Drudge Report (Official)

News
Rating
2.4 (67)
Size
91.8 MB
Age rating
17+
Current version
7.0.3
Price
Free
Seller
Siren Tech, LLC
Last update
10 months ago
Version OS
11.0 or later
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User Reviews for Drudge Report (Official)

2.36 out of 5
67 Ratings
8 months ago, AndroidWINS
Functionality review
The app is fairly rudimentary, as the site is. But it has some functionality issues. There are times where having the application open will pause background music/podcasts and you have to restart your music and close the app. That could be fixed. The “alerts” or “breaking news” pings are absolutely dumb in the way they work. There’s also a cache issue with photos that were on the page associated with links - you can see as you’re scrolling the images get replaced. Old images remain cached and aren’t properly replaced or cleared in a timely fashion upon opening the app again. Overall, Matt Drudge (if he even runs the site anymore) should be ashamed that this application runs so poorly. It’s not hard to find a company who could make an iOS app better than this. Even if it’s a simple site, the application should work properly as such.
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5 months ago, Tenmakk
Discovered Drudge sold this to the liberal Otto family under condition of secrecy
I know that Matt drudge had a falling out with Trump in 2018 and I thought that was the reason for the one sided stories against him, but As the articles on this website become more and more one-sided and selective, for example, the betting odds, they only reported on the one outdated betting and said that Biden now overwhelmingly favored to beat Trump when all of the other betting I’d say that Trump is favored, I decided to investigate myself and found that Matt drudge sold this website to the liberal anti trump Otto family under condition of secrecy that he never disclosed it was sold to them. Basically so that they can be fraudulent. They can pretend like it’s a conservative website saying negative things about Trump and about conservative so it looks like they have more credibility so people will think a conservative website is saying it. I think that’s really sad that this is the Otto families life work, tricking people. Stand up for what you believe. No matter what side you’re on. And make a difference that way. They use the same tactics they accuse trump of. They’re frauds.
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11 months ago, EodGhost
No longer relevant
Drudge Report used to be a decent (a term I will use loosely) fairly unbiased new reporting source. Fast forward 5 years later and it’s become nothing but a propaganda based, over the top leftist shell of its former self. When you are constantly posting stories from Yahoo, you know that a company has truly hit Rockbottom. Some of the absolutely worst “news” website used as links on the DrudgeReport page, have made in an irrelevant source for any reliable news. But hey, if you like senseless gossip sites like the Dailymail UK, TMZ, andthe National Enquirer, then you’ve come to the right place. Read, be angry and be stupid.
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8 months ago, DonGaudr
DrudgeReport is an oasis of sanity in crazed election cycle
For those up in arms that Drudge is no longer conservative, I say it is the MAGA movement that has moved so far right, they can’t even see the center of their once honorable party. As an independent who used to vote Republican a majority of the time, I watched the party disintegrate into performative outrage and a willingness to cow to the Big Liar who made misinformation part of the platform along with tactics that the Grand Old Party who drafted the 14th amendment would be ashamed to see. If that’s your cup of tea, you can scroll right by this truly balanced new aggregate and binge watch Tucker.
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3 months ago, storeE8
why so simple yet so broken all the time?
not a good app functionality wise.. most of the time lately it’s just the top 3 links and nothing else loads. which it’s nuts cause it’s just URL links and a refresh button, what’s the problem? doesn’t make sense
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2 months ago, keith5000
How is the app worse than the website?
The website is already a hot mess of intrusive ads that make the site mostly unusable. Somehow the app is even worse. 90% of the time it will load only a fraction of the news links. How can something be so bad like this and not on purpose? Is the Drudge Report finally dead?
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3 months ago, MikePalmHarbor
News sites???
What happened to the links to the news sites? One day they’re there, the next day they’re gone. Who the heck is supporting this site?
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2 months ago, dogboy55$
iPhone app not working right
V7.0.3 has taken away the ability to scroll. The “columns” icon does not work. You get bounced to a short list of urgent headlines - only. Where are the rest of the stories? All you can do is go back to the home page which is static.
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1 month ago, ChrisAEXM
Quality and content have taken a nosedive.
It really doesn't take much to see the rapid decline of this app and website. I will no longer be using it. Constant technical glitches. Content that has gone extremely skewed. Use at your own risk.
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1 year ago, Mtn Dave
Shouldn’t be in App Store
This App is nothing but a piece of junk! It’s about what one should expect from Matt Drudge. None of the links work…..except for the ones that link to advertising. It’s free, but it’s worth much less! Don’t waste your time downloading this piece of junk!
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3 weeks ago, Samlistenstopods
Terrible App, content is not what it used to be
App is very prone to crashes and audio interference if listening to music. The content has also become extremely biased and left-leaning. Used to be much closer to the center politically.
