TRT Haber is a news application providing live broadcast streams and real-time updates for Turkish-language audiences on iOS and Android.
Product velocity
Maintenance
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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News
Sentiment
3.8
12k reviews
Nemesis
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The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire TRT Haber for verified, institutional-grade journalism that avoids the misinformation risks inherent in crowdsourced social platforms.
For Turkish news consumers seeking real-time updates and live broadcast access from a national broadcaster.
What does it look like?
Key features
Streaming of the TRT Haber television channel within the mobile interface.
Push notifications for instant updates on current events.
Direct integration of the trthaber.com news feed into the mobile application.
How much does it cost?
Ad-supported model providing full content access without subscription gates.
Velocity
Maintenance developmentperformanceopaqueShow more...
The app exhibits a maintenance-level cadence, with only two releases identified over the last six months. The latest release occurred in April 2026, following a significant gap since the previous update in November 2025. Development is currently focused exclusively on performance and stability, with no evidence of new features or live operations. The release frequency is well below the threshold for active development.
Who built it?
Turkiye Radyo ve Televizyon Kurumu
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What do users think recently?
Fresh user feedback skews mixed.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
Not enough recent reviews to extract reliable themes yet.
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Competitive landscape for TRT Haber
How's the News market?
TRT Haber maintains a global presence, appearing in the top 100 News & Magazines charts across 15+ international markets. The consistent chart performance signals strong brand recognition, though the ad-supported model faces increasing pressure from subscription-based investigative rivals.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By Togetter Inc.
Togetter competes for the same attention share by aggregating real-time social discourse, acting as a primary news discovery engine for users who prefer crowdsourced narratives over traditional editorial content.
- Integrates Grok AI for real-time summarization of complex social media threads and trending topics
- Leverages massive network effects from X integration to provide faster news discovery than traditional outlets
- Offers premium subscription tiers that gate advanced curation tools and ad-free browsing experiences
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Key takeaways for TRT Haber
Where is it heading?
The news market is consolidating around AI-driven aggregation, leaving traditional editorial apps like TRT Haber exposed to churn. The PM must transition from a maintenance-heavy update cadence to active feature investment to prevent further erosion of the user base.
- Technical instability in the latest release erodes the daily active habit, which compounds the rating drag already visible on Android.
- Recent updates focused on stability, no feature expansion, signaling a maintenance-heavy posture rather than aggressive growth.
The SWOT
- Institutional authority as a national broadcaster provides a high-trust barrier against social-media misinformation
- Integrating lightweight AI summarization could bridge the speed gap with social-first aggregators
Next best moves
Ship personalized news feeds because users demand content relevant to their interests → increase daily active usage
The counter-intuitive read
The app's lack of a subscription gate is…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
AI-driven news summarization (available in Togetter but missing here) +1
Since the last report: The report identifies new technical instability as a core threat to retention and pivots the competitive focus toward AI-driven social news aggregators.
Bottom line
TRT Haber defends its market share through institutional authority, but the lack of personalized engagement loops leaves it exposed to social-first rivals, so the PM should prioritize a feed-personalization sprint to retain younger users.
Unlock 1 critical friction, 1 market threat and the analyst’s take.
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- [1] Play Store listing, source
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