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News · Ranking board

Biggest in News

The heavyweights of the News category, measured in gigabytes.

Apps considered

14,120

Qualifying rule

A News app with a real file size.

Recomputed

13 Sep 2026

Confidence

High · direct measure

The board

Ranked by download

Showing 100 published positions. Boards recompute automatically, so a crown can change hands at any time.

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13 Sep 2026

Leaders by downloadtop 14 of 14,120

1st14th

The leader is a genuine outlier: Seven Grams posts 2.8× the download of the typical entry on this board (a median of 291 MB download).
From top to bottom, this top 100 runs from 805 MB down to 269 MB.
Tegna Inc. is the most represented maker here, with 39 apps in the top 100.

Metric: The largest downloads in News.
Qualifies: A News app with a real file size.
Why it matters: The heavyweights of the News category, measured in gigabytes.
Known limits: Reflects public listing data only; a figure we read, never one we estimate. Listings are read from Apple’s public metadata and are not restricted to a single storefront. Methodology →