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title: "BBC: World News & Stories - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in Ireland | Apple App Store"
description: "THE BBC APP: News, stories, audio, videos and live coverage from our trusted global network of journalists.  BBC STORIES: The latest, breaking news headlines, articles, podcasts and videos, including "
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# BBC: World News & Stories — Ireland
> Breaking News, Podcasts, Video

![BBC: World News & Stories App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple221/v4/45/c8/db/45c8db46-4076-cd10-f034-b34650cb52c9/AppIcon-0-0-1x_U007emarketing-0-11-0-85-220.png/434x0w.png)

**Developer:** [BBC Studios Distribution](https://apptail.io/developer/bbc-studios-distribution-cah)
**Category:** News
**Rating:** 4.4/5 (3,671 ratings)
**Price:** Free
**Bundle ID:** uk.co.bbc.news
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** Ireland
**Version:** 2026.2.1 (released 2026-04-08)
**Original Release:** 2010-04-01
**Languages:** English

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/app/id364147881)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/bbc-world-news-stories-SWN/ireland](https://apptail.io/app/bbc-world-news-stories-SWN/ireland)

## BBC: World News & Stories Description
THE BBC APP: News, stories, audio, videos and live coverage from our trusted global network of journalists.

BBC STORIES: The latest, breaking news headlines, articles, podcasts and videos, including coverage of world News, UK News, elections, BBC Verify, BBC In-Depth and more. Stories and videos covering business, technology, health, culture, arts, travel, Earth, and more.

LIVE COVERAGE: Follow live news and live global sport updates.

BBC RADIO: Listen live to BBC World Service and Radio 4 while using the BBC app or background audio when switching to another app. 

BBC PODCASTS: Listen to, save and follow on-demand podcasts such as The Global Story and World of Secrets. For offline listening, download episodes to your mobile device.  Find current and past episodes from news, politics, culture, true, crime, history, science and sport. 

BBC VIDEOS: Watch BBC News videos, BBC Sport videos and video stories about climate, sustainability, science, health, technology, entertainment and history.

BREAKING NEWS ALERTS: Turn on breaking news notifications from BBC News. 

MORE FEATURES:

- Save articles, podcasts, and videos for later in app and on BBC.com
- Watch videos and listen to audio over cellular and wifi 
- Share articles, stories, podcasts, and videos to social platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp, and send via SMS and email
- Audio playback controls with sleep timer and live rewind 
- Increase your font size for improved readability
- Dark mode available for a dark-background reading experience 
- Opt-in or opt-out of breaking news alerts

ADDITIONAL INFO:
If you choose to receive breaking news alerts, a unique identifier relating to your device will be stored by Airship on behalf of the BBC to provide you with the service. You can choose to unsubscribe from breaking news alerts from BBC in your device’s ‘Notifications’ screen.

Our data processor AppsFlyer collects information on behalf of the BBC for attribution and analysis purposes. You can opt out from AppsFlyer tracking by filling out their ‘Forget My Device’ form: 

The BBC will keep your information secure and not share it with anyone else in accordance with the BBC’s Privacy and Cookies Policy. To read BBC’s Privacy Policy go to 

If you install this app you accept the BBC Terms of Use at 

## BBC: World News & Stories Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource221/v4/55/4a/4b/554a4bc5-cc06-b7b0-13af-d8be27f9584e/Screenshot_1.png/1284x2778.png)
- [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/99/98/96/999896f5-d46e-0841-d250-ff1d864668b8/Screenshot_2.png/1284x2778.png)
- [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource221/v4/7a/57/a9/7a57a979-d047-b345-a559-8de440132f93/Screenshot_3.png/1284x2778.png)
- [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource221/v4/17/9b/d5/179bd546-f3b4-71db-8ec1-c5b12021aac9/Screenshot_4.png/1284x2778.png)
- [Screenshot 5](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/4f/5f/10/4f5f1075-5c74-105f-a747-45861889d859/Screenshot_5.png/1284x2778.png)
- [Screenshot 6](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource221/v4/63/14/28/63142807-dc36-633a-188c-bc715733bf79/Screenshot_6.png/1284x2778.png)
- [Screenshot 7](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource221/v4/62/aa/8d/62aa8d74-395a-074b-84bc-ea2eee98b495/Screenshot_7.png/1284x2778.png)

## BBC: World News & Stories Rating Breakdown in Ireland
- 5 stars: 2,366 (64%)
- 4 stars: 800 (22%)
- 3 stars: 241 (7%)
- 2 stars: 80 (2%)
- 1 stars: 184 (5%)

## BBC: World News & Stories Reviews in Ireland

### **--- "Was once good…"
I used to really love using this app. Now when I get alerts 80% of the time when I click on it the app opens, but then stalls and the story doesn’t come up. Very frustrating.