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7 months ago, Traveling Doge
Glitchy
Not a professionally designed app. Like the Drudge content, but this app is glitchy. The alerts page just jitters and randomly scrolls however it wants to. Surprisingly bad app for 2024.
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2 months ago, steven0687
Liberal news media
I had to delete it because they kept posting lies.. it was obvious when the dems wanted Biden out and now Drudge is boosting Harris as much as they can… they used to be fair but they swung to the far left now.. Trash report is more proper
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3 months ago, zosihater
Needs an update for IOS
I’m only getting about 3 news headlines on my phone. Updates are needed please
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6 months ago, Ansulman
Drudge app
I am to to taking this app off off my I pad. Use to be first opened in morning. Even with my I pad volume down loud stupid type banging comes on. How do you keep that off. It’s like an attention getting noise for what?
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2 months ago, NYC M&M
Real Conservative
A real Conservative who calls out the Fake Conservatives who are part of the MEGA Movement.
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3 months ago, ten_33
App Malfunctioning
24 hours… Drudge Report app (for iOS) will not fully load. Deleted. Re-loaded. Rebooted. No way to contact drudge.
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3 months ago, Scott Mahrle
Malfunctioning lately
What's going on with the Drudge app? It was showing only the first column for days, now only 2 headlines.
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6 months ago, rubbersoul13
Bias
Drudge suffers from pathetically transparent TDS bias. You can accurately predict the objective of the stories they will promote about 100%. If you want a soft hitting news aggregator that is always there to parrot the talking points of the DNC then this site is for you.
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6 months ago, jwizz2g
Decent app
Love the headline choices. But it needs dark mode
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3 months ago, Drudge Fan Steve M
Terrible app from a site that links to plagiarized news stories
Site links to plagiarized news stories and political coverage is neo-fascist left wing propaganda. Total waste of bandwidth.
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2 months ago, Hoff75
So long Drudge Report
After being a Drudge user for years today is the day I finally deleted this app. Garbage site for news.
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1 year ago, Scomackey
MSN links don’t work
Seems like MSN has infiltrated the report. NO story linked to MSN is found, it just leads to their landing page.
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1 year ago, Senhorbaker
Terrible content now
Leftist drivel. They drudge of last decade is gone. Pretty sure he has nothing to do with the content anymore, it’s more like tabloids for the left.
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1 year ago, Casy1030
Link to msn
There are always headlines that go to msn. The articles are never there. Deleting the app
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2 months ago, Atliens21
Horribly one sided
Would be nice to have a good mix but everything so polarized. Would pay to get just facts. Not endless editorializing articles.
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3 months ago, Another Pilotwill
Limited info
Only get the main headline.
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10 months ago, kakhdhzusksk
Bye bye
Used to be my mail news outlet… drudge has changed drastically. Just click bait and adds at this point.
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3 months ago, Nitram660
App update
The latest version of the app isn’t worth opening. Deleted!
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2 months ago, Shiz711
Such a shame…
What a great product Drudge USED to be. Now, just another leftist so called “news” page.
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6 months ago, OhGaPeach
Deleted ap
I used to like it but it’s not as good as it used to be…too woke and anti-conservative.
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3 months ago, 👽b3li3¥3£👽
Downhill
Yikes. This needs an update pushed asap
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8 months ago, cyhdbb5,$
Not working tonight
I can only open two stories tonight?? Reinstalling is no help!
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3 weeks ago, Sndkcucydbdbfb
Daily Source of Laughter
I look at this app everyday to laugh. It’s a joke. USA announces we want to strike Russia, but would rather put stupid drama as it’s top headline.
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3 months ago, thomasmichaelweber
Done with the propaganda!
After 20 years following Drudge, I’m done with this! The site continues to peddle and propagate lies and is entirely one-sided in political views. No more
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12 months ago, Stcybt
CNN msnbc drudge same news
Super left news if you don’t want a bias don’t download this
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1 month ago, NightGlass
Shame on Drudge
I used to love Drudge as it was relatively fair, but clearly he contracted an extreme case of DTS, and his bias now makes the website unreadable.
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3 months ago, Skywpilot
Terrible app
And it’s getting worse!
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1 year ago, Gaby.B.
Not working
It’s not working with the new iOS.
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2 months ago, What the fudge muffin
Leftist garbage “news” website
This is leftist news aggregator with Trump derangement syndrome
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1 year ago, Grant E.G.
Complete sell out…
Reminiscent of the “Enquirer” for gullible leftists. A cultist favorite. Stay clear of this biased trash.
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8 months ago, One_Cent
Garbage
App is full of spyware, cia junk propaganda site as well
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3 months ago, jclifford13
Worst app ever?
