The Free Press User Reviews

The Free Press
The Free Press
Runaway Media Inc.

Customer Experience

Positive experience84.9% of reviews
Neutral5.4% of reviews
Negative experience9.7% of reviews

~ Based on 186 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is The Free Press Safe?

The Free Press appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for The Free Press is 98/100.

This assessment is based on 12,224 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.9/5.

Safety Analysis

98.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
1.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 9,497 App Store ratings for The Free Press.

Is The Free Press Legit?

The Free Press appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for The Free Press is 65/100.

Based on 65 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

My Go to Every Morning

I absolutely love this website’s insightful commentary on international affairs, especially Aaron McClean’s school of war. Its cultural commentary, including Abigail Shrier’s column are great as well.

My Go-To Source

I've been reading since the early days of "Common Sense" (thank you, youngest bro-in-law). The Free Press has become my go-to source for in-depth reporting. There are different viewpoints on the same issues and I appreciate that so much. I find excellent articles I would have found nowhere else on important subjects like higher education, law, the rise in antisemitism, as well as thoughtful commentary and - what?! - great humor. Thank you to the staff and other supporters.
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Finally, normal people!

I subscribed to the TFP approximately six months ago as a childhood friend kept referring to the well written articles. It is not afraid to report fearlessly, regardless of political agenda. As a Nurse Practitioner, I do wish their medical reporting was more robust. Looking for contributors from the purple state of Pennsylvania ;)?
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Most reliable publication

Constant supply of interesting news and analysts that I can rely on.

LEFT BIAS - Not centrist as advertised.

I thought this would be a center view unbiased app. Many articles don’t bother to show both sides to an argument. Just leaning left.

I’m sure people on the left love having another echo chamber that does nothing to solve the division in our country.

The Best

TFP is one of a kind. It opens minds.

Douglas !

Delicious :-)

Love the content. Hate the app.

I have to read Free Press articles in email, not the hated app. This is because, after reading some way into an article, if I navigate away briefly and come back, the app loses context and takes me to the FP home page. Even worse, while commenting on an article, I may have written most of a detailed comment, navigate away to check something, and when I return, same thing! App takes me to home page, my carefully crafted comment is gone. (In professional IT terms, this is data loss, something to be scrupulously avoided at all costs). Do better!!!
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Great app

This is a great app for a great news site. Highly recommend

Excellent App & Reporting

In a time of quick takes & one sided college newspaper style reporting, it’s great to have TheFP.

G-d Bless Bari Weiss

I absolutely love The Free Press, and I can’t recommend it highly enough to anyone looking for a news site to subscribe to. Six stars!

A refuge for analysis and opinion

The Free Press is a refuge for those tired of the bland, superficial analysis all too common in the pop media of the right and the left.

No AI summary, no free sharing

AI summary feature should be a priority, I end up opening articles I’m sort of interested in in Safari to leverage that summary function. Editors need to give readers more freedom and allow for these summaries in app.

Also, you cannot share a free article, WSJ/Economist/etc have this feature.

Overall navigation isn’t that straightforward, you should take a cue from the Economist’s app

Big big fan of the content though!
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Great News and App!

Great News and App!

Middle of the Road Sensibility

I love the Free Press! I love the variety of topics but particularly the politics. I love the even-handedness of the articles and the willingness to point out where the legacy news media has failed. I’m a big believer that the vast majority of Americans occupy the center left and center right. It’s about time a daily “newspaper” spoke to, and encouraged us.
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Fair and independent

The absolute best source of news and information. This organization has old school journalistic principles.

THE go-to news source

We’ve been needing a more balanced news source for a long time - thank you, TFP!

Great Journalism

I love this app. The journalism is thought provoking, in depth, not aligned to right or left. In a world of absolutes it is great to see a more nuanced debate. Keep going.

Need that AI summary option

Great app and content, but I find myself back im safari to use AI summaries. Some of us just don’t have time to read every article in full. Otherwise 5 stars

A I romance

This was well written and appropriately terrifying !