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March 26, 2019
July 17, 2026
2.7.3
iOS 16.0+
4+
free
84MB
iPhone, iPad
a day ago
American English

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Access Australia's leading news source for breaking stories and trending topics. Stay informed on politics, pop culture, finance, sports, and more with a personalized feed and offline reading capabilities. Receive timely notifications for important updates.

✓Breaking news alerts

✓Trending stories

✓Personalized news feed

✓Offline reading

✓Politics, sport, entertainment coverage

✓Weather updates

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What users say

Summarized from real user reviews of news.com.au. Based on 177 reviews and a 2.7/5 average, it highlights the 6 positives and 14 negatives reviewers mention most about this News app.

Positive things

📰Free news app with no paywall
🎬Video content and watch tab available
📱Wide range of topics covered
⚡Fast news alerts and notifications
🎨Improved app design and layout
📊Good mix of entertainment and news

Negative things

🐛Frequent app crashes and freezing
📢Excessive and intrusive advertisements
✍️Numerous spelling and grammar errors
📄Clickbait headlines and sensationalism
🔄Content duplication and story repetition
⚙️Poor app performance and lag
🎮Aggressive game advertisements
📱Tablet compatibility issues
🔊Auto-playing videos interrupt music
📰Low-quality journalism and fact-checking
🎯Algorithm-driven content lacks transparency
⬆️Page jumping due to ad placement
🔋High CPU/GPU usage and battery drain
🎬Long unskippable video ads

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What's New in news.com.au

2.7.3

July 17, 2026

Bug fixes.

User reviews

News?

Worst news ever

Adam Boulton

8 days ago

Do they even test this app?

Glitchy. Sound comes on sometimes even when muted or when the video is paused or when I’ve moved on to a different article. Every release comes with a new glitch like the glitches are its features.

Dezza74

17 days ago

Unstable App & poor journalistic content

App falls over when reading articles.
Numerous spelling and grammatical errors.
Clickbait not journalistic content.

Peeved client

24 days ago

frequently crashes while trying to load ads

This app is awful. The spacing is all over the place while they try to dynamically load ads. Just moved from iOS18 to 26 and now it will just crash when reading a story. Frustratingly that mainly seems to be the FIGA World Cup articles

Roochiedoor

a month ago

App keeps crashing

When reading ‘Live’ threads, the app keeps crashing. Doesn’t happen on other articles. Also the advertising is impacting readability with ads rescaling or freezing scrolling while the ad loads or reloads. It’s really annoying

AngieJessie1981

a month ago

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