# The Age — user reviews > 150 indexed App Store user reviews of The Age by Fairfax Digital Australia & New Zealand Pty Limited, rated 4.70/5 from 31 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-age/id1411569220/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-age/id1411569220.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 28 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 1 ## What do users think of The Age? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🗞️ Trusted news source - 📰 Comprehensive news coverage - 🗺️ Useful local news and information - 💯 Excellent journalism and reporting **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezing issues - 🤖 Lack of user-friendly features and poor navigation - 💰 Expensive subscription with diminishing value - 📦 Frustrating download and offline reading experience - 🔍 Lack of search functionality and personalization **Commonly reported bugs** - Frequent app crashes and freezes - Inconsistent behavior when switching between sections - Issues with downloading and accessing offline content - Unreliable login and authentication processes **Most requested features** - Bring back the old iPad app design and functionality - Improve article saving and bookmarking capabilities - Add more customization options for content display - Enhance crossword and puzzle experiences - Provide better support for offline reading ## Newest reviews (18 of 150) ### 3/5 — Widget not refreshing *2026-05-15, version 6.7.0* Like the app but seems that the widget doesn’t auto-update even with background app refresh on. Not much point in a widget if you have to tap on (which opens the app) to get the latest updates 🤦🏻‍♂️ ### 2/5 — Subscription through Google Terrible Experience *2026-04-10, version 6.5.0* While this is not necessarily a comment on the Age app I didn’t have another better place to leave my feedback and I am upset so forgive my rant. I paid for a subscription through Google that was never recognised by the app. I had several back and forth messages with the Age customer service that then hand-balled me to Google and I was referred to countless unhelpful ‘help’ pages. The Age claimed they cannot resolve the issue since it is with Google and Google’s customer resolution journey has been no better to be honest. Yours sincerely, a very frustrated former Age subscriber. ### 4/5 — Why is the app yelling at me? *2026-03-09, version 6.4.0* The Age is great. I don’t appreciate that the app name under the icon is in all caps. At 5:38 am, I don’t want to be yelled at by THE AGE while waking up. ### 2/5 — Quizzes *2025-11-05, version 6.0.1* Please fix the app so that quizzes open in the app like they used to rather than taking you to the website and then offering to open in the app!!! ### 2/5 — Login problems *2025-10-14, version 6.0.0* Why do I need to login every time I open the app? And it doesn’t use my saved passwords. It is very frustrating. ### 1/5 — No good *2025-07-13, version 5.6.0* I have stopped using this app. It freezes every 5 seconds and sometimes just closes. ### 3/5 — Could be better *2025-07-11* This app gives good access to the daily paper for subscribers. On my iPad, the version “Today’s Paper” is most useful. I find it annoying that on both iPad and iPhone, the list view of news stories appears to be random, not “most recent at top” or even “according to previously shown interest”. And when you click through to see an article it cannot be enlarged for easy reading, even though less than half the iPad screen is used. On the iPhone the app doesn’t rotate to Landscape, which could allow more comfortable reading with longer lines of print - and also no stretch-to-enlarge, of course. In general, the journalism at The Age is good - though notably fewer international and “non-pop” stories than there used to be. Even the local coverage seems pretty thin some days. ### 1/5 — Freezing *2025-07-09, version 5.6.0* This app freezes over and over again on both my iPads and my wife’s iPad. Infuriating! An app that accompanies a subscription of more than $30 a month should be high performance. ### 2/5 — 2 years on and still can’t submit reader comments? *2025-07-07, version 5.6.0* While the journalism is great, still cannot comment or upvote anything? Certain interactive diagrams don’t work, not and you zoom on multiple picture slides. You have to go to Traveller section which opens a browser in-app to do this? ### 3/5 — App is tailored for the iPad but lazy touches