has been removed in the new update. It was a largely unmoderated place (save a strict filter for inappropriate words) where people could speak their mind on topics. I greatly value the ability to see and discuss different perspectives . With that comes some toxicity, but that is anywhere people speak and people were free to turn it off or mute if they didn’t like it. It was so popular that many topics seemed to be exceeding the amount of space GN allotted for comments. I am very sad to see that instead of expanding it, they chose to shut it down. America is suppose to be a place where free speech is protected yet corporations continue to impede that ability more and more. There are so few venues to discus perspectives and challenge ideas because corporations continue to strangle out discussions and information that they do not like. I am not happy that Ground News chose to destroy their free speech platform (however small it was) which closed down one more venue that allowed the discussion of current events and perspectives.

Love the App. This website is everything and has everything! I love it so much and the developers that work behind it are very responsive and helpful. I wouldn't use any other news app.

Finally found a replacement for Drudge.. I’ve been reading the Drudge Report for decades even though I’ve been well aware of his biases and tendency to misrepresent articles’ contents in his links. But the past year has seen the site become nearly unusable with the frequent page reloads and ad popups. I tried switching to Apple News+, which is very good but I still found myself frequently going back to Drudge. Then I tried Ground News. This thing is Drudge on steroids. Every topic link doesn’t take you to just one article, but rather several along with a quick glance of bias and factuality ratings. The search function is frankly better than Google for finding news stories. While the app is excellent, Ground News really shines when viewed in a proper web browser on a larger screen. Also, it’s important to keep in mind that (like Drudge) this is a link aggregator, and therefore you may still encounter annoying behavior on the linked websites that have nothing to do with Ground News.

The world DOES need this... From an app that isn't broken.. I'm gonna make this short and sweet. You guys have 10 people on the team and it looks like 9 of you need to give most of your wages to the poor guy or girl that wrote this application on his their own. I get what you're trying to do and I support it completely. However, as an engineer I cannot support this app because, well, basically, it's broken. I wasn't even able to finish my initial testing because I couldn't get passed the very odd window sizing and resizing, and eventually it locked up my system and I now I can gladly say I can recreate the problem quite easily. That's a serious bug, I would go so far as to say that your app probably needs an overhaul from an experienced programmer. If you're interested in some free (for a time) consulting, send me an email. With that saidl.. NEWS ALERT - Your program isn't ready. Fix it and give people what you really want, not this less-than-acceptable excuse for software.

I hate the news ... BUT ... this was really the only app I have used for keeping up-to-date when I needed to. I wouldn't recommend anything else.

Interesting app to help you see your bubble. Update Feb 2022: The app got a major overhaul. Cool features to analyze your social feeds to see what kind of bias you’re seeing and more importantly the comments seem to be gone at my first glance. Raising my review. I’ll use the app more for a while and maybe give it a final rating. The app is well designed and easy to use. Getting an overview of how the news headlines are rated doesn’t take long since it’s pretty intuitive. I’ve added this to my regular news routine and might move to a subscription plan if it continues that way. The comments in the app are almost entirely right wing and certainly an echo chamber. Honestly this makes me skeptical of the app itself if the user base is heavily skewed to one end of the political spectrum. I know you can turn off the comments but I wonder why they even exist. The slanted nature hurts the trustworthiness of the brand. UPDATE: The comments are a 1 sided conservative cesspool that add no value. The app’s basis seems sound, but until they disable comments I would not recommend it and will not subscribe. The fact they permit that makes me question their motive.

Absolutely Essential App (Love the Update!!). We need to see the story from all sides, when possible. This is an excellent app to do just that! So many sources are used to cover a wide varitey of topics and show the biases on each story. Very cool app!! The newest update makes it much more similar to the iPhone app. I highly recommend this app to anyone looking to see the bigger picture!!

Great App! Great Developer Support!. This app is amazing. Being able to scroll through the bias, location, and timing of a news story adds an incredible amount of context. The sources are truly international, and inline translation works well. I am now significantly more informed about how the world is seeing events unfold. This is something that google news, apple news, or any of the other aggregators do not give. Furthermore, the developer support is REAL, and it is handled quickly and correctly by one of the co-founders. I had an edge case issue where my second device created a dummy account and I used a different email for my subscriptions. The developer wrote back the same day multiple times and we were able to resolve the issue. Bam! I am a huge fan. Well worth the year subscription. Give the free trial a go, and you’ll be hooked.

PLEASE add share sheets function!. The Mac app has improved slowly, but one glaring issue remains: you cannot share headline articles using built-in share sheets like you can in the iOS and iPadOS counterparts. It's the #1 reason I have to deduct my stars... this feature is an essential part of the app for getting news out and about. Thank you!

The best source for news, period.. I recently heard about Ground News and was blown away when I checked it out. To my knowledge there is no other news site like it. It is incredibly impressive. Being able to customize my news feed for the news topics I care about and then to get notifications when articles from any of over 50,000 news sources from around the world publish articles on those topics - and to be able to check the bias and factuality of those particular journalistic sources at a glance, just wow. Well worth the small price for a premium subscription for anyone who wants to stay informed and who also wants to know the integrity of the news sources they read. Kudos to everyone on the Ground News team and to the software engineers who make it happen!

Best News App I’ve Used In A Long Time. I don’t usually write reviews for apps, but I absolutely love this app! As a high school social studies teacher who teaches Government, American History, and Media Literacy, this app helps me better stay informed about the main news stories of the day. I love the bias feature that allows average news consumer to figure how how a particular story is being covered by the polarized media outlets. It even links right to the actual news stories within the app, so you don’t have to switch/close out an app to read a story. Seriously, for the average news consumer, the paid subscription of $9.99/year is well worth the money. I’m hoping to show this app to my students to help them understand the importance of getting your news from more than one source!

Best News App to date. This news app focuses on the actual news and not bias. I've been searching for an app like this for years and I've finally found it.

Informative, reliable, and user friendly. Ground news is a great app and the subscription is well worth it - a modest annual fee for access to personalized recommendations, information about biases and factuality, and the ability to easily navigate between multiple similar articles to compare and contrast the information you see. In this age of social media being most peoples’ news source (myself included, until I downloaded this app) it’s hard to take anything at face value - there’s so many ways information can be left out or even simple word choices can affect how you respond to a headline. Ground news does a great job of giving you the information to consider articles critically and feel confident in the information you’re consuming.

Delivers Cool Bias Coverage, But Doesn’t Actually Deliver News. The stories pushed by Grounded have all the bells and whistles it promises, including headlines from across the political spectrum and references to outlet’s expected factuality. However, the app follows the same exact feed of stories that populate cable news, which is to say, most of the content I am show is not news but infotaiment. “Woman sees toddler walking on the highway” is not news, it’s entertainment for the morbidly curious. It affects no one’s life and is merely an oddity to grab attention. Actual news is useful information that describes events that effect the country/city/community/me. How are my tax dollars being spent right now? What is the state of the jobs market? What cities in the country are changing, and how? I’d settle for fluctuations of the price of corn and wheat! Just give me something with meaning, something that helps me look at society with a little more clarity. I want NEWS, not reality television.

Learn the facts and challenge your unintentional biases. Thomas Jefferson wrote: "experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large,..." Illumiate your mind with fact-based information.

Does what it says. I used to try to read a balanced selection of news sources on both sides of the ideological spectrum, but it got harder and harder to weed out sources of frequent misinformation. Ground makes it significantly easier to see what different Americans are receiving in their information diet. It surfaces news items that I definitely would not have seen otherwise, and it even makes it pretty obvious when a news item is planted from propaganda sources. The other thing I’ve noticed is that it doesn’t encourage doom scrolling. Each article has a quick summary at the top, and once you’ve looked at the major stories and their summaries, you’re pretty much fully informed about today’s news. Oh, there’s also no social aspect to the product. There aren’t any comments or any way to debate the stories. Folks can’t weigh in on the news. It’s pure news, not an editorial system pretending to be news.

Fair and Balanced. Ground News offers a perspective on the news that I've found nowhere else -- it shares with readers how today's news stories are presented (or not) by a wide range of news sources across the political spectrum. Ground News doesn't take sides or promote a perspective, but it gives insight into biases, intentional or not, from a wide and global range of news providers. It gives me an understanding of how information is presented to the public -- and that's new in itself.

