2025-07-29
Excellent website
5 stars
Updating
+1
#82 in Top Free Apps > News
-13
#60 in Top Free iPad Apps > News
iPhone Screenshots
Description
The MSN app keeps you informed, productive, and entertained with tailored content, real-time weather, stock tracking, short videos and more.
Key features
Your tailored feed, with you on the go.
Quality content from thousands of trusted publishers.
Weather report
Get hourly and 10-day forecasts, air quality, UV index and more.
Financial news hub
See the latest on the market, trends and your favorite stocks.
Your personalized video feed
Scroll short clips of the latest news, trending stories and viral moments.
What's New in Version 32.2.430724001
Microsoft Start is now MSN, same great experience and personalized content feed.
Seller
Name
Microsoft Corporation
Information
Developer
Categories
Version
32.2.430724001
Size
291.1 MB
Game Center
No
VPP Device Licensing
Yes
Rating
Rated 17+ for the following:
Unrestricted Web Access
Compatibility
iOS 16.0 or later
Devices
iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone SE (3rd generation), iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 16e, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air, iPad Air (Cellular), iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini Retina, iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 (Cellular), iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi + Cellular), iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (9th Generation), iPad (9th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (6th Generation), iPad mini (6th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (5th generation), iPad Air (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (10th generation), iPad (10th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 11-inch (M2) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi, iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (A16) Wi-Fi, iPad (A16) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPod touch (6th Generation), iPod touch (7th generation)
Languages
English, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
App Store: Customer Ratings
Ratings & Reviews
4.6 of 5 (117,904 Ratings)
App Store: Customer Reviews
2025-07-17
Too Many Notifications !!!
In settings, I have EVERY slider for notifications turned OFF. They still keep coming. If MSN is going to force the notifications “they choose”, why bother with giving users a slider switch to turn them off. Otherwise, nice app.
2025-07-16
Notifications Settings have no effect
I keep receiving notifications for topics that are disabled. For example Top stories are disabled but I keep getting 10-20 notifications a day. Please fix!
2025-07-11
A
Su
2025-07-10
They’re taking away E-tree
The main reason I use this app is for the e-tree function and now they’re gutting the program. When doing the e-tree missions I also often explored around the app. But that’s done now. No need for the app anymore. Idk why Microsoft would kill this program
2025-07-07
Liberally slanted
I downloaded this because a friend recommended their weather section. Loved the weather portion but sickened by the news portion that is glaringly biased against Trump and the republican party. Deleted it.
2025-07-07
Horrible
Left can say all the horrible things they want to about Trump and Red states but MSN does nothing to remove posts shocked by some of the disgusting comments you all allow but delete ones that have nothing wrong
2025-07-04
Rewards restrictions
Fix it or keep the 1 star
2025-07-02
Why my iPad Home Screen look like a iPhone
No opinion to set home page to msn.com desktop also screen don’t adjust when resize come on Microsoft it look nice on safari this look cheap bro ‘lol’
2025-06-30
Makes it easy to select interesting stories.
I’m presented with a slide deck of photographs with captions. I then pick the interesting ones and I’m afforded the luxury of reading a long form article replete information and explanation
2025-06-18
MSN
I like using this app
2025-06-13
MS Tile UI is The Best
Their new UI upgrade is amazing and the content reccos aren’t bad - where’s the MSN Money data though? Please work on that next y’all!
2025-06-08
Morning Joe
MSNBC is a waste of air time, especially Morning Joe. I believe he is a schill for the Democrat party.
2025-06-07
After more than a year of not working. It worked for four days now it’s not working again.
Why can’t I just read things on msn.com I click read the article in the app and then it doesn’t take me to the article. I don’t know why it doesn’t work. It’s so frustrating. I hate msn.com now on my phone.
2025-06-07
Love this
It's great
2025-06-07
Weather widget
Add weather widget, that would be very useful
2025-06-06
Terrible
This app rarely updates its stories. Same things day after day. If you go to MSN.com the stories often say continue reading in the app but if you click on that you never get to the story. Just the same articles that have been posted for days. This app used to be great. Don’t know what happened.
2025-06-05
I like it so far
This review was requested after using the app for about 15 minutes. So far, so good. The articles I want to read actually open, sponsored advertising is identified up front, and there aren’t any annoying pop up adds so far. Microsoft usually does things right, si I expect that I’ll continue to like the app.
2025-06-05
Horrible App
This is about the worst of all the news apps…you cannot get on to world news properly. Our BBC News app far surpasses this one for news…in fact none of the US news apps are really great. I will stick with my UK news apps which are far superior in news content.
2025-06-04
Bugs
Always start online, click an article that pushes me to the app, which doesn’t automatically open, so I open the app and can’t find the article I had been reading online.
2025-06-03
Too far Left. Not reality
Rachel and morning Joe accurate is a joke right.
2025-06-02
Terrific Hotel
Great staff and terrific property - staff were great room clean and fresh.
2025-06-02
Good news access
Whenever I have some news in my iPhone that I can’t read because I don’t have Apple News subscription, I go to the MSN app and there I can virtually read any news whatsoever! Great app to have!
2025-06-01
Disappointed
Was looking to replace my MSN Money app. What I found was different, but seemed interesting. Like, create a video. However, first try is prompt blocked, despite the description I made being clean, apolitical, etc. No further info. What a let down.
