# Rappler: PH News & Community — user reviews

> 13 indexed App Store user reviews of Rappler by Rappler, rated 4.40/5 from 8 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rappler-ph-news-and-community/id6473424572/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rappler-ph-news-and-community/id6473424572.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 6 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 0

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — paid subscribers still get ads

*2025-10-09*

pretty self explanatory

### 1/5 — Almost good

*2025-09-28, version 1.0.33*

Could have been a good news app if not for the ads that eat up the entire screen, while reading contents get pushed down to make space for more ads, and as you scroll down, ads block your view, leaving behind a pathetic small space to see the text.

### 1/5 — Full of Ads; no space to read news.

*2025-09-28, version 1.0.33*

The app is full of ads. There is barely enough room to read news articles and contents.

### 1/5 — paid subscription has ads

*2025-09-19, version 1.0.33*

UI is not very user friendly, and there are tons of ads even with a paid subscription which is outrageous. cancelling

### 1/5 — Bias

*2025-02-05, version 1.0.30*

News reporting is not balanced.

### 1/5 — Unusable

*2024-11-27, version 1.0.27*

Links to articles don’t load or stuck in advertising. Constantly asking to sign in. The site/app makes reading unenjoyable so it makes me reluctant to have to pay if the site is badly managed

### 1/5 — Biased and politically self serving

*2024-03-14*

Rappler is widely known as a political media weapon of the Philippine Oligarchs.

### 1/5 — Constant updates??

*2024-03-10, version 1.0.10*

What’s with these constant updates? Bad UX.

### 2/5 — Notifications, web wrapper

*2026-01-03*

It would be best if articles, when loaded, don’t behave and look as if it’s in a in-app web browser wrapper. And please, allow us to toggle which kinds of notifications we want to receive (e.g. just the breaking news, maybe politics as well, and disable those from features, sports, etc.)

### 2/5 — Stuck in “Syncing your conversations”

*2024-09-05, version 1.0.22*

Can’t even open the app. Fail

## Most praised reviews (3 highest-rated)

### 4/5 — Lags and no dark mode

*2025-05-12, version 1.0.33*

App takes a while to respond and it would really help light sensitive users if you’ll add a dark mode.

### 3/5 — Frustrating

*2026-03-23*

I like reading the news at Rappler but the ads are so distracting that it gets frustrating.

### 3/5 — Add dark mode it’s 2024 bruh

*2024-07-25, version 1.0.21*

Add darkmode

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*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 2026-08-24.*