I will subscribe if this gets implemented. I would like to express my appreciation for the features your application offers, particularly the ability to compare perspectives across the political spectrum. However, I would like to address an area where the user experience could be enhanced. My preference is to access news content directly through ad-blocking browsers like Brave, which efficiently remove advertisements, providing a cleaner reading experience. While I acknowledge the presence of a reader mode within your app, it does not fully substitute for viewing the original site in its intended format, especially when it comes to visual content. Currently, selecting the option to open a news site externally redirects me to the Ground News site, offering only a summary rather than the full content I seek. This limitation hinders my ability to engage with the news in the most immersive and unobstructed manner possible. I kindly suggest considering an update that allows for direct redirection to the news sites via ad-blocking browsers. This enhancement would significantly improve content accessibility and user satisfaction, aligning with the desires of users who prefer an ad-free browsing experience while engaging with news articles and their accompanying visual elements. Your consideration of this feedback would be greatly valued, as it would elevate the overall utility and appeal of your application.

Automatically Shares Email with Newsites. The app overall was pretty meh. It appeared to make an attempt at providing insight, but I have my doubts. I signed up for a premium account, and despite that they were still sharing my email address with the newsites I visited. This is obvious because I started getting email from a bunch of random news sites I'd only ever heard of through their app. The app may very well have warned me, but if I'm paying, I don't want to horse around with something like that.

Great, but can do without the comments section. I like Ground News a lot, because as a news aggregator it is effective at what it does and the free access isn’t super restrictive. It allows you to do exactly what a news aggregator is supposed to do, allow you to compare, and contrast reporting and track news stories. On top of that it lets user to tailor it to the topics and regions you are most interested in. What I think would make it better is if they did away with the comments section. Taking one look at the toxicity of most comments there, it is distracting and detracts from the positive experience to be had on the app. I know they allow you to turn comments off, but I still strongly think they ought to be removed. The focus should be solely on the news and not people’s two-cents. That’s what social media is for and not a news aggregator.

Suggestions. 1 - The new format is too convoluted. It takes too many screens to get to the actual story and even more to get back out. Readers should be able to go directly back to the main headline feed and/or the source page after reading an individual article. 2 - headline feed needs a “return to top” option. Nobody wants to scroll back to the top from several pages down. 3 - on the headline feed, chopping off the top of photos is so unbelievably annoying. You may think it’s a clever disguise to maximize clicks, but it is a psychological irritant. As a retired human interface quality expert, i suggest you shrink the photo and display the whole photo to the left with the headline and the source list to the right. Allow readers to choose at the headline where they want to land on the political spectrum and let them go directly to the desired source. You can put the source spectrum at the bottom of each article so readers can jump to the next source when they are finished reading. 4 - you need a ‘return’ to headlines’ button at the top and bottom of each full article. I am a retired engineer. Therefore I feel justified in making these criticisms. I am also a woman who was forced to retire because of discrimination against women in my profession. It pains me that a woman developed news aggregation site (such a great idea) is so poorly designed that it actually drives readers away.

Incredible news app. I love this app and regularly use the iOS and website to keep up with the news. Other solutions are loaded down with ads, clickbait and immense bias. This helps me connect to the issues and my family (I got my dad to use and we can now discuss issues without all the noise).

News Tender. Ground brings a unique and useful news service, showing mutiple sources of the same story and "serving" it up in concise portions.

Great News Aggregate, Toxic Community. I’ve loved Ground News for a long time now, and have really appreciated the work that they’ve put into showing all sides and biases. Unfortunately, this seems to have attracted a community of toxic hyper partisanship where users just see their side as “telling it as it is”, the center as “watering down the truth”, and the opposite side as the “MSM lies”. The comment section has gotten so out of control that I had to turn it off. Even then, I can’t feel good about funding a forum where people get “thumbs’d up” for insulting and making conspiracy theories about the capitol police officers who committed suicide (my last straw). These are the same people who’ve driven any semblance of moderacy away from the community and drag Ground News down like an anchor. Again, I really do appreciate what the creators of the app have put together, but I just don’t want to fund the toxic environment that it hosts.

Great!. I think this is a fantastic app! I does a great job of showing biases in media, which I think is so very important to know. I would absolutly recomend this.

Get the facts for yourself!. This app is how I get my news and I highly recommend it! Media today lacks transparency and trust as it's often polarizing and sensationalist. Media outlets are always pushing different narratives and it can be confusing to understand what's really hapening. With Ground News, I can go to one place to see coverage from both the left and the right. This way, I can get the facts for myself and discover the truth. I also really like the Blindspot feed, which is something I've only seen with Ground News. I highly reccomend you share this app with your friends and family as it's a great way to build bridges with people who think differently.

Variety is the spice of life. A common recommendation for enhancing media literacy is to read a diverse array of perspectives to avoid bias and misinformation. Traditionally this has been difficult because there’s been no centralized place to parse stories from different outlets, with the exception of RSS feeds, internet forums etc. But even in those cases it’s easy to select sources that conform to our biases and preconceived notions. Ground News makes it easy to not just read takes on a topic from multiple sources, it also provides a handy guide for the flavor of perspective you can expect whether that be left, right, or center. And if you disagree with their labels you’re free to submit what you think is a more appropriate selection. This has been a very useful app for wading through an ocean of information. This fact, combined with the responsiveness and customer service of the team makes me wholly comfortable recommending this app to my friends and family.

I Can Not Thank You Enough Ground News!!. Firstly since I know these first lines will definitely be seen more, DOWNLOAD THIS APP!!! With all the tension throughout the world that has been linearly increasing at dramatic rates as of recent, I as well as many others understand just how difficult it is to find any trustworthy, truthful media sources out there and have spent so many hours of my life’s just trying to find news sources that would report without biases. Ground News, you have single handily solved this massive issue with biased media by providing your users with not only their right to gain factual knowledge, but also their right to choose for themselves, bravo👏🏼👏🏼. I really cannot applaud the whole team behind ‘Ground News’ enough, thank you for having morals and representing what journalism truly looks like! THIS SHOULD BE THE INDUSTRY STANDARD I would like to say you guys have helped restore some faith in humanity for me, but because of your app I now know WWIII is basically in full effect😂🤣(only laughing because i’m not sure this much else to do besides that at this point).

Seriously pushing a particular narrative. It’s been great for months but all of a sudden I’ve got “Trump asks judge to drop hush money case” 10 times in a week… it’s done this only on left leaning, anti conservative stories. I’m so sad to see this go. It was great until now. It also says things are factual that are not in fact “fact” and are more unprovable than factual. It’s calling the left leaning consensus fact and inferring the right is conspiracy theory when either side has any real evidence. Similar to the argument about the existence of a god…to say god exists or doesn’t; neither is FACTUAL, but this will call the atheist argument factual. There is a clear left bias among the individuals putting the thumb on the scale of factuality. So insidious how the left is trying to manipulate all news outlets. I bet (speculation only) they let some truth come to pass in the conservative side for the last year or so only to gain the trust of people, and now they have a reputation for being factual and unbiased, the true intentions come out. To push the left wing narrative now they’ve gained trust.

Now if only there was an economic incentive. Fantastic concept, as soon as I heard this existed I immediately downloaded and subscribed. People make more sense when you see the bubble they’re living in. The only way to change your worldview is to burst your own bubble. It’s not fun, not easy, but it’s necessary, and I’ll sign up to have my bubble burst any day. Unfortunately, and I hope I’m wrong, but my faith in humanity is such that I don’t actually think people will be willing to sign up to have their bubble burst. People want to take comfort in having what they already believe reaffirmed. It feels too good to be right and it’s too easy to think you’re right. Letting people live in their bubble, and inflating their bubble, that’s where the money’s at. Social media giants (or their AI algorithms) understand that. I wish ground news the best of luck and I’ll try to get as many people as I can to subscribe.

SYNC MY TOPICS BETWEEN OSX AND IOS APP PLEASE. Great app

Too much clutter. The Safari extension clutters the browser making it unattractive, and somewhat unintuitive to navigate. Clicking on the extenition would be much more useful if it opened a drop-down window with a dashboard and resources.

Making news palatable again. Worked in news for some years and learned to hate it. I worked when there was a new ISIS or mass shooting event almost daily. Stopped following news altogether once I left that gig. I knew that if I wanted the real news, I needed to do legwork and compare articles, sources, find a 3rd party commenter, but i have little desire to do this for every story. This app makes it simple to compare headlines, and even quickly read articles from different leanings of sources. Sometimes just for a laugh from fringe stories, but it helps me quickly get a balanced view that I can dig into with ease. I want the devs to keep thinking and finding new ways to accomplish this, but features like blindspot and personal stats are great starts to making me feel like comprehensively understanding the local and world news stories are a few easy taps away. If you understand anything about the news climate, you’ll see the immediate value in an app like this. In its current state it does still feel like a nice beta, but it’s got the right idea and is on a path toward something not just great, but necessary for navigating online news content.

