The Straits Times app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Singapore Press Holdings
First release : 01 Nov 2012
App size: 83.82 Mb
Stay on top of developments in Singapore and around the world with trusted reporting and in-depth analyses from The Straits Times journalists. The ST app is free to download, and subscribers enjoy unlimited access.
Key benefits for subscribers include:
• Exclusive stories, features, podcasts, and award-winning multimedia content
• In-depth analyses and opinion pieces that help you understand the world
• ST e-paper in familiar print format
• 2-week news archive, so you can catch up on news you might have missed
You can choose to subscribe on a weekly or monthly basis:
• ST weekly subscription (auto-renewed weekly at S$ 7.98)
• ST monthly subscription (auto-renewed monthly at S$ 29.98)
• Try our introductory offer at S$ 0.98*/month for the first 3 months
• Payment will be charged to your iTunes account upon confirmation of the purchase
• You will be automatically charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period
• Manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew at any time by going to account settings in the App Store
• Upon cancellation, your subscription is valid till the end of the current period. Past subscriptions will not be refunded
*Introductory offer is available to new subscribers only.
For technical assistance, please contact [email protected]
Privacy policy: https://sph.com.sg/legal/sph_privacy.html
Terms and conditions: https://www.sph.com.sg/terms-and-conditions/app-for-ios
Latest reviews of The Straits Times app for iPhone and iPad
The latest build is so different (better) in form and style from all that has come before that it is hard to imagine it coming from the same team, or company. Whatever it is that you are doing, SPH, please keep at it. Its certainly in the right direction. The user interface is rich and intuitive. It is easy to navigate and a joy to use. It is no longer a poor cousin of the print edition and can stand on its own as a complete Straits Times. While it is no FT or NYT, is comes very close; without mimicking or copying. Kudos to the development team. Now that the electronic version has caught up with the print edition, perhaps ST can set its ambitions higher and aim for a global readership, much like the FT or the NYT. With more op-ed, analyses and features that appeal to a globalized audience trying to understand Asia or the world through Asian eyes. Best of luck!
This app is serving up pop-up advertising at every opportunity, at startup, after every link, including video pop-ups. Very disruptive and irritating. Plus the video pop-ups are sucking up bandwidth, which occurs at every link. Very bad form for a respectable news org. Makes the app almost unusable, unless you have the patience to live with the nonsense.
When I first downloaded this app you could get 30 free articles a month. Otherwise if you wanted unlimited articles you would have to subscribe for $32.99 a month (not worth it in my opinion) but you could generally survive with that quota. Now, the maximum free articles per month is 15 and the subscription price hasnt changed. Really disappointing for an app that markets itself as free. Its not really possible to live on an average of 1 article every 2 days especially given that its a news app. There are plenty of other genuinely free news apps out there and you can give this one a miss.
From Singapore where Freedom of the press is almost the worst worldwide... But has this App Always Been Limited to 28 articles a month? As someone Living in Singapore i would not rate it
Its quite obvious to me that the the app is just another item on someones to-do list. I see very little ownership of its usability or its UX. My suggestion to the design team would be to use your own app. For your daily news. You will very quickly see that when you click on an adjoining PDF, diagram or graph to an article, you cant zoom. Or rotate the screen to enlarge it. And it is next to impossible to read on a mobile device. Even a 5 inch phablet. So you cant really get the news from The Straits Times. On mobile. All of it anyway. Which is the whole point of paying for it. What a sad state of affairs.