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SmartNews
Who runs SmartNews, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest news aggregator app alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- NewsBreak
Measured from SmartNews’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit SmartNews01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs SmartNews
SmartNews smartnews.com
Trusted by over 40+ million worldwide readers, SmartNews provides the best news, stories and events across 200+ local news sites.
Wikidata: mobile application
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In Japanese
02 · Privacy
What SmartNews tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
12 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 3 tools
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to SmartNews
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to SmartNews, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts
NewsBreak is the best local source for news, videos, and information on safety, accidents, sports, business, celebrity updates, stock market trends, and more.
Very close - 02
Flipboard: Your Social Magazine
One place for all the stories you care about. Join the Flipboard community to discover and share what inspires you.
Very close - 03
Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos
Latest news coverage, email, free stock quotes, live scores and video are just the beginning. Discover more every day at Yahoo!
Very close - 04
Citizen - Connect and stay safe.
Citizen helps you stay safe & informed, by providing instant notifications and live broadcasts of reported crimes and incidents near you.
Very close - 05
Home – Lycos
search engine and web portal
Very close - 06
Redefining the mobile experience for consumers
AI and Consumer-first technology to provide amazing experiences and the joy of discovery on your smart phone.
Very close - 07
Digg - News, before it trends
See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.
Very close - 08
follow.it | The Ultimate News Platform
Never miss important news again, without information overload. As publisher, turn your news into revenue and increase traffic.
Very close - 09
Digital magazine subscriptions. Over 10,000 publications.
Read your magazines anytime, anywhere. Over 10,000 magazines at your fingertips on the world's largest digital magazine newsstand.
Very close - 10
News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com
Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.
Very close - 11
Inoreader - RSS reader and news aggregator
With Inoreader, content comes to you the minute it's available. Follow websites, social media feeds, podcasts, blogs, and newsletters. Enjoy what's important to you, all in one place.
Very close - 12
The Leading Growth Acceleration Platform for the Mobile Industry.
Liftoff helps advertisers, publishers, game developers and DSPs scale revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize mobile apps.
Very close - 13
Chartbeat
Chartbeat provides solutions combining instant real-time insights, rich engagement data, and powerful optimization tools for media publishers
Very close - 14
Similarweb: AI-Powered Digital Data Intelligence Solutions
Similarweb is an AI-powered digital data company providing real-time market intelligence, competitive insights, and consumer trends to accelerate business growth.
Very close - 15
TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates
Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.
Very close - 16
HuffPost - Breaking News, Politics, Entertainment & Opinion
Read the latest U.S. and world news, politics, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion pieces from HuffPost’s trusted team of journalists.
Very close - 17
Semafor - An intelligent, transparent global news platform for breaking stories, analysis and video
Transparent, global reporting by Semafor journalists on politics, policy, business, finance, technology, climate, energy, media, entertainment, world affairs, China, Asia, Europe, Africa for US and international readers.
Very close - 18
news aggregation app and website
Very close - 19
Breaking News, Latest News and Videos | CNN
View the latest news and breaking news today for U.S., world, weather, entertainment, politics and health at CNN.com.
Very close - 20
Techmeme
Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles SmartNews’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones SmartNews uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what SmartNews adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 18 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,193
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 43 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to SmartNews’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Marketing automation
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 +a:about.smartnews.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:server…
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: zURWRcZrebEr9k7DexNQGPaEt0OhquSAgjTldg-Xpa425rAWAxeIaQ==
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 +a:about.smartnews.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:server…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1055.awsdns-03.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=57907c6982db4939b2f45b6f4c396c7897ac1250c…
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=xwtrVmnD71vvh0vj
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=bazdF99TJIK3e1uwhmv6ndwEjL42U2q7AI5Mv94…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=FxAZpTNNPsSBnliDurp5pdZ9BJb8jseAA9qInS_gCus
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=gyjwy0s1b11mpledf3ay5krxhynkxj
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-MPqpL9kIgH0hT2qEF1lSpxky
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 +a:about.smartnews.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:server…
- Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=BfgBkqKHxIPdnR0DRiOgVtHSsiyxtcOKDb6bYzw7
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 13/20
- Atlassian 10/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on smartnews.com 10/20
- React 9/20
- Apple Business 8/20
- Amazon Route 53 8/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on smartnews.com 8/20
- Next.js 7/20
- Amazon CloudFront 6/20
- HubSpot 6/20
- GlobalSign · not on smartnews.com 6/20
- Meta Business Suite 6/20
- Amazon SES 5/20
- PHP · not on smartnews.com 5/20
- WordPress · not on smartnews.com 5/20