Context is EVERYTHING and this app shines a clear light on it!. I love this approach to news. I've come to realize every news source has (a) its bias, and (b) its level of commitment to journalistic factuality. This context is EVERYTHING, and this app visually provides the contextual lens through which each news article is written. For each news story, you get to see the spread of news sources covering it, and then diving in, how each one choses to tell the story. Even the difference in headlines is telling and revealing. HIGHLY useful to anyone really wanting to understand the world.

100% worth it. In a time where it is difficult, at best, to determine what is fake news or real facts, Ground News comes through with an clear look at the headlines of the day. This is the APP that everyone needs right now. I love the Bias score and the ability to see the reporting from multiple media sources and how it bends the truth and plays on the emotions of the reader. Frankly, this gives the reader a very different perspective on the stories that are out there today. I have told several people about this app already and the biggest complaint is that it costs money to use. My reply is always the same, “it is sad that the truth is not worth $45/year for you.” The fee is 100% worth it to be able to consume information and be informed about what is going on in the world with a clear view.

Just a new way to attempt pushing the left wing narrative more to the center.. I had high hopes this would be a fair site, but whenever I see most publications from the left being said as “highly factual” and most from the right being labeled low or mixed factuality I saw the picture. Also there is a bunch of left wing news articles reading as center bias. I see a “center bias” news article labeled as highly factual and then denies 2020 election interference. That is not “highly factual” as they cannot prove this as a fact, and also don’t take into account the fact the Russian collusion story was a hoax of FBI lying to a FISA court to spy on a presidential candidate, or FBI clear violation of 1A in collusion with social media to prevent a Trump presidency and even suppress a factual news article from a 100 year old newspaper. These happen to support actual factual interference in 2020 election and to deny these facts with labels of “highly factual” stories is a joke. Now after saying all that, if you completely disregard their bias and factuality ratings there is a useful way to use this service. It has a huge collection of articles from different sources that can be valuable to compare and easy to find, but you absolutely must disregard the actual fact that their factuality rating is completely nonsense.

Ground News is absolutely Fantastic!!. Great News App! If you want to stay informed on current affairs, you could download every single news outlet's app. But that would be a lot of work. Instead, make it easier on yourself and download Ground News Pro. Ground New Pro collects articles from a large pool of sources, and incorporates different types of reporting, so not everything comes from the New York Times or a local news station. It tells you if the source leans left, right, or center. It learns from your reading style and directs more articles from your choices to you. Great news from all over. International to domestic. If you really only want updates from your regional newspaper, go ahead and download that dedicated app. But for news stories from around the world and across topics including entertainment, science, tech, politics, and beyond, get Ground News Pro. You won’t be disappointed.

My recommendation for gathering your news. I’ve been using the app for a while now and I can say that the service this team provides is great. I worry about being trapped in my own information bubble on the internet, getting sources and articles curated to appeal to my interests and biases in how they are told. This app helps prevent me from getting stuck in such a bubble! The comparison ability is not a first among news services, however Ground News does it very well and I additionally appreciate the ability to see how much a side of the political spectrum reports on a story, which shows the level of importance an issue is to a side or if the story itself may be told in a twisted way. I eventually paid to get the Pro version of the app to support this service. The small team personally reached out to thank me and told me to contact them for any recommendations on how to improve the app. That level of involvement was extremely nice to see. I agree with some others that the comment section of the app isn’t really needed, I personally ignore it. I feel this app’s purpose doesn’t really mesh well with the commenting feature. Though Ground News makes this feature easy to ignore if you wish, yet accessible if you would like to contribute to it. Overall I really enjoy this service, haven’t had any problems with it software wise, and would recommend supporting the team if you enjoy it too by subscribing to one of the paid models, since they’re so cheap.

News Transparency We All Need. We live in a time where information is so easily accessible and events are reported on by so many different sources. However we lack transparency of sources and this app/team seeks to correct this. They seek to show you an event has occurred which is what we actually need to know. They then show you the spread of reports about it while being transparent about the known political leanings of those reporting the event. They also make an effort to show you events that you may not have paid attention to due to your own political leanings. I believe this team has created a wonderful app that establishes a balanced news platform. One in which you can be informed of what’s happening around with transparency of political influence on different sources.

Infowars is not news.. Including Infowars alongside actual legitimate news sources is a disgrace. It does a disservice to what I thought was the actual mission of Ground News, which is to try to cut through bias and arrive at a view that more closely represents reality. Including conspiracy theory sites that peddle lies and propaganda as presumably legitimate news sources is a travesty and just serves to propagate more disinformation. I have canceled and will not be back.

I wish everyone had this app.. People would be a lot more civil to each other if they all used this app. I Have always tried to get news from various leaning sources to maintain a balanced perspective on divisive issues. Ground has made this so much easier. I now preface contentious conversations with “So I Read this through ground news” and I have had family ask what I’ve seen on ground about a topic that people on social media are shouting about. I encourage everyone I care about to get this app. It’s not perfect and if you’re hard leaning one way or the other, it’s going to feel biased sometimes. I’m a US conservative (right) and a lot of the center stuff seems left biased to me. But when we try to listen to people we don’t agree with, it can both strengthen our resolve and help us realize that the amorphous “other side” is trying to do the best they can just like we are. We don’t always agree on what’s best but we agree on a whole lot more than biased media sources and party leaders would have us believe. Who benefits when we stay divided?! It’s political party’s and heavy leaning news sources. The more divided we become the more money we send them. Anyway, share this app, buy those you care about a subscription. These people are doing good work.

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Great service. Really good to see a comparison and slant of various news sources. Keep up the good work!

Great App. Love it’s simplicity and power to identify bias. Fast becoming a favourite.

Ads keep shifting content around the screen. Try to read an article to see if it’s something I want to subscribe to. Every few seconds the content shifts the place I’m reading off the screen and replaces it with an advert. App deleted.

Such a great idea!!. This is a great app, easy to use, and a bit addictive! Highly recommended 👌🏻

Amazing. I absolutely love ground news, I was between jobs so had to end my subscription for a while and they actually reached out to me and gave me 2 months of premium for free so I could still have access to all the features during a tough time they are absolutely amazing

Ground News gives you news and an outline of the biases that the reports are influenced by. This app does stand for a noble cause. Tried it out myself just to see if it was legit, and I suppose it is. I do however, think that a laying out of the frameworks of reasoning, biases, etc would be helpful too, like, as a hypothetical example, “Trump is great, and we’re taking this persons word for it for some reason!”, although I don’t know where that’d be listed.

No comment section!!. That was my favourite part! It’s totally gone!

The Best Source for Political Learning Identification. I love Ground News for its centrality in determining whether articles are left- or right-leaning. I can now use GN to determine whether a given news source is my "cup of tea!"

Pop up videos.. The pop up videos are extremely annoying as they keep appearing even when not clicking to select them

Somewhat biased. Despite attempts to provide news stories and sources identified as left or right wing to overall selection appears to be left wing leaning. You simply don’t see a lot of balanced articles and reports. I will not renew my membership as I can’t find the value.

Really good but sometimes lacks major headlines. Used the app with a paid subscription and it exceeds expectations for outlining bias. A good range of organisation for news as well. However, when browsing other major news conglomerates and their top headlines, GroundNews tends to exclude that. Also the app sometimes crashes unexpectedly. Other than that, great app. 👍🏾

Great idea, but app feels cluttered. The app is a great idea, but the UI is much too cluttered; hard to focus on any one story, and the touch targets are not big enough a lot of the time (find myself hitting buttons I don’t intend to, etc.).

Awesome. This app has made it so much easier to find news that I’m interested in, and the collation of multiple articles helps me gain a broader understanding of the issues.

Best news app. Love this app. Refreshing to see all news reports from different places & how the wording changes depending on who is reporting it. Love love love the factuality checks!!

Australia Maybe????. Hey, maybe could you also assess Australian news too? Thanks

My decision. So good to read such well researched articles where I can decide from all the points of view presented what my opinion will be.

Brilliant!. This is so great to see biases on n reporting by collating different sources of a news story and easily seeing how different outlets focus on different elements of a story, sorted by third party political bias rankings. And the blind spot feature highlights news stories that are being underreported by one side. If you like to be informed across the political spectrum, or just see what those nasty people who vote the other way are up to, this really is a brilliant and feature rich tool!

Awesome idea. My favourite news app! The layout is really great, I’d love for the list view in the top right hand corner to be made more obvious, though.

