DW - Breaking World News

2.6
25K reviews
10L+
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Content rating
USK: Ages 6+
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About this app

The go-to news app for local heroes

Get unbiased, international news and information on the world’s most pressing issues. The free DW app for tablets and mobiles keeps you up-to-date with the latest headlines and in-depth coverage of everything from business, science and politics to arts, culture and sports.

The DW app provides you with the information you need to shape and understand your world – quick, direct, uncomplicated and completely ad-free right in your hands.

Key features
- Instant access to the latest news and headlines
- On-demand audio and video content from the DW Media Center
- Stream all DW programming live
- Write your comments directly in the app
- Offline mode for better accessibility
- Text mode for low-bandwidth access
- Support for Chromecast
- Push notifications
- Content in 31 languages

DW is Germany's international broadcaster and a trusted source for reliable, unbiased news and information. The DW app makes access to international news easier than ever, with articles, audio and video content. DW’s team of journalists reports from Europe and foreign bureaus around the world.

Germany has long been known for reliability, precision, efficiency, quality and innovation. DW has wrapped all of these attributes into one app, to make sure that you don’t waste any of your precious time getting the news that you want.
Updated on
30 Apr 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Device or other IDs
This app may collect these data types
Location, App activity and App info and performance
Data is encrypted in transit

Ratings and reviews

2.6
23.2K reviews
Mischa Gorinskat
22 November 2022
The newest app gives me all the resistance it has in its power to prevent me from catching up. Continuously reloading pages once they just flashed on the screen or not loading any content at all are 98% of the interaction i have with this application. The other 2% it actually works acceptable, still tediously slow in comparison with the previous version. DW can you please ensure a more stable news experience for your readers, your content is great and your previous app was too.
54 people found this review helpful
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Sara Minoli
2 January 2023
After the latest update, the dw app got worse. The biggest issue I found is that the live TV gets stuck on one image and then only the sound works. Also, the loading time of home pages and articles is extremely slow. I'm using it on Android. Hope these issues will be fixed soon, because content wise this is a great source of information. Thank you.
40 people found this review helpful
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Juan Cadavid
26 October 2022
After the latest update I have to say that this app has gotten really bad. The previous version was easy to navigate and scroll... no fuss at all. Plain and simple... This new updated version crashes at least once before being able to open it. The news overview tries to cram everything together. Scrolling is dificult as it either stalls or simply jumps to the right section as if I were swiping... Why has this been updated at all if it was working just fine? I see no improvement at all!
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What's new

We are gradually revamping our language offerings. With the new release, content on the redesigned languages can be saved to a bookmark list again. The bookmark list is accessible via an icon in the tab bar. Existing bookmarks are migrated to the new structure. We support now Dark Mode.