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Heartland News

by Gray Television Group, Inc. · News · Free

Average rating
4.4
4,025 ratings
Ratings
4,025
On store since
2011
15 yrs 1 d
Languages
1
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Analyst summary

Last verified 4 Aug 2026

Heartland News is a News application published by Gray Television Group, Inc.. It holds a 4.4-star average across 4,025 public ratings.

It is actively maintained: the most recent update we observed shipped 16 Jul 2026. The listing has been on the store for 15 yrs 1 d.

On the listing it is a 83.2 MB download, runs on iPhone 5s and newer · iPad.

A summary of the measured figures recorded on this page, kept current as the numbers change.
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Position in category

Each bar shows where Heartland News sits in the distribution of News apps we track. Percentiles are computed over apps with the field observed, not the whole category.

Rating volume 90th pct.
Average rating 36th pct.
Download size 77th pct.
Price 5th pct.

Distribution computed with the category report · Full category report

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Health timeline

A dated record of what has actually happened to this app — launch, updates, price moves and record-board milestones. Every point is a stored observation, never an estimate.

Daily rating & price tracking began 9 Aug 2026; the growth curve fills in here as observations accrue.

  1. 16 Jul 2026 Update Updated to v8.0.8 The most recent version we observed on the listing.
  2. 19 Jul 2011 Launch Launched on the App Store Original release date stated on the listing.

Dates are read from the listing and from our own daily observations; the rating curve accrues going forward. How we track.

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Listing & advisories

Download size

83.2 MB

Minimum iOS

15.6

Devices supported

iPhone 5s and newer · iPad

Age rating

12+

Advisories

Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes · Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence · Infrequent/Mild Contests · Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References

Screenshots

3 on the listing

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Screenshots are hotlinked from the public store listing and belong to the publisher.

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Peer set

Peers are well-rated apps in News, selected by category and rating — not by similarity of description, so the comparison is like-for-like on scale.

AppRatingRatingsPrice
Heartland News 4.4 4,025 Free
Watch Duty: Wildfire & Floods 4.9 46.8K Free
The Atlantic Magazine 4.9 133.4K Free
TrueShort - Stream True Crime 4.9 16.9K Free
The Bulwark 4.9 1,966 Free
Podcast App & Player - Castbox 4.9 198.7K Free
Church News 4.9 85.2K Free
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Questions this record can answer

How was every figure on this page produced?

Each figure is read from public App Store metadata or computed from it, dated to when we read it, and traceable to a stored row. Percentiles, cadence, longevity and sentiment are derived by us; ratings, prices, sizes and dates are taken as the store reports them.

Why can the star average and recent opinion disagree?

The star average is cumulative over the app’s whole life, so recent opinion barely moves it. Any sentiment figure we compute reads only recent review text, which is why it turns first. Treat a divergence as an early indicator, not a verdict.

What can this page not tell you?

Downloads, revenue, active users, subscription pricing inside the app, and anything about security or data handling. None of those are visible in public store metadata, so we do not estimate them.

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Provenance

Source
Public App Store listing metadata and public customer reviews.
Collection window
Last read 4 Aug 2026. Listing re-read daily; reviews re-read on a slower cadence.
Derived figures
Percentiles, update cadence, longevity and sentiment are computed by us, not supplied by the store.
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