A fantastic tool for a segmented media climate. Ground News really is a must have for improving media literacy. Ground News pools together the media reporting on the same story across a variety of sources so you can see for yourself where the gaps are in reporting and question the agenda of each report. This really is an eye opening app for anyone the ability to make up their own mind about what’s being broadcast to them in the 24 hour news cycle

Best news outlet ever. I was recomended it by David Zhang for a sponser and I’m telling you it’s the best like full 5 stars 100% biased you can pick your news anywhere

Very good presentation but no Australian content to speak of.. While I appreciate the effort to give a broad coverage, it lacks local relevance to me in Australia

Amazing one stop app for all my news updates. Love the bias filters

Great app. Love this news app. Provides all the news from all the sources like ABC, 9 News, Guardian, BBC etc. It is free and best doesn’t have any ads!

Can do Better. Idea is great- it here in Australia Needs Work

Fantastic. This app is amazing. I consider myself a bit of a centrist and this app is amazing to see what both sides of the political spectrum are promoting or hiding.

Best news app. Great price plus wide selection of news sources equals good value. Strongly recommended.

Ads really kill it. It’s absolutely flooded with ads. I accept that ads offset running cost but here they completely overrun the news stories. Very disappointed with this ad aspect as the concept promised so much. I shall cancel my subscription.

Helpful News Site. I am finding Ground News very helpful in choosing what news I read. Great site!

Refreshing change. Well done. We can all use something like this to help assess the news and the slants and angles attached to it I’ll be recommending it to friends and foe alike Keep up the good work

Perfect if you are looking for Independent News feeds. A great service that allows allows me to access critical information from a central portal and also understand any likely bias, factuality and validity of the source. Also great customer service with a quick and effective response to my service ticket. With all that is going on in the world, this app is more important today than ever - especially given the lack of independent journalistic professionalism and the corrupting influence of global leaders and corporates who thought that George Orwell's novel "1984" was a documentary or a global leadership " How To" guide book" A must have App for people who consider themselves as critical and rational thinkers.

Part of the reason. Just another aggregator

A constant pleasure to use. When was the last time that reading the news reliably made you feel better instead of angry? Ground News gives you the key facts first, then it invites you to see the breadth of perspectives and a summary of each. Then if you want more details, you can click through. This is just everything you’d want from reading the news. Local news: done Your personal interests: done Global perspectives: done What the other side is talking about: done If everyone used this, society would just be better. Reading GroundNews probably lowers your risk of heart attack (not medical advice).

Not useful. The trial isn’t long enough, and I feel that’s intended to get you to pay before seeing how shallow the app really is. Ultimately the bias comparison is ‘ok’ but awfully shallow in implementation. At the end of the day you are still consuming mainstream news, which is wholly unreliable and biased on both sides. Often it’s not a left right bias anymore, it’s just flat out lights for an agenda. Your better off without this app.

Couldn’t log in. Tried several times to log in. Gave up and deleted it in the end. Sad as it looks like a great concept

Finally a way to get a balanced news again!. Now you can see where your news comes from, also very interesting to see what the left or right does not report on, news in it self! A must have news source in this day and age….

The best news app I’ve ever used.. Says it all in the title.

Excellent news resource. Gives a great coverage of news articles along with where the article was published and the publisher’s bias.

No war. Of auto renew. Only let let you know when it’s renewed time after they got the money out of your bank account made it extremely difficult to cancel and refuse to refund. It’s another app only interested in keeping your subscribed huge features and nothing didn’t nobody else provides.

Same price, less features. I was an early subscriber. Same price, they have now removed some of the features and added a more expensive subscription.

Good App - however US political perspective. Pretty good app for news coverage however has too many US outlets (which is great) and not enough Australian outlets. Its political bias is through an US lens, the political perspective leans too right so what would be Far-right in the rest of the world in the US it’s Right wing, and what would be centrist is left. Ground News acknowledges this with the US based media monitors. I believe this is an area ground news need to work on for non-US audiences and correcting political scaling.

Nearly there. Presents a wide variety of options to see how different outlets present the news on a subject. The ratings can be misleading, for example if x amount sites report a story the same, then all those sites should be rated with the same factuality. The summaries where different leaning outlets is most useful. Would be nice to eventually see like a variance rating. For now I take the right-left and factuality ratings with a pinch of salt. They don’t seem accurate or that could just be bias coming through 🙂

Brilliant& really needed. Thank you for this. It's exactly what is needed these days and if it continues to work as it has been, it can only become the only necessary news service. I don't usually pay for my news service but after hearing about you and then seeing it, I immediately signed up for a basic subscription. I'm on a pension, so every dollar is accounted for, but I found a way to support this worthy new service. Thank you again.

Doing the lords work, but come to AUS !. Oh god this is the app I have been dreaming of. I spend so much time trying to manually do what it does. However, I’m an Aussie and am mainly interested in South Pacific news. I’ll definitely upgrade my subscription once AU/NZ/Polynesia is added as a primary region 🤓 5 stars for concept and execution thus far though.

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Elsaid. I am very glad to have just one news app that lets me find what I look for in one place , it is so great and helpful. Thank you..

Top Stories as the wrong approach. Interesting idea, yet there should be a place when I can see "my top stories" based on the content of what I'm following, without having to manually select each one. Other content agregator have the save issue. Please give me some top stories of my content and let go of the rest. I don't need no Biden and Trump news :)

Very useful app for news. I really like the follow feature that allows you to keep up to date with updates on certain new stories. I also like how you can see the different news sources that cover the story.

Great Product. Like others have said, it's a great idea. I want to be informed with what's going on around the world through multiple sources. I like that Ground News collects news from different outlets and lets me know their typical biases.

Actual News. Mostly all the news i’ve watch on tv or youtube always go a certain narrative. I don't know but i’ve started paying attention more. Then I’ve discovered ground news and ohh boy. This app’s the real deal. Would recommend to my friends and family definitely. Love the app

Big fan of the app before. Removing the comments section is a big move backwards to what the original vision of the app represented; to provide a platform free of adulterated news, creating a well informed and critical community. Removing the comments from the platform to discuss the content from mainstream media implies that the information they provide is factual and requires no public scrutiny. There is no time more crucial than now to create and maintain platforms where people can openly discuss their thoughts. Ground News needs to take a step back and reassess if they want to join the model of the failing media or be part of the change the public and their customers are demanding. GN has a great opportunity here, I hope they make the right call before I cancel my subscription and support someone that will.

Best Non-biased News app. All of the news from all of the sources summarized into one easy to read summary without the bias! Will continue to support Ground News and I will highly recommend this to everyone!

New update. New format isn’t nearly as good as the previous one. I’ll most likely delete the app if it stays the same

News on a map. It’s great panning around the map and seeing whats going on around the world. There is a list mode as well, but the map is where it’s at.

Great apppp. I love using the map. Such a creative unique way for digital readers to get hold of newss. Thank You

Excellent. A breath of fresh air and a neccessary addition to view conflicting aspects of the media and make an informed decision as to what is truth and what is politically motivated fiction. Great work!!

Amazing news feed. I studied in political science and philosophy and i approve this message. Long live the information king! Hurray! Hurray!

Great news content. It’s so hard to trust what you read via social media platforms. Ground is on point with its content on top of an amazing user experience.

Very easy to subscribe, not so easy to unsubscribe. I downloaded the app some months ago. After looking all around, I find out that it was just not for me. No the kind of news I was interested in. I uninstalled the application. It’s very, very easy to subscribe. No need to search, in every page you will found 2, 3 even 4 places to do so. After close to 3 months, without the app, I still received their mails, regularly, like a clock, they don’t missed to send you one. The first time I received it, I go at the end of the page, spot the “unsubscribe” link. Where it bring you to a page where No place to unsubscribe. But to subscribe, there’s plenty of link. I write and write, over and over again, begging them to tell me the step to unsubscribe to what I consider now to be a junk mail. Still no answer. Do yourself a a favor, found a news app who’s honest. Period.

The best. Considering the amount of lying done by today’s journalists, this app is useful if only to determine which sites are credible, and which aren’t. I seek out objective journalism, and this is the app which helps me to make sure that I am not being fed propaganda from either side. Its subscription fee is also dirt cheap considering what you get, so it makes sense to pay the annual fee for clean information.

One of the most important and useful apps im existence.. Such an improtant service..and great UI too. I am proud to pay for their premium service, and have told all my friends about it.

At First This Was My Go-To News App. With this pro version you cannot even basic compare the different publishers on stories & so much more but this alone was one of the biggest things that attracted me to this app. Being able to compare and form my own decisions. This subscription model ruins the app & i will no longer be recommending this to friends & family. Would’ve given this 5 stars before.

Country-specific version?. I live in Canada, so I would love a way to Canadian-ize the app. We don’t have nearly the volume of news agencies as in the U.S., but we have some that are left and some that are right leaning. It would be nice to have the option to localize the app to Canada, the States and possibly the World. Is this something that you would consider for a future version?

