The Globe and Mail User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience44.5% of reviews
Neutral13.1% of reviews
Negative experience42.4% of reviews

~ Based on 283 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is The Globe and Mail Safe?

The Globe and Mail appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for The Globe and Mail is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 3,013 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

93.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
3.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 3,013 App Store ratings for The Globe and Mail.

Is The Globe and Mail Legit?

The Globe and Mail appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for The Globe and Mail is 83/100.

Based on 83 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Keeps logging me out

Needing to reauth every time makes for a horrible user experience.

Please fix settings glitches

Font size adjustment does not work. Several bugs with system font and font size slider. No changes available for size of article font.

Could be a fault on my end. App continually crashes.

Update:
The app is holding up well on both my iPhone and my iPad. The original glitch seems to have recovered ,could very well be a problem on my end.

New subscriber here and I not impressed. Works fine on the MacBook but is garbage on iPhone and iPad.

App continually crashes.

New subscriber here and I not impressed. Works fine on the MacBook but is garbage on iPhone and iPad.

Daily Log-in Huge Nuisance

The app now requires daily log-in. Ridiculous. I guess the Globe and Mail has too many subscribers. Daily log-in is a strategy to drive subscribers away. Message received.

App needs to be better

I really want to use this service, but the app is not good enough. It logs me out every day. There are distracting video ads. The Globe should take inspiration from the Economist for their app.

Crashes

Use to work ok but for last year crashes within seconds.

You have to call a 1 800 number to cancel

Feel dishonest

Still logging me out

Thought Devs fixed it but nope, this app is still logging me out๐Ÿ˜ก
And i don't understand why the Developers ask us to call, when they should be fixing it within the app

Low effort app development

Update: July 7, 2026. Still getting signed out without warning and must sign in to access content. Clearly, Subscribers are being overcharged for content and the developers are overpaid to write basic code.

Update: June 29/26. Had to log in again. V 10.12.1. DO NOT reply you are sorry and to contact the support number. They are swamped because of basic failure.

Update: June 19/26. Why does the app log me out daily now?

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Many articles are from third parties such as Reuters. (1) Why are subscribers not able to customize and organize the sections we prefer to read? If I don't care about the Life, Watchlist, Politics nor Opinion sections, but prefer Sports and Real Estate, why am I not able to move some to the bottom and Sports up? Too much development cost? (2) Why are subscribers not able to clear our reading history? That takes up storage space on our mobile devices. (3) Why does the Globe customer service not know when our promotional periods are over? There's no way to determine that by logging in either. (4) When users see a photo in the "card view" of an article, many times that photo is missing when users open the article. (5) I don't need to see the writers face in such a prominent size.
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Offline reading doesnโ€™t download automatically

Offline reading doesnโ€™t work. Itโ€™s doesnโ€™t download articles while connected for offline reading later.

The app is experiencing frequent crashes on ios

The app is experiencing frequent crashes on ios

Response from developer

We're sorry you're experiencing these issues. Weโ€™d need more details to investigate further. Please contact our support team at 1-800-387-5400 so we can help resolve this promptly. We appreciate your feedback and are here to assist you!

Unhappy

Canโ€™t share canโ€™t send canโ€™t access

Authentication issue

10.12.1 does not solve the authentication issue for me. I have to sign in every day; sometimes every time I use the app.

Logs me out daily

Good app, but this newest version logs me out daily.

(App support link in the store is broken so Iโ€™m posting here hoping the developers will fix it.)

Signed out of my account daily

The app logs me out of my account on a daily basis.

Latest version crashes

The latest version simply closes after a few seconds. Barely enough time to read the first page titles.

Low effort app development

Update: June 29/26. Had to log in again. V 10.12.1. DO NOT reply you are sorry and to contact the support number. They are swamped because of basic failure.

Update: June 19/26. Why does the app log me out daily now?

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Many articles are from third parties such as Reuters. (1) Why are subscribers not able to customize and organize the sections we prefer to read? If I don't care about the Life, Watchlist, Politics nor Opinion sections, but prefer Sports and Real Estate, why am I not able to move some to the bottom and Sports up? Too much development cost? (2) Why are subscribers not able to clear our reading history? That takes up storage space on our mobile devices. (3) Why does the Globe customer service not know when our promotional periods are over? There's no way to determine that by logging in either. (4) When users see a photo in the "card view" of an article, many times that photo is missing when users open the article. (5) I don't need to see the writers face in such a prominent size.
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Logging Out

This app is constantly asking me to sign in again. Extremely annoying when youโ€™re asked for your password daily.

Now I have to log in every day

I used to be able to go for months and not be faced with having to log in. Now, something has changed, and Iโ€™m being asked to log in every day, despite checking the โ€œkeep me logged inโ€ tab. Why did you change this? I used to happily give this app 5 stars, but until this issue is fixed, I am lowering my rating.
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