- Best for
- Mainstream news readers who want quick summaries and a short audio catch-up
- Price
- Free
Free: All features, ad-supported - Platforms
- iOS, Android
- Made by
- Yahoo Inc. · since 1994
- App store ratings
- iOS 4.4★ (68.5K) · Android 4.5★ (244K)
What it is
The Yahoo News app, rebuilt with technology from Artifact, uses AI to personalise your feed, add bullet-point Key Takeaways to articles and trending topics, and rewrite headlines readers flag as clickbait. In the US it also offers The Morning Briefing and a personalised afternoon audio summary, Your Daily Digest.
Latest: December 2025: launched Your Daily Digest, a personalised AI audio summary, after The Morning Briefing.
What the AI does
- AI-personalised feed
- Key Takeaways article summaries
- AI summaries of trending topics
- Clickbait headline rewrites
- Personalised audio digests
Pros and cons
- Free, with huge publisher coverage
- Personalised six-to-eight-minute audio digest
- Takeaways make stories quick to scan
- Well-rated apps
- Ad-supported
- AI features and audio digests are US-only
- Summaries are per story; no single written daily brief
How it scores
Briefing quality7
Ease of use8.5
Features6
Value for money9
Platforms7
Free and easy with useful audio digests, but AI is layered onto a conventional ad-supported news app and limited to the US.
Feature checklist · 2 of 9
- ✓You choose the topics it covers (yes)
- –Uses your email, calendar or tasks (no)
- ✓Spoken audio briefing (yes)
- –Choice of voices or narrator personalities (no)
- –Control over length, style or depth (no)
- –Combines many sources, with citations (no)
- –Ask follow-ups or act on items (no)
- –Multiple languages or translation (no)
- –Delivery options: scheduled push, widget, email or smart speaker (no)
How we score apps →
Alternatives
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- Particle 8.7/10Keeping up with the news in a few minutes without missing other perspectives
- Gemini Daily Brief 8.2/10Gmail and Google Calendar users who want their day organised before they open the inbox
- Kagi News 8.2/10Anyone who wants a calm, five-minute daily news catch-up without tracking
- Perplexity Discover 7.8/10People who want to dig into a story with cited follow-up questions
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