The Guardian - News & Sport

I like most of the app. I wish "Listen" could choose voices. I vastly prefer British voices. Big annoyance - the app doesn't stay open like other apps. When (in Android) I click the lower-left corner button to show all open apps, The Guardian app doesn't show up. So I always have to go back to the app shortcut every time I want to switch between apps and get back to it. If I'm in the middle of an article and I flip portrait to landscape accidentally, it puts me back to the top or the article.

Mind you, the app gets three stars, while The Guardian itself deserves five. That said, I'm a monthly subscriber, yet the app imposes a limit on the number of articles I can read. I never bump up against a limit when using a browser, so I'm uninstalling the app and going back to the browser. I never could see what the advantages of the app are supposed to be. It's slick-looking, but that's about it.

Not better than web. The interface is fine, but I can't open articles in new tabs, and signing in is a little clunky. I'll just use the web version, which is already pretty nice in mobile. (Similar for the daily version; I can't really tell what the benefit would be, and sign in didn't sync between them so I'd have to find and enter my digital subscriber ID again.) Plus, I'm always annoyed by a prompt to review (though I appreciated the explicit questions about notifications when setting up).

Update--everything was fine until I logged in. Now, when I open the app, it freezes and I have to force quit I very often get news before I hear it in the U. S. Media. I love the in depth stories that The Guardian provides. The app is good but has some odd issues. It doesn't always keep me signed in, even when I don't sign out. Also, I get story emails and it doesn't give me an option to open them in the app. The listings in my categories are often less than on the website

Well ever since the AP's app shot itself in both feet, I've been using the Guardian's and so far mostly everything seems fine with the transition. One very annoying thing though is in the main list of articles, there'll be something in a headline that is nowhere to be found in the actual article. Kind of frustrating to be lured into reading something when the actual subject matter doesn't exist. Please stop posting headlines with no articles to back them up, it's a very annoying waste of my time

The app doesn't get in the way of reading the news, and in fact makes it quite convenient to do so. Smooth, quick. Plus, the Guardian is a really good paper, one that not only reports on a lot of events but also very significantly keeps What Happened in one article and What I Think About It in a separate one. Recipes and other human-interest pieces are generally very interesting and well written, and provide links for further research and primary sources (e.g. Lancet) where applicable.

This is the first time I've been moved to review. I'm on multiple media/social media forums, and this is the first one I Could. Not. Figure. Out, in the app nor the desktop site. It's anti-intuitive, disorganized, and redundant. Also, as a print journalist displaced by the economy, I thought I'd never say this -- but the constant attempts to get me to pay for a subscription are INSANE. I GET that journalism isn't free! But it's not possible for me TODAY and it won't stop. Uninstalling.

I've been using the Guardian App for a long time, going back to the days when I had a Windows phone. Top-notch reporting, deep dives (long reads), football updates, and recipes for food and drink. You cannot find a better app out there; it runs smooth and in the info is presented in a clean, sleek manner. I've even been a paying customer (approx. $7/mo) for about two and a half years because I greatly value the Guardian. Highly, highly, highly recommend.

I would like to participate in the comment section for some articles. This requires that my email be verified. The problem is that whenever I am prompted to verify my email, and accept the prompt, the app crashes. Every time. This is very annoying to me, but otherwise, the app is my favorite news app of all time, in terms of presentation.

I pay for this news app because of the journalism. What irritates me is that like some other news apps, it is becoming more cluttered and chaotic. I might discontinue paying for it if this doesn't improve. Update-----I stopped paying for this app, was paying at the rate of $60 a year. I'm tired of being told "You've run out of your allotment of articles to read." I like the journalism, I don't like the stingy terms.

Balanced, well-researched, and insightful news, commentary, and investigative journalism. No hesitation spending money on a subscription to support this excellent work, even though they offer the content for free. Journalism of this quality is rare these days, and must be supported. I've had no problems with the app - it works well and is easy to navigate.

The content is mostly good. Some of the opinion pieces are very suspect though. $10 per month is not worth it though. Time to move on after the pay wall... Ads not enough anymore? As much as you can opt out of tracking, the trackers are still there. I'm not sure how that works. Stick to the browser if you want to read news and protect yourself from the trackers through your browser.

Love the Guardian, not thrilled with the app. Trying to scroll up often ends up with the article scrolling right or left so while you started reading one thing, suddenly, you are in a completely different story. It is frustrating bordering on infuriating. So much so I am considering deleting the app altogether and just waiting until I am on my computer.

I suspect that the 1 star reviews can be attributed to the far right. I just downloaded the app. It is incredibly easy to use, showing article headlines with the first sentence or 2 as I scroll down. None of my information has been requested from me. No special permissions were required. I don't even have ANY subscriptions. Something stinks and it sure isn't the Guardian.

A wasted opportunity. The app seems to presents the physical paper on screen and does almost nothing to assist the reader deal with huge amount of content. Despite having paid for an ad-free subscription I'll go back to reading with ads in Feedly because it makes scanning and reading the content so much easier. So disappointing.

Love the Guardian, not so much the app. Very buggy on Android all around. Something broke in the last update with the crossword puzzles. Can no longer scroll the puzzle screen manually, so to look at the puzzle top or get to the clues there you now have to click through the clues. Customizing the home screen also often doesn't stick, random pieces will start coming back in.

1 star due to the article limit in the app (which is NOT present on the website). I enjoy the Guardian and think they do great reporting. I also understand the need for pop ups or banners encouraging people to donate or subscribe. However, having an article limit means that when I tap on, or am sent, a Guardian link, the article is blocked in the app. This then forces me back to using the website in a browser. That entirely defeats the purpose of having an app.

I really respect the guardian and am a subscriber, which gives me access to the crossword which I've been somewhat addicted to for years. But oh man! I'm sure they don't QA that section of the app at all! Many bugs have been unchanged for years, but just recently a scrolling change means the puzzle can't be moved back into view, and the only way to reset it is to cancel the keyboard and re-edit.

Okay app. One very annoying weird thing — when I change focus to another app, the Guardian disappears from my list of open apps. I need to hunt it down and open it again to pick up where I left off. I have uninstalled and reinstalled, same thing. Strange.

Quality journalism and still free I just reinstalled after changing my subscription. The navigation is now poor. There's a nice top level nav at the bottom on the home page (Home, My, Podcasts etc). But this disappears when you navigate away from home. The only navigation you get on other pages is just the Back arrow at the top. it's therefore hard to get back to the home page - you have to retrace your steps using Back I think the top-level nav should be persistent