2025-06-01
Constant broken links, terrible app
I prefer the regular msn page and while using it you have to click open in app in nearly every story. The link is constantly broken and the only way I have found to address it is to delete the app nearly every day and add it back to my phone, then the link works again briefly. Lately that doesn’t even resolve it, when you click an article to open in app it won’t go to it and you loose the ability to read it. This is a constant issue. MSN FIX THIS !!!
2025-05-30
MSN
Worst app I’ve ever used.
2025-05-30
MSN app
App is not worth the effort to tap to install,works like it was designed in the jungle by monkeys 👎👎👎
2025-05-30
Continue in the app
Is it just me or is anyone else being directed to download the MSN app over and over and never actually get to the article one would like to read?
2025-05-27
Great app
I can read the latest news in find anything
2025-05-25
Not an Improvement!
The newest version is not an improvement, mainly because there are prompts for additional information before you can access the information I am searching for.
Also, many of the articles pulled by their “shill” of a news page (Bing) only show the beginning of an article unless you “Read in the app” (this app) which redirects you again.
2025-05-23
News Snippets
I haven’t had a chance to fully engage with the new MSN app, but I love watching news snippets in the morning while getting dressed, and MSN smartly has a selection just for videos. In Apple News, I usually have to search for a major channel and scroll through and I don’t always have the time as I get dressed. Love this feature!
Edit: I’m changing my rating based on how wrong I was - I don’t want to see Karoline Leavitt literally every other video in my feed, fake-smiling her way through the same video of her telling us about the millions of tax dollars being wasted on Trump’s horrendous military parade - once is enough. WHERE’S THE NEWS? It’s 90% fluff.
2025-05-21
All ads?
Why is every article recommended under “More for you” an ad?
2025-05-21
MSN
I like the msn app. Nice for everything.
Ray Duque III, GMBD
2025-05-20
Frustration
I hate that MSN forces this app on me. I have too many apps as is. Why can’t I just stay on my browser? Complete disregard of my preference.
2025-05-19
Nice app !
Helpful at keeping me posted on interesting happenings in the world of politics and more
2025-05-19
Has very great potential
It would switch to this after this fix.
1: It’s super laggy especially on IPadOS. The frame sometimes makes the buttons unpressable. Oh yeah, the buttons may make need multiple presses.
RECCOMENDATIONS FROM MOST IMPORTANT TO LEAST.
Recommendation 1: ADD MORE FEATURES TO THE WEB BROWSING. Tab groups, Reading Lists, AI summary at first glance are VERY HELPFUL. Can beat competitors
Recommendation 2: Add copilot to msn. I really don’t like that you need to have two apps for copilot and news at first glance.
Recommendation 3: Be more customizable like free selective wallpapers and app icons.
With these features it could beat chrome and safari :)
2025-05-18
Lousy “app”
“Continue reading in the app” nonsense! The “app” is so convoluted that navigating it has made msn a completely unappealing option for news. Better ideas are out there! I am “divorcing “ msn based on this incredibly vague and user unfriendly format!
2025-05-17
MSN
Losing half or most of the story I’m reading! Probably the worst app ever!
2025-05-17
Trump
something original other than a negative Trump or Republican party review every second or third article it's so 2016
2025-05-15
Just weather
All I want is a dedicated weather app with a weather widget. MSN Weather is ideally pretty accurate and I like it on pc desktop but just want Weather on my phone without the rest since I don’t use the rest of the app just the Weather. Please MSN separate the Weather out to a dedicated app focused on just weather.
2025-05-08
App Half Working
When using the app and trying to earn rewards, it keeps having me to sign-in when I just did and does every time I try to go into something new. I suppose to earn points after conducting 3 searches but nothing happens. When you click on certain things to earn points, it does not work or give you the points
2025-05-08
Hh
Fffc
2025-05-07
Good but could be better
Plenty of content to stream and read but cluttered with ads and clunky interface. Bonus: Microsoft rewards built in.
2025-05-05
MSN
Love it!
2025-05-04
MSN
How much?
2025-04-28
Timely and up-to-date
Great and accurate news as it happens.
2025-04-27
Worst app ever
When reading an article I am annoyingly told I have to go to the app to continue reading. So I go to the app but I get the home page, with the article I was reading nowhere in sight!
2025-04-27
Forced
all of a sudden I HAVE to use this app.. feeling forced, manipulated.
2025-04-26
Horrible app
MSN app is horrible
2025-04-21
No thank you !
Follow the Eagle !
2025-01-21
Terrible app
This app is terrible. When you are on the msn website and click the “continue reading on the app” button, does it take you to the article you want to read? NO OF COURSE NOT. Just the generic MSN home page and then you have to go back to the internet, find the title and paste it into the app. Additionally, every time, and I do mean EVERY SINGLE TIME, that I have clicked on the “continue reading on the app” button, the app needs to UPDATE!!! It isn’t user friendly either. Strongly recommend using something else. Or maybe the programmers could redo the whole thing? Heck, what is one more update anyway??? If I could give this negative stars I totally would 😤
2024-12-14
Update ruined this app
UPDATE 2: they finally rolled back the “back button” issue too! App is fixed! Hurrah!
UPDATE: The “Welcome to the MSN” problem has been fixed! The app still doesn’t let you click “back” in the browser from links on the Bing rewards page, but I will still put my review up to a four, as the “Welcome” screen was the most egregious problem by far. If they correct the “back” button issue, I’ll go back to a five!