abound *2025-07-06* I like this app and use it everyday but there are frustrations. The today’s paper section lets you see the paper exactly as the print version which for me is by far the best way to read the paper. Although it does expose the paper’s predilection for spreading articles and photos over more than one page as very unhelpful when only one page can be seen at a time. Perhaps the reader view should include the article’s photos rather than just text. The most annoying aspect is that downloads don’t stay downloaded. I rely on downloading at home and the being able to read the paper wherever I go. Having to use mobile data to repeat a download is unsatisfactory. Given we are now paying handsomely for this service, there are way too many Harvey Norman to skip past just to get to the next actual page. **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback and for reading The Age app every day! Our team is actively working to improve Today's Paper and we appreciate your support. ### 3/5 — Scrolling stops *2025-07-02, version 5.5.0* Scrolling through an article intermittently stops, and eventually crashes the app. ### 1/5 — ANOTHER PRICE RISE *2025-06-20, version 5.4.0* $7 A PAPER, YOU PEOPLE ARE CRIMINALS. SUBSCRIPTION NOW OVER $50 A MONTH FOR 8 NEWSPAPERS STILL FLOODED WITH ADD WRAPS STILL RIDDLED WITH MULTIPLE FULL PAGE ADDS STILL CHANNEL 9 NEWS AND EVERY HOLIDAY SEASON A QUARTER THE SIZE AT SAME ASTRONOMICAL PRICE… THESE MONEY HUNGRY CROOKS HAVE TOTALLY DESTROYED THIS ONCE PROUD AUSTRALIAN ICON NOW JUST A SICK SAD PATHETIC JOKE ALL ABOUT REVENUE & NO READER/SUBSCRIBER LOYALTY AT ALL.. ### 2/5 — Glitchy and tedious *2025-06-18, version 5.4.0* Two stars for the constant screen freezing creating a tedious app to negotiate. Might be time to return to using the website instead ### 2/5 — Freezes and zero accessibility options *2025-06-14, version 5.4.0* Never been a nice app to use, it’s now constantly freezing, requiring force close to fix, losing your reading spot. Also terrible unless you have perfect eyesight - at least provide options for text size! ### 1/5 — Awful new version *2025-06-07, version 5.4.0* Edit: when is this disastrous app going to be fixed??? I have been told the app team are “actively resolving this …”, but still nothing. Just bring back the old app; it was just fine, thank you. The new Age app is a a step backwards, and that is saying something. Pages jump around, slower to advance, doesn’t take you back to the last page you were reading, “continued on page…” takes you away from the actual paper. Does anyone check these things?? As others have said, I just want to read the paper from front to back. Can we just have the old app back please? (And the day & time is no longer visible at the top of the page) Edit: Still not at all user-friendly, despite multiple complaints (which are never acknowledged or attended to). I am sick of the page jumping to “read-only” version at the slightest touch anywhere in the body of the article. And “continued on page….” Is now extremely frustrating. Bring back the old version- whose idea was it to “fix” something that wasn’t broken? ### 1/5 — Passwords suck *2025-06-02, version 5.3.0* Why do you constantly ask for my password? ### 1/5 — Rubbish app *2025-05-31, version 5.3.0* Three different iPads. All have the same issue on the download version of “Todays Paper”. Freezes, stalls, crashes. Just absolutely frustrating. Submitted a feedback and got the usual runaround. Used to be great, now I use Herald Sun app more as it just works. ### 2/5 — Offline Viewing and Green Guide Tab *2025-05-29, version 5.3.0* Reasonable app, but can we fix the offline viewing of downloaded editions please? Why, if I have downloaded an edition, do I need an internet connection to view the edition I have downloaded. Esp. a problem when flying and want to catch up reading. Also, given Good Food is no longer published weekly, can we have a Green Guide tab in its place so that the GG can be downloaded separately and easily accessible? ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Cookie hell! *2026-01-23, version 6.3.0* Almost every single day that I visit Target Time, I am presented with a screen to accept cookies. You want to give OVER TWO HUNDRED vendors access to my data. I don’t want cookies. Rather than a simple “reject all” I am forced to scroll down through several pages of options, manually unselecting all the default options. Yes, I am currently in Europe. Yes, they care about data privacy, as do I. But no - making it painful to reject cookies is NOT ACCEPTABLE. As a new subscriber, I am losing patience. ### 1/5 — CROOKS *2025-12-24, version 6.2.3* CRIMINALS..!! EVERY HOLIDAY SEASON THIS PAPER SHRINKS BY 3 QUARTERS THE SIZE STILL THE SAME ASTRONOMICAL PRICE OF $7 A PAPER STILL FLOODED WITH FULL PAGE MINDLESS ADDS STILL RIDDLED WITH ADD WRAPS STILL POOR CHANNEL 9 JOURNALISM AND NOW JUST 10 PAGES OF RUBBISH JUST A PATHETIC SHADOW OF WHAT IT ONCE WAS… SHAME OF AUSTRALIA ### 1/5 — Awful new version *2025-11-08, version 6.0.1* In addition to the ongoing frustrations with the over-sensitive pages going immediately to text-only, we now have the added freezing and slow-to-open problem. I suggest the designers of the app try and read it as a paper, and see for themselves, which is surely the idea, to experience how clunky it has become, rather than keep making changes for the worse. Why on earth was the old version changed, a year or two ago, when it was performing perfectly well. And why doesn’t anyone respond to my questions when I send in feedback? Edit: when is this disastrous app going to be fixed??? I have been told the app team are “actively resolving this …”, but still nothing. Just bring back the old app; it was just fine, thank you. The new Age app is a a step backwards, and that is saying something. Pages jump around, slower to advance, doesn’t take you back to the last page you were reading, “continued on page…” takes you away from the actual paper. Does anyone check these things?? As others have said, I just want to read the paper from front to back. Can we just have the old app back please? (And the day & time is no longer visible at the top of the page) Edit: Still not at all user-friendly, despite multiple complaints (which are never acknowledged or attended to). I am sick of the page jumping to “read-only” version at the slightest touch anywhere in the body of the article. And “continued on page….” Is now extremely frustrating. Bring back the old version- whose idea was it to “fix” something that wasn’t broken? Edit -agai!! Still no improvement, still no response to concerns raised over and over again. PLEASE do something about the hyper-sensitive screen; I don’t want to be taken to text-only version, I just want to get to the continuation of the article. Also, as others have said, it is crazy that we have to download the paper each time we go back to it. If using my iPad away from home I can’t access it, And as others are also saying, the pages freeze a lot. Why on earth the perfectly good old app was changed for such a disastrous version is beyond me. ### 1/5 — RIPPING US OFF..!! *2025-11-02, version 6.0.0* $7 A PAPER, YOU PEOPLE ARE THIEVES SUBSCRIPTION NOW OVER $50 A MONTH FOR 8 NEWSPAPERS STILL FLOODED WITH ADD WRAPS STILL RIDDLED WITH MULTIPLE FULL PAGE ADDS & STILL POOR QUALITY CHANNEL 9 JOURNALISM AND EVERY HOLIDAY SEASON A QUARTER THE SIZE AT SAME ASTRONOMICAL PRICE… THESE MONEY HUNGRY CROOKS HAVE COMMITTED BRAND SUICIDE THIS ONCE PROUD AUSTRALIAN ICON NOW ALL ABOUT REVENUE & NO READER/SUBSCRIBER LOYALTY AT ALL.. SHAME OF AUSTRALIA ### 1/5 — Terrible *2025-09-28, version 5.7.0* If you are a subscriber this would have to be one of the most frustrating apps ever used. Trying to put in your credentials so you can view an article works about 20% of the time. Then you have to go and look at it in the browser which totally defeats the purpose of an app. ### 1/5 — Awful new version *2025-08-25, version 5.6.4* In addition to the ongoing frustrations with the over-sensitive pages going immediately to text-only, we now have the added freezing and slow-to-open problem. I suggest the designers of the app try and read it as a paper, and see for themselves, which is surely the idea, to experience how clunky it has become, rather than keep making changes for the worse. Why on earth was the old version changed, a year or two ago, when it was performing perfectly well. And why doesn’t anyone respond to my questions when I send in feedback? Edit: when is this disastrous app going to be fixed??? I have been told the app team are “actively resolving this …”, but still nothing. Just bring back the old app; it was just fine, thank you. The new Age app is a a step backwards, and that is saying something. Pages jump around, slower to advance, doesn’t take you back to the last page you were reading, “continued on page…” takes you away from the actual paper. Does anyone check these things?? As