Welcome to the new FT Digital Edition app - the daily Financial Times newspaper, designed for easy reading on your iPhone or iPad.
Enjoy the same news stories you get in the FT newspaper, covering world news, business, politics, technology, economics, markets, finance, climate, culture, and lifestyle. You can access all FT magazines and read previous editions of the newspaper dating back 10 years.
With FT Digital Edition you can:
• Explore your favourite FT publications, including: HTSI, FT Weekend Magazine, FT Wealth, The Art of Fashion, Business Education and more
• Download to access the FT newspaper offline, wherever you are
• Use alerts to get a head start on the day’s news
• Translate articles into 20+ different languages
• Choose from three easy ways to read it: headline view, article view or replica view
• Try audio readings to listen to top stories
• Browse an archive of over 10 years of FT editions
Please sign in using your FT subscription. If you are not an existing subscriber, you can subscribe with your Apple account.
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After a long absence there’s finally a native iPad app to read the FT ePaper. I read the FT ePaper every day for about an hour since a few years. One of the positively surprising things is the resolution. Compared to the web ePaper it’s now possible to read an article without zooming. Also the page turning, article selection and zooming interactions (native iPadOS?) are much better. They were constant frustrations on web.
What should be improved is the UI. Given the long format of the FT it should be possible to view the entire page at once. A menu on the side makes much more sense than a top AND bottom menu with barely useful options like read aloud always visible.
Secondly selecting an article opens up a modal, with the paper in the background. reading an article like this for a few minutes makes it harder to focus. This interaction should be reserved for quick and simple interactions.
Automatic download in the background is a plus for those scarce times where I don’t have internet access.
With full screen solved this could be a 5 star app.