The Straits Times

SPH Media Limited

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About this app

Stay on top of developments in Singapore and around the world with trusted reporting and in-depth analyses from The Straits Times journalists. The ST app is free to download, and subscribers enjoy unlimited access.

Key benefits for subscribers include:

Exclusive stories, features, podcasts, and award-winning multimedia content

In-depth analyses and opinion pieces that help you understand the world

ST e-paper in familiar print format

2-week news archive, so you can catch up on news you might have missed

Choose from our array of subscription plans. Select your ideal plan now on www.stsub.sg/unlock

Ratings and reviews

In my experience, there is one pop-up ad when you first open the app, and within the articles themselves, there are ads scattered between paragraph making the reading experience slightly disruptive. The issue to me however, is how I'm paying for a newspaper service that crashes when I want to read the paper. After scrolling for some time, it crashes and I have to scroll to that article again. TL;DR: 1. Lots of ads but tolerable 2. App crashes often and is inconvenient

The new app layout is unfriendly and limited. E-paper section has removed 2 functionalities. 1. Landscape to read is absent! 2. Full-size, full-screen e-paper used to fill the entire device screen, latest version is showing the icon, status bar of battery, clock etc. Unacceptable and disappointing. Please listen to feedback, survey of your customers, readers. Correct and thanks very much. Update 02Dec2020. A truly frustrating user experience.Unacceptable slow fixes for a paid bundle SPH service

There is no search function when you're reading an article. If you want to search for a text in a long article, too bad. You will need to go back to the good old browser to do your search there. Update in 2024: After all these years since my review, my wait for the search function has still been in vain

What's new

WHAT’S NEW

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