others have said, I just want to read the paper from front to back. Can we just have the old app back please? (And the day & time is no longer visible at the top of the page) Edit: Still not at all user-friendly, despite multiple complaints (which are never acknowledged or attended to). I am sick of the page jumping to “read-only” version at the slightest touch anywhere in the body of the article. And “continued on page….” Is now extremely frustrating. Bring back the old version- whose idea was it to “fix” something that wasn’t broken? ### 1/5 — Still no comments *2025-08-23, version 5.6.4* Sometimes, when a journalist neglects to include pertinent information in an article, that information can be found in the comments. But this app does not display reader comments. The developers have indicated this functionality will be added at some point, but alas their priority is in breaking, then fixing, sudoku. Please leave the poor puzzles alone, and devote resources to adding comment functionality. The Guardian app has had this for a while. Just copy them. Use AI. It’s sophisticated copying! ### 1/5 — Why the change *2025-07-30, version 5.6.3* I have been an Age reader for 41 years. The new updated format is a disaster. I use my iPad in landscape all the time and my holder is designed for that. You press on an article and it jumps to that story, not the way I would read a hard copy, then it jumps back not necessarily to where you were. It is much more difficult to navigate. Surely you can do better! ### 1/5 — RIPPING US OFF..!! *2025-07-25, version 5.6.3* $7 A PAPER, YOU PEOPLE ARE THIEVES SUBSCRIPTION NOW OVER $50 A MONTH FOR 8 NEWSPAPERS STILL FLOODED WITH ADD WRAPS STILL RIDDLED WITH MULTIPLE FULL PAGE ADDS & STILL POOR QUALITY CHANNEL 9 JOURNALISM AND EVERY HOLIDAY SEASON A QUARTER THE SIZE AT SAME ASTRONOMICAL PRICE… THESE MONEY HUNGRY CROOKS HAVE COMMITTED BRAND SUICIDE THIS ONCE PROUD AUSTRALIAN ICON NOW ALL ABOUT REVENUE & NO READER/SUBSCRIBER LOYALTY AT ALL.. ### 1/5 — Latest update is a giant leap towards a worse experience *2025-07-21* Despite what it says on the tin, my user experience has gone backwards since the recent update. In particular, the image of today’s paper freezes so often, and for so long, that it’s effectively unusable. I relish browsing and sometimes discovering unexpected interesting articles in the well curated collection and arrangement of articles in the image of today’s paper. It’s so much more inviting than the crass and cliched click- bait ‘headlines’ of the full online version. I only keep subscribing to The Age because of its curated offering of the news in the facsimile version. Without that, The Age would have nothing to make it stand out compared to alternative free online news sources. But frankly the freezing of the facsimile version of the paper is now so frequent and persistent that it’s not worth persevering with trying to read it. Please please fix whatever bug got in through the recent update. (I’m on an iPad Pro second generation - getting oldish, but certainly not abandonware yet) ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — iPad Version *2026-05-02, version 6.7.0* Please bring back the iPad version. ### 5/5 — Subscription Issue *2025-12-18, version 6.2.3* We resubscribed in iPhone App but status in Browse screen remained ‘Non Subscriber’. Fixed in The Age app by logging out of our account then logging back in :— Browser screen status then displayed ‘Subscriber’. Gotta love The Age. ### 5/5 — The age *2025-03-25, version 5.2.2* Pretty good but I really want to read the paper ### 5/5 — Very poor & disappointing *2025-03-22, version 5.2.2* As a paid subscriber, I find this app a total waste of money. The old app made reading and finding articles far more user friendly. The crossword page is frustrating to use. Seriously considering canceling my monthly subscription. ### 5/5 — Ppp *2025-03-17, version 5.1.0* Ooo ### 5/5 — A trusted news source *2025-03-14, version 5.1.0* My go-to place for news about Melbourne. ### 5/5 — The Age *2025-03-14, version 5.1.0* Excellent App ### 5/5 — Layout *2025-03-05, version 5.1.0* Layout of paper online as opposed to App, is very crowded But news feeds are excellent Thank You ### 5/5 — Great news platform *2025-02-18, version 5.1.0* Great to read the Age anywhere at anytime ### 5/5 — Great journalism *2025-02-11, version 5.1.0* Very informative and good coverage of topics --- *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 2026-09-08.*