# Dawn - Official Mobile App — user reviews > 179 indexed App Store user reviews of Dawn by Dawn Media Group, rated 2.10/5 from 117 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dawn-official-mobile-app/id935631940/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dawn-official-mobile-app/id935631940.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 15 · 4★ 14 · 3★ 8 · 2★ 16 · 1★ 64 ## What do users think of Dawn? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Good tech support - 🚀 Nice interface - 💡 Tabdeeli agayi hai! **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes and freezes - 🐛 Scrolling issues - 🐛 Bugs and glitches - 🐛 Unstable and unreliable - 🐛 Frequent crashes - 🐛 Compatibility issues with iOS 12 - 👎 Unreadable small font size - 👎 Poor user experience - 👎 Ads overlay content **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes on launch - Scrolling issues within articles - Compatibility problems with iOS 12 - Frequent freezing and unresponsiveness **Most requested features** - Update the app for iOS 12 - Improve font size and readability - Add more customization options - Enhance the overall user experience ## Newest reviews (18 of 179) ### 2/5 — Hardly functional as an app *2026-04-24, version 2.6.5* Crashed and then said “no data to display” ### 2/5 — Please Update *2025-05-24* Update your application, you have many iPhone users who regularly read Dawn. ### 2/5 — Coronavirus header *2023-11-26, version 2.6.3* Can you please remove coronavirus header on the main page of the app? ### 2/5 — Update and a new UI needed.. *2023-04-20* @Developer.. kindly update the app and please change the UI. It often is useless. ### 3/5 — Glitches *2022-03-13, version 2.6.1* Dawn is the best app for its content but unfortunately it has so many bugs and glitches after recent iOS updates. ### 3/5 — Not scrolling *2022-03-10, version 2.6* Im having a problem of scrolling the news article whenever I try to open it. The app is updated on my phone as per the latest version but the problem persists! Would love to have this fixed asap ### 1/5 — Crashes and does not let me comment *2022-03-10, version 2.6* Need to better to enhance app stability ### 1/5 — Since the last update app is not working properly *2022-03-10, version 2.6* It freezes when heading is tapped and content is displayed. Please resolve Thanks ### 2/5 — Scroll not working *2022-03-08, version 2.6* Since a couple of days, the scroll on any news story is not working. It is just working on the home screen. This same issue was happening a year or two back. Clearly whoever fixed it didn’t fix it properly. ### 1/5 — Just use the website *2022-03-07, version 2.6* The newspaper is good, the app is just plain crappy ### 1/5 — App freezing *2022-03-05, version 2.6* I am on iPhone 11 with IOS 15. This Dawn App is constantly freezing on my phone when in use. As it stands it is largely unusable. Also the web based Dawn is not stable and is constantly jumping up an down. Some serious software upgrades are needed. ### 1/5 — Glitches *2022-03-05, version 2.6* Omg what a mess update …. App crashes…. Scrolling stop working….. ### 1/5 — App crashes frequently. *2021-10-06, version 2.5.3* This app crashes frequently. I have been trying this app ever since it was launched on iOS. A new version initially works for a little bit, then eventually crashes. If an article is opened, it will just show a spinning logo, no way to go back to main screen. Why make an app when you don’t know how? Just stick to dawn.com website. ### 2/5 — Needs update *2021-09-05* Keeps on crashing and freezing. Extremely annoying. ### 1/5 — App hangs *2021-03-07, version 2.5.3* App hangs when you open any news headline to read it in detail . You cannot scroll down to read that news in full ### 1/5 — Full of bugs *2021-03-02, version 2.5.1* This is the most bug prone app on my phone. Interface is very basic but still hard to navigate as simple gestures such as clicks and swipes stop working here. They can pay some decent app developers to make an app that matches the quality of their news contemt ### 2/5 — Scrolling issues *2021-03-01, version 2.5* App used to crash a lot and now with latest update, scrolling through an article/news is horrible. It moves in millimeters. ### 1/5 — New update *2021-02-28, version 2.5* I don’t know why newspaper like Dawn has such a bad app The new app which u update can’t have the news scroll down Your app team need to be fired ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — App Lacks many Essential Features. Sorry excuse for a news app. *2026-04-14* External