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The Comet

Newsquest

Free download In-app purchases
Open on Apple

About this app

At the Comet, we’re passionate about reporting on the issues that matter to our communities. We live and breathe our patch and we’re dedicated to telling your stories. If you love your local area as much as us, The Comet app is the best way to experience all of the latest content at your fingertips. With The Comet you can go beyond your weekly newspaper and read the most up-to-date news and views from Stevenage, Hitchin, Letchworth, Baldock and the surrounding areas. Always on-hand and instantly accessible, this tailor-made app is updated daily and designed to fit into your lifestyle whether you’re at home or on the go. The Comet app is the best way to keep up to date with all the breaking news, sports and events in Stevenage and the surrounding areas and gives you the following great features… • Live Updates: Get the latest news, events and sport as it happens • Ad-Free Reading: No ads, no pop-ups, no distractions • Weekly Digital Newspapers: Read the paper in full, cover to cover • Interactive Puzzles: Play new crosswords, sudoku and more every day • Article Audio Player: Listen to articles and create content playlists All subscriptions are auto-renewing. Payment for this subscription will be charged to your Apple account upon purchase. The subscription will auto-renew within 24 hours of the current subscription expiring, at the same rate as the initial purchase. Auto-renewing subscriptions can be managed via Account Settings allowing them to be turned off. No cancellations of the current subscription are allowed during the active subscription period. Privacy Policy - https://www.newsquest.co.uk/our-policies/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use - https://www.newsquest.co.uk/legal/terms-conditions/

Latest release

What’s New

Version 2.3 Feb 27, 2026

Framework fixes and improvements

Audience growth

Ratings growth

Steady
7-day gain +0
Ratings / day 0.0
30-day gain +0
US rating-count history
0 ratings
0 Aug 11, 2026 · 0 ratings Aug 11, 2026

Baseline captured. Growth appears after the crawler observes a changed rating count.

Momentum comes from crawler snapshots for the tracked storefront. “Viral growth signal” means unusually fast recent rating gains; it is an indicator, not download data.

Price tracking

Price intelligence

1 captured event
Current Free
Historical low Free
Paid → free
Price history
Current Free
Free Aug 11, 2026 · Free Aug 11, 2026

First snapshot captured. The trend line starts after the next crawler price observation.

  1. First observed Aug 11, 2026 · 6:43 AM Free

Screenshots

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