(Original review follows) I loved the Bing app and used it everyday. Unfortunately when they “updated” it to this “MSN” app, they made it so, so much worse. Anytime you click on an article, when you click “back” it brings you to the “WELCOME TO THE MSN” screen that you have to click “continue” to get back to the homepage. It also GOT RID OF the “Back” button for any links you click in the “Bing rewards” section. There’s just an X to click instead, which—surprise, surprise, also brings you right back to that infuriating “WELCOME TO THE MSN” page. It’s basically impossible to navigate the app now without clicking that “continue” button every minute or so. Very disappointing. I’ll update this review if and when they fix it.
2024-12-12
How can I fix these issue?
I have a few things that aren’t working.
But I just did two separate updates and both times I was assuming that it was a fix for the bubble at the bottom of my screen where the likes, comments and share info is but those are completely gone. I cannot like an article or comment nor share unless I click on the 3 dots tab at the top now to share but nothing else. Is there going to be an additional update to fix that or what is a solution to fix it?
An where can you start saving the articles like before, it’s no place to save them, so I always have to send the article to myself to read later or add to my reading list but they use to show up in saved.
The last thing is I use the app to do my Bing, but I can’t seem to click or use it to do anything other then get my mobile points. It doesn’t register when I go do it on edge and I don’t have a laptop so I understand the pc part but the edge doesn’t show.
2024-11-20
Newest update has an irritating bug. Updated…received notice from Development Team that issues fixed
Development Team fixed my issues and the app now works well. Nice to see that comments are reviewed and addressed where possible.
Every time I open app or try to switch between stories I get the introductory screen where you have to select “continue”. After that I get the pick three or more topics screen before getting to the news feed. This is every time! Hope this is fixed soon.
2024-11-15
It’s all messed up now
Ugh where to begin. I’ll just stick with the first screen to you once starting the app. The continue screen. Every time I start the app that MSM screen is always present, I click continue get to the main page. Then I click on an article read it click the back button and what to I get? The MSN screen again. I get this screen over and over again. I look at my profile I click the back button and get that nag screen again, because that’s what it is now. A nag screen. Even though I’m using a paid Microsoft account and clicked continue.
When it was Start it was great it was my go to app for internet and AI. Now it’s more of a pain than anything else.
I haven’t even started on the blank page you get when you click a reference from returned from CoPilot then click the back button and you just get a black screen.
Did you guys do any bug testing??
2024-09-27
Bum wrap
Trying to transition from the index to the story does not live up to its promise. Instead, it draws away into touting other things the app can do whilst not reverting to the story. I am not impressed, nor will I continue down the rabbit hole in order to see what the story line is. I am disappointed that it takes forever to find the information I want to read. I want the story without the fluff. Don’t waste my time with things that don’t concern me, I want the continuance of the story I am interested in now rather than features I care less about. Vote me out.
2024-09-17
Save for Later feature missing for News articles.
I want to enjoy this app so much, but it’s becoming impossible for me to use because the “save for later“ feature seems to be missing on the iOS app. I have searched online for a way to fix this, but have not found anything except old articles related to the topic.
This is very important for me because many times I find news articles that I want to read, but don’t have the time to read them on the spot. I want to be able to save them for later so I can read them when I have time. Even if the feature is available, it’s obviously not user-friendly, and I don’t see any instructions about how to make it work.
I am completely surprised by Microsoft, as I had expected them to have high-quality services similar to those of Google and Apple. You would think they would have a way to save articles just like their competitors do in an easy fashion. It appears that this is not the case.
2024-08-20
MSN just is difficult now to use.
I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled Start numerous times. It never remembers my login credentials and if I try to open it from the website it always asks to download the app which was already installed. Sorry I’m not always sitting in the Start app when pursuing web news outlets.
Then when I tap open since it is installed it never goes to the story I was trying to expand on.
Now it is uninstalled and MSN is coming of my list of sites to review for news. Their own fault. I fear the AP will head that way, as they are trying to push their app down our throats more and more too.
2024-07-18
I’d rather read in my news app
I downloaded this because I couldn’t finish an article I was reading in Apple News; the only choice was “continue reading in the app.”
Once in the app, the header and footer never go away, significantly decreasing the readable screen area, and distracting me with a search bar on the top, and a collection of buttons on the bottom, none of which I need. Most modern apps hide these things until you change your scrolling direction, and then show them to you momentarily to see if you need them. If you don’t, when you resume reading, they disappear again.
I’m not sure what the purpose of sending me to this app is rather than serving me the entire article in the place I’m already reading it, unless it’s for Microsoft to track me. That might serve Microsoft, it doesn’t serve me. The only time I’ll use this app as if I need it to finish an article.
2024-07-13
This is great
I use a lot of apps for news and information and this is by far the best one stop source that I check all the time. It really covers everything that I wanna know. And I love the fact that it gives you the coins to be able to use in different AI apps and doesn’t cost anything. Microsoft did a really good job on designing this. It’s easy to use. And when you customize it for the information that you want it streamlines when you wake up in the morning to give you the relevant information you need to know to start your day. Thanks guys keep up the great work.
