Best there is
The Guardian
My trusted news
I read the paper on my iPad over breakfast at home and away to get a balanced news reports
Made for the big screen
The ability you read the Guardian online in a way that is indistinguishable from the print format is a wonderful feature of Guardian Editions - all of which makes it incomprehensible that readers are limited to the tiny screens on their phones. Would it be so difficult to make a windows app. It would be magnificent. David Wilson
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Good app online, offline flaky
When online this app is excellent but if trying to read in ‘airplane mode’ it is extremely flaky, despite the edition being downloaded.
Great for sight impaired ‘reader’
As a sight impaired Guardian supporter I’d be unable to access it without the ‘listen’ option. And the AI voice is one of the best around. Thank you 🙂
Best for food and media together with trustworthy editorial values
They state clearly what their values are and report on that basis
Useless unless online
Useless unless online. You download with signal, you open in an area without signal and it desperately tries to update whilst erasing what you have downloaded. It’s rubbish
Top app from the best newspaper
Top app, for the best newspaper. ‘Best’ because the Guardian has the lowest level of bias of all newspapers.
Guardian app
The change in the app from a layout that was designed for a tablet to simply viewing a pdf of the actual newspaper has made it virtually unreadable - you have to try to zoom in to every article, it’s forever resetting so you have to zoom in again and I find it so frustrating that I have more or less given up on the app and just use the website.
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Great paper
Love it
Not what we’d hoped
We have a subscription to the electronic format as well as a physical paper. The apps randomly log us out and only pay point shops take the card for the the actual paper. I don’t think we get a good service
Jon L
I’ve been a subscriber to Guardian Editions for about 4 years and whilst I still enjoy the paper and the quality of journalism, I feel that it’s been “salami sliced” so that it now seems significantly inferior to the product of 4 years ago. There are fewer articles with less insight and informed opinion than before. The loss of The Observer on a Sunday has made Guardian Editions less comprehensive and less good value for money.
I still enjoy the paper and will continue to subscribe but like so many things I can’t help feeling that it was better before.
I still enjoy the paper and will continue to subscribe but like so many things I can’t help feeling that it was better before.
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Problems opening app every day
Every day, when opening the app, I am told there is a problem. I then have to mess about signing out, signing in, ,re starting my iPad (which has the appropriate OS) and generally messing about, sometimes with one time codes, until I eventually get in.
This is not acceptable for a paid for subscription!
This is not acceptable for a paid for subscription!
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Missing the big picture(s)
I have been buying and reading the Guardian for time out of mind (41 years?) and have made peace with the Guardian Editions on the iPad. But since the recent changes it takes 2-10 minutes to load each morning. It is rapid on my phone but who wants to read a broadsheet on your phone? Today it downloads but refuses to display, anything, apart from the small images. It seems the Home Screen is frozen or might as well be.
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Fabulous app
As good as- possibly better - than the print edition
Unable to open this morning- AGAIN!
I like being able to read à “real” copy of the newspaper and the supplements but, sadly, the app is getting worse at providing this. It fails to upload automatically, so they all have to be downloaded separately, and sometimes does not work at all. I am still unable to access Saturday’s content on Sunday morning. Needs urgent review
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Technically awful - almost unusable
I would echo many of the comments regarding the changes made a couple of years ago. I’m a digital + paper subscriber (which is far from cheap). I used to find the entire Guardian already downloaded to my iPad when I woke, and articles easy to read. Now I have a battle every morning just to download, the contents on Saturday taking forever. What will I try today? Press the “my library” button? Close then re-open the app? Delete then re-download the app? Once the content is downloaded it’s very hard to navigate: a facsimile of the print edition may sound like a good idea, but it simply doesn’t work. It’s difficult to browse and wery often I can’t see the bottom of the page. And the Guardian’s wonderful photography is often wasted as you can’t see the entire picture if it takes up a large part of the page (let alone spread over two pages). I have similar problems with the FT (is it the same engine?) but the Times and Independent are absolutely flawless and easy to use. Finally, while I understand the Guardian needs to preserve its income, I’m driven round the bend by constantly having to give my credentials including 2-step authentication.
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Not great
Really fed up of the app sticking during download and it being difficult to open headings to read.
Great paper but they need to get their digital services up to modern expected standards
No one would argue that guardian is a great paper, but their digital implication sucks. First there is the guardian edition and there is the guardian. No easy explanation what is the distinguishing differences between the two. The guardian addition tells you need an account and then does not take you anywhere to sign up. If you have a guardian account you cannot add it to the guard edition. It is all terrible and confusing. You need to get your act together and create a unified digital service which is easy to use.
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Loss of contact
Inexplicably, I have been cut off from my daily ‘Guardian’ on line as it should come up under this app’s icon. Is it something to do with Apple?
