Ground News Reviews 196

The Ground News site is amazing. I love having access to parallel articles, to be able to compare how they stack the facts and how they use language. This is why I decided to subscribe.

There are so many ways to get your news today that it's a little mind-boggling. Ground News is excellent in helping with this. And in a couple of ways. First is that they always contextualize every news story to indicate where the bias is. Ground news itself provides a factual summary, but then it links out to the original sources. This is helpful in itself, and in a huge way.

The other great thing about Ground News is its design. It's covering a huge amount of information and if that kind of information, even if just linked to, is not designed with some principles in mind, and top of mind, the whole thing would be a bloody mess. This is not the case. It's well organized and simple. So it's easy to scroll through either the topics that I want to read, or the Handy FOR YOU tab that Gound News provides. It's true that the line of tabs at the top where you have indicated the topics you're interested in can get a little long, but that's just the function of your own interests. If you happen to be interested in following 50 different topics, then the line of choices cannot but be long.

And this leads to another great feature of ground news which is that as you're reading a story let's say in one category, it will provide you with the opportunity to follow another category which this story falls into or is related to and you click that and suddenly you're following that topic as well.

I used to follow my news using good old-fashioned RSS feeds, but it was difficult because websites of news have not uniformly and comprehensively adopted RSS as a way to feed out their news. So what would happen would be that I would be interested in following a news source but it frankly would just have no RSS feed and there'd be no way for me to follow it. There are no such problems in Ground News.

Highly recommended, and the base price for a subscription is around $5 a month, and cheaper if you subscribe by the year.

The way I know the bias and slant on the news I read. Knowing the perspective helps me form my own opinions.

The news feed is very customizable, as much as I have found anywhere. Whether it’s politics or local, or very specific topics. I also enjoy how you can find multiple sources for each story to get a well rounded take on what happened.

News that behaves like a newspaper rather than a social media chamber. It has minimal share buttons minimal social elements and that’s what I need in a news app. News isn’t meant to be entertainment. I want boring facts. I don’t need flashy visuals and memes. I need straight to the business, and Ground News does exactly this. Notifications are entirely customized to my needs. Not the company. There is no agenda to Grounds News team. Their only agenda is “bring you a custom newspaper you can FINISH in 15 minutes”

Just like the old days. I read it once in the morning, might check out the mid day lunch prints. Then the evening print.

No endless feed updating every second. Just a system that represents a virtualized customized newspaper for me!

I don’t need Twitter anymore thanks to Ground.

Very informative and presented in a really attractive way. I find Ground News extremely helpful and the team behind the scenes are high quality in terms of support and service.
Best place to see news and the spectrum of rhetoric, organized perfectly.

With today's political and social climate continuously shifting, it has been challenging to find truth, at best. Getting straight news that identifies tone, clarity, and source is exceptionally refreshing. Although I am capable of thinking for myself, I appreciate being able to filter out the noise while reading straightforward reporting in a digestible form.

Choose a couple of sides - read and compare. Unless you want to be spoon fed a narrow view ! Boohoo

I’ve been using GroundNews for nearly a year now and have found it informative, easy to navigate and reliable. The bias and blind-spot features have become essential parts of news consumption for me and I just don’t get a good enough experience on other platforms without them.
We live in strange times and the volume of information on the internet can be overwhelming, as well as varied in its reliability and quality. GroundNews simplifies this for me, removes the stress and gives me confidence in what I’m reading. It makes me actually want to read the news again! Couldn’t recommend it more and the team are just lovely too. Great service run by great people.

Ground News is so grounding in the way it presents news articles, and in its evaluation of them. It doesn't a posit a good/bad or us/them approach, but allows readers—at least this one—an opportunity to examine multiple perspectives.

I was first introduced to Ground News about three years ago and almost immediately decided to become a subscriber - though the free version is also good.
I like that it provides me with access to multiple sites/perspectives on any issue I find; I like the "weird" news updates - great conversation starters!; and I like that I can use the map to choose news stories from anywhere on the globe. That's probably the coolest feature.
I have recommended Ground News to multiple friends and colleagues - and hope they have also broadened their minds by exploring this site.

The inclusion of sites that have promoted conspiracy theories and labelling them as slightly right-wing is assinine. What a waste of money.

Excellent aggregator with good analysis and comparison tools available. Their newsletter update in the evening is a great option to start with any deeper dive you may want to take and the Blindspot is about as good as every content creators has told you it.

I think Ground News gives you the whole story and that’s getting harder to find these days.
Also such a variety of stories from all over the world.
The real truth is being hidden on many subjects and Ground News opens it up from a real perspective… super informative and easy to read.

Its great to find people that really believes in what they do, kudos to everyone in Ground News for that, its a great app.

Ground News is a great source for scanning the news with a view to seeing what’s going on in the world without having to wade through everything on offer in the “mediaverse.” As to those reviews faulting Ground News for listing so-called “fake news,” I suggest a companion subscription to Snopes.com

I recently subscribed to Ground News because I really liked the concept behind it. Unfortunately, I didn’t get much personal value from the platform. That might be because I’m not deeply interested in news in general, and it seemed like there was limited coverage for international topics. Most of what I saw was focused on U.S. politics—especially the usual noise around Donald Trump—which wasn’t what I was hoping for.

That said, I still think Ground News is doing incredibly important work in today’s age of misinformation. Their mission matters, and if you’re someone who actively follows political news and wants to better understand media bias and blind spots in reporting, it’s definitely worth checking out and supporting.

Also, shoutout to their support team—they were kind and cooperative in issuing me a refund. Much appreciated.

Update on july 30th, 2025. I was informed by Ground News team they decide to update the label in Israeli - Gaza for a better content description.
I understand this could seems to everyone irrelevant, but not in the eyes of those who are involved.
Well done Ground News!
Update on July 29th, 2025. In a growing debate over a possible genocide in Gaza they are still sponsoring the "Israel-Hamas Conflict" view. I feel deeply sad for giving them money.
On June the 18th 2025 I wrote:More or less two week ago I subscribed their premium option.
Well, the point is I suspect that under a seemingly neutral app they are sponsoring what's going on in Palestine.
I repeatedly signaled the app authors that among *all* neutral labeled channels of news they expose one isn't. Specifically under "Israel - Hamas conflict" they report news that can hardly be related with wars or conflicts.
In response, my review of their app which was indeed fact based, has been repetedly censored with the accusation of exposing political content.
I offered my five stars if they switched to something in line with their publicly spoken purposes, as "Israeli - Palestine", but never got an answer to my proposal.
As a consequence I reach to a conclusion they're putting on the readers the lens trough which they'd like some facts to be seen.
I simply think their behaviour is not fair.

Their sources are too limited. Also, they make it impossible to unsubscribe. I thoroughly regret signing up for this.

Regretted paying the subscription almost immediately as it's not balanced in a way that matters.
The US' Left-Right paradigm is not what indicates balance or "fairness". Fox and CNN often spout the same lies, as do BBC, RTE, Euronews.
Balance would come from a West v East paradigm or a Global North v Global South paradigm. That would be worth paying for, especially here in Europe where RT is banned from Television.
Signed up months ago and barely used it, now I find their adverts interrupting my actual news sources.