# «الشرق الأوسط» Asharqalawsat

> News

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id470905035](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id470905035)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id470905035`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Saudi Research and Publishing Co.
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 4.20 / 5 (39 ratings)
- **Version:** 6.5
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-19
- **First published:** 2011-10-13
- **Size:** 66 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-20
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%82-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%B7-asharqalawsat/id470905035)
- **Website:** [https://aawsat.com/](https://aawsat.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://english.aawsat.com/home/page/1005511](https://english.aawsat.com/home/page/1005511)

## Description

Access the latest in-depth news and analysis on the move from Asharq Al-Awsat, the Middle East’s most trusted source of pan-Arab news for 45 years.
Bringing the same quality journalism to a new digital audience, our rich in-app experience includes the latest articles from Asharq Al-Awsat alongside additional features such as narrated opinion articles, a podcast, live news coverage, weather reports, sudoku, crosswords, user profile enhancements, and more.

## Rankings

- #199,078 — Overall

## Review summary

Users praise the app for its improved design and overall quality, plus some features like the map and read-aloud. However, reliability and usability issues are common: slow daily downloads, crashes when opening articles, news not loading, and frustrating text rendering in Arabic. A few also want to delete downloaded editions and have up-to-date content. Overall sentiment is positive but marred by stability and usability concerns.

### Pros

- Beautiful, improved design and quality compared with the old version.
- Overall positive reception; multiple users would recommend the app.
- Interactive map feature is useful.
- Text-to-speech (read-aloud) capability praised.

### Cons

- Crashes or freezes when opening articles.
- Daily edition downloads are very slow after the latest upgrade.
- News content won't open/read; only headlines are visible.
- Arabic text rendering issues (RTL display, missing initial characters, line truncation).
- Inability to delete downloaded editions.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id470905035)