The Straits Times App Reviews

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.

Ever since this new iPhone version has been released each push notification is being sent 2-3 at a time. That in addition to the fact that they are sending 5+ or more notifications. Opinion columns and heart attack studies are not notification news worthy. Ill be looking for another way to get my local Singapore news.

Have kept this app for a while. probably will delete it soon. lousy notifications bug

Stick to the old version till they fix the bugs...!!!!

How could st release such a buggy unusable version to the public?

- buggy - fonts become smaller (how to change font size? The option is not clearly available to user)

Do not install and accept this version without reading and understanding the new License Conditions which includes, among other things, your indemnification of Singapore Press Holdings for certain acts. Review and understand their use of your information for location-based services as well. After reading this I deleted the app from my iPhone and iPad and cancelled my subscription.

It crashes the second you launch the App. When you do manage to open it, immediately a full screen ad hijacks your screen. Not easy to get to the news! Annoying and forgettable app.

This app had gone from bad to terrible fix it or eliminate it Doesnt load anything but the ads

The three PDF, web and regular versions is silly and the sliding ruler atop the paper to switch sections is too annoying to use daily.

Nice new interface.. But that doesnt mean anything when the app crashes everytime the screen goes off!

Other than fixing the bug, the new update is worse than the original. White background is hard to read and glaring to eyes. Terrible! I suggest you take a look at how usatoday or by New York Times how they do it

It keeps crashing when reading articles. Poor implementation of iOS 7 design. Feels like implementing merely for the sake of implementing! Disappointed with SPH.

The latest version is a huge disappointment. Buggy and crashes every time the back button is used. Not what one would expect for a paid subscription newspaper and the one with the biggest circulation in Singapore. Response and recovery is pathetic. Days after the new version is launched and countless "send report" for the crash, no update or corrective action is in sight. Seriously damaged the "Straits Times" brand. Communicated slowness, lethargy, bureaucracy.... hardly the brand attributes of a forward looking, technology savvy, newspaper behemoth.

Ads galore even after paying for subscription. Popup with every other click. Please stop bombarding subscribers with ads.

Keeps crashing every few minutes. Font size doesnt adjust. Much worse than previous version of this app. Very poorly done.