2024-05-04
Not impressed
First of all, being forced to use this after reading news on msn all these years is a bit annoying. On top of that, msn says “to continue reading this article open the app” and when you do, it doesn’t actually open the article you wanted to read or even give that as a possibility. You have to cut and paste the msn headline to search for it in start.
Additionally, it doesn’t seem to refresh the top news, etc. when I open it - the same exact news is there for days. And, when it does refresh, because it wants to “feed” you, the algorithm starts to give you things that are all the same. If I read a story from a source, I don’t want to have that source become the main one I am offered- assuming I can’t handle opposing viewpoints…
Maybe I am doing something wrong. I am not completely tech challenged, but maybe…
Anyway, just an annoying app overall….
2024-04-04
Being force fed an app that doesn’t work
My gripe is less the app itself, and the integration, or failure there in, of the MSN website when opened in iPhone Safari. I’ve been accessing MSN for 6-7 years for news.
About a year ago I started getting prompts to either continue reading in webpage, or open in the MS Start app. A nuisance, but still an option.
Lately however, the option to read in-browser hasn’t worked. Instead, I’m forced to “Read in the app”. Only problem is that the link rarely works, and in the failed process it opens an iTunes app loader page, a redirect tab, a Start App launch…without the desired story…and poor search qualities to find the story that took me down this rabbit hole in the first place. Epic fail; loads of frustration; numerous tabs and/or windows to now close or navigate; complete loss of interest in the original story and little motivation to want to use MSN or MS Start in the future.
Nice going folks; you had a loyal cu, who actually occasionally made choices from the advertising, who’s now looking to Yahoo or anything other than Bing/MSN/MS Start for their news 🤨.
Friggin Reddit is better for than this nonsense.
2024-02-28
What is this app?
This app has multiple purposes that are all scattered throughout. The main reason reason I got this app was to upload my receipts. So far i have only made a few bucks, i do shop quite a bit and so does the rest of my family but the downside is not getting 1 cent a receipt. There are other offers to get more Cash back but for some reason you have to click the actual offer rather than pressing “scan receipt” so that I could get the bonus, weird. So after 6 receipts uploaded, you have a chance to win $50, I’ve only ever got between 11 and 50 cents and I’ve down I would say a little under 10 times. My overall point is, what are the odds of winning $50, or a little more then 50 cents. Don’t get me wrong a few bucks never hurt nobody but still I’m just curious as to why I feel like this app is useless.
2024-02-24
Microsoft search engine has gone soft
It works like any other search engine. But they have a future that you can’t disable or turn off as a user, it’s the AI search I wish this can be turned off, but it will never be turned off. It’s a feature that they have for the app it’s unable to be disabled. Even they have Microsoft rewards program last year was the best they had so many points that you can earn on Xbox and through the Microsoft edge now they’re lowering their points system either they’re losing money or too many peoples getting too many free gift cards. I don’t know what it is yes take a grain of salt. It is a free rewards program but now every time you earn a point it went from five points to one or two points. no more earning those 10s and 20s or higher points. Everything used to be dead on target, but now that the end of the year is at a end is becoming unstable points or not adding up points in isn’t registering. I’m only in it for the last points I need & uninstalling.
2024-02-20
Impossible to Comment
It’s nearly impossible to comment on any article. When I am already signed in, it FREQUENTLY won’t let me comment and says I have to sign in. I click “sign in” select my name again and it still just says I have to sign in. I’ve even created a second account to switch back and forth to work around that, and that worked for a while, but as of this morning that no longer works.
Then the button to post a comment just disappears frequently.
On mobile, if your keyboard pops up, it covers the area you are typing into.
On top of that, if you do sign in and get past the many glitches, the comments are so censored, it’s practically a useless feature to be able to comment at all. You can’t use the word “you” so people try to find work around a like “ewe” but it will still hide any comment “for review” that has that word. Even if you’re using it in a general sense as I am doing here.
If there is even 1 word in all caps, even if that’s the name of a company, it will be hidden “for review”. There’s also a bunch of other rules which are unknown or seem arbitrarily applied by some horribly programmed parameters so most comments submitted are never shown.
And mobile never tells you if you have any replies to your comments (I’d like to be able to turn this on or off).
2024-02-12
Wonderful looking fwd to continual improvements
I was initially going to get four stars just because there’s still a lot of obvious improvements but I decided to get five because I really love that they are giving us access to the latest GPT model for free and I can tell that their pushing to make as much available to the public as possible which I think is great. This is stimulating our growth in so many ways because it allows us to use our creativity and brains to explore even if we don’t have the physical or technical skill in the given area, we can still contribute to growth in our literature, and you name it!
2024-02-01
First review
I have been using the Microsoft Start app since it came public. I found it’s one of the only apps that I’ve been able use to get my Bing points. Using a Start app to get Bing points is a little complex and buggy at times. While I like the all in one app for news, shopping and receipt scanning here are a few drawbacks… I getting points takes much more time now. Sometimes you get points on clicks and sometimes nothing. Sometimes you can click through the trending news and click click click and get points, sometimes nothing at all and you have to come back later in the day to finish. In the last few days, I had the app freeze up on both iPad and iPhone. While I could clear history for the day and week without a problem the app crashed when trying to clear the longer dated history, i.e. 4 week history and all history. This was replicated on my iPhone and iPad both and this maybe due to limitations of the RAM or sandbox memory but hopefully this information will help to may the app better in future updates. Thank you Microsoft support teams for all you are doing.