More like “Broken News.”
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9 months ago, ………………………..,?!
Misleading Headlines
Headlines are range from descriptive to click-bait to outright deception.
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1 year ago, Audiman67
Garbage
Trump hating garbage news
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10 years ago, shooting tanks
Ruined a great app
Today, and for the last several months, this app is a pain to use. But only a few months ago it was the best Drudge app and better than reading the Drudge site on a mobile browser. That was way back in version 3. Versions 4 and 5 seem to have completely rebuilt the app from scratch. Now this app is inferior to simply reading Drudge in my browser. I'm currently trying out alternative Drudge apps now, because after being a user of this app for years, I find it is no longer convenient or a pleasure to use. I'm severely disappointed because I used to get a lot of enjoyment and information from this app several times each day. It was my go-to when I had a spare minute of down time to kill anywhere, anytime. Now the app is absolutely incapable of showing me Drudge in the timeframe of a spare minute. And believe me, I've tried and tried. I hated to give up because I loved this app once. But now it simply won't perform. As others have said, it's slow, it refreshes and reframes spontaneously and it's riddled with app-store pop-up adds to the point that it's nearly unusable. I have to work hard to make it work. It's so frustrating. I rarely write reviews, but the unusually disappointing decline in quality of this once-great app has moved me to speak up about it.
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10 years ago, fr0rider
Love Drudge, Despise New App Version
Please, for the love, revert to the old version. You had a simple, clean UX that was a breeze to use. It was easy to get the news and fast. That, along with the moderate to conservative cultivation of news articles, is the unique value proposition of drudge. With the latest version you have destroyed a significant part of the value users come to drudge for - an easy, fast UX . This could be a classic case study in softdev industry - product mgr and/or developers thinking they have to change it up, add "fancy" new features, implementing new functionality because "it's technologically possible, etc, and in the process ruining the product. I won't belabor the specific issues. Others have listed those already. There are also several really annoying defects in the app that I have encountered in just two days of mild usage. Did you simply not test these changes at all? It's one thing to ruin the app with functionality users did not need or request. It's even worse to fill the app with bugs in the process. FWIW, I've been in softdev, IT Mgmt, and now consulting for 15 years. #NotANovice
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13 years ago, St8kout
This is the only Drudge app you need.
I have 3 other Drudge apps, one which I paid for and the others free, and I find myself always coming back to this one. It looks like the web page and updates often. I've only had it crash once but then again I update often, so, much like every piece of software on the planet, it won't always work correctly if you don't keep it updated. Yeah I know it's annoying but such is life in the information age. The paid version with the fancy colors falls behind on updating. Even now it's showing the same headline from a couple of hours ago and looks totally different from what is on the Drudge website at the moment. I suppose it would be handy if you want to look at old news you missed lol. Even after updating it still has not refreshed. Maybe if they fixed it, it would be worth the $.99 if you want to see a red bar at the top of the screen.
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10 years ago, SquigglyB
Bring back the old user interface
And a new annoyance. With the latest version, every time I bring up this barely functional sick joke of an app, it jumps to the App Store and tries to get me to download an advertiser's product. Shame on you. The latest version says "Maintenance." What is left to maintain? Yet another update and still no optimization for a mobile phone. The only reason these updates are coming is to reset the miserable ratings for the current version. My one-star rating stands. I agree with other assessments that this new version is basically the same as saving a bookmark to the home page. I wish I could give this zero stars. Another update and still no single-column mode. Do you expect me to stretch the screen and slide around? Or, do you expect me to use a microscope over my iPhone? Add a single-column mode setting and make it the default. Change solely for the sake of change is not necessarily change for the better. Words can't describe how much I hate the new interface. A mobile app that ignores the need for a mobile-friendly interface. Worthless, useless update. Always fullscreen? Did you think about mobile users with a smaller form factor? Change it back now! Why use an always fullscreen app when you can just load the webpage? Faster? Nope. Slower. Don't bother downloading this piece of junk version. Can you test your updates before putting out crippled ones?
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14 years ago, bkk1711
Works Great, Was Well Worth the Wait!
I can see the beaten-up schoolboy competitors are already out in force panning this app within minutes of its release. This app works great and has lots of improvements, without tampering with the 90s look of Drudge, which we all have grown to love. Those who criticize the look and feel couldn't possibly be genuine Drudge Report fans. If they were, they would already understand that only Mr Drudge himself has the right to alter the look of his site, and not need someone to point out this painfully obvious fact here. The app is merely for more easily accessing and reading Drudge on the iPhone. It does that task well for my purposes and that's all I expect from something that's FREE. Did I just hear the bell for 6th period ring? : )
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