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Best news apps in 🇨🇦 Canada, September 2026

Four lists from Apple's own charts, read every morning: the most downloaded free news apps, the best rated among the hundred most downloaded, the top paid and the top grossing. Ratings are the store's, positions are today's, and movement is against yesterday. Nothing here is estimated.

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Most downloaded free news apps

Apple's top free chart, CA, today.

  1. 1 XX Corp. 4.5★ ·
  2. 2 RedditREDDIT, INC. 4.7★ ·
  3. 3 SubstackSubstack, Inc. 4.8★ ·
  4. 4 CBC News: Breaking & LocalCBC 4.5★ ·
  5. 5 CTV News: Canada, Local, WorldBell Media Inc. 4.4★ ·
  6. 6 Nextdoor: Neighbour NetworkNextdoor 4.6★ ·
  7. 7 NYTimes: Canada and World NewsThe New York Times Company 4.8★ ·
  8. 8 Radio-Canada InfoRadio-Canada 4.6★ ·
  9. 9 La PresseLa Presse inc. 4.6★ ·
  10. 10 BBC: World News & StoriesBBC Studios Distribution Ltd. 4.5★ ·
  11. 11 Ground NewsSnapwise Inc. 4.6★ ·
  12. 12 Police Scanner Radio & FireGordonEdwards.net LLC 4.6★ ·
  13. 13 中国领事Center for Consular Assistance & Protection, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, People's Republic of China 1.7★ ·
  14. 14 Google NewsGoogle 4.5★ ·
  15. 15 CFL News HubCM3 Solutions Inc. 4.0★ ·
All 100, with movers and drop-outs →

Best rated of the top 100

Highest star rating among the hundred most downloaded, at least 500 ratings.

  1. 1 Podcast Player App - Castbox#30 free · 17,675 ratings 4.90
  2. 2 The Atlantic Magazine#26 free · 8,721 ratings 4.90
  3. 3 TrueShort - Stream True Crime#24 free · 660 ratings 4.90
  4. 4 Substack#3 free · 42,287 ratings 4.80
  5. 5 NYTimes: Canada and World News#7 free · 38,343 ratings 4.80
  6. 6 The Economist: News & Analysis#28 free · 37,074 ratings 4.80
  7. 7 The Guardian - UK & World News#45 free · 30,854 ratings 4.80
  8. 8 Al Jazeera - الجزيرة#31 free · 20,871 ratings 4.80
  9. 9 Medium: Read & Write Stories#37 free · 15,628 ratings 4.80
  10. 10 Epoch Times: Live & Breaking#71 free · 8,829 ratings 4.80

Top paid news apps

  1. 1 Downcast 4.3★
  2. 2 iCatcher! Podcast App 4.8★
  3. 3 Wallflower - Boring Reader —
  4. 4 QuakeWatch 3.7★
  5. 5 Reeder Classic 4.3★
  6. 6 Outcast for Watch 4.2★
  7. 7 GoodLinks 4.7★
  8. 8 World Newspapers - 200 countries 1.0★
All 100 →

Top grossing news apps

  1. 1 X 4.5★
  2. 2 NYTimes: Canada and World News 4.8★
  3. 3 The Globe and Mail 4.5★
  4. 4 Substack 4.8★
  5. 5 The Wall Street Journal. News 4.6★
  6. 6 Bloomberg: Business News Daily 4.6★
  7. 7 Financial Times: Business News 4.8★
  8. 8 The Economist: News & Analysis 4.8★
All 100 →

Most downloaded on Google Play

CA, today
  1. 1X 4.7★
  2. 2Substack 4.8★
  3. 3Local Weather News - Radar 4.3★
  4. 4CBC News: Breaking & Local 4.3★
  5. 5NYTimes: US and Global News 4.7★
  6. 6Podcast Player 4.8★
  7. 7Google News - Daily Headlines 3.9★
  8. 8Reuters News 4.6★
  9. 9FOX News - Daily Breaking News 4.4★
  10. 10QUB 4.6★
Google Play chart, all rows →

How "best" is decided

Downloads decide the first list: Apple's top free chart for Canada, which ranks by installs over the last days. The second list takes those hundred apps and sorts them by the star rating Canada users gave them, ignoring apps with fewer than 500 ratings so a handful of five-star reviews cannot win. Paid and grossing come straight from Apple's charts. We add no score of our own and take no placement fees.

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