2024-01-21
Wake up before it’s too late.
Not sure who is running this app. However reading people’s thoughts on Trump in this app mostly saying he should be locked up in jail but why. Don’t you think if he did something wrong that he would be locked up? So yes sounds like a witch hunt. You got to many people on a band wagon or someone controlling bc when I tried to share a comment well guess what it wouldn’t let me. So don’t fall far this. Something is up with this app in my opinion kinda like Jan 6 when trump was set up by a lot of dem people but what do I know. “Trump is not in jail” oh I don’t know bc he is innocent. Huh who of thought. Wake up people before it’s to late it’s MAGA or it’s going to get worse check out Newsmax. Have a good day and God bless America!
2023-12-25
Outstanding Experience with Microsoft Start!
I recently downloaded Microsoft Start and I’m thoroughly impressed! This app has significantly enhanced my daily digital experience. Its intuitive design and user-friendly interface make navigation a breeze, allowing me to access news, weather, and more with ease.
What sets Microsoft Start apart is its personalized news feed. The AI-driven content curation is spot-on, keeping me updated with news that aligns perfectly with my interests and preferences. Whether it’s technology, sports, or entertainment, I’m always in the loop with relevant and engaging stories.
The integration with Microsoft services is another huge plus. It seamlessly connects with my Office 365 and Outlook accounts, making it a central hub for my day-to-day activities. This feature alone has boosted my productivity.
The weather updates are accurate and detailed, providing all the information I need to plan my day. The search functionality is also exceptional, delivering fast and relevant results every time.
I appreciate the app’s commitment to privacy and data security. It’s reassuring to know that my information is in safe hands.
Microsoft Start has exceeded my expectations in every way. It’s a must-have app for anyone looking to streamline their digital life. Highly recommended!
2023-08-01
Buggy
Like many I downloaded it for the cash back feature. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. It rejects some receipts for very odd reasons. I’ve had receipts rejected because the app claimed it was a duplicate receipt even though I scanned it immediately after walking in my house after making the purchase. I had a new reason today. The receipt was rejected because they only accept paper receipts. It was a paper receipt from the same grocery store I’ve scanned receipts from many times. Sure it’s only a penny but those pennies add up especially if you’re Microsoft and thousands of people are having receipts rejected that shouldn’t be.
2023-06-27
Why bother?
This app tries to to be a catchall for your phone browsing use, but in practice just feels pointless. The apps are just a collection of actual apps you can download, but with less functionality leading to frustration and a trip to the actual dedicated app instead of the one in start. Then there are the news articles. The majority are random clickbait headlines with little substance if any at all. Many of them are clearly written by AI and contain repetitive information that might not even be true. There are also plenty of ads masquerading as articles. If you want to use any of the features in start just download the dedicated app for that and use a different news app for everything else. If gpt 4.0 is important to you then use the edge app, but Microsoft puts up so many walls on it I just use the chat gpt app instead with 3.5.
TLDR: There’s no real reason for the Start app to exist. Most of the articles feel like something my grandma would share on Facebook and the apps are worse versions of the ones in the actual App Store.
2023-05-09
A PENNY ONLY
This app is so ridiculous and the customer support is even worse. I had contacted customer support after 10 receipts that were scan for cash back we’re talking about purchases I made being way above $50 and I only receive a penny back. I am now on my 40th+ receipt and the most I have received back has been three. Cents, if you’re only giving me a penny it’s gonna take me 100 receipts to receive a dollar I’m not gonna buy 100 items from dollar tree to receive one dollar back. I get more back on my credit card than this if you guys are not willing to give anything more than three. Cents, even after I hit the six receipt reward mark. Then what’s the point of even having the program you’re tell me, Microsoft doesn’t have money to give back. I’d rather just stick with chrome, then to do with this crap.
2023-04-09
Biased
First let me say I am a huge fan of Microsoft’s products and although I deleted this app I continue to use many of their products and services.
I was excited to try the start app when I first discovered it. But that excitement did not last long. The first thing I noticed was how every news headline or story that was pushed to me was very left leaning. And some leaned so far they read more like Soviet style propaganda rather than news.
My second complaint is with the rebate tool. When scanning receipts from certain types of stores, the program will not recognize the store name. Thus you are unable to get credit for that receipt. The first type of store I noticed this with is vaping stores. However, the final straw came today when I tried scanning a receipt for Cabelas. The program recognized the transaction total and date but would not pick up the store name even though the logo and name are clearly printed. With in just seconds of a tenth and final attempt to scan this receipt I get a push notification from the app about how the GOP is blocking gun restrictions.
If you are going to make an app that is going to cater to one ideology that is fine. It’s your right, but please state this in the description.
2023-03-20
Still haven’t gotten my cash back
I sent a ticket to microsoft last month (February) and all I received what is an automated email saying that someone would get back to me. I still have not had a response from anyone. I had noticed I had $20 cash for that I had forgotten about from signing up with something. And that it was ready to be cashed out since September 2022. So I got excited and went ahead and type in my email address to cash it out to my PayPal. However, I did not realise that I had typed in my email address incorrectly by missing one letter. It says that my cashback was sent. However, I did not ever receive it. I need someone to fix this asap! This is so road that I should wait one whole month for someone to respond back to me.
