BBC: World News & Stories

3.1
437K reviews
10M+
Downloads
Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this app

THE BBC APP: News, stories, audio, videos and live coverage from our trusted global network of journalists.

BBC STORIES: The latest, breaking news headlines, articles, podcasts and videos, including coverage of world News, UK News, elections, BBC Verify, BBC In-Depth and more. Stories and videos covering business, innovation, culture, arts, travel, Earth, and much more.

LIVE COVERAGE: Follow live news updates and live global sport in our Live section.

BBC AUDIO: Listen to, save, and follow BBC podcasts such as The Global Story and World of Secrets. Browse schedules and live stream BBC Radio 4 or BBC World Service with option to live rewind. From news, politics and culture to true crime, history and science, you can find the latest episodes or dive into the BBC audio archive.

WATCH BBC NEWS: Users in the US and Australia can stream live breaking news from around the world 24 hours a day on the BBC News channel.

BBC VIDEOS: Watch BBC News videos, BBC Sport videos, and video stories about climate, sustainability, science, health, technology, entertainment, and history.

BREAKING NEWS ALERTS: Sign up for breaking news notification alerts from BBC News, delivered straight to your mobile device.

FEATURES:
• Log into your BBC Account to save articles, podcasts and videos for later on the app and BBC.com
• Watch videos and listen to audio over both cellular and wifi
• Follow podcasts and save episodes
• Choose your settings to allow the app to automatically update in the background
• Control audio playback with sleep timer and live rewind
• Increase your font size for improved readability
• Choose dark mode for a dark-background reading experience
• Share stories, podcasts, and videos to social platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp, and send to friends via SMS and email
• Opt-in or opt-out of breaking news push notifications, you decide

ADDITIONAL INFO:
If you choose to receive push notifications, a unique identifier relating to your device will be stored by Airship on behalf of the BBC to provide you with the service. You can choose to unsubscribe from push notifications from BBC in your device’s ‘Notifications’ screen.

Our data processor AppsFlyer collects information on behalf of the BBC for attribution and analysis purposes. You can opt out from AppsFlyer tracking by filling out their ‘Forget My Device’ form: https://www.appsflyer.com/optout

The BBC will keep your information secure and not share it with anyone else in accordance with the BBC’s Privacy and Cookies Policy. To read BBC’s Privacy Policy go to https://www.bbc.com/usingthebbc/privacy/

If you install this app you accept the BBC Terms of Use at https://www.bbc.co.uk/usingthebbc/terms
Updated on
Mar 26, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Location, App activity and 3 others
This app may collect these data types
Location, App activity and 3 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

2.9
400K reviews
Betsy Dadabo
March 18, 2025
This app is no replacement for BBC sounds and I hope they update it before they kill off Sounds. there is no way to limit search to just audio, making it more difficult to find podcasts by topic or host. the browsing podcast section is worse with much less podcasts and the podcasts you are following are all the way at the bottom. No way to adjust speed. it didn't transfer my subscriptions. no app for Android Auto so difficult to play in the car.
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Karen B
March 31, 2025
I will miss BBC Sounds immensely! This new one is just a news app. When I search for music it gives me music NEWS, but I can't find any of my favourite music PROGRAMS like Sleeping Forecast, Night Tracks or Artist in Residence. Either I have no access to them or the search engine is terrible. Also, I'll miss the spiritual programming. Sounds has a Religion and Ethics section; the new app seems to have nothing on spirituality at all! I will pay to keep Sounds if you let me, please.
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Déaglán-Iosúa Ó Donnchú
November 4, 2023
Updated app is awful + very NOT user friendly . Doesn't offer many of the features of previous ones (and if they do, they're impossible to find) like selecting and setting the topics of personal interest, swipping betweens articles, etc. To be point I don't bother using it, unlike previously when I'd be on it all the time. Now use Guardian as main news source. Shame as quality of articles still excellent
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What’s new

Performance updates and bug fixes.