DW - Breaking World News

Deutsche Welle

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New design, new navigation options, unlimited content, no ads, and no pop-ups. Receive independent news and analysis of the most important events from around the world on your smartphone or tablet.

The free DW App keeps you up to date on the most important news of the day and offers analysis on politics, business, science, culture, and travel.

- Modern design
- No pop-ups
- Push Notifications for Breaking News
- Available in 31 languages

DW is Germany's international broadcaster and a reliable source of news and information. The DW App makes accessing international news easier still, by offering articles, audio, and video directly on your cellphone or tablet. DW's team of journalists is active in news rooms around Europe and the world.

Updated on

Apr 15, 2026

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

3.5

23.3K reviews

Michael J. Delorme

March 13, 2026

As mentioned by others the app often crashes on my Pixel 8a. This has been happening for several months. The device is always up to date as well as the apps. Two days ago i updated android with the march 2026 update and today the app crashed once more.

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Deutsche Welle

March 18, 2026

We appologize for the inconvenience caused and kindly ask you to send an email with the error report and information on device, Android version and app version to info@dw.com. Thank you!

Claudio Delang

April 22, 2026

very nice articles, but sometimes the link doesn't work. When I ress on a title to open the article, it doesn't open. There is a bug somewhere.

Lim Wai Chung

April 20, 2026

Sir, why would your app getting suck? The only issue I encountered is the app will freeze after I cleaned tapped the notification. After all it's still okay for me

What’s new

- Picture-in-picture for live TV and full-screen videos when the app is moved to the background.
- Improved Android Car support.
- Search function for different languages.
- Bug fixes..

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