Thank you for making your excellent well balanced reporting available to me through your easy to access and use App. I rely on your newspaper to provide objective and well balanced reporting of the important news and developments from the USA - something I have not found elsewhere, especially in the UK news media. Keep up the great work. Free societies depend on newspapers such as yours being made available to wider audiences across the world in this way. Your App is at the top of class - please continue to invest in it in order to keep it in the front rank. It is a reflection of the quality of all that you do. Malcolm Webb, Surrey, England.Some time has passed since I wrote the above. My further experience of WSJ journalism and its App have only confirmed me in these views. MW

The new version is so bad I can not bear to use it. It seems to have ditched old the concept of a daily newspaper entirely, since the “print” edition choice now shows only the front page or something, so now you just have sections to choose from and stories, but at the same time it does not remember which article you have read or decided not to read, so you are lost in a sea. But its also got other strange things like hugely oversized borders on my ipad, and when i press the font size button I simply get a message saying go to settings. That is laughable, it means change the setting of my whole ipad, so there font button basically has been deleted, but they have not removed it, like amateurs. Yet no other app has such borders, and kindle and others retain font choices. Again the bottom bar with the useless print choice and absurd crossword opinion consuming screen space is laughable. I am really amazed by how bad it is. Like kids who know nothing created it and sent their mad ideas to India to implement! Who is in charge and how could they do this? The last app was pretty good, although it was getting worse, e.g. after an update a few months ago it did not save your reading place, and if you used a browser to check something which reading when you returned you would start at page one again. But its not just the aop, the content is going down hill I think as well, e.g. the articles by that silly tech woman who knows nothing and just jokes around, and the podcasts by colourful young reporters from socially diverse backgrounds. Better bloomberg and reuters, which at least is a serious news stream.

I'm not right wing and I really like the Wall St Journal; it got from the start and still keeps getting what a news mobile and iPad app needs way better than other paper-like publications. I prefer the WSJ on iPad but find that one version works well on iPhone too. Also the swipe feature from headline alerts is one of the few news apps that works every time. The version swipe takes you to is really good. Swipe used to be a bit hit and miss affair sometimes missing the story the alert headlined. Now it always works.Note that this is the version that sits in Newstand on an iPhone. So if you want to launch without an alert, go to the iPhone's Newstand folder to launch it. I don't like the other one (as they have the same name can't identify the bad one better). I just close it and go to the Newstand App.

I take a number of newspapers as I have a two continent lifestyle and in my experience the WSJ app is the best of its type at this time . The ability to search for articles is welcome and the way the information is presented is the best compromise that I’ve come across given the inherent limitations of a device compared with the medium of print . It works as well as I can reasonably expect on tablet , phone and indeed watch and it’s a big reason why WSJ is my newspaper of choice regardless of where I am .