Kittie
2023-03-02
Does not change news feed
I’m hoping that Microsoft sees this as their link for support is a dead end. I use start on both my iPhone and Windows tablet. I don’t know how many times I’ve told it to block whole categories but they still show up…in both places. If I tell you I’m not interested in entertainment news, why do you keep adding that to my news feed? Same is true for some other categories. Come on guys, fix this!
Update March 2: still the same. I get a lot of entertainment news that I don’t want and sources I’ve blocked turn up anyway. I’m a big Microsoft fan but you guys blew this one. Also the constant scrolling back to the top is wasteful of my time. Why can’t your feed pick up at the last story I read?
2023-01-04
Microsoft Forces you to use app at times
I don’t need a news app from Microsoft but when I click on some articles from MSN or Google Chrome home page, it forces me to use the app to read the full article. Other times, even if it doesn’t force you then, it does once you try to comment on an article. I go ahead and let it start the app, take me to the article and then try to comment. This doesn’t work since it says I have to be signed in and the sign in button doesn’t work. I can actually sign in under the app but still forces me to try to sign in on individual articles but it won’t work. If I’m signed in on their darn app why do I have to sign in on the article page?? I don’t understand how this huge company can make such a broken and annoying product and predicament. SMH
2022-12-21
Wonderful Way to Start and End My Day!
I grew up in the era of the daily newspaper, where each day’s delivery brought so much more than the news, but comics, coupons, sales, games, and more.
Microsoft Start has essentially filled that place in my life. I love having an overview of world, national, state, and local news each morning as well as a good measure of personalized topics of interest to counter some of the heaviness I sometimes read. I’ve also been using Bing Rewards for years, so having this and general shopping features baked in has been really helpful to keep me on track.
There’s so much more that I could write, but suffice to say that I am very happy with Microsoft Start and how it has continually evolved to bring ever greater value to my day.
2022-12-13
I really like them now!
I watched the first 3 episodes last night and realized for the first time what a horrible disservice they’ve been given. I believe their story Is the truth. They are obviously very much in love. And next to nothing about Megan’s outstanding work in standing up for the rights of others, her solo work in Africa, her high intelligence and caring nature have been written about. She is constantly referred to in derogatory terms. So wrong!
And Harry is obviously an intelligent, caring and sensitive man who also happens to be quite handsome.
I loved the pics of their sweet family. And applaud their bravery in leaving the firm in order to save their own family.
While watching I couldn’t help but wonder if William and Kate wish it were themselves.
Really looking forward to the next three episodes.
Also, my husband who never follows the royals watched the 3 episodes straight in a row with me and agreed with my thoughts.
2022-12-04
(updated) one change is needed
Microsoft needs add at least one of these to significantly improve this app. They are: 1) add the date an article published 2) add a counter that shows the number of since the article was published 3) give us a way to hide an article after we have read it. It is entirely too to difficult to determine how long an article has been showing under an interest. I can't always remember if I have read an article. Whatever algorithm Microsoft uses to find articles related to an interest needs work. For example, I have an interest for cold cases. I get very little information on cold cases. My interest is full of covid-19 coverage. I understand the importance of covid-19 information and have an interest for that. Please limit information not related to an interest. Currently, I wonder why I have interests.
*** too many sensational article headings. Otherwise know as click bait. It is too difficult to determine a valid article from clickbait. ***
2022-08-06
Awful
I’ll start this review with a caveat: Maybe, because of the ongoing feud between MS & Apple it just doesn’t work too well with iOS. That being said: Things just don’t work. You get a response to a comment and you can’t link back to it to respond. You get responses and you get no clue as to what the response is in reference to. The app doesn’t even tell you what comment is being responded to. It is just an awful, maybe typical Microsoft mess. I’m about to delete the app and forget all about it. It’s probably a perfect example of the many reasons why I prefer Apple anything over Microsoft anything. They just can’t get their act together over @ MS.
Just deleted the app. Censorship crossed the threshold of the ridiculous. It’s their app, they can allow and disallow anything they please. But the political bias has become overwhelming.
2022-03-30
Doesn’t refresh
I mainly use it for news as I don’t like Google news trying to view everything in its own browser. This one will take me to the actual site when I click on anything on the news article. However, it never refreshes on the “For You” tab. I click on refresh but it still won’t. I have to click on a different tab, and come back to “For You” tab to refresh. Other tabs are a hit or miss for refreshing. Sometimes they do and sometimes I have to do the same thing for them too.
So basically, I am back to using Google News again.
2022-02-01
They ruined it. Use the Web App if you liked it better before.
The major redesign that just occurred that added a bunch of unnecessary stuff like a Bing search bar that Microsoft would like us to use made me search out a replacement. My recommendation is to go to the MSN website, navigate to the “News Headlines” page (which is what the old version of this app basically was) click the share button and then select “Add Website to Home Screen”. It turns out that it doesn’t merely add a bookmark icon to your screen that then pops up in Safari. MSN and some other websites (including APnews) when added to the homescreen like this actually become a HTML Web App. It’s still The Safari engine running it but it opens in its own window and has a custom full screen app like interface. It’s not quite as nice to use as the old app but it’s usable and doesn’t include all the nonsense that was added to the new version. Also less ads. The icon looks perfect right it the spot where the app icon was so you don’t even have to rearrange your Home Screen.
