Several other right-leaning news apps also featured among the US’ 20 most-downloaded apps in 2022. Tenth most popular was Fox’s live streaming app Fox Nation, which was downloaded 1 million times. The leading single news brand apps in terms of new installations were the CNN, Fox News and New York Times apps which were each downloaded 1.4 million times between January and November 2022. It was followed by another aggregator, Local News (1.8 million downloads). Second most popular was Japanese app Smart News (2.3 million downloads), which launched a US version in 2014.
NewsBreak, a local news focused news aggregator, was again the most downloaded app with 7.1 million installations, although it was downloaded significantly fewer times than in 2021 (10.7 million downloads). News aggregators dominated the US list in 2022, taking all of the top five spots. In 2021 the five most-downloaded legacy brands (BBC News, Sky News, Mail Online, The Guardian, and The Telegraph) were installed a combined 1.7 million times, compared to 2 million times for the leading five legacy news apps (BBC News, Sky News, The Guardian and The Times and Sunday Times) in 2022. This was less than 2021, when the top ten news apps excluding sports news apps were downloaded 4.1 million times.Īpps from legacy news names, however, did better in 2022 compared to 2021. Overall, the top 20 news apps were downloaded a combined 4.4 million times in 2022, while the top ten were downloaded 3.1 million times. Sports news apps have been excluded from our ranking. The highly popular Apple News app, which comes pre-installed on iPhones and Upday, which is pre-installed on Samsung phones, did not appear in the data since Sensor Tower measures active installations from the App Store and Google Play. Rival outlet GB News’ app narrowly missed the top 20 with 89,000 downloads in 2022 according to Sensor Tower.
TalkTV’s app, which allows users to watch the channel’s programming live or catch up on content, was the sixth most-downloaded news app in 2022 with 191,000 installations.
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