Hourly News Downloads & RevenueHourly News · App Store
Hourly News is #99 in News Grossing in Canada and charting in 1 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperUrban Apps
CategoryNews
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.3 (43)
Version2.1.1
Age rating9+
First seen by us
1 Oct 2026
1 Oct 2026Installs (est.)50k+ worldwide
📈Entered the top 100📈Charting in a new country✏️New iPad screenshots✏️New screenshots📦Updated to version 2.1.1📦Updated to version 2.1.0🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 13 events
- 📈Hourly News entered the top 100Top Grossing · News · CA
- 📈Hourly News charting in a new countryCanada
- ✏️Hourly News: new iPad screenshots· JP
- ✏️Hourly News: new screenshots5 screenshots (was 5) · JP
- 📦Hourly News updated to version 2.1.1このアップデートでは、2.1 以降のいくつかの問題を修正しました。
• 長時間一時停止した後でも、AirPods やヘッドフォン、車の再生／一時停止ボタンで再生すると、最初からではなく一時停止した位置から再開します
• iPhone Duo：閉じた状態では、「ソース」と「設定」が上の角ではなく、側面のステータス列に表示されるようになりました
• 初回起動時のウェルカムメッセージが再生ボタンを指すようになり、iPhone Duo と iPad で 2 つのペインにまたがって表示されなくなりました
• バグ修正とパフォーマンスの向上
ご質問やご感想は [email protected] までお寄せください ― すべて目を通しています。… more - ✏️Hourly News: new iPad screenshots· JP
- ✏️Hourly News: new screenshots5 screenshots (was 5) · JP
- ✏️Hourly News: app got bigger28 MB → 33 MB (+16%)
- 📦Hourly News updated to version 2.1.0Hourly News 2.1 adds a two-pane layout for iPhone Duo and iPad, spoken source announcements, and a round of Apple Watch fixes:
• iPhone Duo and iPad: the player and your playlist now sit side by side. On iPhone Duo the split follows the fold, with the controls on the bottom half when it stands like a laptop
• New: Announce Source speaks the source name and episode time before a newscast that starts on its own, in a voice you choose (Settings › Playback)
• Seek Back and Seek Forward can now be changed on iPhone, and the lock-screen skip buttons update right away
• Announcements now stay in sync: read or dismiss one on any device and it's done everywhere. The notifications toggle moved to Settings › Notifications
• Contact Support now attaches a redacted summary of your setup, shown in the email so you can see exactly what's being sent
• Skip Already Listened now remembers what you've finished for seven days instead of only today, so a daily show no longer repeats the next morning
• Pressing Play from the lock screen, CarPlay, Siri or Apple Watch resumes where you paused instead of starting over
• Volume Delta and Volume Normalization changes take effect immediately, and a Volume Delta set on a built-in source now sticks and syncs across your devices
• Apple Watch: no longer starts playing on its own, no longer goes silent between two newscasts, keeps playing and keeps your place when you skip with Siri, downloads less ahead on cellular, and gains a Tap Plays Immediately option for the complication
• Back from an announcement opened by a notification now returns to the list
Questions or feedback? Email [email protected] — we read everything.… more - ✏️Hourly News: categories changed− MZGenre.News
- 🆕Hourly News first spotted by AppInsider#83 in Top Grossing · News · Japan
- 📦Hourly News version 2.0.2This update fixes five issues reported since 2.0:
• Fixed distortion on some newscasts when Volume Normalization was turned on
• The Apple Watch app now refreshes when you come back to it, instead of playing an older newscast
• Fixed a background download that could mark the wrong newscast as already listened, causing one to repeat and another to be skipped
• Fixed a rare crash that could quit the app while your sources were refreshing
• Fixed a rare crash when opening your sources or settings
Questions or feedback? Email [email protected] — we read everything.… more - 🆕Hourly News released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.3 ★
43 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#99
News GrossingMeasured
Hourly News on the App Store
App details
App ID
493859859
Publisher
Urban Apps
On the store since
Jan 2012
14 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 17.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad · Watch
Universal purchase
Content rating
9+
1 content note below
Languages
10
EN FR DE IT JA KO PT ZH ES ZH
Size
33 MB
Also listed in
Education
Content notesInfrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
Hourly News downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | NewsGrossing | #99 |
Apps near Hourly News on the chart
News Grossing, around #99.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.3 ★
43 ratings
Measured
Ratings
43
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
under 1
4-week average
Lifetime rating
4.8★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
20/100
faster than 0% of News apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
About Hourly News
Hear the latest news the moment you open the app. No scrolling, no searching, no fuss — Hourly News finds the most recent audio news updates from the world's most trusted sources and plays them automatically, one after another.