There is the fact you can’t highlight and copy text to make posts on social media more interesting by using quotes, you only get the headline and the link. Thats not how you stimulate interest when posting on social media.

If the issues are not fixed in the next app update or the one after that… I won’t be using the app anymore.
-- Irlskin, 2024-11-28

### *---- "BBC"
the BBC ARE COMPLICIT IN GENOCIDE BY INTENTIONALLY MISREPORTING ON THE GENOCIDE TAKING OLACE IN GAZA AND THE UK GOVERNMENTS FUNDING OF THE IDF
-- Pparista, 2024-08-24

### *---- "Crashes too often - badly laid out links disappear in stories"
Only commenting on app not content - app is not well structured and crashes ina regular basis
-- rathgarbob, 2024-06-01

### *---- "Whatever happened to QA?"
The app is pretty appalling - articles repeat on the page, and often don’t change for several days; elements fail to work (clicking a headline regularly leads to a blank page); and the navigation is just terrible.

Previous versions of the app were better. This one needs a redesign, and someone investing in a developer who can make it work.

At the same time, perhaps hire a few editors to pick up the glaring typos and reject the occasional rambling personal opinions - make news stories statements of fact again?!
-- Wednesday Bluekindred, 2024-05-27

### *---- "Recently changed for overseas user"
The app has recently changed to a world service version, which is different from the UK version I was using and wanted. 

Now I am getting stories mostly from America which defeats the purpose of having the BBC app. Stared using Skynews instead sadly.
-- wstutch81, 2024-05-09

### *---- "Ads are intrusive, too long, and impossible to control."
I have given up trying to read any articles as, since the last update:
1. I cannot use it without an account I don’t want to create unless I click two separate “use without an account” links each time I open the app
2. I cannot even _read_ articles as a bloody great ad which I cannot mute, pause, scroll away from or minimise takes up the screen for 30seconds.
You are the only app I use where ads and accounts are this intrusive. The result is that I no longer use it.
-- GaiusCoffey, 2024-04-26

### *---- "New layout is horrible"
I used to use the app 4-5 times a day; now… I don’t want to open the app. Its visually horrific and hard to navigate.

I’ll look elsewhere for my news.
-- Mrstott, 2024-04-11

### *---- "Video doesn’t fill screen when I turn my phone horizontally"
It’s very annoying that BBC have t tested their app!!!
Videos will not fill the screen when I turn my phone from portrait to horizontal landscape!!

Please test your own app before releasing!!

A video shot in portrait mode appears in a 16:9 frame and is just tiny when the phone is held vertically
-- Tiniest Text, 2024-04-09

### ***** "New layout is amazing"
Love the new layout, it makes finding interesting articles easy
-- enjhsbwowbqodboebqpdb, 2024-04-06

### *---- "Awful navigation"
Once again the latest version is a mess to navigate. The full sports section is missing
-- 1248 D, 2024-04-04

### *---- "Redesigned app is unusable"
This new version is dreadful. Had to delete it. Switching back to the website instead.
-- Paidi S, 2024-03-22

### **--- "The old version was much better"
News content is great but layout and functionality has gotten a lot worse versus the previous version
-- Rob…123, 2024-02-14

### *---- "Trapped in an older version"
iPad won’t upgrade past 12.5.7, it tells me it’s up to date but BBC News app won’t run, tells me it needs an older version but I can’t download an older version!!
-- Johnnio, 2024-02-08

### *---- "Bring back the old version"
Did anybody working on creating this new BBC app ever used the old version before? 

It’s now either impossible to personalise your feed, or impossible to figure out how to do that! Who wants to read random pieces of news?! 

I’ve literally stopped using an app that I used to use multiple times a day. 

