Top 5 News Apps in the Middle East for Q3 2025: Unified Platform Overview

In the third quarter of 2025, the top news applications in the Middle East demonstrated varied performance across downloads, revenue, and active user metrics on a unified platform. This analysis, provided by Sensor Tower, offers insights into these key trends.

X experienced fluctuating weekly revenue, peaking at around $287K in late July, before settling to approximately $177K by the end of September. Downloads showed a consistent increase, reaching 120K in the last week of September. However, active users saw a gradual decline from 17M to about 15.7M over the quarter.

The app הארץ - חדשות | Haaretz maintained steady weekly revenue growth, ending the quarter with approximately $23.6K. Downloads remained relatively stable, with a slight uptick to 445 by the quarter's end. Active users increased from 33.5K to 35.6K, indicating a positive engagement trend.

For Radio thmanyah: Podcast, Books, weekly revenue varied significantly, peaking at around $29.6K at the beginning of September. Downloads saw a sharp decline from 58K in early August to under 2K by the end of September. Active users followed a similar downward trend, decreasing from 120K to about 95K.

Bloomberg: Business News Daily showed steady revenue, closing the quarter with a slight increase to $17.5K. Downloads hovered around 900 per week, while active users gradually increased from 6.3K to just under 7K.

Lastly, TheMarker - דה מרקר saw consistent weekly revenue, ending at approximately $7.9K. Downloads were stable, with a slight increase to 233 at the end of September, while active users remained around 8.3K.

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