Great way to get your news. Better than twitter. Honestly less "noise" and more focused stories that matter

Best news app!. Ground fills me in on the news I need to go, on the go. I love how it’s relevant to my interests, and confirms everything is real. Totally converted me from getting all my news from twitter :)

Great app. A must have to keep yourself informed of how spin is implemented.

What the media industry needs. Have been using the app to stay informed on the COVID19 pandemic. Has kept me better informed than other news companies. Love the mission and find the bias rating feature interesting, not something I’ve seen before but I’m glad someone did it!

Full of Misleading Information. I can’t believe if without saw it by myself that in Ground News, the Chinese state-owned propaganda tools like CGTN, People’s Daily, Global Times, and Russia’s state-owned propaganda tool like Russia Today (RT) are positioned as “centre”. Really doubt if this app is actually backed by China and/or Russia government.

Not a serious app. This app is not showing the real far-right nor the real far-left. It’s a good thing, but the far left and far right are regular leftists and right wingers.

A great way to stay informed while also staying unbiased. I like the local news

Finally an app where you can easily identify bias. I came across ground news through a colleague of mine. Allows you to: - compare news from different sources in an easy swipe motion - identify news source bias but more importantly, helps identify your own bias - cool features like choosing the type of news for your feed, save articles and well developed search mechanisms I had thought about creating something similar to this in the past but never spent the effort to do it. I'm really glad you did :) Thank you for making this app !

Janky. No way to turn off the bell alert icons number AND having to manually delete each one at a time.... 🙄👎👎 Cancelled my sub, this app is not worth the price

A solution to an abundance of news sources. I love this app. It’s subscription price is super reasonable, it allows you to identify your own biases and offers such a simple interface to navigate different news sources on the same topic! As someone who is trying to understand what’s going on in the world without being flooded by bias, it makes finding several sources easy so I can better form my own opinion/perspective on events.

Love the app!. A phenomenal interface and idea. This will be how I read all my news going forward because of the ability to browse the map and customize for the content I want!

in a league of its own. comparing by news stories by bias is really useful. Somewhat scary how one news story can be reported on so differently by sources on opposite side of the spectrum. My new go to news app

Best news app I’ve ever used.. Best news source app I’ve used yet. Helps give you the tools to decide for yourself whether it’s real news or bull 💩. Try it and see for yourself. And no I don’t work for Ground.

Great app!. Love checking the news using the map.

Thought this looked like a good idea. Loaded the app after hearing the creators being interviewed on the radio. Looked at it a few times but found the interface way too crowded and confusing to decipher every time I just wanted to read about an event. For some unknown reason it spontaneously started issuing notifications so I opened and noticed they are rating the CBC and PBS as centrist news sources... um no they are pretty far left. Don’t trust this app any more, deleted it.

Transparent. I really like the interface, and the transparency this platform offers, not a publisher but a platform that provides perspectives from several different sources. It's a really great idea, the company is focusing on a huge issue we are experiencing with misinformation.

Terrible update. Not interested in somebody's opinion in a summary of the story. We will make our own summary after we read several angles on the same story. Three clicks to get to the content is irritating and unnecessary.

Favorite News App. I absolutely love this app! I love being able to see my blindspots when it comes to news, and it has helped me to become more conscious of the news I am taking in and the bias behind it. It's helpful to understand where people I may not agree with are getting there information and why - and to be able to discern between left and right as someone in early days of diving into politics and media. I have had family members fall into misinformation and I wish all news platforms were more like Ground News. Keep up the good work.

A good concept - needs work. I like the idea. But separating media in simplistic boxes like “left” and “right” doesn’t do much to provide any diversity in the news. Nor are these terms very accurately applied. It’s just twitter organized differently. It’s got potential tho.

Pro is amazing!!. Love the new update ❤️💙

Difficult to unsubscribe during free trial. Not a bad product, but does not meet my needs. I found it impossible to unsubscribe during the free trial. No instructions on the site or in the app. I would not recommend the trial.

Good app but it doesn’t recognise my Premium subscription. It’s a good news app but it doesn’t let me use the blindspot feature even though I’ve paid for my premium subscription. It is still asking me to get premium

Great Idea. I was looking for this for a long time. I realised how important it is for the public to have access different news sources with a knowledge of what level of political bias. This helps them to form their own perspective. Thank you!

Love it!!!!. I love how there are various tools to analyze and compare the different news sources. It makes it so easy to automatically distinguish which one to trust and not. Love the interactive globe!

Finally a source of aggregate news you can trust no matter where you sit on the political spectrum. Finally, a source of aggregate news that you can trust no matter where you sit on the political spectrum left or right.

Great App but Mainly US Focused. Great concept but kinda frustrating that you can only choose between US and international news. You should be able to choose between other countries, I’m Canadian and want an app like this but focused on Canadian news.

Topic-based news. Provides a way to see the same topic from different angles.

❤️. It’s the best app ever. I love it 🔥💯

Want the Real Story?. Ground News is a fantastic app for staying informed with a balanced perspective. Its unique feature of showing coverage from multiple sources helps you see all sides of a story, breaking you out of echo chambers. The “Bias Check” tool is incredibly helpful for understanding media bias. The app is easy to use, with a clean design and well-organized content. If you value transparency and want reliable news from diverse viewpoints, this is a must-have app!

Tracking you 24/7. In order to make more money off of you, they now require to use your GPS local news. Because you probably don’t know what city you live in. And if you do, maybe you can’t spell it so they won’t allow that. Just give them your constant GPS location …

Less political bias, more corporate bias. This app could use a compass realignment. Instead of focussing on the individual political silos, there should be a focus on the impact that advertising and corporate ownership has on news sources. There should be an “unbiased” category and one that highlights media sources that don’t rely on advertising or corporate money. The real issue with our news sources is money, not political bias. Political bias is the result of a corrupted system.

Great. In the past I had a dozen or so news apps on my phone so I could get a broader perspective on coverage, now I have one. Ground news allows quick and easy access to all + more. The new bias feature is ok I guess. I tend to prefer to gauge my on bias as every author is different. The map feature is excellent to glean local coverage of stories you’re interested in.

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Republican extremists control the comments. This app is great! Great news, great bipartisan coverage. But the comments are full of toxic right wing people. Can’t have a different opinion without them thinking you’re trying to silence them. They constantly attack you without trying to make a point. And the app is just sliding towards Parlor status. Unfortunately, it’s losing its bipartisan status from the right wing political extremist trying to control the comments with hateful speech and false facts Edit: I’m updating my review with 1 star now, the devs seem to think having the ability to turn comments off is helpful. The problem is the comments are so toxic, it’s the worst of republicans, the app may be great, but if you provide a breeding ground for hate and misinformation, you’re starting to become an app only one demographic uses.

A great news app. I’ve been looking for an app like this for quite a while and finally found Ground News. They essentially scan the news outlets for the current stories and point out how the left and right report. It’s great to compare and contrast and see how both sides are only looking to sway you instead of reporting the facts (some are better than others). It will also show stories where both sides agree and are telling the same story! The app also has a premium option, I am not usually a person who pays for a premium subscription but I am considering it since I truly appreciate the transparency and ease of use for this app.

Buggy, confusing. While I would love a competitor in this space of news aggregators with a twist, this app is baffling to use. Notifications make no sense and don't open up the story. The UI is a constant frustration to navigate for someone wanting to, you know, use the map and read news (seems like the point?). Is the map a nav tool or a visual organizer? Turns out it's bad at both. Map filtering? huh? The top menu buttons of Top and Latest give me the same stories generally. My News doesn't seem to make much sense, and when I'm actually wanting to read the story on the original site there's no usual direct 'open in Safari' menu item nearby. The core news feed format is good, but seems very dominated by world news. Having no way to say what your region or country is makes this best for reading local news or world news but not "national" news (which gets lost).

Great app, want to give them my money, but…. Their built in browser has some kind of issue on iOS where the videos playing on some sites force themselves into full screen, repeatedly, making it impossible to view or interact with the article. This is is compounded by their browser allowing videos to autoplay and seemingly no setting available to disable that. If I could use this app without getting stuck in full screen videos (sometimes from the news outlet, sometimes an ad), they’d get my subscription dollars easily. I like how the news is collated and the information on bias and factuality (esp. since you can disagree with Ground’s bias rating and set your own, if I recall). I just don’t like being bombarded with autoplay videos.