Completely rebuilt for version 2.0, Hourly News is the fastest way to catch up — on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and in the car.
SOURCES
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Listen to the latest hourly updates from NPR, BBC, CBC, ABC, CBS, ESPN, VOA, DW, Marketplace, The New York Times, FOX, and more. Want something else in the mix? Add any podcast as a custom source.
FEATURES
——————————————————
• Opens and plays — the newest updates start automatically
• Plays your sources in your order, advancing to the next feed on its own
• Skips updates you've already heard
• Downloads upcoming updates ahead of time for instant, reliable playback — even on weak connections
• Adjustable playback speed
• Reorder, enable, and disable sources
• Add your own custom podcast feeds
• Syncs your sources, settings, and listening history over iCloud
• Plays in the background with full Now Playing and remote control support
• Dead simple, easy to use. Works every time.
EVERYWHERE YOU LISTEN
——————————————————
• Apple Watch — a full player on your wrist: control your iPhone, or play directly from the watch, even when your phone isn't around
• Widgets — play, pause, and skip right from the Home Screen and Lock Screen
• CarPlay — the latest news, on the road
• Siri — just ask Siri to play the news
• Mac — Hourly News lives in your menu bar, one click away
HOURLY NEWS PREMIUM
——————————————————
Try everything free for 14 days. Afterward, Hourly News Premium is a monthly or yearly subscription that renews automatically until cancelled, managed through your App Store account.
Terms of Use: https://hourlynewsapp.com/legal/terms
Privacy Policy: https://hourlynewsapp.com/legal/privacy
NO ADS
——————————————————
Hourly News inserts no ads of its own. Some sources include ads in their streams; unfortunately, there is nothing we can do to remove those.
QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, OR SUPPORT?
——————————————————
We are dedicated to bringing you the best support! Visit https://hourlynewsapp.com or email [email protected].
If there is another national or worldwide source you would like to see added, please contact support. At this time, only sources broadcast in English with a public audio feed can be added.
LEGAL
——————————————————
Hourly News® is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any of the included sources. All rights are reserved by the respective owners.
Hourly News is a podcast app, giving you access to free, publicly available news podcasts. These feeds are for personal use only and are subject to the terms and conditions provided by the news network publishing the feed.
Completely rebuilt for version 2.0, Hourly News is the fastest way to catch up — on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and in the car.
SOURCES
——————————————————
Listen to the latest hourly updates from NPR, BBC, CBC, ABC, CBS, ESPN, VOA, DW, Marketplace, The New York Times, FOX, and more. Want something else in the mix? Add any podcast as a custom source.
FEATURES
——————————————————
• Opens and plays — the newest updates start automatically
• Plays your sources in your order, advancing to the next feed on its own
• Skips updates you've already heard
• Downloads upcoming updates ahead of time for instant, reliable playback — even on weak connections
• Adjustable playback speed
• Reorder, enable, and disable sources
• Add your own custom podcast feeds
• Syncs your sources, settings, and listening history over iCloud
• Plays in the background with full Now Playing and remote control support
• Dead simple, easy to use. Works every time.
