Ground News

I’ve only recently started with Ground News so I’m still getting familiar with the app, but what I’ve seen so far is great. I love the bias rating and the huge range of news sources used. It includes international media automatically translated into English, which really gives a feel for how news stories are published locally. I’m already finding it a great reference tool and a very easy and accessible way to boost my knowledge of events around the world, thus helping me to develop informed opinions.

The idea of this app is exactly what I have always wanted, but in practice it doesn’t quite deliver. The biggest problem is that US stories keep showing up everywhere, even on the UK feed. The Blindspot tab is almost exclusively always US stories, so one of the biggest selling points is basically useless to me. I also find that it doesn’t look that great there is a lot of wasted screen space on smaller phones. There is a compact stories option, but everything still displays with huge borders and just doesn’t look as clean and easy to read as other apps

Great experience so far! Being able to see a bias breakdown and not be stuck with the particular narrative that whatever outlet you use pushes is refreshing. Being able to compare sources allows you to view the bigger picture, I stress this should also be used as an educational tool for the future! The menu is also very easy to navigate and understand, keep up the good work!

I appreciate the concept and have subscribed to the premium version, which I've used for the past few months. Yet, I've now found myself moving away from this app. The interface feels clunky, and I would prefer news stories to open in my preferred browser by default. Additionally, I've noticed that news notifications often arrive several hours after the story has broken, and the notifications are usually about topics I'm not interested in.

Updated news 24hrs. Giving any political slant so you can judge it’s bearing. Very handy.

Really clever app that shows you how different outlets report the same story and where their bias (if any) affect the reporting. Nicely laid out design and with great features like Blind Spot which brings you important stories that have had barely any coverage.

I liked the idea behind this but the execution leaves a lot to be desired. I tried out the basic subscription at less than a pound for a month which I thought was a great price. I had a few issues with the reporting: - there was a bias towards US stories even though I’d said I wanted UK and world stories. - the highlighted stories tended to come from a small number of obscure media outlets, which is interesting but I’d rather have a comparison of the major UK news outlets - there was rarely a comparison involving BBC, telegraph, guardian etc. - often the same story was listed in separate entries when the whole point of this is to put the same story side by side. - there was often a discrepancy in the numbers - e.g the app would say there were 7 outlets reporting the story but it only showed 3 articles below. Maybe that was a limitation of the basic subscription but that wasn’t clear. Overall I didn’t feel I was getting a more rounded view of the news than just reading BBC. In fact I felt I was missing out on UK stories.

How can Sky News be neutral and BBC be on the left? Are we on the same plane of existence?

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If you want a true balanced view of the news and happenings world wide then Ground News is for you. Trying to compare the Mainstream Media and Ground News can’t be done, it’s not even chalk and cheese.