Great filters, more control.. I think the filter options and the tracking are excellent, but it would be very helpful if there was something to emphasize websites with too much as they advertising. So for example, the daily mail had an article I want to read I couldn’t actually read the article because of all the pop-up advertisement, I’d like an option to emphasize sites like that. I understand I can block the daily mail, but I prefer just to rank it lower so I can still have the option to try to brave the absurd amount of advertising on the off chance that I might get to read something.

Bias?. Update: I received a response from Ground News and am updating my review. I understand the position however as an inexperienced user of the app, Im trying to understand their position. I do stand by my assessment that I see more right biases articles show up w/out me having to scroll left or right if that makes sense. I suppose that means there are less articles that are left biased w/out a center biased article as well. Confusing I know. 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.

nowhere near as useful as I was expecting. The $10/yr “pro” sub is barely worth buying because it only unlocks a few features. There appears to be no way to upgrade, you just have to buy a second $30 subscription for full functionality. After I bought the $10 plan, the app refused to recognize me as a paying user on iPad or iPhone and kept requesting that I upgrade. I managed to get the iPhone app to recognize me 20 minutes after buying the membership, but on iPad, I had to wait until the next day before the “restore purchases” button would work. Generally speaking, the app is crudely designed, keeps freezing on me, and fails to load articles. And finally, because Ground News has no agreements with news outlets, most of the articles they recommend are locked behind individual paywalls, making the whole thing pointless.

Brilliant Idea, with poor execution. The idea behind the app is vary good, and it seems well written. I suffered from a problem many such applications have. Poor planning. It will find multiple articles from independent sources, which have various takes on the same story. The problem is that the links frequently lead to pay pages, and many of them lock up the app until you pay. Leaving you stranded or subscribing to a web site you have been to once, and don’t plan to return to. Or just closing the app, and starting over. I suggest that they spend some of the money I had to pay to start a “free trial” to put in place access agreements with the sites they send you too. If I go to the same site multiple times, and decide I like it, I may subscribe. If all it does is force me to close the app, without actually reading anything, it rapidly becomes “a not going to subscribe.” I’ll try working with it for another week, and then request Apple process a refund. I don’t have time in my life for another frustrating app.

Good Intentions, Not so good UI/UX. I like the intention of the app - finding out a stories bias across different media outlets, but despite the founder praising the benefits of good UI/UX, I find this app suffering in that regard. The difficulty is skimming articles and trying to present them in a cohesive way. Often the photos are oddly cropped and I find the chronologically linear organization does not actually find me the stories I want. Although I filled out preferences, I need to go to “Following” section to find specific articles organized by topic. Ironically, I think Flipbook organizes the variability of other media sites stories well, despite occasional errors (“German Shepards are the most popular dog!” while showing an image of a pug…)

Simply awesome!. Love this news app! The layout is great, the ranking on left/right/center views is great, love the colors (very easy on the eyes). There is a slight annoyance with the alerts tho. I’m order to clear the app badge icon, I need to go into my alerts, close out and go back in for the second time before the alerts clear. I’m one of those who doesn’t like having badge numbers just sitting around, so it’s nice to clear them when I read them. Other than that, I’ll happily pay a small subscription for this beauty. Can’t freaking stand ads that are literally everywhere on all the other news apps out there. Even the ones you pay for still have just as many ads. So stupid.

Exceptional Idea. Kudos Ground News! A 5* on the idea of Ground News. Its an extremely valuable tool not just for staying informed but also discerning media biases that's so visibly prevelant. It's remarkable how one fact gets presented differently with the left/right wing biases and media outlets. 3.5* on the App/UI. Enhancing the user interface (UI) can significantly improve the user experience, make it more intuitive and engaging. Considerations for UI improvements could include streamlined navigation, better sequencing of the curation, and responsive design to ensure accessibility across various devices. Such enhancements will make the process of staying informed not only more efficient but also more enjoyable.

The Brilliance is Palpable. This app is a GODSEND for people who are sick of having to wonder whether what they’re reading is biased or not, because it straight up shows you with a cool lil Infograph. The app is locked behind a paywall…for now, but they offer a one week free trial, just remember to cancel in time! I couldn’t recommend this app more, it’s free to use btw, just that some features that are nice to have are premium only. Other than that my only gripe is that you have to be patient w the in app website, but they give u the option to take it to whatever web browsing application you use. Phenomenal work devs :)

Interesting idea but poor execution. I like the idea of the app, but there are a few issues. 1. There is no way to apply ad blockers to the in-app browser when clicking on individual articles. There is no way to stop annoying autoplaying videos that pop up every 2 seconds on many of the news sites linked. 2. There are far more far right websites relative to far left sites. The ratings are also skewed. Reliable, unbiased sources that report news without added commentary like AP, NPR, and PBS are labeled as left instead of center. This is because the app comes up with the rating using three rating sites: AdFontes, AllSides, and Media Bias/Fact Check. Both AllSides and Media Bias/Fact Check are owned by people known to have right-wing affiliations. AdFontes is the only one that uses a rating system that is methodologically sound.

News feed with perspective. Quickly gain perspective on headlines of the moment. Clearly displayed biases of the news sources with easy to understand indicators. I particularly enjoy seeing how their biases shape the words they choose and the subjects they focus upon in the range of titles. My only real frustration (no fault of Ground News or their app) most links to the full articles bump up against a paywall. I get it - they deserve to make a living, but there is an industry (news) and a populus of potential subscribers that would love a better option. Excuse my tangent. DISCLAIMER: I did pay for access to Ground News and for those of my Loved Ones.

Get the facts for yourself!. The Ground News app is how I get my news and I highly recommend it! Modern media lacks transparency and trust as it's often polarizing and sensationalist. Media outlets are always pushing narratives and it can be confusing to understand what's really hapening. With Ground News, I can go to one place to see coverage from both the left and the right. This way, I can get the facts for myself and discover the truth. I also really like the Blindspot feed, which is something I've only ever seen with Ground News. I highly reccomend you share this app with your friends and family as it's a great way to build bridges with people who think differently.

Anything but neutral!!!. I have been using this app over half a year and I can say with confidence that it is extremely left biased and anything but neutral. All leftist and liberal news sources are tagged as ‘Highly factual’ whereas Right wing press is mostly ‘Mixed factuality.’ I am really surprised to the extend the left wing and its fully controlled and manipulated media will go to convince people about lies mixed with facts. The only source of information I can trust nowadays is X and only because I can filter the information by myself. These media sources truly rely on the fact that the majority of people do not have the time to verify the reliability of the source of information and whether or not what’s written is the entire truth and if important facts are left unreported. I highly recommend to avoid using this app as your main news feed.

Interesting but poorly executed. A news aggregator that rates bias is an interesting idea and I was really excited to see an assortment of stories and how the coverage differs. However, within 30’ of installing and only trying a few stories I am deleting the app due to absurd execution. Unlike other news aggregators that I’ve used, this loads each publisher’s individual Web pages. This is a problem because of constant pop ups, cookies, requests for subscriptions, ads, intrusive videos, and everything else we HATE about browsing the Internet. Why would I subject myself to so much crap just to see how different biases are expressed? Nope, I’m out. Clear out all that garbage and maybe I’ll reinstall. Stop using icons instead of names for news sources and maybe I’ll even pay. As it stands now, it’s an interesting idea, poorly executed, and not worth your $1/mo. or even your time.

News. You will see lots of reviews about user interface issues, but these aesthetic complaints about how well the app scrolls pale in comparison to what a great app it is. Simply put, journalism is a dying art, and it is impossible to get an unbiased take on even supposedly bipartisan issues. The bisected political system is annihilating our public discourse and oftentimes I am more concerned about blatant lying than I am bias in news coverage. This is the only application, app or otherwise, that I have found that allows even a small amount of control over the flood of sensationalism pouring out of the news media. This app is no less than a gift to mankind.

Nothing else like it. Truly helps see all sides.. Eye opening to see what you always suspected. The misrepresentation using headlines. Sensationalizing trivial facts that cause a firestorm in one camp. And failure to report from one camp since it obviously doesn’t support their narrative. Made me realize I’m being led by the nose, whoever I’m listening to. Great supplement to primary news sources, but not yet able to use this as my go-to since it requires a lot of wading through stories to find what is making headlines out there, and maybe some refinement needed on how they group stories (but they listened to and received this feedback! Wow).

