news.com.au
Be on it with the news.com.au app. Australia’s best news coverage, in one place
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3.39
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Covers daily and weekly happenings in Australia
- Provides content related to Australian news
Cons
- App is clunky and frequently crashes
- Scrolling issues where users accidentally navigate away from articles
- Heavy advertisement interference while reading articles
- Auto-playing videos and audio without user control
- Poor content quality with biased and poorly written articles
Most mentioned
- Crashes and freezing issues
- Clunky scrolling experience
- Too many advertisements
- Quality of articles is poor and more tabloid-like
- Auto-playing audio/video is annoying
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-12-12 |  | | Clunky app. Freezes on adds and I can't scroll past. Takes forever to open. Don't bother with it. |
| 2024-11-07 |  | | Not a real news site, just ad-filled poorly written and heavily biased articles with click-bait titles. |
| 2024-11-05 |  | | Garbage. You cannnot scroll through some images. So when there are a lot of them, you cannot scroll past them to read the rest. Who tests this? Seriously? And now, you click on an article and it takes you to another article. Garbage. Just garbage |
| 2024-10-29 |  | | So many problems now it drives me crazy with the sound of a news article before you even open it Not to mention of the phone is on a angle it will go to another article don't bother with this news app |
| 2024-10-26 |  | | Glitchy, jumps all over the place while I'm scanning headlines or trying to read a story. Quite frustrating!!!! Plus the frequent spelling & grammar mistakes is laughable! |
| 2024-10-16 |  | | It's the content, not the app. The term "news" is used loosely here because the content is rubbish. It's more Cosmo/New Idea, which is fine, but it's trying to pass itself off as a legitimate news site. Which it isn't. Subscribe to a more reputable site. It's worth the few bucks. |
| 2024-10-09 |  | | Audio now plays automatically VERY ANNOYING Cannot see an option to switch off auto play |
| 2024-10-02 |  | | Suddenly auto plays videos at full volume with no option to stop it. Not cool at all. |
| 2024-08-25 |  | | So hard to use. Scrolling is clunky and I can never get through a story without flicking to another story accidentally. Even website through browser is poor. Also no options to add comments to most of the news stories. |
| 2024-08-13 |  | | The trashiest tabloid Australian news. 90% of the front page articles are on such brain-dead topics it makes me cringe to be alive, and the other 10% serve a clear agenda. I remember the day being a 'journalist' meant something. |
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