The Australian Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience17.9% of reviews
Neutral13.0% of reviews
Negative experience69.1% of reviews

~ Based on 330 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about The Australian

Is The Australian Safe?

The Australian has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for The Australian is 58/100.

This assessment is based on 727 user ratings, with an App Store average of 2.9/5.

Safety Analysis

58.3% of ratings point to a safe experience
8.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
33.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 36 App Store ratings for The Australian.

Is The Australian Legit?

The Australian appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for The Australian is 95/100.

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

Top reviews

Dysfunctional app

For years have been unable to save stories contacts to the company goes unanswered now am unable to gift articles on IPhone but still can on IPad - this App is third rate compared to the economist and others

Great Value

Excellent journalism . Superb value if you get a contracted price.

APP IS VERY UNSTABLE

Using my up to date IPad mini, Every time I close an article on the Commentary tab, the entire App. crashes. I have reopen the App and then the Commentary tab to read another article. This is a waste of my time. The same thing happens on some other tabs.

I have tried deleting The Australian App, rebooting and reinstalling the app. But, it’s no better
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Sick to death of problems

App keeps crashing when you swipe back, keeps freezing. Have made numerous direct phone contacts with so called IT supervisors who’ve all tried to blame my ipad. Have down loaded the App several times, spent hours on the phone & to make matters worse they changed my password several times, and got me go change settings etc. They did everything but acknowledge the MAJOR faults in their own system. See numerous similar complaints & comments.
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Administration problems

O I don’t know what’s going on, however, I am unable to make any comment as you keep telling I need to link it to my subscription. Then I can get a page saying “hello Kathy” at the top, but the page itself is encouraging me to subscribe. Tried turning it on an off, no luck
Kathy Layton

Some irritating problems

I agree with previous writers who find the moderators of comments a bit woke and with left-wing sensitivities. Are the comments moderated by people or algorithms? Either way, they behave like Facebook did until this year. Mostly, I cannot even open comments on my app, but I can if I open the paper in Google. Sometimes, I can open the comments in the app, but I can’t make a comment. I am told to link my app to my subscribers, but I’m not told how or where to do that.
On the other hand, it is a quality newspaper - easily Australia’s best.
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Upgrade kills access

The latest upgrade has not allowed me entry despite inputting user name and password 6 times and same combination works on desktop. Something is wrong.

Buggy

In my 16 years of owning an iPad, this remains the single buggiest app that I have ever experienced.

Wouldn’t connect account to podcasts

I paid to upgrade and it won’t connect the app to my Apple Podcasts! Very annoying as using The Australian app itself to listen to podcasts isn’t laid out as well

Unable to link account

Pretty hopeless initial experience trying to link my Apple purchase to the account I set with the papers website.

Trashy.

I used to enjoy reading the Australian but it slowly morphed into an expensive version of the Daily Mail so I cancelled my subscription.

App Crashing

App continues to open and crash - have re set, downloaded, updated

App keeps crashing on iPad

Won’t load on iPad. Have tried uninstalling, restarting, etc. but nothing works. Please fix.

Not really a contest of ideas

Biasis and arbitrary adjudication of responses dispells the claim that the Australian is a “Contest of ideas.” when obvious offensive comments are allowed and factual arguments supported by current evidence is not? Also whats with the advertisements on a paid subscription?

Unstable on IOS

This app has serious bugs and cashes instantly. There are a number of reviews that share the same experience.

Video autoplay is incredibly annoying

The Australian App is great except for one issue. The app ignores my preference which is NOT to autoplay videos. Please use the iOS preference setting of whether the user want AutoPlay On or Off.

Constant crashes

Constantly crashes whenever you change to another article. Please fix !

One star for podcast use

Mostly use the app for podcast listening. It cannot remember where you got up to and goes back to the beginning. Such a basic function. So frustrating.

Abysmal sensorship

The comments section has such harsh conditions that no dissent towards to the paper or any globalist topic is permitted whatsoever. All my best comments are denied. No wonder its readers appear to be so out of touch - they are shielded from true opposing views.

Bugs

Lots of bugs since the last update.