Old news but still a good Sunday paper. I’m reading more news again with Ground because it gives access to more ‘what happened’ news, while also being able to browse left, center, and right sources. Having the ability to filter for factuality is brilliant. Please subscribe. Ground deserves the support. I appreciate the developer response, and I have already been in contact with them at length for feedback and beta testing. I want to emphasize one point here. What Ground is doing is important, and to have its greatest impact it needs to become relevant as a daily news source, and right now it isn’t. Days-old articles stay on the front page alongside fresh articles for a confusingly long time. At the very least, older articles should expire when new articles covering the same topic are published. Because of this Ground is unfortunately not my primary news source, despite that I’d like it to be. If you don’t like the app, check out the website. I think it has a better design

What the AI is going on here?. They seem to use rudimentary AI to create feeds for you. Which means you don’t get very well curated news. You get nonsense where of they talk about a murder on court street, it’ll be in your sports feed due to the word “court,” as an example. Also entering why you rank sports news as liberal and conservative. Half of the blind sport articles have to do with non-political stuff like sports or vacations. It might be good in the future, but because the AI they use isn’t useful, the entire app suffers. I did click the 3 dots to see less of the fake sources, but you kept giving them to me ad nauseam. The problem is that you should be able to block things that aren’t news. What you’ve done is given a platform to liars that make things up. I did report the bugs repeatedly. Maybe you’ve fixed some by now, but I gave up and moved on.

Political Bias Rating Is Misleading. I'm disappointed with Ground News. The political bias rating really doesn't indicate the level of bias for a particular story. But rather for the slant of coverage at the various outlets in general. And also note that there is a factuality rating which to me is more important. As long as a story is being reported factually you have to ask whether a bias rating is actually meaningful. What you find is certain stories are interesting to the people on the left such as environmental stories (high left bias supposedly) and certain stories having to do with the military are more interesting to people on the right (high right bias). So I think Ground News use of a political bias rating is deceptive and is used simply to get people to sign up when in fact it's rather useless.

Perfect app for those wanting to broaden their media intake. Media is always a tricky subject. We tend to keep ourselves in our own little bubble and therefore only hear or read stories that further our already strong beliefs or feelings about something. The best thing about this app is the ability to see the same story from multiple different news outlets and see what bias it has. I have been able to read and learn so much with this app about stories that I would not have seen before or maybe a story that is written differently on the left vs the right vs the center. If broadening your perspective is something you are wanting when it comes to news, this is app is perfect!

APP HAS IT’S OWN BLIND SPOT. I like the idea of identifying typical bias in news organizations, but rating the bias of a story/outlet is more than just simply if they reported on it. It’s not just WHO covers the story, but HOW. When a “news” organization is obviously biased, but they represent them selves as “objective” and consciously and consistently misrepresent the facts through omission or otherwise, it doesn’t “burst your bubble” to hear they’re particular “hot take”. What would be better is if both Left AND Right fact checkers gave the story and/or the source a credibility rating and the bias rating was weighted as a result. Eg CNN would be hit hard on its Covington Catholic reporting among others that would reduce its “credibility weighting”. Same for the outlets that perpetuated election fraud without presenting statistical context.

News Starts at Ground News. Ground News is my first stop to check in on news headlines. Having the Left/Center/Right headlines right next to each other is a good way to see how everyone is ‘positioning’ their take on a story. I grew up on the west coast and can admit I only recently realized I wasn’t hearing the entire story. Ground News is a good way for me to send articles to my family so hopefully they’ll peak out of their echo chambers. I feel so much more informed and this app honestly will change the way I vote moving forward. I also use their web browser extension and love seeing if a huge conglomerate owns the news coverage or not. Thank you Ground News, keep up the great work!

Too Many Clicks to Go Forward and Backward. Most times when I see an article on the front page, I just want to click and read it. I am not interested in checking the story with other publications. I am also visual impaired and the dark mode is important to me so I use it all the time. I just want click and read the article in dark mode with ONE CLICK. It is frustrating to have to clicik and click and click to read the article. Then I have to click and click and click to get back to the front page. Why can't the user choose a default setting to automatically read the full article in dark mode with just one click and go back to the front page with one click?

I had high hopes. I have been hunting for the type of service Ground News claims to be, however I feel they have craftily delivered a clever method of insidious bias. While Ground News has the features they claim, their headlines seem to prioritize far left concepts - with the caveat they'll remind they come from far left sources. "We're honest about our severe bias" seems to be the method. For those who don't want an echo chamber, we do want something we can't find elsewhere in the form of a balanced news feed which serves primarily to inform. This, to me, is not that. This morning I awoke to a face full of Daily Kos compliments of Ground News, and that's not news. If there was an option to remove garbage sources from the feed, it would make more sense. I don't want to see Heritage Foundation in the primary headlines either. I want news. Maybe Ground News' biggest problem is the dearth of fundamentally reliable information sources. Obviously polarized commentary is not "News" and "News" is Ground News' name. Ground News promised to be a filter, and it is. Yet, what they present is also up to them and much of it is the same garbage repackaged. I can visit Daily Kos on my own, and I do. I don't need a service which prioritizes hard bias content under the guise of centrist presentation. Zero stars.

Interesting idea, but the bias calculation is definitely off. I actually really like the idea of this app, and it’s definitely the closest thing I’ve seen to having a solid comparable coverage methodology in a news aggregator. However, after looking at the way that they rank the news sources, I don’t agree with their “independent” reviewers. There is no way that CNN is left and the NYT only leans left. I don’t think that there is a 100% bulletproof way to label an entire outlet, so I’ll give them some wiggle room, but I think they could get more accurate representation by using keyword monitoring ai, and eliminating the “center” classification. The reality is that there is so little in today’s “click on me” world that centrism doesn’t really exist.

Good but not great. Lacks features. Let’s hope it gets some help in development in the next year otherwise I won’t be renewing. The app has a lot of promise and it appears that the creators have a vision for the app and how it can help provide news sources to create a more well rounded and informed reader but it’s clunky and in a few ways feels out dated even though it shouldn’t. Managing topics are a chore. Would love to be able to curate my experience a bit more but there simply doesn’t appear to be a way to hide topics from the feed or organize topics. If I want to read about Elon Musk or US politics every time i open it, sure it’s right there but it would be nice to take a break from that every now and then. I’ll probably use it less and less over time. Reviewed on the iPad version.

Great App. My only complaint is that they need to develop an IPad-specific version where the “news feed” is a vertical stream that you scroll up and down through on the map (while in landscape mode) instead of the weird narrow band with horizontal scrolling. Otherwise its a pretty solid app with the ability to see news articles from multiple sources for a given event. Some of the articles are not accurately depicted on the map; however, this could be related to the articles’ meta-data and not an app issue. Definitely recommend giving this one a shot, especially if you live in a high-population area and enjoying staying informed.

Nice idea but flawed. This is a great idea except very few will objectively review a news story. Besides the fact that most news services simply copy and paste stories from a small number of major new sources. A story about the President not extending the eviction moratorium is basically the same in all news feeds. Fox News was rated right bias even though it’s story was almost identical to many others who got a center leaning rating. They just changed the paragraphs around so it wasn’t a copy and paste like most of the others. So basically, the ratings you see are for the news service itself and not the specific story. Fox will always be right leaning and CNN left leaning. The only fair way is hide the name of the news source until after a review is done.

Both sides-ism at its worse. The idea behind this news aggregator is to present the news from all viewpoints and to point out when one side has a blind spot to a particular news story. But it ends up promoting news articles from highly unreliable sources with many errors of fact or outright lies. The problem is worsened by the rating system having only 3 levels for factuality: high, mixed, and low. So a lot of very different news organizations get dumped in “mixed factuality.” This is despite the fact that one of the three ratings outfits Ground News based its ratings on has 5 levels for factuality. A publication with a 70% factuality rating can get lumped into “mixed factuality” with one that comes in at 30%. Last, you can try filtering out the low factuality sources, but this doesn’t always work.

If you can suffer through MSM this is the app for you!. I’m an age of Polarization Ground News works hard to make sure that you can gather the facts. In the age of spin harder than a cat 5 tornado Ground News works hard to make sure you can se it before it hits you. Ground News is in incredible opportunity for all to see how the MSM really runs on all sides of the aisle, pushing stories and angles to make you see an agenda and narrative that they want you to believe. Get ahead of it and try to catch all the facts with GN, who carefully curates and categorizes all news outlets by their (American) political bent. It’s a phenomenal tool to help you avoid rash judgments and sound thinking. Seriously give it a try, what do you have to lose?

Potential. So far I see the potential with Ground News and i am planning to use this exclusively. That being said I noticed a bug and wasn’t sure if there was a process to share so I decided to just do it here. I am uninterested in celebrities so I have this not selected but I am interested in the environment so I have that selected. I have noticed that a title that includes the word “environment” is included in that section but I am getting articles in my feed regard toxic environments on social media. Nothing to do with actual environments. I see the logic but can recognize that I would like to see a way to tag an article from a topic in the feed to say it isn’t suppose to appear there. Idk but so far probably the best news app I’ve used. Better than reddit for sure. Great Job!

