The Sydney Morning Herald

Fairfax Media

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About this app

Get straight to the stories that matter with the Herald app. Top Stories and push notifications keep you up to date with breaking headlines while our Podcast catalogue lets you tune into thought-provoking audio storytelling and discussions from our newsroom. My News lets you customise your feed, showing the topics you're interested in, in the order you want them.

The app is free to download. You can unlock unlimited access to all content with a Starter Digital subscription through the App Store. To unlock premium features such as Today's Paper and puzzles including Daily Crosswords and Daily Sudoku, you can subscribe to Premium Digital via in-app purchase.

Ratings and reviews

The app's handling of links is very inconsistent. Some links push you out of the app and into Chrome, and then when you're reading SMH on Chrome, some links push you back to the app and some don't. It makes no sense; just make it all reside within the app, that's why I installed it.

Bonkers editorial board. If you must subscribe, do so through the Android application. Otherwise, you have to call to cancel your subscription. (A real bear if you live outside Australia.)

New updated app is awful. When I download the paper, everytime I go back to thepaper it tries to connect online so if there is a poor signal it just freezes. What's the point of downloading the days edition if it is checking for updates an the time? It takes a few seconds to moves from one article to the next, like it is doing some calculation, previous app version was much quicker

What's new

This update includes general improvements designed to provide a more reliable and consistent reading experience.