Google News - Daily Headlines
Stay informed with latest world & local news personalized for your interest
- Total installs
- 4,309,849,581
- Installs / day
- +763.7K
- Rating
- 4.0★
- Released
- 27 Jun 2012
- Last update
- 23 Sept 2026
- Countries
- —
exact · Play shows 1,000,000,000+
7-day avg · last day +410.4K
2M ratings · 57.7K reviews
14.3y ago
20d ago
not checked yet
Install history
exact counter from Google PlayInstalls per day · last 90 days
Change timeline
Full historyNo 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
estimate · charts of 13 OctMost downloads likely come from 🇮🇳 India (~13%), out of 141 countries where it is charted.
Estimated from top-chart positions weighted by each country’s Google Play market size. Countries where the app is not in a chart are not shown, so small markets may be missing.
Top chart positions
as of 13 Oct| Chart | Country | Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trending · News & magazines | ML · 12 Oct | #1 | — |
| Top free · News & magazines | RU | #3 | = |
| Top free · News & magazines | SA | #3 | = |
| Top free · News & magazines | MA | #4 | = |
| Top free · News & magazines | MY | #4 | = |
| Top free · News & magazines | PH | #4 | = |
| Top free · News & magazines | TH | #4 | = |
| Top free · News & magazines | TW | #4 | = |
| Top free · News & magazines | AE | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | AG | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | AL | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | AM | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | AO | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | AT | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | AW | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | AZ | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | BA | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | BF | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | BG | #5 | ▲ 1 |
| Top free · News & magazines | BH | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | BJ | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | BO | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | BS | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | BW | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | BY | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | BZ | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | CH | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | CI | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | CL | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | CM | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | CR | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | CV | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | CY | #5 | ▲ 1 |
| Top free · News & magazines | CZ | #5 | ▲ 1 |
| Top free · News & magazines | DO | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | EC | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | EE | #5 | ▲ 1 |
| Top free · News & magazines | FI | #5 | ▲ 1 |
| Top free · News & magazines | FJ | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | GA | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | GE | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | GH | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | GR | #5 | ▲ 1 |
| Top free · News & magazines | GT | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | GW | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | HK | #5 | ▲ 1 |
| Top free · News & magazines | HN | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | HR | #5 | ▲ 1 |
| Top free · News & magazines | HT | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | HU | #5 | ▲ 1 |
| Top free · News & magazines | IE | #5 | ▲ 1 |
| Top free · News & magazines | IS | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | JM | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | JO | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | KE | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | KG | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | KH | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | KW | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | KZ | #5 | ▲ 2 |
| Top free · News & magazines | LA | #5 | ▲ 2 |
Show all 60 chart positions
App manifest
Read this app's manifest from Google Play: permissions, declared SDKs, components and AdMob app ID. Saved analysis appears here automatically.
Data safety
declared by the developer on Google Play- No data shared with third parties
- Collects data Location, Personal info and 9 others
- 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
14 in 2 groups1 Sensitive3 Notable10 Routine
What this app can do with your phone
- Know roughly where you are, using mobile towers and Wi-Fi networks
LocationSensitive1
Access to where your device is, using GPS or network signals
- Know roughly where you are, using mobile towers and Wi-Fi networksapproximate location (network-based) ·
ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION
OtherNotable13
Access to miscellaneous device features that don't fit other categories
- Start itself automatically as soon as your phone finishes turning onrun at startup ·
RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED - Keep your phone's processor or screen from going to sleep, which can use more batteryprevent device from sleeping ·
WAKE_LOCK - Turn automatic syncing on or off for your accounts, like contacts or emailtoggle sync on and off ·
WRITE_SYNC_SETTINGS - Check whether you are online and whether you use Wi-Fi or mobile dataview network connections ·
ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE - Check how much storage space apps are usingmeasure app storage space ·
GET_PACKAGE_SIZE - Connect to the internet to load content and send datafull network access ·
INTERNET - Check whether automatic sync is turned on for your accountsread sync settings ·
READ_SYNC_SETTINGS - Make your phone vibratecontrol vibration ·
VIBRATE - Add shortcuts to your home screen without asking youinstall shortcuts ·
com.android.launcher.permission.INSTALL_SHORTCUT - Remove app shortcuts from your home screen without asking youuninstall shortcuts ·
com.android.launcher.permission.UNINSTALL_SHORTCUT - Read Google service settings stored on your deviceread Google service configuration ·
com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES - See sync history for your accounts, such as when and how much data syncedread sync statistics ·
READ_SYNC_STATS - 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
Google News is a personalized news aggregator that organizes and highlights what’s happening in the world so you can discover more about the stories that matter to you.
With Google News, you’ll find:
YOUR BRIEFING: It can be nearly impossible to keep up with every story you care about, Your Briefing makes it easy to stay in the know about what’s important and relevant in your world. It updates throughout the day to bring you the top local, national, and world headlines, plus personalized news tailored to your interests.
LOCAL NEWS: Explore your community through stories and articles from news outlets in your local area. Customize and choose multiple locations so you can know what’s happening near you or wherever home is.
FULL COVERAGE: Dive deeper into a story with multiple perspectives. The Full Coverage feature organizes everything online about a story, surfacing and highlighting coverage from different outlets and mediums. With just a tap, you’ll uncover how the story is unfolding and how everyone is reporting on it.
STORIES FOR YOU: The For You section delivers personalized news related to your interests. Take control and customize the articles you see by following the topics and sources you care about.
ACCESS FROM ANY DEVICE: Google News is designed to meet the needs of users with different phones and levels of connection. When your connection isn’t strong or you need to save data, Google News will continue to work smoothly by slimming down the size of images and downloading less data. Articles can be downloaded over Wi-Fi to save for later when you are offline.
Do you prefer to access your news on your Laptop or Desktop? Pair the Google News mobile app with our Desktop website, news.google.com, so you can stay up to date and access the news no matter what device you’re on.
What's new
· Bug fixes and performance improvements
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