# The Guardian - US & World News

> News, sport, podcasts, puzzles

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id409128287](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id409128287)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id409128287`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Guardian News and Media Limited
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 4.90 / 5 (113,252 ratings)
- **Version:** 13.48
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-21
- **First published:** 2013-10-29
- **Size:** 203 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-22
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-guardian-us-world-news/id409128287)
- **Website:** [https://www.theguardian.com](https://www.theguardian.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.theguardian.com/help/privacy-policy](http://www.theguardian.com/help/privacy-policy)

## Description

Get fearless, independent journalism with The Guardian app. Stay on top of breaking news and follow world news, politics, business, and sport with dynamic live blogs and a personalized My Guardian feed that highlights your favorite topics and writers.

Enjoy puzzles and podcasts, and listen to articles with realistic audio transcriptions. Subscribers get unlimited, ad-free reading and offline access, supporting Guardian’s reader-funded journalism.

## Rankings

- #3,261 — Overall
- #16 — news
- #57 — upgrade

## Review summary

Users praise The Guardian for its high-quality, globally focused journalism, up-to-date reporting, and balanced perspectives. However, repeated app stability issues (crashes/loading failures), gating content behind sign-in with privacy concerns, cross-platform subscription friction, perceived high cost, and limited support access recur in reviews and hurt the mobile experience.

### Pros

- High-quality, trustworthy, well-researched journalism with global coverage.
- Up-to-date, in-depth reporting with breadth across world news.
- Balanced, multi-perspective reporting on difficult issues.
- An essential source of news that subscribers view as valuable and worth supporting.

### Cons

- Frequent app crashes and load/open failures after updates.
- Content gated behind sign-in; privacy concerns with ads and data collection.
- Cross-platform subscription friction between iOS and Android and opaque refund policies.
- Perceived high price / value concerns.
- Poor accessibility to support when the app is unusable (help area not functioning).

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