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SmartNews pricing
SmartNews publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the news tools listed alongside it.
As of 30 August 2026, SmartNews pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Free
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
SmartNews 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
Where SmartNews stops being free
Free, Free
- Trending news
- Local news
- Smart Mode reading
- Category channels
- Breaking news alerts
No paid tier on record
SmartNews lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full SmartNews 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.
Other
- Machine learning curation
- Smart Mode
- Local news
- Breaking alerts
- Offline reading
Integrations
- Social sharing
- News publishers
Platform
- Ios support
- Android support
People bring SmartNews in for daily news, local news, breaking news, quick reading. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to SmartNews are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in News
Too few news tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SmartNews (this page) | Free | free | - | |
| NetNewsWire | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs SmartNews |
| Reeder | Free, then $10/year | Per user per month | - | vs SmartNews |
| GlobeNewswire | On request | usage-based | - | vs SmartNews |
| ConvertKit | Free, then $33/month | freemium | - | vs SmartNews |
| Inoreader | Free, then $7.5/month | freemium | - | vs SmartNews |
| Ghost | Free, then $15/month | - | - | vs SmartNews |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the SmartNews badges page.
Before you pay for SmartNews
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: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
SmartNews runs on ios, android, and is published by SmartNews Inc of Tokyo, Japan & San Francisco, CA. The full record is on the SmartNews review, and the rest of the category is under best news tools.
SmartNews pricing questions
- How much does SmartNews cost?
- SmartNews publishes a single tier, Free, at Free.
- Does SmartNews have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers trending news, local news, smart mode reading.
- Which news tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 8 news tools listed alongside SmartNews have a free tier: NetNewsWire, Reeder, ConvertKit, Inoreader, Ghost.
- What am I actually paying for with SmartNews?
- The record lists 9 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for daily news, local news, breaking news.
- Does SmartNews charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 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 SmartNews 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 SmartNews against before paying?
- The closest news tools in this directory are NetNewsWire, Reeder, GlobeNewswire, ConvertKit. Each has a side-by-side comparison with SmartNews covering price, platforms and features.