The Examiner User Reviews

The Examiner

Rural Press Pty Ltd

📡 News

📰 Magazines & Newspapers

Customer Experience

Positive experience28.6% of reviews

Neutral9.5% of reviews

Negative experience61.9% of reviews

~ Based on 21 written reviews from the US App Store.

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Is The Examiner Legit?

The Examiner appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for The Examiner is 80/100.

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Top reviews

Most Recent Highest Rated Lowest Rated

Better than nothing.

Good for local news. Bad for running Labor puff pieces. At least 90% of the editorial is promoting centre left.

Van bern

a month ago

Will not load paper as printed!

Wondering why the app refuses to load paper as printed. What benefit is an app that does not deliver more efficiently than going to the newsagent.

Orbhall

5 months ago

Response from developer

Apologies for the technical issue with the App digital replica of the paper. This has since been restored by our IT team.

Can’t open

Link doesn’t work

Cartullus

9 months ago

Response from developer

Sorry to hear of your experience. Please contact our support team on 1300 131 095, option 2 or email at subscriptionsupport@austcommunitymedia.com.au so the team can assist with your app concerns.

Limited usability

This app won’t run on older devices.

Philhawk

2 years ago

Small amount of news

Really only paying for adds

Mable buster

2 years ago

Examiner

I enjoy reading the Examiner everyday.

over the moon.

2 years ago

So frustrating that the app often says it failed to connect to the server

In the months before the app upgrade I was seriously considering not renewing my digital subscription due to the frequency of the app failing to load the daily paper, particularly when there were many pages. It usually stopped downloading or failed to connect to the server by the time it got to the Public Announcements or Sports sections. Although there has been some improvement since the latest version of the app, today the paper will not “connect to server” past Page 4 and I am definitely not getting my money’s worth with this digital sub! I have tried at different times of the day with no luck. I have full bars of wifi so the issue is not with my inner city residence. Please get this sorted!!!

Foxtel Consumer

3 years ago

Response from developer

Hi Subscriber, please contact our support team on 1300 131 095, option 2 and they will be happy to assist you with your concerns on your experience with the App.

Not easy

I would like to open up the paper and search for a page, there are some options but usually after the first page I look at the births, deaths etc but can’t find them at all. I can’t find a search button.

I would like to open up the paper and swipe across to each new page just like a pepper version.

I’m not very happy with this new idea.

Margaret Burgess
Ulverstone

Nanna margie

3 years ago

Response from developer

Hi Margaret, Please contact our support team on 1300 131 095, option 2 and they will be happy to assist you with your concerns.

Examiner

The single page is hard to adjust to read.
The old way was much better. The paper doesn’t flow as it used to. Not impressed at all.

Travellers Two

3 years ago

Response from developer

The new App is further improved for viewing purposes. Please contact our support team on 1300 131 095, option 2 and they will be happy to assist you with your concern.

App not user friendly

App used to download “today’s edition” … now page by page and ugly format

KramerKooks

3 years ago

Response from developer

The new App is further improved for viewing purposes. Please contact our support team on 1300 131 095, option 2 and they will be happy to assist you with your concern.

Slow & Confusing layout

Just a poor upgrade. Slower & layout is now confusing, not logical or easy to use

Barney Groves

3 years ago

Response from developer

The new App is further improved for viewing purposes. Please contact our support team on 1300 131 095, option 2 and they will be happy to assist you with your concern.

New app

Not loving the new app. It may get better as we become more familiar with it.

tasman26

3 years ago

Response from developer

The new App is further improved for viewing purposes. Please contact our support team on 1300 131 095, option 2 and they will be happy to assist you with your concern.

New Layout

Prefer the old way to download and view.

astronomical99

3 years ago

Response from developer

The new App is further improved for viewing purposes. Please contact our support team on 1300 131 095, option 2 and they will be happy to assist you with your concern.

Examiner App

Definitely not an improvement, needs to be condensed in ‘latest news’ section, & does not seem to be updating, the ‘daily paper’ section is frustrating with individual pages, much prefer previous set up

pjrsl

3 years ago

Response from developer

The new App is further improved for viewing purposes. Please contact our support team on 1300 131 095, option 2 and they will be happy to assist you with your concern.

Examiner catalogue

The Examiner takes too long to read digitally due to it becoming more of a Harvey Norman catalogue. Flicking quickly through the catalogue to get to the bulk of the news is awful!
Perhaps it would be best to put it at the back or before the sport.
If I wan’t to find something in the catalogue, I’ll know where to find it!

Mxyptlk77

3 years ago

app update 25/7

there appears to be some problems with the update, e.g. the cryptoquote and crossword are all blurred.

AnnieJ58

3 years ago

Updated app

I love the new updated app. It’s much easier to find various sections I like to get to quickly.

Lmz62west

3 years ago

Fantastic paper

This paper has a good range of local, national and some international news. The articles are of a high quality. Keep it local!

Straight Horizons

3 years ago

Still get ads after subscribing

The articles are still plastered with ads even after subscribing. At least the click-bait links at the bottom are gone.

CptnNimo

5 years ago

Unable to read downloaded paper

Todays paper is unable to be read via the app, including the realestate edition. No obvious backup support option, so a review was the next best.

Tas fans

5 years ago

Response from developer

The new App is further improved for viewing purposes. Please contact our support team on 1300 131 095, option 2 and they will be happy to assist you with your concern.