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News
Every App Comrade review tagged News, across every platform.
Ebola-Latest News is a 2014 news feed left running into 2026.
A single-topic news reader built at the height of the West African Ebola outbreak, frozen ever since. The wrapper still loads. The story it covered moved on more than a decade ago.
MAY 11, 2026
An app called ax gsmarena that is not from GSMArena.
A free Fire tablet listing in Books & Comics from a one-name developer, trading on a well-known phone-spec brand it has no apparent relationship with. The icon and screenshots tell the whole story.
MAY 11, 2026
MoiTV is Cambodia's state broadcaster on your phone, with all that implies.
A free streaming app from the Ministry of Interior that delivers local channels and government bulletins — useful for Cambodians abroad, but never neutral.
MAY 11, 2026
ESSENCE on Android is a legacy magazine still figuring out the app.
The print-and-festival institution for Black women has a digital companion that delivers the journalism but undersells the brand.
MAY 11, 2026
Erie News Now on LG webOS is competent local TV news, on the couch.
The WICU/WSEE joint newsroom's webOS app brings Erie, Pennsylvania local news, weather, and severe-weather alerts to the living-room TV. Useful for the regional audience it exists to serve.
MAY 11, 2026
Nery TV is a generic-named webOS news channel with no published description.
Free LogicaHost news/info channel for LG webOS, last refreshed April 2026, with three screenshots and no store-side write-up to anchor a verdict to.
MAY 11, 2026
WOWK+ is the Tri-State newsroom Roku owners actually use.
Nexstar's CBS affiliate for Huntington and Charleston ports its newscasts and weather radar to Roku with the same template the chain ships everywhere — which is fine, until the storm cell crosses the Big Sandy.
MAY 11, 2026
Live TV News Streaming is the kind of Roku channel you should approach with both eyes open.
A free, generically-named news aggregator from a two-letter developer with a one-sentence description. The category is full of unlicensed mirror streams, and nothing on this channel's listing disproves that read.
MAY 11, 2026
WBOY+ is a competent local-news app for a market that needed one.
Clarksburg's NBC affiliate puts its newscasts, weather radar, and high-school sports on Roku without overreaching. The result is unremarkable in the way local TV apps should be.
MAY 11, 2026
German Radio Music & News is a tidy preset list dressed up as an app.
An Andromo-templated bundle of German FM and web streams that does one job — load a station and play it — without much else around the edges.
MAY 11, 2026
RochesterFirst on Tizen is a competent Nexstar local-news app for the Rochester market.
WROC-TV's Tizen client delivers Rochester NY local news, weather, and live streams from the CBS affiliate, with the standard Nexstar template lightly skinned for a Samsung remote.
MAY 11, 2026
LBCI Lebanon brings Beirut's biggest private network to the Samsung living room.
The Tizen client for Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International delivers the LBCI live feed, news bulletins, and on-demand archive to Samsung TVs anywhere in the diaspora — free, in Arabic, with no account required.
MAY 11, 2026
Reddit's iPhone app works fine and that is the entire problem.
Three years after the API price hike killed Apollo and Narwhal, the official client has caught up on speed and still feels nothing like the one users actually wanted.
MAY 10, 2026
WISH-TV's app is the rare local-news client that earns its install.
Indianapolis viewers rate Circle City Broadcasting's standalone news app well above the local-TV-app average, and the reasons hold up.
MAY 10, 2026
Reddit on Android is what's left after the third-party clients were killed.
RIF, Sync for Reddit, Boost, Relay, Infinity — Android had the deepest bench of third-party clients of any platform. The 2023 API price hike ended that. What's left is the official app, and it is finally trying.
MAY 10, 2026
RS PLAY is a generically-named news-and-info channel for LG webOS.
A free LogicaHost-published news/info app whose two-letter brand could plausibly cover half a dozen broadcasters. The LG store listing offers no description to pin it down.
MAY 10, 2026
OzarksFirst+ brings KOLR's Springfield newscast to the living-room TV.
Nexstar's CBS affiliate in southwest Missouri ships its local news, weather, and sports onto Roku in a free, ad-supported channel. It works the way a local-news channel should work, and not much more than that.
MAY 10, 2026
KXNEWS+ does the one job a local-news channel has to do.
Nexstar's Bismarck CBS affiliate ships a free, ad-supported Roku channel built around the 5pm and 10pm newscasts. It is small, focused, and exactly what a North Dakota household actually wants on the TV.
MAY 10, 2026
JET 24 on Roku puts Erie's ABC affiliate on the living-room TV.
WJET's Roku channel is a serviceable second screen for the Erie, Pennsylvania market — free, ad-supported, and built around the same Nexstar template that powers dozens of local-news channels on the platform.
MAY 10, 2026
KLST+ delivers San Angelo's CBS newscasts to Roku without asking for a login.
Nexstar's free Roku channel for KLST channel 8 carries live morning, midday and evening newscasts plus on-demand weather and Concho Valley reporting. The bar for local-news streaming apps is low, and KLST+ clears it without distinguishing itself.
MAY 10, 2026
Fashion Today is an RSS reader in lifestyle-app clothing.
A Galaxy Store fashion-news aggregator that scrapes the usual sites into a single scrolling feed. Useful as a daily skim, thin as a destination.
MAY 10, 2026
MyAfrica24 is a diaspora information channel quietly filling a Tizen gap.
AFRIMEDIA News Agency's free Samsung TV app brings African news, programming, and cultural content to a smart-TV surface that almost nowhere else carries it.
MAY 10, 2026