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The free Ground News alternative
Ground News made one idea popular: before you trust a headline, see who else is reporting the story and how. grouped.news is built on the same idea. It collects reports from many publishers, groups the ones about the same event into one story, and links to every original article. The difference is that all of it is free, and it works outside the US too.
See today's grouped stories, or read on for how the two compare.
Right now on grouped.news
- Trump Approval Hits 36% as Midterms Near (18 publishers)
- Russia Agrees to Resume Trilateral Talks with Ukraine and US (20 publishers)
- DOJ noncitizen voter list disputed in California (16 publishers)
Sites like Ground News, compared
| Price | One story, many outlets | Bias information | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ground News | Free version; Vantage $8.33/month billed annually | Yes; full comparison in Vantage | Left/center/right and factuality per outlet, from rating agencies |
| Google News | Free | Full Coverage view per story | None |
| AllSides | Free to read | Three outlets: left, center, right | Its own rating per outlet |
| grouped.news | Free, no account | Every outlet it follows that covered the story | How each outlet framed this story (US stories) |
Google News is the most common free pick, but it does not tell you how outlets differ. AllSides shows three outlets per story, picked as left, center and right. grouped.news lists every outlet it follows that covered the story, and on US stories reads how each one framed it.
Two more names come up on most lists. Media Bias/Fact Check rates news sources for political bias and factual reporting; it does not group stories. The Flip Side is a weekday morning email with the best points from liberal and conservative media, starting with a free trial. Neither puts every outlet's report on one story page.
What a story page shows
These are screenshots of a real story page from 19 October 2026, Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, which 18 publishers had covered by then.
What is different
Free, with no account
Ground News has a free version, but its full coverage comparison, Blindspot analysis and bias dashboard are part of its paid Vantage plan. On grouped.news every story page shows every outlet covering the story, with nothing locked. There is nothing to sign up for unless you want the morning email.
Each story, not each outlet
Ground News labels each outlet's overall political lean and factuality, averaged from outside rating agencies. Those labels describe a publication, not the article in front of you, and they are drawn on a US political scale. grouped.news looks at the article instead. On US stories it places each outlet by how it framed this story, how sensational it was, how loaded its wording was and how one-sided it read, so you can see which outlet stands apart on this particular event. An AI model makes those readings, and it can be wrong, so every outlet's own headline sits next to its reading.
News from your own country
grouped.news has editions for the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Finland, Hungary, Romania, Russia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Latin America and the Middle East. Each one is built from local publishers and written in the local language, so a German reader compares German newsrooms, not US ones.
A short morning email
The morning briefingsends the day's most widely covered stories to your inbox at breakfast, each linking to the full comparison.
When Ground News is the better fit
If you want a left, center and right label on every outlet, a Blindspot feed of stories one side ignores, or a dashboard of your own reading habits, Ground News has those and grouped.news does not. It also has mobile apps. grouped.news is a website.
How grouped.news works
Every hour grouped.news reads the public feeds of the publishers it follows (every three hours for country editions). It matches reports about the same event by their headlines and puts them into one story. Each story gets a short summary and a page listing every report, when it was filed and who filed it. The summary is written by AI and can contain mistakes, so the original reporting is always one click away. The full list of sources is on each story page, and publishers can see how they appear on For publishers.
Questions
Is Ground News free?
Partly. Ground News has a free version that lets you compare sources on a story by bias rating, location and publication time. Its Vantage plan, $8.33 a month billed annually as of October 2026, adds Blindspot analysis, full coverage comparison, bias and factuality ratings and a personal news bias dashboard. Some public libraries also offer Ground News free with a library card; Herrick District Library in Michigan announced it in February 2026.
Is grouped.news free?
Yes. Every story page, every country edition and the morning email are free, and you don't need an account. The site shows ads, which pay for running it.
Does grouped.news rate outlets as left or right?
No. Instead of a fixed label per outlet, it reads how each outlet wrote this particular story: its framing, how sensational it is, its loaded language and its slant. The reading comes from an AI model and can be wrong, so the outlet's own headline is always shown next to it.
Can I read news from outside the US?
Yes. Besides the US front page there are editions for the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Finland, Hungary, Romania, Russia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Latin America and the Middle East, each built from local publishers in the local language.
Is there a grouped.news app?
Not in the app stores. grouped.news is a website that works on phones, and you can add it to your home screen from your browser's share or menu button, where it opens like an app.
Does grouped.news get me past paywalls?
No. It links to the original articles, and any publisher's subscription rules still apply there.
Start with today's stories or get the free morning email. Also see how grouped.news compares with AllSides. Or compare the two: Ground News vs AllSides.
Ground News is a trademark of its owner. grouped.news is not affiliated with it. Plan details are from the Ground News subscribe page and FAQ as of 17 October 2026, and the Herrick District Library post of 9 February 2026, and may change. Media Bias/Fact Check and The Flip Side details are from their about page and homepage as of 21 October 2026. Google News, AllSides, Media Bias/Fact Check and The Flip Side are trademarks of their owners.