2021-10-07
Great App
I love this app. Well designed with reactions and comments. I think they could take this even farther with tags that are like reactions, but more informative. They could use tags to select content better.
The articles are good and a mix, seems to have much less bias than other news apps. Also, the app has good performance. I'm curious what they do with this next. I feel that there's somethings missing still with the design to make it optimal. But it's the best news app that I've used so far and I experiment with a lot of news apps.
2021-09-10
Disappointed
Over a year ago, my biggest complaint was the repetitive Twitter, and Facebook inclusions that were already in the article.
Now we get the same strange repetitions within the article, plus we get more links to things that appear to be an article, but it’s just a click bait ad, I can no longer highlight a word and search the definition, and I can no longer select a picture in an article and zoom in. The video articles I am most interested in, get stuck in a constant buffer but not the one I really don’t care about…those ones load just fine. I no longer get local news for my area, so I have to go back to doing a web search for local news, because the app only picks up neighboring city news. The closest city that I can get news for is 20 miles to the city limit but really the city is more like 40 miles away. I have setup the local news and areas of interest, but it just says “Sorry! No news for this area”
Back to using google news now, which is only slightly better. Go back a few updates and you will win me back Microsoft.
2021-09-09
What did I just download?
Is this a news app? A browser? A weather app? A grocery delivery app? Microsoft just couldn’t quite figure out it’s use case. The dramatic navigational and UI inconsistencies seem to echo this confusion. Some pages have a back button, others don’t. Some pages are native slideovers that you dismiss by swiping. Other pages are websites wrapped in native controls whose tab has to be closed. Sometimes you can swipe backwards to go back and sometimes you can’t. There is a user profile settings page and then another settings page nested within it. Searching just brings up the web bing search results instead of a desired news article. The bottom navbar‘s buttons are identically weighted making it unclear which one is the “front page” of the app. Then there are the functional bugs. For example, progressive pages sometimes fail to load when you pull up for more content (games, looking at you). All in all, I find this app confusing and a bit aimless. It’s got the kitchen sink of features but none of them are implemented all that well.
2021-08-30
Was once great, but avoid at all costs now
This was my top choice for a news app not that long ago. I relied on it all through 2020, which, you know, was kind of a newsy year.
But a few months back they updated the app to include things like user comments on articles, and social media reaction “features” that allow you to 👍 or ❤️ articles.
So now each article, let’s say reporting on something tragic, will have hearts and emoticons and a toxic comments section below it, things that don’t belong in a news app, and frankly, don’t look good next to an article about death or disease or war.
And all the standard internet comment section junk has reared its head: obvious trolls, even more obvious bad actors, arguments over nothing, and constant “Biden libtard” this and “Trump nazi” that between commenters that have absolutely *no* idea what’s going on around them.
Use a different news app. There are a bunch. There were features only this one had, and it *was* the best once. But we never needed Facebook style features in the app, and a quick review of recent history should have let Microsoft know adding these kinds of features does not improve the user experience, but creates a hostile environment rife with abuse and garbage.
2021-08-18
So sad!!!
I’ve had this app since my days of using a Nokia Lumia 1020. Been through a ton of updates. I recommend this app to everyone. Going forward I can’t. I’m not a fan of the new layout at all with the last update. To me it seems just a giant mess. And it made finding news articles even harder to find. I’m here for the news, why do I need to see groceries and everything else. Stop trying to be like apple news. Not everything apple dose is a good thing. As I type this review on an IPhone. I now the irony. I’ll keep the app around play around more with it. Hopefully get use to it. I won’t be recommending it to anyone for awhile. Was one of the best news apps out there and now just like everyone else’s. And not good at it.
2021-07-10
New layout hard to read
The updated newspage is messy and hard to read. The story tiles are arranged in in two randomly staggered columns, which results in a confusing jumble to the eyes. You can’t scan the articles left to right because the headlines don’t line up, and you can’t scan the columns top to bottom, because there is no bottom of the page. This is beyond annoying. Whoever designed it need to go back to Layout 101. Please line up the story tiles left to right to make the page readable again!
The content is what it is. This isn’t so important to me because I seek news from multiple sources. But it has to be easily readable or it’s a no-go.
2021-07-09
New version is awful
Really do not want to see like or dislike options. Not interested in opinions. News is news and is meant to inform. It seems as if you added this feature as a point of entertainment for people. I think that’s sad and essentially adds fuel to the fire in regards to some stories since the opinions written are not informed at all. And many will view some opinions as fact. I think that sets dangerous precedent as we all have come to see over the last couple of years. There better formats for expressing opinions.
As far as the layout goes I really preferred it the way it was.
Should now be called MSN Entertainment. I will seek out other sources of news.
2021-06-03
This is Bing, Not a News App
What a shady, dishonest update. What was once an application focused on actually displaying news is now a sneaky way to trick people into using Bing. How so? When you load the application, you’re given a nearly identical experience as the Edge browser’s start page. There’s a search box, but if you think you’re searching for news topics, you’re wrong - it’s Bing. Looking for news? Sure, there’s a few headlines on that Edge start page, but the functionally you would expect to find and was central in previous versions is now buried in the third tab. It’s this sort of anti-user practice that build a generation of folks who lack faith in anything from Microsoft.
