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title: "The Age - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in Australia | Apple App Store"
description: "Get straight to the stories that matter with The Age app. Top Stories and push notifications keep you up to date with breaking headlines while our Podcast catalogue lets you tune into thought-provokin"
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# The Age — Australia

![The Age App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/2e/b0/1f/2eb01ff4-85ee-003e-5c7a-d610412a69f6/AGE-AppIcon-Prod-0-0-1x_U007emarketing-0-8-0-85-220.png/434x0w.png)

**Developer:** [Fairfax Media Management Pty](https://apptail.io/developer/fairfax-media-management-pty-dgeb) (Australia)
**Category:** News
**Rating:** 4.0/5 (2,868 ratings)
**Price:** Free
**Bundle ID:** au.com.fairfaxdigital.news.TheAge
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** Australia
**Version:** 6.5.0 (released 2026-03-23)
**Original Release:** 2018-11-05
**Languages:** English

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/au/app/app/id1411569220)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/the-age-JFcc/australia](https://apptail.io/app/the-age-JFcc/australia)

## The Age Description
Get straight to the stories that matter with The Age app. Top Stories and push notifications keep you up to date with breaking headlines while our Podcast catalogue lets you tune into thought-provoking audio storytelling and discussions from our newsroom. My News lets you customise your feed, showing the topics you&#039;re interested in, in the order you want them.

The app is free to download. You can unlock unlimited access to all content with a Starter Digital subscription through the App Store. To unlock premium features such as Today&#039;s Paper and puzzles including Daily Crosswords and Daily Sudoku, you can subscribe to Premium Digital via in-app purchase.

Additional information about Apple subscriptions:

- Purchase of an auto-renewable, monthly subscription is required to access content on The Age app

- Starter Digital subscriptions are available for AU$25.99 per month (or local currency equivalent)

- Premium Digital subscriptions are available for AU$37.49 per month (or local currency equivalent)

- Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase

- Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your iTunes App Store Account Settings after purchase

- Your iTunes account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period

- No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period

Terms of use and privacy policy apply when accessing content via The Age app

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## The Age Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource221/v4/d6/bc/fd/d6bcfdc9-adfe-ea11-b8fd-b82904bcdf9f/beab6034-8011-4a35-82f4-0aec6f230752_F1.jpg/1284x2778.png)
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- [Screenshot 5](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource221/v4/4a/97/da/4a97dad7-b737-d346-cc9a-755741f33700/8bbed5fd-5cab-4fc2-ba85-88c37d1d2927_F4.jpg/1284x2778.png)
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- [Screenshot 7](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource221/v4/05/de/06/05de06a2-0e6c-77b3-806e-9821e7e46634/7d105ced-8e3a-4c4c-8855-916619794726_F6.jpg/1284x2778.png)
- [Screenshot 8](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/7f/25/6e/7f256e2c-acb5-75b9-ddf1-86180dd15c5d/e72f3e3f-5e73-49b0-ba2a-7068c28d8545_F7.jpg/1284x2778.png)

## The Age Rating Breakdown in Australia
- 5 stars: 1,785 (62%)
- 4 stars: 405 (14%)
- 3 stars: 90 (3%)
- 2 stars: 116 (4%)
- 1 stars: 472 (16%)

## The Age Reviews in Australia

### ***-- "It was AGES ago"
There is no doubt in my mind that this was once a proud independent quality newspaper. Those days have long gone. It is worth subscribing to but NOT at the full price they are asking. The price does not compare favourably with international newspaper subscriptions. There is too much puerile nonsense and click bait scam advertising here. 
For local Victorian news it is better than the alternative but it is a long way from a complete news organisation now. Predictable and shallow reporting are unfortunately there when in depth reporting by experienced writers is required. 
We are currently subscribed at a discount rate. I cannot see us willingly paying the full price at the end of the discount period. The value simply isn’t there.
-- DisdainFLL, 2024-12-29

### *---- "Why bother having an app?"
Half of the functions take you out of the app into a separate web page, where it refuses to let you sign in and thus it’s impossible to access even after paying for a subscription. Just a terrible user interface.
-- Rukey360, 2024-12-23

### *---- "HIGHWAY ROBBERY..!!!"
WEEKEND PAPER NOW ALMOST $6 3 TIMES THE PRICE OF HERALDSUN AND STILL FLOODED WITH FULL PAGE ADD WRAPS 
60% OF THIS RETAIL RAG NOW JUST ADDS… AND DELIVERY…. A JOKE THIS RETAIL CATALOGUE NOW A SAD PATHETIC JOKE, THE SHAME OF AUSTRALIA..
AGAIN.. AT CHRISTMAS, SAME ASTRONOMICAL PRICE LESS THAN A QUARTER THE CONTENT..
NO INSERTS
NO WEEKEND MAGS
NO DOMAIN
10 PAGES OF ADDS
CROOKS..!!!
-- Celtic Jedi Knight, 2024-12-21

### ***-- "View options needed"
I’m loving the stories (although the number of sports articles high in my feed is confusing as I don’t read them!). My issue is difficulty reading the font on my phone. A different or larger font would be much easier for me, but the app doesn’t allow this form of personalisation. Please consider adding it.
-- Fred&amp;Cissy, 2024-12-08

### ***** "The Age is my top read"
Highly recommend for unbiased news and sane analysis and editorial.
-- Yeet9.0, 2024-12-05

### **--- "New app updates"
The latest version of this app jumps so that if you temporarily close the app to check another webpage, the newspaper is never in the same spot when you return to it.  The contents button does not navigate well either and often closes when you try to select a section of the newspaper. Needs improvement.
-- Xdytry, 2024-11-09

### **--- "Very poor app. Shouldn’t have past testing"
I don’t understand how this app past testing stage. It is jumpy, has very few ‘standard’ features and doesn’t even remember where the user was, if you close the app. You can’t even look at a full page spread few. No possibility of saving an article, like the previous clipping feature. If I send a link to myself via email, to look at the article later (eg recipe), it takes me to a log in page like I’m a new subscriber. 