EVERYWHERE YOU LISTEN
——————————————————
• Apple Watch — a full player on your wrist: control your iPhone, or play directly from the watch, even when your phone isn't around
• Widgets — play, pause, and skip right from the Home Screen and Lock Screen
• CarPlay — the latest news, on the road
• Siri — just ask Siri to play the news
• Mac — Hourly News lives in your menu bar, one click away
HOURLY NEWS PREMIUM
——————————————————
Try everything free for 14 days. Afterward, Hourly News Premium is a monthly or yearly subscription that renews automatically until cancelled, managed through your App Store account.
Terms of Use: https://hourlynewsapp.com/legal/terms
Privacy Policy: https://hourlynewsapp.com/legal/privacy
NO ADS
——————————————————
Hourly News inserts no ads of its own. Some sources include ads in their streams; unfortunately, there is nothing we can do to remove those.
QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, OR SUPPORT?
——————————————————
We are dedicated to bringing you the best support! Visit https://hourlynewsapp.com or email [email protected].
If there is another national or worldwide source you would like to see added, please contact support. At this time, only sources broadcast in English with a public audio feed can be added.
LEGAL
——————————————————
Hourly News® is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any of the included sources. All rights are reserved by the respective owners.
Hourly News is a podcast app, giving you access to free, publicly available news podcasts. These feeds are for personal use only and are subject to the terms and conditions provided by the news network publishing the feed.
Latest updates
2.1.1
このアップデートでは、2.1 以降のいくつかの問題を修正しました。
• 長時間一時停止した後でも、AirPods やヘッドフォン、車の再生／一時停止ボタンで再生すると、最初からではなく一時停止した位置から再開します
• iPhone Duo：閉じた状態では、「ソース」と「設定」が上の角ではなく、側面のステータス列に表示されるようになりました
• 初回起動時のウェルカムメッセージが再生ボタンを指すようになり、iPhone Duo と iPad で 2 つのペインにまたがって表示されなくなりました
• バグ修正とパフォーマンスの向上
ご質問やご感想は [email protected] までお寄せください ― すべて目を通しています。
2.1.0
Hourly News 2.1 adds a two-pane layout for iPhone Duo and iPad, spoken source announcements, and a round of Apple Watch fixes:
• iPhone Duo and iPad: the player and your playlist now sit side by side. On iPhone Duo the split follows the fold, with the controls on the bottom half when it stands like a laptop
• New: Announce Source speaks the source name and episode time before a newscast that starts on its own, in a voice you choose (Settings › Playback)
• Seek Back and Seek Forward can now be changed on iPhone, and the lock-screen skip buttons update right away
• Announcements now stay in sync: read or dismiss one on any device and it's done everywhere. The notifications toggle moved to Settings › Notifications
• Contact Support now attaches a redacted summary of your setup, shown in the email so you can see exactly what's being sent
• Skip Already Listened now remembers what you've finished for seven days instead of only today, so a daily show no longer repeats the next morning
• Pressing Play from the lock screen, CarPlay, Siri or Apple Watch resumes where you paused instead of starting over
• Volume Delta and Volume Normalization changes take effect immediately, and a Volume Delta set on a built-in source now sticks and syncs across your devices
• Apple Watch: no longer starts playing on its own, no longer goes silent between two newscasts, keeps playing and keeps your place when you skip with Siri, downloads less ahead on cellular, and gains a Tap Plays Immediately option for the complication
• Back from an announcement opened by a notification now returns to the list
Questions or feedback? Email [email protected] — we read everything.
2.0.2
This update fixes five issues reported since 2.0:
• Fixed distortion on some newscasts when Volume Normalization was turned on
• The Apple Watch app now refreshes when you come back to it, instead of playing an older newscast
• Fixed a background download that could mark the wrong newscast as already listened, causing one to repeat and another to be skipped
• Fixed a rare crash that could quit the app while your sources were refreshing
• Fixed a rare crash when opening your sources or settings
Questions or feedback? Email [email protected] — we read everything.
Store changes
What Hourly News changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
New iPad screenshots
New screenshots
5 screenshots (was 5)
New iPad screenshots