Daily Express Newspaper vs Surrey Live
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daily Express Newspaper
Access an exact digital replica of the Sunday and Daily Express newspaper on your iPhone or iPad. Enjoy the latest news, features, and stories with an exceptional touch screen experience. Download and save pages for offline reading and easily navigate through content.
- Digital newspaper replica
- Touch screen navigation
- Offline page saving
- Search functionality
- Zoom function
- Social sharing integration
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Enjoy an exact replica of the “Sunday and Daily Express” on your iPhone or iPad everyday... Subscribe to the Daily and Sunday Express today and pay less for your favourite newspaper, not only do you save but you also get it delivered directly to your device every morning ! Daily and Sunday Express brings you the very best stories, news and features on your device, published in exceptional clarity, with an incredible touch screen experience allowing you to swipe through the paper Flip your device and read the newspaper as a double-page spread or full screen single page, tap the page selector to choose a specific page to fast-navigate to. You can also download and save individual pages to enjoy offline and when you are on the go. Your Daily and Sunday Express app features search functionality to find key-words relating to recent content, a zoom function to enable clearer reading of selected articles and social networking integration to keep your friends and social-circles up to date with all the latest shared news from the Daily and Sunday Express Payment for this subscription will be charged to your account upon purchase. The subscription will auto-renew within 24 hours of the current subscription expiring. Auto-renewing subscriptions can be managed via Account Settings allowing them to be turned off. No cancellations of the current subscription are allowed during the active subscription period. Please see our privacy policy at: https://www.express.co.uk/privacy-notice and terms of use at: https://www.express.co.uk/terms-conditions
Surrey Live
Stay informed with the latest news, business, and sports updates from Surrey. Customize your news feed to focus on what matters most, including local events, traffic, and restaurant reviews. Enjoy features like offline reading and personalized content.
- Latest local news, business, and sports
- Customizable news feed
- Event listings and What's On guides
- Traffic and travel updates
- Restaurant guides and reviews
- Offline reading
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Get the very latest news from Surrey, with business and sport 24/7. Keep up to date with your local football team, and find out what's on in your area. Completely customisable, the Get Surrey app allows you to tailor what news you consume, and when. The Get Surrey app is the best way to follow breaking news from Surrey; including live blogs, video and traffic & travel. Keep up-to-date with the latest in: · Top local news stories · Football and Sport news · Traffic & travel news · Surrey event listings and What's On guides · Surrey restaurant guides and reviews The App also features: • Force Touch allowing you to peak and pop into an article. • Native iPad support for a better tablet experience • The ability to follow topics that matter to you • Follow your favourite authors like you do any topic • Resize the article text to help with your reading experience • The ability to read an article even when you are offline • Split screen view is supported on all compatible iPads • Bookmark and article for reading later, and have them synced to your other iOS devices. Terms and Conditions https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/terms-conditions/ Privacy Notice https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/privacy-notice/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Surrey Live at ad-supported against Daily Express Newspaper's subscription. Surrey Live also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Daily Express Newspaper's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Daily Express Newspaper sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Surrey Live sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Daily Express Newspaper against 4.4 for Surrey Live. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 14 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 35% of Daily Express Newspaper's written reviews are positive against 39% of Surrey Live's.