The previous app was far superior.
-- moro2!, 2024-11-09

### *---- "Terrible update for iPad"
How do we read the newspaper in landscape now? I am reading a piece on the new exhibition at NGV and it’s over 2 pages and I cannot see the pictures as a whole.  I have to turn the iPad to portrait to see one page. It honestly makes me not want to read it anymore. And it  keeps glitching and going back to the front page. Please fix. You have ruined the experience.
-- Melissaraz, 2024-11-09

### *---- "It’s a shocker"
It refuses to keep track of where I left off when trying to read the print edition. Notifications are not working with ios18 on my new phone. The iPad version is just as bad.
-- Iti Beginner, 2024-11-03

### *---- "Fails to Open"
I have reinstalled the latest version but this fails to work.  It opens the closes immediately
-- Nick17263765738, 2024-11-02

### *---- "No longer works on iPad"
So the “new exciting version” of the age for iPad had an update 5 days ago. Now it won’t even open!  So l’m paying to see the online version of the paper in an app that doesn’t open.  It was rubbish to begin with...single page view only, no clippings, jumped to blank page with spinning wheel all by itself, worst app ever! Can I give it zero star rating?
-- talyn7, 2024-11-01

### **--- "Please revert"
Please go back to the option of selecting a highlighted headline to go to text only. It has become almost impossible to enjoy reading the paper while constantly trying to avoid accidentally touching the screen too briefly and totally losing the thread.
-- Petfest, 2024-11-01

### ***** "Great app and newspaper"
Victoria’s most respected, balanced and trusted news source
-- mkro31, 2024-11-01

### *---- "Terrible Update"
Reading the paper via this ap is a horrible experience. The slightest accidental touch loses the page. If one has to leave the ap even briefly, it is a mission to scroll through all the pages to get back to where you were. I hate it…please fix or go back to the previous version.
-- PamSax, 2024-10-30

### *---- "Awful new version"
Edit: when is this disastrous app going to be fixed??? I have been told the app team are “actively resolving this …”, but still nothing. Just bring back the old app; it was just fine, thank you.

  The new Age app is a a step backwards, and that is saying something. Pages jump around, slower to advance, doesn’t take you back to the last page you were reading, “continued on page…” takes you away from the actual paper. Does anyone check these things?? As others have said, I just want to read the paper from front to back. Can we just have the old app back please? (And the day &amp; time is no longer visible at the top of the page)
-- Innocke, 2024-10-30

### *---- "Good news, Bad app."
The content that The Age produces is good independent journalism, but that’s not what we’re reviewing here. The App is just bad. Since the last major update the newspaper spread is broken. It’s wasn’t perfect before, but now it’s just unusable. Whoever agreed to the change needs to acknowledge their mistake and fix it. It makes me read this Newspaper less, and if I’m not reading your content, what is the point in producing it? And furthermore (what might actually get your attention) if I’m not reading it, then why should I be paying for it?
-- BL4Z3N, 2024-10-29

### *---- "Such an annoying “upgrade”"
1. Now that you can click anywhere in the article to open the alternate format, it opens randomly all the time when I don’t want it to happen. eg. when I’m trying to scroll to the next page; when I’m scrolling around the page in zoom mode; when I double-tap to zoom in or out; when I accidentally touch the page. Bring back the “highlighted headlines functionality or at least disable the activation when zoomed in. 

2. Returning from the alternate format occasionally returns to the front page instead of the page I left. 

3. After closing the app, it no longer remembers where I last was in that edition and returns me to the front page instead. 
 
4. After minimising and reactivating the app, it rarely returns to the last accessed page and often displays a blank page instead.

5. If I switch to another app while the paper is downloading, the download stops and won’t restart until the app has been closed and reopened. 

Nothing about this app is an improvement on its predecessor!
-- BwianC, 2024-10-28

### *---- "Terrible glitchy badly designed app"
Good newspaper but the app is terrible. It’s almost impossible to read the downloaded version of the “printed” newspaper without accidentally touching the screen which throws you to another format. And then throws you to a random page of the paper when you try to return. And then there’s the glitches which shut down the app ever few minutes.
-- bhfascc, 2024-10-27

### ***** "Great App"
Easy to focus on the news I want to focus on, coupled with fact-checked trustworthy content, makes this a winner for me.
-- Groesfaen52, 2024-10-25

### ***** "Balanced reporting"
I trust the Age in the accuracy of their reporting.
-- Kanga123, 2024-10-24

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## The Age In-App Purchases
| Item | Price |
|------|-------|
| Premium Digital | $30.99 |
| Starter Digital | $21.49 |

## The Age Store Rankings
| Chart | Country | Category | Rank |
|-------|---------|----------|------|
| Top Grossing | Australia | News | #6 |
| Top Grossing | United Arab Emirates | News | #35 |
| Top Free | Australia | News | #39 |
| Top Grossing | New Zealand | News | #44 |
| Top Grossing | Malaysia | News | #60 |
| Top Grossing | Singapore | News | #80 |
| Top Grossing | Hong Kong SAR China | News | #99 |
| Top Free | Argentina | News | #171 |
| Top Free | Singapore | News | #241 |
| Top Free | New Zealand | News | #412 |

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