MailOnline 12+

Mail on line has potential to be the perfect app to keep up with current news. Unfortunately it is badly let down by appalling "proof" reading .
The number of errors in type is distracting to news articles and in these days of auto correct it's hard to see why they are not picked up.
Also when a high percentage, sometimes 60/70% , of the twenty main articles are about the same event just dressed up differently it is often not even an interesting read. Maybe I'm alone in not needing to see best/worst dress at the Met gala in half a dozen different articles for example, once is surely enough. I would prefer to read more news worthy items.

Although not my usual paper of choice I've always said that for Functionality, the Mail Online app was one of the best there was.
However, more and more I am becoming increasingly frustrated with the way the ads interrupt its use.
Ads used to be small and unobtrusive at the bottom. Now they pop up all the time when scrolling through photos, often cannot be cleared for a long time (or with increasingly harder to find close ad crosses). More and more they have loud music or voiceovers, which require immediate volume adjustment while waiting for the ad to clear.
My other main gripe with the app is that despite being set to UK news, the stories are losing their uk focus. Yes world news is important but remember that the target audience is in the U.K. - headlines or articles in dollars, articles that clearly would be classed as "local" news in certain US states are not relevant in the UK. Often with key UK stories pushed down the order or barely mentioned.
Sometimes I just want to find out what's going on. Not trawl through ads or pick my way through articles pandering to a US audience.

Pros: it’s free and has some entertainment value.
Cons: the sensationalist headlines, the lazily or cheap articles eg the quotes from well known people based on someone’s tweet they liked (but didn’t state those words), the long ads on videos, the illiterate showbiz journos and some lesser known ones in the news section, the paid for ads masquerading as articles, the gushing trolling articles on minor “stars”, the obnoxious, illiterate and intellectually challenged readers with their ill thought out comments, the inconsistent political stance (even more so since the new editor took charge), the hypocrisy, the bugs that never get fixed despite promises (eg replying to a comment via your profile submits a new separate comment), and having Piers Morgan as an editor at large writing sensationalist articles geared towards maintaining his fragile ego. I’m sure I’ve forgotten other failings but I think I’ve made my point.