BBC: World News & Stories for PC - Free Download: Windows 10/11 Edition

★ ★ ★ BBC Overview

What is BBC? The BBC News app is a trusted source of breaking news from around the world. It allows users to personalise their news feed with My News, add topics of interest, and search for specific content. The app offers a full selection of stories from the newsroom, including popular stories, video stories, and live BBC World Service Radio. Other features include push notifications, video over cellular and wifi, improved offline experience, viewing modes, and support for dynamic text.

Software Features and Description

1. Choose from the familiar list of BBC News indexes such as Business, Technology, Entertainment and Health, or search for your own subjects of interest, whether they’re people, places, things or themes.

2. The app can suggest topics based on stories you’ve recently viewed and what’s in the news now.

3. Stories from topics you add will appear in your personalised My News feed.

4. If you choose to receive push notifications, a unique identifier relating to your device will be stored by Airship on behalf of the BBC to provide you with the service.

5. You can choose to unsubscribe from push notifications from BBC News in your device’s ‘Notifications’ screen.

6. Here you can order stories by topic or time to stay on top of the news of the day.

7. Add topics wherever you see the + icon for a quick route straight to the stories you care about.

8. The BBC News app brings you the latest, breaking news from our trusted global network of journalists.

9. - Related stories, related topics.

10. Topics can be added, removed or re-ordered using the Edit function.

11. And you can quickly find topics that interest you using the Search tab.

12. Liked BBC? here are 5 News apps like News Republic-World News,Video; Sky News: Breaking, UK & World; Euronews: World news & TV; World Newspapers - 200 countries; CBN News - Breaking World News;

Download and install BBC: World News & Stories on your computer

GET Compatible PC App

App	Download	Rating	Maker
BBC	Get App ↲	70,896 4.55	BBC Worldwide

Or follow the guide below to use on PC:

Select Windows version:

Windows 10
Windows 11

Install BBC: World News & Stories app on your Windows in 4 steps below:

Download an Android emulator for PC:
Get either Bluestacks or the Nox App >> . We recommend Bluestacks because you can easily find solutions online if you run into problems while using it. Download Bluestacks PC software Here >> .

Install the emulator:
On your computer, goto the Downloads folder » click to install Bluestacks.exe or Nox.exe » Accept the License Agreements » Follow the on-screen prompts to complete installation.

Using BBC on PC [Windows 10/ 11]:

Open the Emulator app you installed » goto its search bar and search "BBC"
The search will reveal the BBC: World News & Stories app icon. Open, then click "Install".
Once BBC is downloaded inside the emulator, locate/click the "All apps" icon to access a page containing all your installed applications including BBC.
Now enjoy BBC on PC.

Download a Compatible APK for PC

Download	Developer	Rating	Current version
Get APK for PC →	BBC Worldwide	4.55	2024.6.0

Download on Windows 11

For Windows 11, check if there's a native BBC Windows app here » ». If none, follow the steps below:

To get started, Download the OpenPC software »
- Upon installation, open OpenPC app » goto "Playstore on PC" » click "Configure_Download" button. This will auto-download and install PlayStore on your computer.

To use BBC,
- Login to the PlayStore we just installed
- Search for "BBC" » then Click "Install".
- BBC: World News & Stories will now be available on your Windows start-menu.

Minimum requirements	Recommended
8GB RAM SSD Storage Processor: Intel Core i3, AMD Ryzen 3000 Architecture: x64 or ARM64	16GB RAM HDD Storage

Get BBC on Apple macOS

Download	Developer	Reviews	Rating
Get Free on Mac	BBC Worldwide	70896	4.55

Download on Android: Download Android

BBC: World News & Stories functions

- Personalised news feed with My News

- Add topics of interest with the + icon

- Order stories by topic or time

- Edit function to add, remove, or re-order topics

- Suggestions for topics based on recently viewed stories

- Search tab to find specific content

- Full selection of stories from the newsroom

- Popular stories and most watched videos

- One-minute World News summary and latest video stories

- Live BBC World Service Radio

- Push notifications for important news stories

- Video over cellular and wifi

- Improved offline experience

- Viewing modes, including compact layout

- Settings to allow automatic app updates

- Share stories to social networks or email/SMS

- Support for dynamic text

- Related stories and topics for further reading and viewing

- Secure storage of unique device identifier for push notifications

- Option to unsubscribe from push notifications

- BBC Privacy and Cookies Policy and Terms of Use

✔ Pros:

- Great quality news with customized news feeds

- Fine, balanced reporting with clear, grammatical, properly spelled & punctuated prose

- Easy navigation with customizable topics focus

☹ Cons:

- Annoying user interface that always goes back to the top of the list when returning to it

- Video commercials auto-play with annoying sound even when settings are set to never auto-play video

- App focuses mostly on distressing news throughout the world and repeats it ad nauseum, failing miserably in wider coverage

Top Pcmac Reviews

If only I could SEE it...

By Podkayne 42 (Pcmac user)

Fine, balanced reporting: check. Clear, grammatical, properly spelled & punctuated prose: check. (Getting hard to find in Leftpondia. Bless the Beeb.) Easy navigation: check. Customizable topics focus: check. Readable font: not so much. I don't know what the font is called, but it makes me squint. It looks very stylish and modern; 20 years ago I might have loved it. But the sans serif font is so fine-lined as to appear pale gray on the white background, a low-contrast combination that strains the eye. I searched in vain for controls to adjust the display. I followed the app support link, but was directed to use my iPad’s controls. Well, really. I already did that and I’m still having trouble. Besides, iPad’s “smart invert” option screws up photos. Ironically, when I read about a playground for kids with disabilities, the text display was in a nice bold white font on black ground—very high contrast and so easy to read! Now why not let me choose that all the time? In a perfect world, I would also get to choose specific fonts (Bookerly, anyone?), foregrounds, and backgrounds. (I am fond of yellow on navy blue, but your mileage may vary.) Someday.... So, developers, you lose two whole stars for making it hard for me to use your otherwise five-star app.
Very pessimistic

By Botchybear (Pcmac user)

This app focuses mostly on the distressing news throughout the world. It repeats it ad nauseum. There is so much news out there, it would be good for this app to broaden its horizons. It gives a bit of news from the most "noisy" places (repeatedly), but fails miserably in wider coverage. If it's not bad news, this app doesn't cover it. Except of course for the little Royals. Now that's cute. The main problem that I have with it is that if you want to read one of the stories and you happen to be way down in the column on the story, when you finish reading it and go back to the column it puts you all the way back up to the top of the column instead of where you were. That is extremely frustrating have to go all the way back down to the bottom of the column where you were!!!
New bug

By JNC23x (Pcmac user)

Great app for content; not so much for quality user interface. Even though settings are set to never auto-play video, video commercials do indeed auto-play with annoying sound immediately starting. Shame on the program for allowing that. The practice of always going back to the top of the list when returning to it is also lazy programming just because the list is now different from what it last was as the user entered it. If I want to see “new news”, allow me to refresh it manually. Otherwise find the article where I was (reinsert it into the master list if it is no longer there) and allow me to see the rest so that I can choose which one I want to read next.
Great app but has an annoying feature

By DaveyRavey79 (Pcmac user)

Great quality news with customized news feeds. As an expat in the USA it’s good to get more worldly news. But it has a small yet annoying thing. When you are reading an article and go back to the news listing you are sent back to the top of list. This is annoying as you have to then scroll all the way back to where you were. I’ve used many other news app and none have this and returns you to the place you were before. Not major but wish they would fix it