The Comet
Newsquest News iPhoneiPadiPod touch
The Comet is a free News app for iPhone and iPad by Newsquest. Requires iOS 15.0. Updated August 14, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 145 MB
- Age 17+
- Updated
- Aug 14
- 2026 · v2.4
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About The Comet
At the Comet, we’re passionate about reporting on the issues that matter to our communities. We live and breathe our patch and we’re dedicated to telling your stories. If you love your local area as much as us, The Comet app is the best way to experience all of the latest content at your fingertips. With The Comet you can go beyond your weekly newspaper and read the most up-to-date news and views from Stevenage, Hitchin, Letchworth, Baldock and the surrounding areas. Always on-hand and instantly accessible, this tailor-made app is updated daily and designed to fit into your lifestyle whether you’re at home or on the go. The Comet app is the best way to keep up to date with all the breaking news, sports and events in Stevenage and the surrounding areas and gives you the following great features… • Live Updates: Get the latest Stevenage news, events and sport as it happens • Ad-Free Reading: No ads, no pop-ups, no distractions • Weekly Digital Newspapers: Read the paper in full, cover to cover • Interactive Puzzles: Play new crosswords, sudoku and more every day • Article Audio Player: Listen to articles and create content playlists All subscriptions are auto-renewing. Payment for this subscription will be charged to your Apple account upon purchase. The subscription will auto-renew within 24 hours of the current subscription expiring, at the same rate as the initial purchase. Auto-renewing subscriptions can be managed via Account Settings allowing them to be turned off. No cancellations of the current subscription are allowed during the active subscription period. Privacy Policy - https://www.newsquest.co.uk/our-policies/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use - https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s new
Version 2.4 · Updated August 14, 2026
Introducing My Content – your personalised space for reading: • Your News Feed: See more of what matters to you • Reading History: Track what you’ve read over the past month and when • Saved articles: Quickly find content you’ve saved for later Audio player improvements: • Adjust playback speed • Smoother, more intuitive listening experience
App privacy
The developer, Newsquest, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- User Content: Other User Content
- Usage Data: Advertising Data
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Contact Info: Email Address
- User Content: Other User Content
Used for: App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Location: Coarse Location
- Identifiers: User ID, Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction, Advertising Data, Other Usage Data
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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