Opera News: breaking & local

Name: Opera News: breaking & local
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.380000114440918 (681201 reviews)
Author: Opera

Opera

Contains ads

4,4

681K reviews

100M+

Downloads

PEGI 12

About this app

Opera News is a completely localised and personalised news app. It lets you follow trending topics, watch and share funny videos, and save up to 80% of your data

Features:

Local South African & International News
Daily News stories from hundreds of leading publishers collected in one free news app giving you the best local South African News and World News. Make sure you never miss the most important headlines on any topic including celebrity news, health news, business news, sports highlights, World News, African headlines and more.

• Personalised Content:
Powered by our most powerful AI news engine, Opera News delivers real-time, AI-curated content according to your interests. Follow your favourite channels to see topics personalised just for you. The more you use the app, the better it becomes. Your preferences and personal information are kept completely secure; Opera News will never share your private data with anyone.

• Data Savings
Save up to 80% of your mobile data with our unique advanced compression technology.

• Offline Reading:
Save news stories to your phone while connected to Wi-Fi and read them later offline without using data.

• Trending Videos:
We collect the latest trending videos for you to enjoy. Upload video clips from any website and share them on Opera News to share with over 350 million global active users. This is a collection of the latest entertaining and trending videos for you to enjoy and share with friends.

• Search News:
Want to know what the latest trending searches are? Want to find news about a specific topic or person? Opera News now features a search bar that gives you suggestions on top trending searches and lets you search for specific topics or people to read about or follow.

• My Interest Graph:
You can get personalised topic recommendations based on what you have followed by adding personal preferences, so when you open the app you see only what is relevant to you.

• News Push Notification:
Receive important breaking news alerts directly on your home screen. Always stay updated about what is happening around you.

Football Highlights & Football News:
Stay on top of the latest football updates, football matches and news with access to all international competitions including Premier League, Serie A, La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1! Subscribe for updates on your favourite clubs and get all the football live news and scores, including premier league news.

• Save Your Favourites:
Bookmark good finds and save articles to read later - even when offline!

Dark mode:
Allows you to comfortably read breaking news and real-time updates at night or in low-light conditions.

Terms & Conditions:
By downloading this application, you are agreeing to the End User Licence Agreement at https://www.opera.com/eula/mobile

Updated on

01 Sept 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, Personal info and 4 others

Data is encrypted in transit

You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4,4

664K reviews

Jamie Norton

29 August 2025

This app is great for news, like the layout and news/information it provides, so why one star? Simple, the notifications!! So annoying, doesn't matter what setting I have the notifications set to, I get bombarded with news notifications. Just way too many. I've set it to standard, to low and I've even turn off notifications in the app and still get them!! Please sort it

133 people found this review helpful

Opera

02 September 2025

We appreciate your kind words about the app's layout and content! It sounds like the notification settings aren't working as they should, which can be quite overwhelming. Thank you for sharing this feedback; we’ve escalated your concerns internally. Your experience matters to us! The Opera Team

Vincent

24 September 2025

Useless app, their is no option to unblock things, for example I went to block a news provider due to there pay to reject cookies policy (which sadly seems to be the majority of news sources on the app) and accidentally hit block news from my local area by mistake, if you are going to allow us to block news sources or even locations, you should give us an option to see what we've blocked with an unblock option for when mistakes happen, using a different news app now as fed up with this app

Opera

24 September 2025

Hello Vincent, We appreciate your feedback regarding the blocking feature. It's important to us that users have control over their experience, and we recognize the need for an option to manage blocked sources or locations. Thank you for sharing your thoughts; they help us understand user needs better. Regards, The Opera Team.

PA C

22 August 2025

I was looking for something better than Google news and thought I found it. Sadly, I did not. I really liked where this was going with the layout and trending news items etc, but the ads were SO overwhelming it undermines most positives about the app. I've only had the app for less than 10 minutes and 5 tiktok ads have popped up forcing me to wait to exit. Who is giving all these great reviews?? So people like intrusive gaming and TT ads? Baffling and questionable. Nope! it's a no from me!

100 people found this review helpful

Opera

27 August 2025

Hi PA C, we appreciate your feedback about the ads in the app. It’s important for us to know how our users feel. Your insights are valuable, and we'll keep them in mind as we strive to enhance the experience for everyone. Thank you for sharing your thoughts! Regards, Opera Team

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