Daily Express Newspaper ships an update every 4 months, Surrey Live monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daily Express Newspaper | Surrey Live |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (24 ratings) — better | 4.4 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 35.5% of reviews | 38.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 110 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Reach Shared Services Limited | Trinity Mirror Digital Media Limited |
Customer experience
Daily Express Newspaper
Surrey Live
User reviews
Daily Express Newspaper
From 24 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great value for money
- 👍 Good read and great value
- 👍 Concise and sensible opinions
- 👍 Accessible with VoiceOver
- 👍 Good columnists and letters page
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent glitches and bugs
- 🐛 App is slow and unresponsive
- 🐛 Navigation issues
- 🐛 Login problems
- 🐛 Content not downloading
Surrey Live
From 14 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 📰 Excellent for local news
- 📍 Keeps users updated on local events
- 🌍 Invaluable for those living abroad
- 👍 Easy to use interface
- 🚀 Fast news updates
Room to improve
- 💸 Now requires payment for articles
- 🐌 Slow to load
- 🗑️ Poor quality journalism, clickbait
- 🗑️ Too many ads and sponsored content
- 🗑️ Irrelevant content outside of Surrey
Bugs and requests
Daily Express Newspaper
Reported bugs
58 issues- App crashes frequently
- App freezes or becomes unresponsive
- Content fails to download or update
- Login credentials not accepted
- Subscription access issues
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- Technical difficulties reported
- App causes iPad to reset
- Links not working
- Not optimized for mobile devices
- Top of pages cut off
- Enlarging print only works partially
- App refreshes constantly
- No image or content displayed
- App exits back to index
- Cloud icon with down arrow not working
- Square with up arrow showing
- App support links to news articles
- App slow to update index page
- Cannot jump to specific sections (e.g., sports)
- Swiping pages takes time to change
- Zoom snaps back
- Difficulty swapping between editions
- Awkward page navigation
- Limited access to back issues
- White screen displayed
- App not reinstalling
- Option to print page removed
- Paper arriving late
- Weekend magazines inaccessible
- Clearing cache not working
- Last week's magazines shown as current
- App jumps to semi-text based view on magnification
- Subscription expired message despite active subscription
- Unable to access paper on iPad but available on iPhone
- Scottish version always available, English version not
- App not working on linked iPad
- New update without instructions
- Previous version was better
- Content only available to subscribed customers
- Account needs activation with no instructions
- App not working on any devices after update
- Restored purchases message but no access
- New app without notification and no instructions
- Cannot get paper to download
- Update stops app usage
- Unable to download subscribed paper
- App asking for username and password after upgrade
- No reply from customer service
- Family sharing not working
- Need to activate account
- Swiping pages takes seconds to change
- Zoom only goes so far and snaps back
- Not easy to swap from Scottish edition to national
- Navigating pages is awkward
- Used to get access to all back issues now only a few
- Emailing help did not address issues
- Print too small on iPad
- App jumps to semi-text based view when increasing magnification
Requested features
10 requests- Improve search function
- Better reading experience when expanding page
- More user-friendly interface
- Cut out puerile puns
- Add more letters page space
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- Make Sudoku less hard
- Improve navigation to specific pages
- Allow family sharing
- Improve text-based view options
- Make print size adjustable on iPad
Surrey Live
Reported bugs
20 issues- App is slow or interpreted
- Constant spam or clickbait
- GDPR maintenance questionable
- App crashes or shows black screen
- Cannot retrieve new content, requires refresh that doesn't work
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- Error when creating an account
- App icon shows unremovable number in red circle
- Cannot register, display name field not working
- Comments are switched off
- Cookies impossible to manage, reject all defaults to accept all
- Severe battery drain due to background activity
- Notifications are plentiful and annoying, no search facility
- Headline of story visible, but article is blank
- Update prompt fails, app won't download after deletion
- Constantly self-scrolls back to the top
- Links don't link to the article or article doesn't exist
- Data needs updating more frequently, competitions page outdated
- Video does not follow headlines, or shows unrelated content
- Flash news sometimes never appears
- Video links don't work, show unrelated videos
Requested features
5 requests- Option to go ad-free
- Search facility
- More local places included (e.g., Horley)
- Fix login issues for commenting
- Improve media content relevance
In-app purchases
Daily Express Newspaper
- 7 Day Subscription1 Month trial$4.997 Days
- 1 Month Subscription1 Month trial$9.991 Month
- 3 Month Subscription1 Month trial$24.993 Months
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- 6 Month Subscription1 Month trial$49.996 Months
- 1 Year Subscription1 Month trial$89.991 Year
Surrey Live
- Monthly1 Month trial$3.991 Month
- Yearly$39.991 Year
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