news.com.au User Reviews

news.com.au
news.com.au
News Digital Media

Customer Experience

Positive experience14.1% of reviews
Neutral7.1% of reviews
Negative experience78.8% of reviews

~ Based on 170 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is news.com.au Safe?

news.com.au has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for news.com.au is 56/100.

This assessment is based on 177 user ratings, with an App Store average of 2.7/5.

Safety Analysis

57.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
0.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
42.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 14 App Store ratings for news.com.au.

Is news.com.au Legit?

news.com.au appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for news.com.au is 95/100.

Based on 95 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

New APP

Bring back the old APP not enjoying the new one having to swipe to read articles is very annoying

If you are looking for news that does not lean left...

This news source generally does not lean left politically. This news is not targeted for the intellectual elite of the country, it might be said. It is meant to be a news source for the masses, but in that sense it aims to present the news that the masses would be interested in. An outcome of all this is that this news source doesn't lecture the reader with woke political moralising.
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Recent update

Latest update is horrible, no news just sports and ads.
Disgraceful

New format is terrible

Don’t make the app like a social media format, it’s too busy and not user friendly at all. I use to like this app but now I’ll have to look for something else

Awfull

Controlling bs

Dislike the new format

Previous formats were much cleaner to scroll and view content. This is not a step in the right direction. It’s too busy/messy

Spelling and grammar

Are there any editor at this organisation? Sooo many spelling mistakes, it’s embarrassing!

Clickbait

Full of clickbait articles that don’t even tell you the, who, what, when, why, how, in the first paragraph. Editing, grammar, sentence construction, infantile use of terminology eg. cops instead of police, kids instead of children, is the absolutely worst in journalism. Probably one of the worst publications online.
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Too slow

Takes forever to load, it used to be fast, now you’ve got too much junk in it

JohGind

I cannot tell you how frustrating it is with the amount of spelling errors in your articles. Who proofreads this stuff ? The office cat ?

July 2025 change… 👎

What on earth is the go with the ridiculous new layout (July 2026) that doesn’t let you just read headlines and you are swiping or scrolling left and right? I’ve never seen such a spectacular change for the sake of change. Dumbest interface possible for a news app. There’s a reason all the other news apps are essentially the same. Gone from 3 or 4 stars to 1 (0 if possible). Won’t use until reverts back to being usable.
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News.com

Excellent

News?

Worst news ever

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.

Unstable App & poor journalistic content

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

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

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

2.7.0 crashes

When I read certain articles and scroll down, the app will suddenly close/crash. Other articles are fine. I have the latest version of iOS, I have uninstalled the news.com.au app, rebooted my iPad and reinstalled the app to no avail. I have 150gb of space free so that’s not the issue. This latest version must therefore be buggy.
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Awfull

Controlling bs

Fed up

I am trying to block getting emails from this site and it seems impossible to do so.
There are so many emails that if you open accidentally you find it difficult to exit.
My next option is to complain to the ombudsman