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Understand the events shaping our world with the Guardian. Never miss breaking news, dive into diverse opinion pieces, follow stories minute-by-minute with our dynamic live blogs, from world news and politics to business news and sport. The Guardian news app is free to download and offers you a beautiful, intuitive mobile experience, so you can read, watch and listen to our independent reporting whenever it suits you.

To give you a taste of our app, we’re offering you free access to a limited number of articles, which refreshes on a regular basis. If you’re a regular reader, you might consider subscribing. Subscribe to get full access to Guardian articles in our app, so you can read quality, international journalism with no restrictions.

Why download today?
Enjoy a generous number of articles every month for free, before we ask you to subscribe
Receive breaking news alerts, so you’ll never miss a story
Save articles to read later, creating your own reading list
Make our homepage your own by choosing the topics that interest you most
Follow your favourite columnists, series or sports teams to get personalised notifications

And when you subscribe, you’ll unlock:
Unlimited reading in the app, with no subscription messages
Ad-free, so your experience is uninterrupted
Offline reading – download articles to explore on the go

What’s more, subscribing to our news app is a great way to show your support for fearless, independent Guardian journalism. As a reader-funded news organisation, we rely on your funding to power our future. Thank you.

All content in the Guardian app is copyright Guardian News & Media 2023. All rights reserved.
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If you subscribe to the Guardian app, our subscription terms will also apply https://www.theguardian.com/info/2023/feb/24/the-guardian-news-app-terms-conditions. Your subscription will auto renew and you will be charged before the next renewal date unless you cancel.

What’s New

Version 11.56

We've been busy improving the app:
* Fixes a bug which prevented users from following topics from section pages.
* Links that take you out of the Guardian app will now open in your selected default browser app.
* We've improved the offline experience for our My Guardian users
* We have made some improvements to ensure the app seamlessly resumes exactly where you left off in the instance of an app termination.

Ratings and Reviews

4.9 out of 5
108.9K Ratings

108.9K Ratings

SashaCat1543 ,

Essential news service

I couldn’t have survived the pandemic without the Guardian by my side. The only minor annoyance is the plea for donations (not too annoying since I LOVE that the weekly mag doesn’t have ads), and the fact that even if you are on a monthly donation plan, the app doesn’t consider this to be equivalent to an online subscription (which, to be fair, it isn’t). So I get most of my reading done via the snail mail paper copy we subscribe to, and just top off at the app.

Room for improvement: pls improve the app search algorithm. If I am searching for an article or book review I’ve already read in the hard copy magazine and I know the key words or names, half the time the article won’t let itself be found via the app search engine no matter what I do. Sometimes this can be resolved by googling the article in question, and sometimes not, but either way it’s very frustrating. Still overall, great app, and I’m glad it’s out there making the world a better place!

Phantammeron ,

Guardian was Great 5 years Ago but Not Today

I have really enjoyed the Guardian until the past few years. Years ago, it was tolerable to see a few young writers offer up a few novel interpretations of history or culture we never knew about, surrounded by a the wealth of objective apolitical news reporting by professionals your loyal readers could readily consume. But now the vast majority of your news articles are opinion-based, political, or racially charged hit-pieces dismantling some part of western culture your writers utterly despise. It is so bad, I now have to scroll through 90% of the articles just to find a single one about something innocent, like the wildlife in the UK, the world economy, etc. ….some world news event that is apolitical and free of ‘victimhood culture’. Your news now is just editorialized, hyper-charged opinion. Activist hate has spread like wildfire through your news org. Its now so biased and jaded against large cross sections of people, races, ages, religions, or genders there is nothing truly objective left that can see the world of good people as worthy. Your news it seems is just not fit to print without hateful interpretations looking through the dark colored lense of identity politics.

I miss the Old Guardian where all people and all news had value as is. Now it is heavily filtered, heavily jaded, and toxic. I just cant listen to the passive agressive rage in so many young writers any longer. I have to say goodbye.

clinkerkiddo ,

The cost is prohibitive

If I want to vary my reading, I cannot pay over $150 for every news outlet I like. NYT and WAPO both offer annual subscriptions under $40 (if you try to cancel), and I just got a year of the Economist for $100, and I consider them the gold standard. I really like the Guardian, but I can’t justify paying 50% more than what I pay for the Economist. How does my price complaining relate to the app? Well, the app generously lets you read for free, but constantly reminds you that you are reading free. Every single article comes with an overlay telling you how many articles you have read at their expense. I should also mention, the price I am willing to pay for a news journal is directly proportional to their self-restraint in expressing political bias. Thats why I would happily pay 3x more for the Economist over NYT and WAPO. Economist is up front about it’s views but writing style makes a clear distinction between those views and their facts. NYT and WAPO get some great scoops but the degree of bias is at times almost sickening. Guardian does a lot better job than those two, but not so good that I would pay the premium I am willing to pay for pure unpolluted news.

App Privacy

The developer, Guardian News and Media Limited, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

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The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

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