Canoe.com vs The Globe and Mail
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Canoe.com
Access curated news and deals on shopping, travel, tech, and entertainment. Personalize your feed with favorite writers and trending stories from across Canada. Stay informed with product reviews, gift ideas, and exclusive offers.
- Customizable content feed
- Trending stories discovery
- Personalized topic selection
- Product reviews and news
- Deal alerts for shopping and travel
- Cross-platform user recognition
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Canoe is your trusted source for shopping, travel, tech and entertainment. Create your custom feed so you don’t miss the latest from your favourite writers. Stay up to date with product reviews and news, search for great gift ideas and get alerted to the best deals, including deals on travel. Features include: • Stay connected to your trusted source for shopping, travel, tech and entertainment. • You will be prompted to choose your preferred content when you first open the new app, ensuring a curated news feed that aligns with your interests. • Use the Discover tab to explore trending stories from Postmedia newsrooms across Canada • Personalize your news experience by selecting topics, journalists and columnists you care about, so your feed will be filled with the content and perspectives you enjoy. • As a registered user, you are recognized consistently across web and app platforms for a more cohesive experience. Register to sample the wide variety of breaking news and special features — plus extensive photo and video coverage. Home delivery print subscribers receive unlimited access, included as part of their print subscription and can gain access by simply signing in with their existing account when prompted. If you’re not an existing print subscriber, you can easily subscribe to the app through the App Store for iOS devices. Privacy policy: https://www.postmedia.com/privacy-statement/ Terms of use: https://www.postmedia.com/terms-and-conditions/ We appreciate and value your feedback. Please send any comments, suggestions or questions to: appfeedback@postmedia.com
The Globe and Mail
Access award-winning news, commentary, and analysis from Canada and around the world. Customize your news feed, enjoy audio articles, and save content for offline reading. Subscribers gain access to exclusive features and can gift articles.
- Customized news feed
- Audio articles
- Offline reading
- Stock Watchlist
- Article commenting
- Newsletter subscriptions
- Gift articles
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Stay informed around-the-clock with world-class, award-winning news, commentary and analysis from The Globe and Mail. Featuring: • Sign up and receive The Globe's newsletters in the app. • 'For You' section featuring customized news feed, crossword puzzles, and horoscopes. • Globe subscribers can gift up to three articles a month to family and friends. • Improved stock profile pages with graphs and more news. • Watchlist: Create and edit custom Watchlists of key stocks directly in the app with all changes synced seamlessly to the website • Commenting: Join the conversation by commenting and discussing articles • Saved articles: Bookmark your favourite articles to read later • Audio articles: Listen to select articles via the dedicated audio player • All Globe and Mail articles and sections, including subscriber-only features with a digital subscription • Latest news and top stories • Alerts: Opt-in to be notified about breaking news • Offline reading: Save articles to read when you’re offline • In-app purchase: Purchase a digital subscription to unlock subscriber-only content Subscribe today to access all Globe and Mail content on all platforms. App Store Policy: • Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase • Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period • Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal • Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase By subscribing to The Globe and Mail, you agree to our Terms and Conditions: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/appview/privacy-terms/terms-and-conditions/ and Privacy Policy: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/appview/privacy-terms/privacy-policy/ We hope you enjoy using the new Globe iOS app. If you have any questions or comments, tweet @GlobeHelp or visit http://support.globeandmail.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: The Globe and Mail at 45% against Canoe.com's 8%. The Globe and Mail also leads on chart position (#73 vs unranked) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). Canoe.com's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ads, monetization model and device support 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. The Globe and Mail sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per month. Canoe.com asks for nothing beyond the download.
