The Hindu Businessline News User Reviews

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Love reading

Almost ten years and still my preferred Buisness news paper, it all started eith the weekly stock recommendations but now I read the full newspaper ( online) along with my morning cup of tea.

Precise and Timely

Your reporting of the business news covering both Macro and Micro aspects is precise and timely and easy to understand.
May I suggest you to cover analysis of more Companies in your Portfolio section covering two companies on Saturdays and Two companies on Sundays?

Subscription

Subscription being actived many disruptions on the ground that my subscription had expired per management record and can be verified from the management record in the correspondence made buy me. I was asked to submit the date on which payment was made, and the date from which the subscription had started. But I only knew the expiry date that was on 11th of March 2026..
To cut the story short I was unable to access access to all papers which I could have access my subscription options that you mentioned all access for more than three months in a period of nine
months. To my goodluck I once again called on phone to ask for the position of my issues The Executive said Sir your subscription is active as per my information. She very kindly revised my access to the the Hindu group publication against my all access subscription and she walked that extra mile to make account active.
I am a regular subscriber to this
Excellent group of
Hindu group of papers and have never faced such type of hurdle in the past.
I want to make a request to the management that the executive who was responsible to
to make my
account active should be appreciated. But for her I would not have review renewed my subscription, which is due to lapse on 11th of March2026.
Such executive are
an asset to the management
Kjs Brar
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Clicking on notifications doesn’t open the actual story, just the homepage

Infuriating bug in the app (at least on iOS). You get a banner notification, click on it, and the app does not open that story; it opens the home page. Agreed, Businessline is a great newspaper, but this bug will ensure that I won’t renew my subscription.

Not so good. Not so bad

I’m a copywriter and I’m a marketer, also a second year student so does provide me “needed” content but its on you if you like it. Good. If you dont, then submit a review. Might help me too.

Response from developer

Hi Reader, Thanks for the rating. Hope you continue to enjoy reading the news on our app. If you have any feedback or suggestions, please write to us at appsupport@thehindu.co.in. We would love to hear from you!

Account Details to update

Not sure this app is designed in such a way , it won’t work if you want to update your subscription details. However, it prompts in such a way to pay for subscription as many times as you login

Response from developer

Hi Reader, We are very sorry for the trouble you have had. We want to fix the problem. As we don't have your email, could you please write to us at appsupport@thehindu.co.in? This will help us assist you better. We look forward to hearing from you.

Current news

Much updated news

Response from developer

Hi Reader, We're always working hard to improve the app. Thanks for the rating. If you have any feedback or suggestions, please write to us at appsupport@thehindu.co.in. We would love to hear from you!

Poor updation and frequent app issues

The updation of articles are pretty low when compared to other leading business journals. Besides, after the latest update, My Account section is completely blank. Being a premium subscriber, I’m unable to read premium articles from my mobile which ultimately defeats the purpose of subscription. BL needs to raise the bar.
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Response from developer

Hi Ganesh, We request you to write your concerns to readerseditor@thehindu.co.in. We'd love to hear more about the issue you are facing. Thanks!

Features missed

Articles not changing with swipe left or swipe right…premium Content level to be high standard

Response from developer

Hi Suresh, We've forwarded your feedback to our developers. Thank you for taking the time to send us your suggestions! We are committed to continuous improvement. If you have any suggestions or feedback, please feel free to reach out to us at appsupport@thehindu.co.in. We would love to hear from you!

Better, but need improvement

App should have features to change the font and background colour for better reader experience like the one available in the reader mode in Safari or in chrome.

Response from developer

Hi Manoj, We've forwarded your feedback to our developers. Thank you for taking the time to send us your suggestions!

Quite an amazing experience

Most honest thing about BusinessLine is “no nonsense” you straight get to read what you subscribe for, can be tailored precisely as per your preferences and strictly this app shows specific to what you subscribe!! My thanks and best wishes to the BusinessLine team!! Don’t change, stay the same, you guys are best!! I’m happy to use your app!
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Response from developer

Hi Mohit, Thanks for the review. Enjoy reading :) If you have any feedback or suggestions, you could write to us at appsupport@thehindu.co.in. We would love to hear from you!

Stocks Recommendations on Technical analysis

I find Businesses paper very useful to me for Business Updates.
I am keen reader of The Hindu and Business line for more than 2 decades.
Keep the trust up

Response from developer

Hi Pravin, Thanks for the review. Enjoy reading :) If you have any feedback or suggestions, you could write to us at appsupport@thehindu.co.in. We would love to hear from you!

The new version is definitely better

The renewed app is definitely better than earlier version, using trail version for now, I may go for paid version after trail period. The problem mentioned below of ad appearing between body of article has definitely been solved, editorial content is really good.

-----old version review---retained for reference
This app version does not have any options for using paid subscription, news can be read, however ads are shown to n between news body, there is no way to clear ad, so content beneath ad cannot be read. Looks like no updates have been done to app in past 2 years
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Response from developer

Hi Reader, Thanks for the updated rating and review. Enjoy reading :) If you have any feedback or suggestions, you could write to us at appsupport@thehindu.co.in. We would love to hear from you!

Link in an article redirecting to website

When someone clicks on a link in the article, it is being redirected to website, for which we have to login again. So, see that click on the link takes us to the page in the app only, just like NYTimes does.

Response from developer

Hi Reader, The issue you have reported is fixed. Please update your app once and give it a try. If the issue persists, please write to us at appsupport@thehindu.co.in

The latest update v3.0 is amazing. Just loved it

Only one more suggestion. Guys please give descriptions on the subscription page as in what’s the difference between the digital and full version etc, it’s not showing any detail on subscription page on iphone or website.

Response from developer

Hi Reader, Thank you for your review. Enjoy reading :) If you have any feedback or suggestions, you could write to us at appsupport@thehindu.co.in. We would love to hear from you!

No login option / Poor experience

I am not sure if this application deserves 2 stars. Extremely poor experience of reading and surfing through. Out of nowhere — “Network status - The app is online” pop-up keeps annoying once in 30 secs. Unable to login and stop ads.

Not optimised for iPhone 13

News articles from “notifications” open blank. No content other than ads and then similar articles suggestions.
Even from home page top section of every article just above the ad is curtailed. Please update the otherwise very good app.
Thank you.

No ad free feature

No option to log available in the app to access ad free content. Even if you have paid subscription to The Hindu publication. Kindly rectify this issue and provide ad free experience to subscribers

Allow login option

I have purchased Hindu all content access which gives me add free content on Business Line web, but in app there is no option to login and hence I see ads all over even after paying for subscription.

Pop-up message Network Status

Frequent pop-up message mentioning that “Network status is online“ is really annoying. Phone has good connectivity. UI needs improvement