I’m not sure what the upgrade goal was, but other users recent feedback here confirms that I’m not crazy or alone in having this experience.
-- martinu74, 2024-01-20

### *---- "Please change back - awful redesign"
Please change this app. I’m forced to try and search from the limited topics including sport I have no interest in. Being back the ability
To select areas customers / I actually want to watch

The changes are a disaster. Do BBC read the reviews since the changes - universally critical.
-- Gurteen, 2024-01-18

### *---- "Old version great, new version awful"
This app used to have great personalisation options in the My News section. This has now been removed and replaced by fixed topics showing just two stories until you click in, making it much harder and slower to keep track of various subject areas. International users are not necessarily interested in international news, as the new design appears to assume. Some topics are also not updated when you try to click into the relevant section. A real disappointment especially when the old version was so good.
-- Laura Luxe, 2024-01-15

### **--- "Stuck"
The news app has been stuck in a rut for about a week.  No new news.
Deleted app and re loaded but it made no difference… same page.
-- Caroresn, 2024-01-03

### *---- "BBC NEWS APP"
Has become very difficult to find anything. If its not broken why fix it? Grant Dublin
-- Grantm1989, 2023-12-14

### *---- "Bring back “my news”"
The latest version is terrible as “my news” has disappeared so no control over the content I can see.
-- sean Seán, 2023-11-26

### *---- "App unusable after update"
Using app continuously for yrs. Now that is to the update all my topics and favourites have been deleted and no way to add them back. Cannot reorganise/hide topics not interested in. It’s a mess don’t use stay away
-- 49urob49:!, 2023-11-17

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## BBC: World News & Stories Store Rankings
| Chart | Country | Category | Rank |
|-------|---------|----------|------|
| Top Free | Azerbaijan | News | #4 |
| Top Free | Ireland | News | #6 |
| Top Free | Czechia | News | #7 |
| Top Free | New Zealand | News | #7 |
| Top Free | Hong Kong SAR China | News | #7 |
| Top Free | Pakistan | News | #8 |
| Top Free | Dominican Republic | News | #8 |
| Top Free | Thailand | News | #9 |
| Top Free | Romania | News | #10 |
| Top Free | Australia | News | #11 |
| Top Free | Chile | News | #12 |
| Top Free | Greece | News | #12 |
| Top Free | Malaysia | News | #13 |
| Top Free | Singapore | News | #13 |
| Top Free | Mexico | News | #16 |
| Top Free | Kazakhstan | News | #16 |
| Top Free | Poland | News | #16 |
| Top Free | Hungary | News | #16 |
| Top Free | Nigeria | News | #16 |
| Top Free | Switzerland | News | #17 |
| Top Free | Vietnam | News | #17 |
| Top Free | Taiwan | News | #17 |
| Top Free | Algeria | News | #17 |
| Top Free | Belarus | News | #17 |
| Top Free | Ukraine | News | #18 |
| Top Free | Germany | News | #19 |
| Top Free | Canada | News | #19 |
| Top Free | Spain | News | #20 |
| Top Free | Sweden | News | #21 |
| Top Free | Philippines | News | #22 |
| Top Free | Portugal | News | #22 |
| Top Free | Colombia | News | #23 |
| Top Free | Ecuador | News | #24 |
| Top Free | Belgium | News | #24 |
| Top Free | South Korea | News | #25 |
| Top Free | Russia | News | #25 |
| Top Free | Saudi Arabia | News | #25 |
| Top Free | South Africa | News | #26 |
| Top Free | Brazil | News | #26 |
| Top Free | United Arab Emirates | News | #27 |
| Top Free | Denmark | News | #27 |
| Top Free | Norway | News | #27 |
| Top Free | Indonesia | News | #28 |
| Top Free | Egypt | News | #28 |
| Top Free | Japan | News | #28 |
| Top Free | France | News | #29 |
| Top Free | Türkiye | News | #29 |
| Top Free | India | News | #30 |
| Top Free | Italy | News | #31 |
| Top Free | Finland | News | #33 |
| Top Grossing | United States | News | #33 |
| Top Free | Netherlands | News | #33 |
| Top Free | United States | News | #35 |
| Top Free | Argentina | News | #38 |
| Top Free | Austria | News | #40 |
| Top Free | Peru | News | #45 |
| Top Free | Kuwait | News | #46 |
| Top Free | Lebanon | News | #69 |
| Top Free | Israel | News | #96 |

## BBC: World News & Stories Discovered Keywords
- bloomberg
- the new york times
- news
- sky news
- uk
- world news
- flipboard
- gb news
- stories
- worldwide

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