Comparison

Daily Record App vs Daily Express Newspaper

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Daily Record App

Access breaking Scottish, UK, and world news, including sports, entertainment, and politics. Features include personalized news feeds, live sports coverage, and interactive content. Save articles for offline reading and enjoy curated content from editors.

Highlights
  • Breaking news alerts
  • Personalized content feed
  • Live sports coverage
  • Save articles for offline reading
  • Interactive features (comments, polls)
  • Curated editor's picks
Features
Read full description

Welcome to The Daily Record, your go-to app for the biggest Scottish, UK and world news. Immerse yourself in the latest news, sport, entertainment and more. Keep up to date with the world of politics, find out what’s happening on your favourite TV shows and follow celebrity stories, all in one place. With our user-friendly interface and comprehensive coverage, you'll never need to go anywhere else. What’s included? Stay Informed: Get the latest breaking news, compelling journalism and exclusive reporting at your fingertips. From the Senedd to traffic and travel updates, we've got you covered. Breaking News Alerts: Be the first to know about important news, updates and events with our real-time push notifications. From breaking news stories to traffic updates, we'll keep you informed and connected. Personalised Content: Customise your newsfeed based on your preferences and interests. Stay up-to-date with the topics you care about effortlessly. Live Sports Coverage: Never miss a moment of the action with our extensive coverage of our rugby and football teams. Get the latest team news, interviews, expert analysis and more. What's On: Plan your weekends with ease and stay up to date with Welsh culture, from the biggest gig announcements to the latest restaurant reviews. Interactive Features: Share articles with friends, leave comments, and participate in polls to voice your opinions. Save For Later: Save articles to read later, even when you're offline, so you can enjoy your news on the go, anytime. The Edit A weekly curation of our best long reads selected by our editors. The Digest A specially curated round-up of the most important stories to catch you up on anything you might have missed. _____________________________ To unlock all features of the app, an active subscription is required. Subscribers benefit from unlimited access to our journalism, including premium analysis and opinion articles, listen to articles, unique puzzles and more. Subscribe to Daily Record Premium The best way to get the most from this app is with Daily Record Premium Ad-lite*, a cleaner and faster reading experience Access to exclusive subscriber-only journalism and all our newsroom’s brilliant content across website and app Daily puzzles: unlock crosswords, sudoku & more each day Bespoke special offers, rewards & competitions from our partners *Ad-lite indicates that you will be shown far fewer standard advertising display formats within the article pages that you read, selected articles may contain commercial messages/affiliate links where contractually required. To view our latest introductory offers, please check the app. Terms and Conditions https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/terms-conditions/ Privacy Notice https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/privacy-notice/

About

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.

Highlights
  • Digital newspaper replica
  • Touch screen navigation
  • Offline page saving
  • Search functionality
  • Zoom function
  • Social sharing integration
Features
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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

Screenshots

Daily Record App4 screens
Daily Express Newspaper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Daily Express Newspaper at none against Daily Record App's shown. Daily Record App's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (212 vs 24). On price, rating, review sentiment and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Daily Record App sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Daily Express Newspaper sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Daily Record App against 4.5 for Daily Express Newspaper. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Daily Record App has 212 ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 29% of Daily Record App's written reviews are positive against 35% of Daily Express Newspaper's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daily Record App ships an update monthly, Daily Express Newspaper every 4 months. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Daily Record App versus Daily Express Newspaper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaily Record AppDaily Express Newspaper
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (212 ratings) — better4.5 (24 ratings)
Positive reviews29.2% of reviews35.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings212 — better24
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 4 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size121 MB22 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperTrinity Mirror Digital Media LimitedReach Shared Services Limited

Customer experience

Daily Record App

All ratings211 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral5.2%
Negative4.7%
Written reviews106 reviews
Positive29.2%
Neutral7.5%
Negative63.2%

Daily Express Newspaper

All ratings24 ratings
Positive79.2%
Neutral16.7%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews62 reviews
Positive35.5%
Neutral6.5%
Negative58.1%

User reviews

Daily Record App

From 212 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 📰 Comprehensive Scottish news coverage
  • 🌍 Accessible for expats worldwide
  • ⚡ Generally up-to-date news updates
  • 🏈 Good sports section coverage
  • 📱 Easy navigation (older versions)

Room to improve

  • 💰 Aggressive paywall/subscription model (£50/year)
  • 🐛 Auto-scrolling to ads disrupts reading
  • 📝 Persistent spelling and grammar errors
  • 🔤 Poor font spacing and readability
  • ❌ Frequent app crashes and freezes

Daily Express Newspaper

From 24 App Store ratings

What 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

Bugs and requests

Daily Record App

Reported bugs

14 issues
  • Auto-scrolling jumps to ads mid-article
  • Scroll freezes preventing return to article
  • Stories jump to bottom while reading
  • App crashes when viewing videos
  • Videos display black screen on iPad
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  • App freezes and becomes unresponsive
  • Certain sections fail to update (Celtic, Rangers)
  • Regional news sections not updating properly
  • Swipe navigation triggers wrong story selection
  • Pop-up ads force app closure
  • Dynamic type font scaling inconsistent across sections
  • Font rendering too cramped and close together
  • App won't update specific sections without reinstall
  • Intrusive advertising blocks content

Requested features

11 requests
  • Restore swiping functionality between articles
  • Improve dynamic type scaling for accessibility (support beyond 135%)
  • Add local weather information
  • Restore crossword puzzle feature
  • Better regional news filtering
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  • Improve font spacing and readability
  • Restore previous app layout/design
  • Auto-refresh news without manual pull-down
  • Fix content update frequency for all sections
  • Enable comments on all articles
  • Restore Discover tab functionality

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
Show 53 more
  • 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
Show 5 more
  • Make Sudoku less hard
  • Improve navigation to specific pages
  • Allow family sharing
  • Improve text-based view options
  • Make print size adjustable on iPad

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Daily Record App

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly1 Month trial$4.991 Month
  • Yearly1 Year trial$49.991 Year
5 purchases

Daily Express Newspaper

Subscriptions5
  • 7 Day Subscription1 Month trial$4.997 Days
  • 1 Month Subscription1 Month trial$9.991 Month
  • 3 Month Subscription1 Month trial$24.993 Months
Show 2 more
  • 6 Month Subscription1 Month trial$49.996 Months
  • 1 Year Subscription1 Month trial$89.991 Year

Questions

Is Daily Record App free?
Daily Record App is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daily Express Newspaper free?
Daily Express Newspaper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Daily Record App or Daily Express Newspaper?
Daily Record App is rated higher. Daily Record App averages 4.6 out of 5 from 212 ratings, while Daily Express Newspaper averages 4.5 from 24 ratings.
Do Daily Record App or Daily Express Newspaper have ads?
Daily Record App shows ads; Daily Express Newspaper does not.
Which is updated more often, Daily Record App or Daily Express Newspaper?
Daily Record App ships an update monthly, and Daily Express Newspaper every 4 months. Most recently, Daily Record App was updated on November 6, 2026 and Daily Express Newspaper on November 6, 2026.

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