BBC: World News & Stories

🇺🇸 United States
BBC Worldwide LTD  | 
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64/100
Reviews
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App Rating
4.4
rating
Votes
182.46K
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App Age
15y 9m
rating
Last Update
Nov 10, 2025

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Current App
Category Top Average
Difference
Rating
4.42
4.55
-3%
Number of Ratings (Voted)
180.5K
1M
-83%
App Age
15y 8m
12y 12m
+21%
In-app Purchases Price
$0
$90
Update Frequency
44d
36d
+23%
Title Length
25
22
+14%
Subtitle Length
29
23
+26%
Description Length
2 762
2 453
+13%
Number of Screenshots
2028
1535
+32 %
Size
88MB
117MB
-25 %

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BBC: World News & Stories
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Live, Breaking, Sport & Video
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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, innovation, culture, arts, travel, Earth, and much more. LIVE COVERAGE: Follow live news updates and live global sport in our Live section. BBC AUDIO: Listen to, save, and follow BBC podcasts such as The Global Story and World of Secrets. Browse schedules and live stream BBC Radio 4 or BBC World Service. From news, politics and culture to true crime, history and science, you can find the latest episodes or dive into the BBC audio archive. WATCH BBC NEWS: Users in the US and Australia can stream live breaking news from around the world 24 hours a day on the BBC News channel. BBC VIDEOS: Watch BBC News videos, BBC Sport videos, and video stories about climate, sustainability, science, health, technology, entertainment, and history. BREAKING NEWS ALERTS: Sign up for breaking news notification alerts from BBC News, delivered straight to your mobile device. FEATURES: • Log into your BBC Account to save articles, podcasts and videos for later on the app and BBC.com • Watch videos and listen to audio over both cellular and wifi • Follow podcasts, save & download episodes to your mobile device or tablet • Download and listen to podcast episodes offline • Choose your settings to allow the app to automatically update in the background • Control audio playback with sleep timer and live rewind • Increase your font size for improved readability • Choose dark mode for a dark-background reading experience • Share stories, podcasts, and videos to social platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp, and send to friends via SMS and email • Opt-in or opt-out of breaking news push notifications, you decide ADDITIONAL INFO: If you choose to receive push notifications, 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 push notifications 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: https://www.appsflyer.com/optout 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 https://www.bbc.com/usingthebbc/privacy/ If you install this app you accept the BBC Terms of Use at https://www.bbc.co.uk/usingthebbc/terms}
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Rating & Reviews

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Rating
4.4
182 460 voters

Some Latest Reviews

General George S. Parton
13 Dec, 2025
1
The decision to force non-UK listeners to wait a week for the Friday Night Comedy podcast is colossally stupid. Why? For what possible purpose? Stick in all the ads you want, fine, force me to download your app, I guess OK, but waiting a week - in 2025?!? At the rate things are happening?? These idiots in charge need all the timely heckling they can get. Who’s running the Beeb, Ned Seagoon?
Phonologic
12 Dec, 2025
4
What should be recorded as a swipe movement is recorded as a touch input in the ad space between articles. Impossible for me to prove, but the slightest touch on an ad opens it - an unethical update by the app devs presumably yet transparently designed to (falsely) increase the click-through stats of ads in order to increase the price of ads for advertisers. Quite an annoying bug in the recent versions. I tried to submit a ticket with bbc but their system is also flawed making filing a bug impossible. Otherwise it’s a great app.
Donglicker
11 Dec, 2025
3
The latest update hides the date and time a story is posted. I suspect no one clicked on stories dated weeks or months ago, so removing their date increases their clickbait-ability (essentially the whole bottom section). FYI, The Guardian is always more updated - and so I pay for their subscription.
Cobalt4556@@
11 Dec, 2025
1
Here you have a national media outlet that British people have to pay a tax for and they hate British citizens.You can’t make this stuff up.They are the true enemy of the British.
Faisal (Virginia)
10 Dec, 2025
2
Used to read BBC but not any more, it’s so unorganised & not user friendly
Radio4 lover
10 Dec, 2025
1
I used to be able to navigate live, backwards podcast - everything on Sounds. Not the bbc has done its own little Brexit and scraping radio 4 is clunky though BBC.com. Has the BNC heard of globalisation? I think not. One of the uks best vehicle for soft power has recently got really soggy. Go back to sounds - join the world. I love you radio 4 but the bbc won’t let me have you
HoolioV
01 Dec, 2025
1
Forced to use this now that BBC Sounds not available overseas. Finding and following BBC audio is convoluted and live audio drops out frequently.
KDANETH
01 Dec, 2025
1
Why do they keep displaying the same “stories” for as much as TWO WEEKS??? Once I’ve read it, I want a new story the next day. That’s why it’s called ’news’! Otherwise it would be called ’olds’!!! And I do NOT want to be reading ’olds’ day after day!!!😡
DumbBunny
25 Nov, 2025
3
The BBC sounds app was so much better. With two taps I could find what I wanted, now there’s menus, submenus, tabs and categories to wade through before getting to the thing you want. It also will not resume playing from this app if you stop, it just pops back to playing from Apple’s podcast app making you have to pull out your phone and go through the whole process again every time you pause. Frustrating. It also does not download the episode you’re listening to, so if you lose network you lose the episode.

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Additional Information
Rating:
4.44
Voted: 182.46K
App Store Link:
Website:
Email: -
Privacy Policy:
Categories: News, Business
Size: 87MB
App Age: 15 years 9 months
Release Date: Apr 01, 2010
Last Update: Nov 10, 2025
Version: 2025.8.2
Version history
2025.8.2
Nov 10, 2025
Performance updates and bug fixes.
2025.8.1
Nov 04, 2025
Performance updates and bug fixes.
Version history