2020-05-08
Great News App
This app works very well. I really liked the Apple News app, (in the beginning), but then there became too many articles that where behind a paywall, which was a waste of my time. Plus, it was inconsistent where it would open and load all stories quickly and then open very slowly the next time. Microsoft’s news app has been very consistent at opening fast, very interesting stories/articles, and a well laid out UI. Big fan so far! Keep up the great work Microsoft!!
2020-04-10
This app is broken
This app has changed dramatically since i first downloaded it and now they dont even care what type of news you are looking at. For instance, under the sports headlines today I saw a headline titled, "LA reaches settlement over alleged at-home Covid 19 test kits".. not too sure what that had to do with sports, that is not the only example of this, there was also "Depressed demand forcing Wisconsin dairy farmers to dump milk", again nothing to do with sports. Additionally, whoever developed this app thought it would be a great idea to have NO end to the headlines under each section, so if you think you are going to get the bottom of page it just keeps loading more headlines whether they are relevant or not. This app has gone down the tubes, its absolute trash now.
2019-12-04
Great news, bad app
Microsoft News is fantastic for news. But the app never save settings about news preferences and even when you set them again, the categorization of articles is often poor.
For example, I cannot find any possible way to permanently disable news about sports, entertainment and especially royals. When I finally do disable these (until the next time the app starts), the app saves that I’m logged in, but ignore my preferences. An because of poor categorization, things like sports, entertainment and royals ends up jammed under trending or possibly Asia or Africa. The result is, at least one in 3 articles I’m presented are tabloid rubbish. I can’t imagine that MS would need more than one person on duty at a time to properly sort and filter articles.
2019-10-15
Glitches
Reading article and all of a sudden it disappeared. Couldn’t get it back or at times not even find the article. I’ve also flagged articles that I wanted to follow, and never see them again. And yes, I know the difference between follow and delete. If this was a one time issue I could accept it, but it’s not just one time. It’s been multiple times and over a variety of topics. If it can be posted IT SHOULD NOT DISAPPEAR. Or is that just good old CENSORSHIP and CORRUPTION or someone decided it was not that much of an article. OH SNAP — isn’t that the same thing?
2018-10-15
This App Has Come a Looong Way!
I’ve used Microsoft news before, but uninstalled due to not having features I find important, especially the widget. Now it’s there and I’m happy as can be with Microsoft News, BUT there is one feature that is lacking; Custom news notifications. I want to be notified when other topics I follow have new stories. My Notification Center and widget are loaded with political stories, but not with what’s important to me too, which doesn’t make sense. Thanks Microsoft News for making a reliable app that I can count on!
2018-07-01
Extremely disappointed
I am so, so upset about this radical redesign that MSN just did. I have three or four news apps that I check in with a few times a week, but this was the app that I would spend time on nearly twice a day. I loved its simplistic, clear-cut layout. This layout made it stand out from all other news apps. Now it’s ruined because of Microsoft who only took over because its its greedy, never-satisfied, and has a constant Need to monopolize wherever it can. I’m so saddened by this. I did not realize that my innocently pressing “update” would cause this to happen. I’m going to try to give it a chance, but something tells me I’ll be forced to delete it in a week. I can’t believe that Microsoft took over and ruined what used to be one of my favorite apps.
2018-06-07
Has issues
I read this every day but...it has issues. Sometimes you click on a story only for another story - the wrong story to appear. They will talk about a video but won’t include the link for it - which is rather annoying. If you click on the picture for the story it will sometimes include other random pictures. The “Good news” isn’t updated often enough - really? It’s that hard to find good things to report? And sometimes the “good news” is depressing. It’s just ok but better than most of the other stuff.
2018-03-14
One reason
I haven’t experienced any crashes yet as others have. I use this on an iPhone 6 and iPhone 7 Plus.
I haven’t watched or read the news for many years since it’s mostly negative and all politics is garbage. I own this for one reason.
‘GOOD NEWS’. It’s about time someone did something like this. I can now skip all the negative bull**** and go straight to the stuff that doesn’t try to pull me down. Then I can skip right over to technology and be done. Super easy.
2018-02-11
App just keeps getting worse
Update: apparently the developers don't read the reviews. This thing has gotten worse. Open the app, swipe through two or three articles and CRASH! C'mon, folks! Do better!
My complaint before was that each time the app loses focus and then is brought back to the foreground, it resets itself. This means that you have to scroll through all of the stories to find where you were; assuming you remember. Now, when I try to share something via Twitter or Facebook (on my iPad Air), the pop up window loses focus while I'm typing and I have to start over again.
Definitely going to look for a replacement now. The app owners apparently don't care and definitely don't test their product.
2018-01-30
Better on Windows Mobile
Unlike many of Microsoft's other apps, this one is much better on Windows Mobile and full Windows 10 than it is on iOS.
Microsoft's News app on iOS is quite clunky and outdated when compared to similar news apps. It jumps into a different window just to show a picture, unlike their own Windows platform app which overlays the image. Navigation is difficult, with the back button way in the top corner and access to my "interest" topics buried in a top menu, instead of laid out with the other "main" topics.
One last thing that I find quite confusing in this app - the lack of any useful settings. There is really only a way to sign into an account, and pick a language. That's about it. What about options for video playback? What about text sizes?! What about easier ways to choose and navigate content and interests? What about a dark theme choice!?
For Microsoft's "dump windows and build on other platforms" mobile strategy, this sure falls flat. It's a terrible experience.