Disappointed. I’m not sure if something is wrong with the algorithm, or if this is a conscious design choice, but given that the app advertises over 50,000 sources it’s bizarre that almost 50% of the stories are the same no matter what topic you suggest. Just selecting the leading new stories geographically, every single topic will have the same 3 to 5 stories at the top. Nothing like looking for breaking news from Europe or Asia, and getting stories about US politics. Also, I expected way, way more granular choice. Again it seems like they’re genuinely isn’t that much information here, considering each topic gets about 3 to 5 stories an hour. Meaning if you expect to browse this for more than 30 seconds to a minute, you’re already going to catch up with what you read the day before.

Best news app. If you are looking for an unbiased news app, I can not recommend this enough. They sort news by topic and you can see who is talking about and their bias. So the article might be bias, but you can read multiple to see different sides. Also, this app really has no ads. They don’t spam you, create pop ups, or impact the visibility of their site. Update 5/1/23: Just had to give this app a little more praise. Just noticed they actually tell you which news articles are behind paywalls. So you don’t have to waste time waiting for all the news outlets ads to load before waiting to find out there is a paywall.

It’s moving in the right direction, it just needs some tuning.. For aggregating sources this is pretty handy for a free app. I really appreciate what it’s trying to show people, I disagree with the approach however so I will be taking a break from it for a while. Informed citizens know the bias of the editors and the media publishers, however there are new names in journalism every day that omit pertinent information and use biased language for what might be considered a ‘center’ source. After a few hours of use its easy to find yourself outside of center, even after trying to stay with just the sources that should be closer to center by this particular rating system. Perhaps rating the journalists- and not their employers would be more realistic. Real journalist put their name on the work for a reason and devote their lives to the trade, some accountability where it matters would be nice. These are just people, after all. Outside of that the UI is confusing and not very tidy but that can easily be ignored considering the value of information presented.

New app. I setup the app today. I am giving it 4 stars initially because there is quite a bit to this software. ( news, video, comments, dark function to name just a few) and I have enjoyed the quality of what I’ve seen along with the fact it actually works smoothly and looks to be very high quality workmanship and easy to figure out. It has a bias function that analyzes your political leanings or interests. That is quite different. $10-$12 per year gets you everything that is available, which I did on a monthly basis of about $1. I can discontinue anytime through the Apple store. Can’t beat the price for this quality. Everything’s explained well in settings and just to be sure I emailed a question which got a response in about 30 minutes. My only negative comment would be that it is a very busy screen with all the things going on. I am more of a minimalist so that is a trade off. I’ll check back in with a follow up review in 30 days or so.

The Best News Out There. News that is reported and vetted according to the slant given to it by both conservative and liberal platforms. There is a clarity in the ratings that cuts through most of the extremism, and reports news in a straight forward way. Listing the media companies, gives one the feel about how the news in reported in different countries, as well as seeing how the news is reported in Europe, Asia and Africa, and gives a feel for how the news many be perceived around the world. It gives one a depth of understanding, and perception provided by no other app. It is simply the best.

A new, fresh way to consume news in modern day misinformation crisis. I normally do not leave reviews on apps, but this app really has made my relationship with reading the news much more positive. I don't have to see what everyone is saying all the time about the news and it feels much less exhausting. I don't feel nearly as overwhelmed. I think the map feature is really cool and interesting too. Its helped me take a step back and view the news just as it is rather than seeing the news on social media apps and immediately becoming enraged.

Mostly good, but some really annoying issues. I'm mostly happy with the service, but the banner that keeps offering a 1 week trial for the premium service is pretty annoying. I'm a subscriber, and I'm logged in. Please stop advertising to me. Another annoying issue is listing links to sites with paywalls. Please fix the app to stop listing sites I can't access. Sure, I can delete each one individually, but I shouldn't have to. Finally, please allow me to disable the top banner completely. I don't care about what someone thinks is "breaking news". I don't need the banner at all - it just annoys me. I'm going to read the articles, just tone down the hype please.

Keeps You From Maintaining Biases. This is one of the most helpful news applications I’ve used. It gives you a summary of a story from the perspective of multiple news outlets whether they are right, center or left in their bias. It will also give you links to each of those independent stories with their left, center or right leaning bias. For any particular summary of a story reporter from numerous news perspectives it also puts these news media on a visual spectrum in terms of their bias. It will also warn if reading a particular article is a blindside for left or right. Very helpful to get to center news that is less biased.

So close.... I love the idea for this app, and have immensely enjoyed being able to quickly see how different sources are covering the same subject. However, the interface leaves much to be desired. My biggest complaint is the ads. It is difficult to trust an app that says it’s unbiased when in the middle of the article I’m reading half the page is suddenly covered by a picture of Donald Trump asking me to support his future campaigns. I assume that if I pay for an upgraded version I can hide the advertisements, but even that is unclear. When I click “Find Out More” to see their subscription options, it’s as if the page isn’t fully developed. I can certainly choose one of two plans to subscribe to, but no matter where I tap on the page it gives me no information about what these subscriptions provide.

New design is terrible. Ground News was my daily news app for the past few years, but this new redesign has ruined the app. It used to be so simple and streamlined, but now it’s clunky, ugly, and harder to find the same basic info that was clearly visible before. Since the update, the app also isn’t recognizing that I already have a pro subscription and shows that I’m only using a free account, even though the App Store shows its active. Overall, it really stinks that this app has changed so much for the worse. I’m so bummed. Edit: I was able to get my subscription reactivate after signing out and back in. Also, glad to hear the developer is listening to user feedback and will be pushing out som updates soon. I look forward to seeing those updates!

Truly Unbiased. I’ve used many news aggregators: Flipboard, Google News, Microsoft News, News Republic, etc. and all of them unashamedly lean toward a a very particular spectrum with little to no representation of the opposing side. Ground has such a refreshing approach. They take an article and sort the sources into clearly defined sections on the political spectrum so you can see which side is more focused on the story and decide which viewpoint you will read it from. You can block sources that are too extreme for you, left or right, and choose topics your more interested in to better personalize you feed. I can’t recommend this app enough.

The Best There Is…. I’ve subscribed to this service for many months and here is what to expect, if you do the same… Outstanding aggregation of News and current events from around the world that provides insight into the source of what you are reading and their historical bias. Other News sources will feed you what they think you want to see (looking at you Apple News Plus and Google…) - but Ground News strips away the biased reporting and delivers the truth behind the event. Can’t rate this News Service more highly - it’s simply excellent….

The Future of Online News Content. I love this app. In many ways we are still in the 19th century when it comes to the media industry even though the medium for consumption has changed. Having to listen to one persons opinion on something who pretends to be unbiased and works for a corporation which has a vested interest in outcomes social and political outcomes is utterly boring and exhausting. This app is fantastic and absolutely worth the monthly subscription price of only 83 cents a month. Thank you so much, this makes consuming world news enjoyable and interesting again. My only suggestion is to keep adding more news sources across the political spectrum to bring even greater variety of perspective. Any thoughts on this format in a nightly news program?

What did you do to the app?. Until this most recent update I was recommending this app to a large variety of people. But now the UI has gone from simple to understand, to an ugly gray mesh with confusing density-bias bar that highlights the deeper the bias is, as well as the comment section being permanently turned off. Im aware of the purpose of the new changes I dont think theyre well implemented though, whoever was doing UI must have realized that if you disable commenting the engagement factor drops significantly and wanted to give the user something to engage in. If youre not willing to let people speak their minds about the topic at hand, I dont think this application will garner the support or continued usage its users have been giving it. Good luck with whereever you take your project, but Ill be uninstalling and looking elsewhere.

The best newsfeed I’ve ever seen in my life!. I am completely totally in love with how this thing breaks down the biases between the Democrats and the Republicans and everybody in between I’m also in love with the whole format of how you can click just about anywhere or anyone or any news feed such as US news or AP news or any of the other channels and be able to go around the world if need be to get news from every angle, and from every viewpoint. There are some accessibility issues, however. I am legally blind, and it would be nice if you could change the font size on somebody’s settings other than that this is the best things I’ve ever seen.

I am VERY Happy With GROUND News. It’s helped me keep an open mind, and read more views from opposing viewpoints to my own. It even has a widget for your home screen that includes one story that is a blind spot for the left, and another that is a blind spot for the right. I always feel more properly informed from GROUND than other news sources, since I know I totally have a liberal bias, I now always check how right-leaning sources are talking about stories. I’ve been exposed to ideas and stories that I otherwise would not have, and that’s something truly amazing for a FREE news app. Seriously, use this app. I would absolutely recommend it, it’s now my only source of news.