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Root News: Smart Daily Brief is #135 in Magazines & Newspapers Free in United States and charting in 3 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperROOT LABS OÜ
CategoryNews
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.7 (15)
Version4.8
Age rating12+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)10k+ worldwide
Root News: Smart Daily Brief update history & changes
Last change · 26 events since 28 Aug 2025Full timeline ↓✏️Description updated📦Updated to version 4.8⭐Passed 100 ratings📦Now updating weekly⭐Passed 100 ratings📈Entered the top 100📈Charting in a new country✏️New screenshots🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 26 events
- ✏️Root News: Smart Daily Brief: description updated· 5 countries
- 📦Root News: Smart Daily Brief updated to version 4.8Introducing:
RIPPLE - See where every story leads.
Tap the Ripple button on a story to see what it could set off next, from markets and jobs to prices and your wallet. Tap any effect to follow it further down the chain.
RADAR - See the news before it happens.
Find Radar in Signal: the most important stories developing right now, what to watch for, and how each one could play out.… more - 📦Root News: Smart Daily Brief: now updating weekly4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- 📦Root News: Smart Daily Brief updated to version 4.7Bug fixes and performance improvements.
- 📦Root News: Smart Daily Brief updated to version 4.6Bug fixes & performance enhancements.
- 📈Root News: Smart Daily Brief entered the top 100Top Free · Magazines & Newspapers · AE
- 📈Root News: Smart Daily Brief charting in a new countryUnited Arab Emirates
- 📈Root News: Smart Daily Brief entered the top 100Top Grossing · News · GB
- 📈Root News: Smart Daily Brief entered the top 100Top Free · Magazines & Newspapers · ID
- 📈Root News: Smart Daily Brief charting in a new countryIndonesia
- ✏️Root News: Smart Daily Brief: new screenshots5 screenshots (was 5) · DE
- 📈Root News: Smart Daily Brief entered the top 100Top Free · Magazines & Newspapers · DE
- ✏️Root News: Smart Daily Brief: new screenshots5 screenshots (was 5) · 4 countries
- 📦Root News: Smart Daily Brief updated to version 4.5• New home screen widget
• Smarter, personalized setup
• Fresh design and bug fixes - 📈Root News: Smart Daily Brief entered the top 100Top Free · News · AU
- 📦Root News: Smart Daily Brief updated to version 4.4Design refinements across your daily briefing, plus a handful of small fixes to make everything cleaner and easier to read.
- 📈Root News: Smart Daily Brief entered the top 100 in 6 chartsTop Grossing · News · AU · Top Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · AU · Top Grossing · News · CA · Top Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · CA · +2 more
- 🆕Root News: Smart Daily Brief first spotted by AppInsider#97 in Top Free · Magazines & Newspapers · Australia
- 📦Root News: Smart Daily Brief version 4.3No release notes
- 🆕Root News: Smart Daily Brief 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
4.7 ★
15 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#135
Magazines & Newspapers FreeMeasured
New ratings a week
3
steady vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
Root News: Smart Daily Brief on the App Store
App details
App ID
6748605459
Publisher
Root Labs OU
On the store since
Aug 2025
1 year on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 16.0+
iPhone 8 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Content rating
12+
6 content notes below
Languages
1
EN
Size
23 MB
Also listed in
Magazines & Newspapers
Content notesInfrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude HumourInfrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment InformationInfrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive ThemesInfrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or ReferencesInfrequent/Mild Realistic ViolenceInfrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
Root News: Smart Daily Brief 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.
Where Root News: Smart Daily Brief's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
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 |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Magazines & NewspapersFree | #135 |
| Australia | Magazines & NewspapersFree | #67 |
| Australia | Magazines & NewspapersGrossing | #90 |
 Canada | Magazines & NewspapersFree | #78 |
| Australia | NewsFree | #96 |
Apps near Root News: Smart Daily Brief on the chart
Magazines & Newspapers Free, around #135.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.7 ★
15 ratings
Measured
Ratings
15
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
3
steady vs the 2 weeks before
Lifetime rating
4.7★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
68/100
faster than 80% 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 Root News: Smart Daily Brief
Upgrade your news diet.
A smarter, faster way to read the news and understand what's happening in the world.
Root News uses AI to scan thousands of articles, cut through the noise and bring you the stories that actually matter. Get the essentials in seconds, explore the full context, and see what could happen next.
No endless scrolling. No clickbait. No information overload.
Just the news worth knowing, explained clearly.
Like having a newsroom working for you, around the clock.
WHAT YOU GET:
Ripple: See where every story leads. Tap Ripple on a story to see what it could set off next, from markets and jobs to prices and your wallet.
Radar: See the news before it happens. The most important developing stories, what to watch for, and how each one could play out. Updated automatically as things change.
Signal: Your daily news dashboard. The biggest stories with deep analysis: background, key players, both sides and what's next. Plus a personalized audio briefing, refreshed twice daily.
Globe: Explore the world country by country. Tap any country for a full briefing on its politics, economy and what to watch, plus its latest news.
Briefings: Every story comes with bullet point summaries you can scan in seconds. Tap to expand into a full deep dive with context, key terms explained and why it matters.
10 categories: World, US Politics, Tech, AI, Crypto, Business, Science, Health, Sports and Culture.
Free to download, no ads. Subscribe to Root Pro for full access.
Terms: rootnews.app/terms
Privacy: rootnews.app/privacy
Support: [email protected]
A smarter, faster way to read the news and understand what's happening in the world.
Root News uses AI to scan thousands of articles, cut through the noise and bring you the stories that actually matter. Get the essentials in seconds, explore the full context, and see what could happen next.
No endless scrolling. No clickbait. No information overload.
Just the news worth knowing, explained clearly.
Like having a newsroom working for you, around the clock.
WHAT YOU GET:
Ripple: See where every story leads. Tap Ripple on a story to see what it could set off next, from markets and jobs to prices and your wallet.
Radar: See the news before it happens. The most important developing stories, what to watch for, and how each one could play out. Updated automatically as things change.
Signal: Your daily news dashboard. The biggest stories with deep analysis: background, key players, both sides and what's next. Plus a personalized audio briefing, refreshed twice daily.
Globe: Explore the world country by country. Tap any country for a full briefing on its politics, economy and what to watch, plus its latest news.
Briefings: Every story comes with bullet point summaries you can scan in seconds. Tap to expand into a full deep dive with context, key terms explained and why it matters.
10 categories: World, US Politics, Tech, AI, Crypto, Business, Science, Health, Sports and Culture.
Free to download, no ads. Subscribe to Root Pro for full access.
Terms: rootnews.app/terms
Privacy: rootnews.app/privacy
Support: [email protected]
Latest updates
4.8
Introducing:
RIPPLE - See where every story leads.
Tap the Ripple button on a story to see what it could set off next, from markets and jobs to prices and your wallet. Tap any effect to follow it further down the chain.
RADAR - See the news before it happens.
Find Radar in Signal: the most important stories developing right now, what to watch for, and how each one could play out.
4.7
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
4.6
Bug fixes & performance enhancements.
Store changes
What Root News: Smart Daily Brief changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Description updated 
New screenshots 
5 screenshots (was 5)
New screenshots
5 screenshots (was 5)