The Straits Times

SPH Media Limited

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About this app

Stay in the know with The Straits Times app—trusted news, trending stories, visual journalism, videos, podcasts, and bite-sized summaries. Tailor your feed with myST+, save and follow topics you care about.

Free to download. Subscribers get to unlock unlimited access to exclusive stories and interviews, in-depth investigations, and recreate that morning ritual with the digital replica of the print edition.

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

Using SPH issued tablet (samsung galaxy tab A, SM-T510) with latest app update, using reading downloaded "Print" version with internet connected. 1) keeps showing Error msg: "Something went wrong during the download. Please try again later". Actually the "print version" of paper is downloaded successfully. 2) app keeps crashing. Either Screen freeze, or blank page, or not loading content Please address these issues. Thank you.

Luckily, i subscribe to the app instead of browsing the free version on nlb app. It really makes reading easier, & smoother even on hp format. And the article is also more in-depth than the free articles easily accessible online. Would be nicer though if photos can be zoomed in for a clearer pic. And also, I've subscribed and logged in to the app. Doesn't make sense in a high-tech Sg, the app can't auto let me read the articles locked behind a paywall.

What’s new

In this update, we have made fixes and enhancements to improve your reading experience. Please e-mail [e-mail] if you need help, so that we can assist you directly.