The Courier 4+
ACM
Rural Press Pty Ltd
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
The Courier app brings together the best of your daily newspaper and its website to take your local news experience to another level.
As Ballarat's trusted voice, we keep you up to date seven days a week with news that’s important to our community.
Whether it's the breaking news you need to know from around the region or across the nation, the BFL, CHFL or other sporting results, in-depth analysis explaining the decisions and events affecting our lives, or incisive commentary, you will be the first to know using The Courier app.
The app is free to download, but you need to be a Courier digital subscriber to read articles. Features include:
- Access to breaking news updates 24 hours-a-day
- Browse the latest articles in the topics that interest you most
- Save articles to read later
- Alerts for breaking news and big stories
- Read a digital replica of the day's newspaper
- Play our daily interactive puzzles
Please note: This app features Nielsen's proprietary measurement software which will allow you to contribute to market research or audience ratings services. Please see http://www.nielsen.com/digitalprivacy for more information.
What’s New
Version 3.5
Choose between seeing single pages and double-page spreads on Today's Paper in landscape orientation. Go to Settings>Today's Paper to toggle between options.
Choose to automatically delete old editions.
Performance improvements and minor bug fixes.
Ratings and Reviews
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Wonderful to be able to read it online especially when you are unwell
Update is not user friendly
My 86 year old mother has been reading the Ballarat Courier for several years now online and they have done an update which is really difficult to navigate. The format has changed which has a smaller typeface now which mother can’t read due to her vision loss.
She also has arthritis which means she is unable to use her fingers to zoom in closer as she has to use a stylus. Also the paper used to save what page you were up to automatically and it no longer does this.
She is very frustrated as she has been able to read the paper independently before and these changes have made it so she can no longer do this. If the format stays like this she will no longer be able to use the subscribe to your paper. Please change it back the way it was as I can see no benefit to the new changes for anyone, thank you.
Developer Response ,
Hi Subscriber,
Thank you for the feedback.
The new App is more refined and contact more content for our articles section.
As for the Todays Paper edition, you are still able to double tap to zoom into the section without using pinch and stretch motion.
A single tap will provide another cleaner looking layout of that article to read.
Please contact the support team on 1300 131 095, option 2 for further assistance
Better than the website, but still a poor experience
The scrolling isn’t quite as janky as the web version with all the ads loading in, but it’s still far from smooth.
The splash screen logo that appears every time I open or switch to the app is unecessary and very annoying.
Swiping back from an article will show one or sometimes two different articles before getting back to the main list. Not sure if this is intentional to increase page reads or if it’s a bug?
App Privacy
The developer, Rural Press Pty Ltd, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Rural Press Pty Ltd
- Size
- 43.6 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Rural Press Pty Ltd
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Courier Monthly Subcription $19.99
- Courier Annual Subscription $199.99