# La Vanguardia - News

> Enjoy the latest news from Catalonia, Spain and the world

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.direction](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.direction)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.direction`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** La Vanguardia Ediciones SL
- **Category:** NEWS\_AND\_MAGAZINES
- **Downloads:** 678,689
- **Rating:** 3.41 / 5 (3,454 ratings)
- **Version:** 6.0.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-11
- **First published:** 2012-01-19
- **Publisher country:** ES
- **Size:** 130 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.direction)
- **Website:** [https://www.lavanguardia.com](https://www.lavanguardia.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.lavanguardia.com/politica-privacidad.html](https://www.lavanguardia.com/politica-privacidad.html)

## Description

La Vanguardia is a renowned newspaper with nearly 140 years of history, delivering high-quality, truthful journalism with a commitment to plurality. The app offers timely alerts for breaking news, comprehensive international and national coverage, and exclusive features including videos, opinion pieces, and community comments.

Users can customize alerts, access digital versions of the newspaper, explore subscriber-only content like podcasts and audio readings, and enjoy special discounts through the Vanguardia Club. With over 23 million monthly readers in Spain and 50 million globally, La Vanguardia provides reliable news and diverse perspectives to keep you well-informed at all times.

## Rankings

- #84,914 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS`
- `android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `android.permission.WRITE_CLIPS`
- `android.webkit.PermissionRequest`
- `com.android.vending.BILLING`
- `com.direction.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`
- `com.direction.permission.C2D_MESSAGE`
- `com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE`
- `com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE`
- `com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID`
- `com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES`

## Review summary

Users like the La Vanguardia journalism but the Android app is plagued by severe performance and reliability problems. Slowness, crashes, and background freezes are common, and on some devices the app won’t load at all. Advertising is intrusive and hurts the user experience. Subscription management is poorly handled (cancellations/renewals) with limited support. UX issues include difficult navigation, missing features, and misleading redirects. Overall, journalism quality is praised, but the app needs major stability and UX improvements.

### Pros

- Great newspaper content

### Cons

- Very slow to load / long startup times
- Frequent crashes and freezes / instability
- Intrusive ads and pop-ups (more than the website)
- Subscription management and billing issues (in-app cancellation not supported, renewals charged, poor customer support)
- Poor usability / navigation (difficult to navigate, missing features like zoom, back button issues, inconsistent redirects)

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.direction)