STAT News

Name: STAT News
Rating: 3.7 (21 reviews)
Author: BOSTON GLOBE MEDIA PARTNERS, LLC

By: BOSTON GLOBE MEDIA PARTNERS, LLC

News

Features & Capabilities

STAT delivers fast, deep, and tough-minded journalism about health, medicine, life sciences and the fast-moving business of making medicines. We take you inside academic labs, biotech boardrooms, and political backrooms. We cast a critical eye on scientific discoveries, scrutinize corporate strategies, and chronicle roiling battles for talent, money, and market share. We examine controversies and puncture hype. Follow our reporting and reporters on the go; read exclusive stories or save them for later.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

BOSTON GLOBE MEDIA PARTNERS, LLC

Rating:

3.70

(21)

Version:

2.11.2 Last updated: 2026-04-23

Version code:

884863649

Creation date:

2018-01-23

Compatible devices:

Size:

52.87MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-13

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 303,834 ▼ 1,024

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Developed by:

BOSTON GLOBE MEDIA PARTNERS, LLC

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stat-news/id1324796990

Website:

https://www.statnews.com/about/

User Reviews

Users praise the quality and clarity of STAT News content and find the app UI generally usable. However, recurring problems—premium access not working in-app, missing search and filtering, stability issues, weak integration with the website, and high subscription costs—heavily affect the app’s value and usability. The core sentiment is: great content, but a disappointing and unreliable app experience.

Pros

High-quality healthcare news content.
Clear, easy-to-understand summaries of stories.
Generally good, user-friendly app UI.
Strong value as a trusted resource for healthcare news.

Cons

STAT+ premium content is not accessible in-app; login issues and redirects to the web.
No search feature and no filters or date sorting; poor navigation.
Reliability issues: crashes, white/blank screens, and login flow failures.
App largely links to the website rather than providing a fully in-app experience; weak integration with STATPlus.
High subscription cost with limited/app-specific functionality and usability.

Recent reviews

by Wi*****, 2025-09-27

pretty please?

by sk*****, 2025-09-03

Content is great, but the app is very poor. Every single clickable link within an article launches in web vs in the app (meaning you would have to log in on the web site). This is a simple oversight that should be rectified. Developers/managers at stat (or overseeing outsourced labor) should be ashamed....