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Best news apps in 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka, 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, LK, today.

  1. 1 XX Corp. 4.7★ ·
  2. 2 RedditREDDIT, INC. 4.8★ ·
  3. 3 SubstackSubstack, Inc. 4.8★ ·
  4. 4 SocratesHONGKONG LESEEINDUSTRY CO.LIMITED 3.7★ ·
  5. 5 Google NewsGoogle 4.7★ ▲12
  6. 6 Israel Home Front CommandIsrael Home Front Command 5.0★ ▲4
  7. 7 Ada DeranaDerana Macro Entertainment (Pvt) Ltd 5.0★ ▲2
  8. 8 BBC: World News & StoriesBBC Studios Distribution Ltd. 4.5★ ▼3
  9. 9 Reuters - Breaking World NewsThomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH 5.0★ ▲9
  10. 10 Bloomberg: Business News DailyBloomberg Finance LP 4.8★ ▲31
  11. 11 다음 - DaumDaum Corp. — ▲32
  12. 12 Parliament of Sri LankaBhasha Lanka (Pvt) Ltd. 3.3★ ▲71
  13. 13 AP NewsThe Associated Press 4.8★ new@elseif(($a['movement'] ?? null) === null)–
  14. 14 Nikkei Asia - Business newsNIKKEI INC. 5.0★ new@elseif(($a['movement'] ?? null) === null)–
  15. 15 CryptoPanicCryptoPanic 4.9★ new@elseif(($a['movement'] ?? null) === null)–
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 Medium: Read & Write Stories#19 free · 907 ratings 4.90
  2. 2 Reddit#2 free · 3,021 ratings 4.80
  3. 3 X#1 free · 26,572 ratings 4.70
  4. 4 Clubhouse#20 free · 1,978 ratings 4.70
  5. 5 Quora#22 free · 1,535 ratings 4.70
  6. 6 CNN: Live & Breaking News#29 free · 886 ratings 4.70
  7. 7 Flipboard: The Social Magazine#32 free · 600 ratings 4.70
  8. 8 Breaking News - Sri Lanka#62 free · 1,090 ratings 4.40

Top paid news apps

  1. 1 QuakeWatch —
  2. 2 Reeder Classic —
  3. 3 GoodLinks —
  4. 4 The Aviation Herald —
  5. 5 Downcast 5.0★
  6. 6 World Newspapers - 200 countries —
  7. 7 Outcast for Watch —
  8. 8 CCTV LIVE Camera Footage —
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 4.8★
  4. 4 Medium: Read & Write Stories 4.9★
  5. 5 The Wall Street Journal. News 4.7★
  6. 6 NYTimes: Breaking World News 4.8★
  7. 7 Australian Financial Review —
  8. 8 Daily Mail: Breaking News Live 4.7★
All 100 →

Most downloaded on Google Play

LK, today
  1. 1X 4.6★
  2. 2Substack 4.8★
  3. 3Hindi News by Dainik Bhaskar 4.3★
  4. 4Google News - Daily Headlines 4.3★
  5. 5Global Times 4.0★
  6. 6Jagran Hindi News & Epaper App 3.7★
  7. 7Breaking News - Live Headlines 4.2★
  8. 8Opera News: breaking & local 4.0★
  9. 9Inshorts - News in 60 words 4.5★
  10. 10AI news for devs: DevBytes 4.3★
Google Play chart, all rows →

How "best" is decided

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