Canoe.com ships an update monthly, The Globe and Mail every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Canoe.com | The Globe and Mail |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.7 (3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 8.3% of reviews | 44.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 3K — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #73 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Postmedia Network INC. | The Globe and Mail Inc. |
Customer experience
Canoe.com
The Globe and Mail
User reviews
Canoe.com
From App Store reviewsWhat we love
- 🇨🇦 Great Canadian content
- 💰 Free content without paywall
- 👍 Used to be a great app
Room to improve
- 💸 Lots of ads
- 🗑️ App is now garbage
- 📉 Update ruined the app
- 🚫 News is gone, only ads
- 😵 Utter garbage beauty product site
The Globe and Mail
From 3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 📰 Excellent news coverage
- 🗞️ Authoritative and balanced reporting
- 🌍 Comprehensive international news
- 📊 Valuable financial and investment content
- 🧠 Insightful opinion and analysis pieces
Room to improve
- 🐌 Slow app performance and frequent crashes
- 💰 Expensive subscription fees
- 🔍 Poor search functionality
- 📱 Unintuitive and cluttered user interface
- 🔒 Difficult subscription cancellation process
Bugs and requests
Canoe.com
Reported bugs
116 issues- App keeps crashing
- App never loads up
- App freezes
- App never updates
- App freezes
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- Black screen after clicking article
- App seems to freeze
- Issues loading
- Won't load
- Blank screen after clicking article
- Constantly acting up
- Application freezing
- Freezes when scrolling
- Locks up
- Sloooow
- Crashes
- Can't open any news
- Picture loads, text doesn't
- App frozen
- Terrible App
- Full of bugs
- Useless
- Fix the problems
- App always freezes
- Articles go blank
- Phone locks up
- Constantly not working
- Does not load
- Glitchy
- App goes through two screens
- Screen stops
- Keeps Crashing
- Crashes
- Freezes
- Getting stuck
- Won't load stories
- Slow to respond to scrolling
- Freeze altogether
- Slow and takes many seconds to react
- App freezes since iOS 15 update
- Latest update freezes
- Articles have white background
- New version crashes
- Reboots iPhone
- Useless app now
- Black screen since update
- No fix for black screen
- App unusable
- Crashing
- Since last release unable to use
- Phone crashes after update
- App unusable
- Won't open article
- Crashes phone
- Horrible
- Can't read articles
- Black screen
- Stories all blank since last update
- Broken on iOS
- Crashes
- Reboots phone
- Latest update won't show stories
- Blank screen when selecting story
- Broken
- Won't open any articles
- Broken
- Loads home page but locks up on article click
- Crashes entire phone
- Makes phone reboot
- Emails to developers don't send
- Crashes after update
- Causes phone to freeze
- Reboot
- Crashing and Rebooting
- Screen goes black with toolbar
- Screen freezes
- iPhone becomes unresponsive
- iPhone reboots
- Freezes and reboots iPhone
- Always freezes
- Crash
- Phone freezing up
- Broken
- App is a piece of garbage
- Shut down phone when clicking headline
- Phone crash
- Making iPhone crash
- Update is awful
- Most articles don't open
- Black screen
- Currently unusable
- Restarts phone every time article clicked
- Content not available on mobile
- Crashes now
- iPhone and iPad shut down and restart
- App freezes up
- Won't load any headline
- Page remains blank
- Update sucks!
- App doesn't open properly
- iPad keeps freezing when opening news stories
- Crash
- Makes iPhone crash
- App not working
- Unable to read articles
- Broken
- Broke ability to see titles
- Can't read
- Unable to read any headline
- Black text on black images
- Freezes
- Needs to be reloaded each use
- Continually freezes
- Since iOS 13 update, app freezes
- Unstable
- Program crashes regularly
Requested features
4 requests- Include Canadian Press and 24H news sources
- Promote stories written by Canadians
- Add video content
- Offer regional news tickers
The Globe and Mail
Reported bugs
4 issues- Articles not loading properly or requiring internet connection
- Notifications not working as expected
- Syncing issues between app and website versions
- Frequent login problems and account management difficulties
Requested features
5 requests- Automatic dark mode option
- Improved offline reading capabilities
- Better integration with user's portfolio and watchlists
- Easier access to comments and ability to participate
- More personalized news recommendations and content curation
In-app purchases
Canoe.com
No in-app purchases
The Globe and Mail
- Monthly Subscription1 Month trial$24.991 Month
- Annual Subscription1 Month trial$229.991 Year
Questions
Is Canoe.com free?
Is The Globe and Mail free?
Do Canoe.com or The Globe and Mail have ads?
Which is updated more often, Canoe.com or The Globe and Mail?
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