The Digital Guardian

Guardian Media

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About this app

The Guardian you’ve loved for over 101 years, wrapped into an app. Read your Guardian Newspaper on the go, easier, cleaner and sleeker than ever before. Make clippings of your favourite articles, download for offline reading, print, bookmark and share to social media without ever leaving our app. Getting to the point has never looked better. We’ve redesigned with you in mind.

Ratings and reviews

The daily papers take too long to download and view using the reading tool. I don't believe the bottleneck is the download speed, as my internet is relatively fast. It seems related to rendering the papers, which appears to be done all at once before caching, since articles load almost instantly. Other comments share a similar issue, so I don't think I'm an outlier. This problem discourages me from reading the papers, and I feel shortchanged given that I paid for the subscription. Please fix!

Error - PDF not download, 40% of the pages refuse to load. These are problem I've never encountered with the older version. It seems "The Digital Guardian took a few steps back" for the length of time the "new app" came on stream, the teething process should have elapsed. Perhaps consideration should be given to reverting back to the old app as this clearly isn't an improvement. Just in the event you might be wondering, I only use Samsung Galaxy Notes so the phone isn't the issue here.

You would think this "upgrade" is better than the last app. It isn't. Takes too long to load pages. The worst thing is the screen times out after a while. That never happened with the last app. The pages get blurred on zooming or shifting. This app is pure trash compared to the last. Do better Guardian! Such a turn-off!

What’s new

General Bug Fixes