In the modern world, news travel at the speed of light and every second there’s some fresh content to consume. Back in the day, newspapers came out once a day or once a week. With the development of telegraph, radio, television and later the Internet, things have changed as you can see. The TV and the Internet provide 24/7 access to the most relevant content.

News constitutes a significant share of web traffic, especially through such services as Google News. With the rise of smartphones, a significant share of news consumption moved to mobile applications. The largest media players in the world such as BBC, New York Times, CNN and others introduced their own branded applications.

Along with branded applications, there appeared smart content aggregators such as Flipboard and Google News which quickly became the most popular news aggregators with millions of downloads. These examples show that there are significant demand and opportunities in this niche. Building a news app may prove a very smart startup idea.

So with this being said, we’ll first proceed by briefly reviewing the most popular news apps.