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World Science News

LiveCity Beetles53 apps · 453.2K installsNews & MagazinesFree · contains adsIn-app purchases: $0.99 per itemcom.citybeetles.newsscience

Find science news sources and read all your science news in one app.

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Total installs
9,979
exact · Play shows 5,000+
Installs / day
0
since last crawl
Rating
4.8★
49 ratings · 4 reviews
Released
26 Jan 2015
11.7y ago
Last update
28 Aug 2026
v24.0 · 2mo ago
Countries
—
not checked yet

Install history

exact counter from Google Play
9.7K12.3K14.9K17.4K20K11 Oct12 Oct13 Oct
9.7K12.3K14.9K17.4K20K11 Oct12 Oct13 Oct

Installs per day · last 90 days

00.30.50.8112 Oct13 Oct13 Oct

Change timeline

Full history

No changes recorded yet. We compare every crawl with the previous one and list title, icon, screenshots, description, version, price and availability changes here.

Country availability

Availability has not been checked for this app yet. “Check all countries” looks the app up in about 140 Google Play storefronts and shows where it is live, listed but not installable, or missing — plus any country-specific (custom) store listings.

Top countries

Country data will be available soon.

We estimate where downloads come from using the app’s position in Google Play’s top charts in about 140 countries. This app is not in any chart we have collected yet; the estimate appears as soon as it is.

Top chart positions

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App manifest

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Data safety

declared by the developer on Google Play
  • Shares data with third parties Device or other IDs
  • No data collected
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can ask for your data to be deleted

This is the developer's own declaration, summarised from the Play listing. The permissions below show what the app is technically able to access.

Permissions

8 in 3 groups
4 Sensitive1 Notable3 Routine

What this app can do with your phone

  • Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storage
  • Add, change or delete photos, videos and other files in your phone's storage
Photos/Media/FilesSensitive2

Access to photos, videos, music and other files stored on your device

  • Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storageread the contents of your USB storage · READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
  • Add, change or delete photos, videos and other files in your phone's storagemodify or delete the contents of your USB storage · WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
StorageSensitive2

Access to files, photos and media saved on your phone's storage

  • Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storageread the contents of your USB storage · READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
  • Add, change or delete photos, videos and other files in your phone's storagemodify or delete the contents of your USB storage · WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
OtherNotable4

Access to miscellaneous device features that don't fit other categories

  • Keep your phone's processor or screen from going to sleep, which can use more batteryprevent device from sleeping · WAKE_LOCK
  • Check whether you are online and whether you use Wi-Fi or mobile dataview network connections · ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
  • Connect to the internet to load content and send datafull network access · INTERNET
  • Receive push messages sent from the app's servers over the internetreceive data from Internet · com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE

Sensitive = can reach personal data, location, camera/mic or act on your behalf. Notable = changes how your device behaves. Routine = normal for almost every app. Source: Google Play's permission list for all versions of this app.

Store listing

Full description
Find out now what the future brings! Read the latest news from many famous science sources in the world with this free and fast science news feed reader. World Science News will always try to give you the best recommendations for science news sources. It is up to you what you add and choose to read. World Science News is not a news station, it does not produce news, but it is a reading tool. You may also enter any website address and the app will try and find if it has a public RSS feed, that you can add. World Science News offers two reading modes, List mode and Live mode. In List mode, all sources you add are listed vertically and you may browse news by source. In Live mode, we will group all news titles from all the recommended feeds that you add and you may read titles as they are published by the sources in one big flow. Even more, the Live mode groups titles by topics. So, you can read all news and other topics of your interest in one place. World Science News has a dedicated team that constantly monitors public feeds related to science. We update and filter our feed suggestions to offer a civilized and comfortable reading experience. We are also monitoring our Live option solution to keep a good flow of titles mix for your selections. - No intrusive permissions - News are fetched fast and in real time - No downloads in the background, while not in the app - Options to enlarge or reduce texts in real time Even though we do not offer news, we have journalists in our group to monitor our news reading apps.

What's new

24.0 - update for latest android; notifications

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