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Apple News pricing
Apple News publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
Apple News plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple News | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Apple News+ | $12.99/month | 5 | +$12.99/month, 5 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Apple News
FreeThe entry tier. It covers free news articles, personalized feed, topic following, save articles.
Apple News+
$12.99/monthOver Apple News, this tier adds:
- Premium magazines
- Major newspapers
- Audio stories
- Family sharing
- Offline reading
Where Apple News stops being free
Apple News, Free
- Free news articles
- Personalized feed
- Topic following
- Save articles
Apple News+, $12.99/month
The first thing you pay for:
- Premium magazines
- Major newspapers
- Audio stories
- Family sharing
- Offline reading
What the product covers
The full Apple News feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Curated news feed
- Premium magazines
- Audio stories
- Personalization
- Offline reading
Integrations
- iCloud
- Apple One bundle
- Siri
- Spotlight
Platform
- Ios support
- Macos support
People bring Apple News in for daily news reading, magazine subscription, news discovery, staying informed. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Apple News are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Apple News
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and $12.99/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Apple News runs on ios, macos, and is published by Apple Inc of Cupertino, CA. The full record is on the Apple News review.
Apple News pricing questions
- How much does Apple News cost?
- Apple News publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Apple News up to $12.99/month for Apple News+. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Apple News have a free plan?
- Yes. The Apple News tier costs nothing and covers free news articles, personalized feed, topic following. Paying starts at $12.99/month for Apple News+.
- What is the difference between Apple News and Apple News+ on Apple News?
- Apple News+ costs $12.99/month against Free, and adds premium magazines, major newspapers, audio stories, family sharing.
- What am I actually paying for with Apple News?
- The record lists 11 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for daily news reading, magazine subscription, news discovery.
- Does Apple News charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Apple News prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Apple News against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Apple News to make a useful price comparison.