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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

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01 · 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

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to SmartNews

Fewer trackers than SmartNewsNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in Japanese

None of the 60 sites closest to SmartNews match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

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 and search numbers · 18 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,222
Vector
384-d
Query
47 ms

Built with

JavaScript frameworks
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Marketing automation
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Live chat & support
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CDN
  • Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: zURWRcZrebEr9k7DexNQGPaEt0OhquSAgjTldg-Xpa425rAWAxeIaQ==
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 +a:about.smartnews.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:server…
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
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