The Guardian User Reviews

What users say

Top reviews

Honest News

I read the Guardian because it provides unbiased, trustworthy U.S. news.

Love the Guardian

The world’s two best papers are the Guardian and the Financial Times.

Drains battery

The app ran in the background at night without me opening the app or touching my phone. It ran in the background for more than 3 hours and totally drained the battery

Love The Guardian

First class journalism.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Exceptional journalism, outstanding app experience

The Guardian Australia app delivers a consistently high‑quality news experience. The reporting is thorough, balanced, and timely, with a clear commitment to public‑interest journalism. The app itself is fast, intuitive, and thoughtfully designed, making it easy to navigate breaking news, in‑depth features, and live coverage.

Notifications are well‑calibrated and informative without being intrusive, and the layout is clean, modern, and highly readable. The integration of multimedia elements—videos, podcasts, and interactive explainers—adds real value to the storytelling.

This is an essential app for anyone who wants reliable, insightful Australian and global news delivered with professionalism and integrity. A truly first‑class experience.
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App vanished

I cannot delete the app as it has vanished from my screen. If I search for it in apps all it shows is “open”
How to delete the app?

Manipulation

This is poor form, I could get rid of this pop up without pushing ok as it was the only option

Broken again

Once again the app stops showing any article. Just delivers a photo and a headline. I’m paying for this and I expect much better. Usual Guardian slack attitude.

The final review

I love you!

You have to pay a subscription

I used to like it but now you have to pay a subscription to access anything. Deleted.

Don’t update!

Latest update makes my phone hot and drains the battery, avoid the latest update!

The most valuable sources for news and perspectives

The Guardian is the news outlet that I check first in the morning with my coffee. I want to know what is going on in the world and especially Europe. Furthermore, the Guardian covers USA politics quite well.

Climate change is impacting our lives daily and the Guardian is not beholden to dirty energy companies.
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Diversity of articles

All subjects covered by good journalists!

Hot phone and battery drain

This app made my phone warm and rapidly drained the battery while running in the background.

#REALJOURNALISM

In a world where facts seem to be irrelevant in some circles, the Guardian is a stalwart of truth and a beacon to those who seek the facts to form their own opinions.

Best International News Source

Certainly better than the fading NY Times. Legitimate news and public interest reporting from all over the world (including third-world nations). Also the best double-entendre headlines.

Poor

My rating is given not to the Apple part of the app but to the Guardian. I clarified with the Guardian helpdesk before taking out a subscription that it could be used by my family on different devices at different addresses. I was told yes through the Guardian website. I made the error of doing it through the app on my iPad, after constant prompting by the Guardian to support them. Total lack of transparency from the Guardian when subscribing via their app that there were other ways and levels to subscribe. Thankfully Apple very quickly refunded my subscription.
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Guardian of the Earth

Great easy to read article’s informative and well researched.

Quality journalism

I think support this newspaper does not always get it right and seems easy to attack but in the uk this is the best for miles around

In-depth reporting that’s well written

The reporters include evidence as well as opinion in most articles. The links provided give a worthy opportunity to go even deeper, to allow the reader to form their own opinion with more than an emotional preference. I consider our sustainable subscription to be a good investment.