The Advertiser. User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience2.3% of reviews
Neutral14.8% of reviews
Negative experience83.0% of reviews

~ Based on 88 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is The Advertiser. Safe?

The Advertiser. does not appear safe based on available data. AppsHunter Safety Score for The Advertiser. is 43/100.

This assessment is based on 128 user ratings, with an App Store average of 1.9/5.

Is The Advertiser. Legit?

The Advertiser. appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for The Advertiser. is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Shark Quiz and ‘new format’ :(

Just awful, will not be renewing my subscription in September.. So many better news apps.

Where have the top stories gone?

With the new banners it has taken a lot of the top stories out. There don’t seem to be many updates to the stories throughout the day

Latest update is horrible

Change it back. Stop updating/changing for the sake of giving IT staff something to do.

Works on my iPad but not my iphone

Can't restore purchase/subscription on my iphone (only on my ipad).
Most apps work on on all devices with the same apple id.

Mr

Am subscribed and able to leave comments.
When I leave a comment often they are approved and put up then taken off when I check later.
Please stop getting left woke people to approve the comments.
It’s discusting that they are approved and put up and then taken off because some assessor is too left wing.
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Never publishes comments

Absolute joke of a newspaper app. Respectful comments continuing to not be approved. Disgraceful considering it’s allowing one side journalists have their say but censors everybody else for having an opinion

Ads

We are now subjected t watch a video ad before watching a video news story that we click on ?.
Now it seems the comments of stories in the news are repeated why?.
Also ad banners in between paragraphs of a news story.
What’s going on Developers?
I thought I had a pass subcription to block the ads.
Disappointed to say the least.
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Video windows keep opening over the whole screen on my iPad

Why do video windows keep opening over the whole screen on my iPad. ?
It is very frustrating and seems to happen every time there is an ad in the article

Frustrating reading experience

I’ve been using the app for years with no real problem but suddenly I’m getting whole screen pop ups appearing without warning and without any input from me. I’ll be reading a story, not even touching the screen, and the whole screen goes blank until I touch it and a play icon pops up. I’ve never played it but have to hit the cross in the corner to get rid of it and back to the story. This happens constantly and is extremely frustrating. Make it stop!
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“Jittery”

I am on the latest iOS26 and when I scroll to read an article the screen is “jittery” ie not smooth.

Not a great update.

Unfortunately since the later update, it seems every time I exit an article after reading it, the main page reloads and sends you to the top requiring me to scroll down again to find where I was and to see the next article. First world problem but I’m sure it’s an easy fix.

Notification sound

Can you get rid of the awful new notification sound please. It’s too loud and intrusive.

Bugs

So many inconvenient bugs. For example in Top Stories when I return from reading an article I’m always taken back to the top article.

Disappointing

Photo captions are illegible most of the time. Commenting on articles is highly problematic due to AI moderators/censors ultra-left settings

This service sucks

They can’t deliver a paper, customer service sucks and they take no accountability, they just want your money. Don’t EVER pay this company a cent, they are just scamming you.

Is this the 90’s ?

Putting aside the rampant ads and ai articles, you can’t cancel your subscription online. It’s ok to join online, but to cancel you need to make a phone call….is this the 90’s? Such a practice makes
it immensely daunting for ppl with anxiety. Also, when you do get though, the people in the Indian call centre will try their best to upsell you on a different subscription.
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Had enough

I have cancelled subscription, too frustrating now, in this computer age, poorly worded articles, clickbait headlines with no explanation in article, embedded videos that have nothing to do with article. Randomly rearranges stories, so after scrolling and selecting a story, always takes you back to the top instead of continuing scroll. They’ve changed the crosswords both electronic and paper version and neither follow the norms previously used, probably a cheaper supplier now almost impossible to do on a phone as previously. They keep changing for changes sake and not improving anything, actually the opposite its getting worse from what I recall from the years having a subscription. I’ll check abc news, it may be rubbish as well, but at least Im not paying for it.
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Low vision user

As a low vision user whilst using the today’s paper section the controls at top screen are too small and not contrasting to the screen colour and hard to locate.
My son had to point out to very small arrow in faint grey near the top left corner of the screen. I found this very hard to as my vision getting worse and small lettering and symbols are easily missed. Please change size and add word “ Back” also changing icon colours may help.
Thank
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What is a “Premium User”?

I have been using this app for several years now, but am considering cancelling my subscription. Of late I am unable to make comment or like other peoples comments about subjects published in this paper. Why? How come, all of a sudden, I can no longer make comment and, also, what is a “Premium User”?
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Excellent

Works well. Great to read the paper in digital format. Recommended for iPad or phone rather than a laptop