The Guardian - US & World News

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About this app

Get fearless, independent journalism from the United States and the world with the Guardian app. Never miss breaking news, dive into diverse opinion pieces, and follow stories minute-by-minute with our dynamic live blogs - from world news and politics to business and sport. Get the following app exclusive features:
Your news, your way: A redesigned My Guardian tab allows you to follow topics that matter to you.

Your news, now hands-free: All our award-winning podcasts are available via a dedicated podcast tab, allowing easier discovery via our new in-app audio player. You can also listen to all articles via a new enhanced text-to-speech facility.

Upgrade your downtime with Guardian puzzles: A hub featuring our most popular games, including On the ball, Film reveal, Word wheel, Wordiply and Sudoku.

The Guardian news app is free to download and offers you a beautiful, intuitive mobile experience – so you can read, watch and listen to our independent reporting whenever and wherever it suits you.

Readers have a limited number of articles, which refreshes on a regular basis. If you’re a regular reader, you might consider subscribing. Subscribing gives you full access to Guardian articles in our app, so you can read quality, international journalism with no restrictions.

And, when you subscribe, you’ll unlock:

Unlimited reading in the app, with no subscription messages
Ad-free reading, for an uninterrupted experience
Offline reading – download articles to explore on the go

What’s more, subscribing to our news app is a great way to show your support for fearless, independent Guardian journalism. As a reader-funded news organisation, we rely on your funding to power our future. Thank you.

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If you subscribe to the Guardian app, our subscription terms will also apply https://www.theguardian.com/info/2023/feb/24/the-guardian-news-app-terms-conditions. Your subscription will auto renew and you will be charged before the next renewal date unless you cancel.

Ratings and reviews

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.

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.

Very unhappy with the update to the cryptic crossword, especially the fact you can no longer see the entire grid the way you could before and that the grid floats about on the screen. It was great as it was. Now feels gimmicky. There's no need to highlight correct answers in green, or have unchecked ones in red. Gimmicky. How about an option to switch back to the previous look?

What’s new

We've been fixing bugs and making improvements behind the scenes.

For the best possible experience and to ensure you have access to all our latest features we recommend that you update to this latest version as soon as possible.