links always crash the app. App shows a maximum of the 24 most recent articles. No sorting category sections at all. Tapping DAWN's own hyperlinks causes the article to load in an in-app Web-Based view. Recently the app introduced full screen pop-up video ads. ### 1/5 — Spend some money on your app *2025-01-24, version 2.6.5* App keep getting shut, and it needs so much improvement ### 1/5 — App Lacks many Essential Features. Sorry excuse for a news app. *2024-03-02, version 2.6.5* External links always crash the app. App shows a maximum of the 24 most recent articles. No sorting category sections at all. Tapping DAWN's own hyperlinks causes the article to load in an in-app Web-Based view. This is a very sorry excuse for a news app. Steer clear. ### 1/5 — Unprofessional. Basic. *2024-02-22, version 2.6.5* This application encapsulates Pakistan. Far behind in technology, too basic to compare and no care for feedback on improvement, so remains in a pathetic state. There's so much unprofessionalism by the developer that the "update" window doesn't go away despite updating the app. The description of the update was also two words, one of which was update. ### 1/5 — Bad app *2024-02-08, version 2.6.3* Such a bad IT they have. Every time it stucks when I open it🙄 ### 1/5 — Good paper, useless app *2023-05-13, version 2.6.3* Mostly dysfunctional ### 1/5 — Poor *2023-04-07, version 2.6.3* Poor and unstable site. Get back to the drawing board!! ### 1/5 — Unable to post comments *2022-05-20* Option to post comments is not available. ### 1/5 — Bugs abound - crashes often *2022-05-02, version 2.6.3* The technical aspects of the app are clearly dodgy and it is badly written. Often requiring restarts to just use it normally. ### 1/5 — Scrolling *2022-03-11* Oh you jokers, you said you fixed the scroll but now you introduced another issue where the text at the bottom is getting truncated. What a shame! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Need update *2018-10-20* Thank you for updating the app. I am updating my previous comment, due to further issues regarding this update. I personally feel that readers are more interested in reading the text written, rather than the photos shown. This new update shows photos large ( larger than before) attached with the news For example OPINION sections. And the text size has gone very small, which is still acceptable but not convenient since zooming in an out to read is a big hassle. Please look into it. ### 5/5 — Its crashing everytime i start up, maybe not compatible with ios12? *2018-09-20* I think the app doesnt work on ios 12, doesnt seem to work since iv updated my phone. Otherwise the app is great and provide fairly neutral news from Pakistan which is hard to find with the likes of Ary and Bol around ### 5/5 — One of best app *2016-04-09, version 1.1* One of the best app ever although their breaking news alert comes up at least 6-8 hours after event has happened. Best thing about this app is, in the news description there is no machine language! ### 5/5 — Simplicity is good *2016-01-30, version 1.1* A very minimalist app. Does what it's supposed to do. Perfect example of what and how a news app should look like. ### 5/5 — Awesome app *2015-05-10, version 1.0* have been a fan of dawn news paper since childhood, and now this app refreshes my love ### 5/5 — What a news app should be like *2014-12-01, version 1.0* Continuing on the precedent set by the newspaper, this much improved app does justice to the dawn name & the quality of unbiased news coverage that we expect from them. ### 4/5 — Good tech support *2022-03-11, version 2.6.1* Being an expat, knowing one can read the local news on a mobile device is very important. I was so frustrated on the last update when the scrolling issue happened. But thanks to the girls and boys at the Dawn App team for responding on it so quickly ### 4/5 — UI can be better *2021-04-14* I uninstalled Dawn app because of the bugs and crashes. That problem seems to have been fixed. The UI on the other hand is not very user friendly. Especially the “top” and “latest” options in the bottom are hard to reach on Iphone X and newer models because of the swipe up function. ### 4/5 — Tabdeeli agayi hai! *2018-10-27, version 2.0.0* Finally! A very good interface. Still there is a problem with the comments section. Comments are not showing at all. ### 4/5 — Nice UI but need option to make text bigger *2018-10-24, version 2.0.0* In this respect the old app was a lot more readable because the text was bigger. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-26.*