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Best news apps in 🇰🇪 Kenya, 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, KE, today.

  1. 1 XX Corp. 4.7★ ·
  2. 2 RedditREDDIT, INC. 4.8★ ·
  3. 3 SubstackSubstack, Inc. 4.8★ ·
  4. 4 Open Source & Software NewsLoyal Foundry, Inc. — ·
  5. 5 Opera News: Breaking & LocalOpera Norway AS 4.7★ ▲10
  6. 6 Citizen DigitalRoyal Media Services Ltd 3.1★ ▼1
  7. 7 BBC: World News & StoriesBBC Studios Distribution Ltd. 4.6★ ▲1
  8. 8 QuoraQuora, Inc. 4.7★ ▼2
  9. 9 Reuters - Breaking World NewsThomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH 4.4★ ▲1
  10. 10 The Standard Digital e-PaperStandard Digital 3.8★ ▲1
  11. 11 ClubhouseAlpha Exploration Co. 4.7★ ▼4
  12. 12 Fizz: Your Authentic CommunityFizz Social Corp. 4.7★ ▲1
  13. 13 Bloomberg: Business News DailyBloomberg Finance LP 4.7★ ▼4
  14. 14 Spotify for CreatorsSpotify 4.8★ ▲23
  15. 15 PS DealsIRONPAW 4.8★ ▲2
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 Reddit#2 free · 3,547 ratings 4.80
  2. 2 Substack#3 free · 2,473 ratings 4.80
  3. 3 Medium: Read & Write Stories#48 free · 1,059 ratings 4.80
  4. 4 Al Jazeera - الجزيرة#17 free · 890 ratings 4.80
  5. 5 Spotify for Creators#14 free · 513 ratings 4.80
  6. 6 X#1 free · 92,029 ratings 4.70
  7. 7 Clubhouse#11 free · 5,916 ratings 4.70
  8. 8 Quora#8 free · 3,231 ratings 4.70
  9. 9 CNN: Live & Breaking News#53 free · 1,744 ratings 4.70
  10. 10 Opera News: Breaking & Local#5 free · 1,468 ratings 4.70

Top paid news apps

  1. 1 Downcast 5.0★
  2. 2 The Aviation Herald —
  3. 3 Reeder Classic —
  4. 4 World Newspapers - 200 countries —
  5. 5 GoodLinks 5.0★
  6. 6 QuakeWatch —
  7. 7 Outcast for Watch —
  8. 8 LIVE CCTV Camera :Sci-Fi Theme —
All 100 →

Top grossing news apps

  1. 1 X 4.7★
  2. 2 The Economist: News & Analysis 4.8★
  3. 3 Bloomberg: Business News Daily 4.7★
  4. 4 PressReader: News & Magazines 4.4★
  5. 5 The Standard Digital e-Paper 3.8★
  6. 6 NYTimes: Breaking World News 4.8★
  7. 7 The Guardian - UK & World News 4.8★
  8. 8 Medium: Read & Write Stories 4.8★
All 100 →

Most downloaded on Google Play

KE, today
  1. 1X 4.8★
  2. 2Opera News: breaking & local 4.6★
  3. 3Citizen Digital 4.2★
  4. 4Breaking News - Live Headlines 4.7★
  5. 5Substack 4.8★
  6. 6Google News - Daily Headlines 4.5★
  7. 7Mozzart Sport Kenya 4.1★
  8. 8Live News: Local & Breaking 4.4★
  9. 9Quora: the knowledge platform 4.5★
  10. 10Radio47 Audio Visual App 4.4★
Google Play chart, all rows →

How "best" is decided

Downloads decide the first list: Apple's top free chart for Kenya, which ranks by installs over the last days. The second list takes those hundred apps and sorts them by the star rating Kenya 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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