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title: "BBC: World News & Stories - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in Singapore | 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 — Singapore
> Breaking News, Podcasts, Video

![BBC: World News & Stories App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/a3/be/1c/a3be1c4b-3ccd-51d2-60e1-e6dd10dd4284/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 (2,643 ratings)
**Price:** Free
**Bundle ID:** uk.co.bbc.news
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** Singapore
**Version:** 2026.4.0 (released 2026-06-04)
**Original Release:** 2011-07-09
**Languages:** English

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

## 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 Singapore
- 5 stars: 1,745 (66%)
- 4 stars: 532 (20%)
- 3 stars: 158 (6%)
- 2 stars: 51 (2%)
- 1 stars: 157 (6%)

## BBC: World News & Stories Reviews in Singapore

### *---- "New format worse than old"
Still no new news feed, so day after day I see the same old news (and promptly close the app again) 
Also no way to filter for news I want, rather than the articles the BBC wants me to see. 
Go back to the old design - more flexible, more relevant and more current than this…
-- Life of Pies, 2024-10-29

### **--- "Pop up ad cannot be closed"
The new Live updates pages have pop up ads that cannot be closed.
-- sg footballer, 2024-09-28

### *---- "New interface is shocking"
Inconsistent with the pictures on articles, disjointed, much less engaging than the previous version. Sad.
-- Andy Douglass, 2024-05-26

### *---- "Bring back the old interface"
Someone thought it’d be a great idea to make any articles you tap a ‘slide up’ page (much like how you’d write an AppStore review on the iphone). Unless there’s a setting I’m missing somewhere, I can’t just swipe back to the main page from anywhere in the article I’m reading: I HAVE to close the article from the top first.

Furthermore, and you KNOW this was coming, the ads are FORCED. It just takes over your screen and shows a video you have to close, and it wasn’t infrequent in my experience either: it occured four times in less than 2 minutes as I closed an article and scrolled the main page.

We know ad revenue is important blah blah but you were already showing non intrusive (to a point) ads in the previous app iteration. Just keep that.

Unless they change this, just go elsewhere to get news elsewhere e.g., Reuters or AP. You’ll get less frustration.
-- Annonymous19274, 2024-05-26

### **--- "New app is poor"
The journalism standards of the BBC are still high but this app does not live up to the BBC’s values. 

0. The way information is organised is better than the previous app for sure - but set against that there is so much bad design and poor implementation here. It really degrades the utility of the app and I’m increasingly going elsewhere for my news. 

1. If you’d like to check what a word means (and for many of us English may not be our first language), you can no longer select text and then have iOS look it up. This is a backward step. BBC - you are supposed to educate and inform!

2. If you want to get a better view of an image or video by selecting full screen and rotating to landscape, you can’t. Some charts are now just impossible to read on a cellphone. BBC - you are supposed to be a model of clarity!

3. Ads start playing at random when you scroll, whether you have selected them or not. If there was no actual ad in that particular section, it will play a blank video instead. This is extremely irritating. BBC - please respect your audience, we know ads are necessary but this feature is out of control.  

4. The controls to go back are on a weirdly floating bar at the top of the screen that appears and disappears and has text flowing under it … and the ‘back’ button is quite hard to land on. BBC - please look at the competition; Guardian, Al Jazeera, NYT or whoever … they are all such a pleasure to use. 

5. The user interface is just a dull monotone. No use of subtle colours or even shades of grey to help users navigate. BBC - think again. 

AND other outlets actively poll their customers for feedback when they make big changes — no such thing for this app. The whole thing feels cynical and thoughtless. The last thing a news organisation needs is to lose its audience.
-- N1ck Sg, 2024-05-25

### *---- "New interface is worse"
The app is crashing on certain pages on my iPhone 13, we have to click on ‘back’ in order to go to the previous page and commercials pop up, not the best way forward, I hope you improve this new app…
-- Greg kkk, 2024-05-24

### *---- "Ads constantly take over the screen"
I have just deleted the app after years of it being my main news app. The number of times I’ll be reading one story and the same ad takes over the whole screen was just too annoying.
-- SeeJayBay4, 2024-05-13

### *---- "Crash"
The App continues to crash ! 

And this Black color App is ridiculous !
-- Fred Chua Oon Kian, 2024-05-09

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## BBC: World News & Stories Store Rankings
| Chart | Country | Category | Rank |
|-------|---------|----------|------|
| Top Free | Ireland | News | #6 |
| Top Free | Pakistan | News | #8 |
| Top Free | United Arab Emirates | News | #9 |
| Top Free | Azerbaijan | News | #9 |
| Top Free | Hungary | News | #9 |
| Top Free | New Zealand | News | #10 |
| Top Free | Australia | News | #10 |
| Top Free | Kazakhstan | News | #10 |
| Top Free | Hong Kong SAR China | News | #11 |
| Top Free | Malaysia | News | #11 |
| Top Free | Mexico | News | #12 |
| Top Free | Vietnam | News | #12 |
| Top Free | Thailand | News | #12 |
| Top Free | Dominican Republic | News | #12 |
| Top Free | Poland | News | #13 |
| Top Free | Canada | News | #13 |
| Top Free | Singapore | News | #13 |
| Top Free | Finland | News | #14 |
| Top Free | Portugal | News | #14 |
| Top Free | Lebanon | News | #15 |
| Top Free | Nigeria | News | #15 |
| Top Free | Peru | News | #15 |
| Top Free | Ecuador | News | #15 |
| Top Free | Taiwan | News | #16 |
| Top Free | Colombia | News | #16 |
| Top Free | Algeria | News | #17 |
| Top Free | Switzerland | News | #17 |
| Top Free | Sweden | News | #18 |
| Top Free | Brazil | News | #18 |
| Top Free | South Africa | News | #18 |
| Top Free | Türkiye | News | #19 |
| Top Free | Egypt | News | #20 |
| Top Free | Belarus | News | #21 |
| Top Free | Ukraine | News | #22 |
| Top Free | Argentina | News | #22 |
| Top Free | Russia | News | #22 |
| Top Free | Netherlands | News | #23 |
| Top Free | Indonesia | News | #23 |
| Top Free | Spain | News | #23 |
| Top Free | Philippines | News | #24 |
| Top Free | Czechia | News | #24 |
| Top Free | Chile | News | #25 |
| Top Free | Romania | News | #26 |
| Top Free | Greece | News | #26 |
| Top Free | Belgium | News | #26 |
| Top Free | Austria | News | #27 |
| Top Free | Denmark | News | #28 |
| Top Free | Saudi Arabia | News | #28 |
| Top Grossing | United States | News | #28 |
| Top Free | India | News | #29 |
| Top Free | Norway | News | #29 |
| Top Free | Germany | News | #30 |
| Top Free | Japan | News | #33 |
| Top Free | Italy | News | #33 |
| Top Free | United States | News | #34 |
| Top Free | South Korea | News | #36 |
| Top Free | Israel | News | #36 |
| Top Free | France | News | #36 |
| Top Free | Kuwait | News | #37 |

## BBC: World News & Stories Discovered Keywords
- news
- abc news
- us
- the atlantic magazine
- npr
- world news
- bc
- the straits times
- the hindu news
- stories

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