---
title: "The Citizen News - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in South Africa | Apple App Store"
description: "For your news, your way, this app contains the best and latest of The Citizen’s breaking news, opinion, sport writing, lifestyle, features, analysis, business advice, local soccer content with Phakaaa"
---

# The Citizen News — South Africa
> More news, your way.

![The Citizen News App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple221/v4/4d/b8/be/4db8be80-7eb0-e2c9-9711-3f4071514321/AppIcon-0-0-1x_U007emarketing-0-8-0-0-85-220.png/434x0w.png)

**Developer:** [THE CITIZEN](https://apptail.io/developer/the-citizen-HAqc) (South Africa)
**Category:** News
**Rating:** 4.3/5 (324 ratings)
**Price:** Free
**Bundle ID:** com.marfeel.cherokee.index.citizen.co.za
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** South Africa
**Version:** 2.1.1 (released 2026-01-19)
**Original Release:** 2017-09-06
**Languages:** Dutch, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Norwegian Bokmål, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Hebrew (modern), Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Croatian, Malay, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Chinese, Czech, Turkish, Vietnamese, Zulu, Swedish

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/za/app/app/id1276577286)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/south-africa](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/south-africa)

## The Citizen News Description
For your news, your way, this app contains the best and latest of The Citizen’s breaking news, opinion, sport writing, lifestyle, features, analysis, business advice, local soccer content with Phakaaathi and so much more.

## The Citizen News Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/93/80/ff/9380fffa-341d-116a-2678-2f91d8e42b0c/19ccb729-1fc9-4ad2-b73f-e808badc059f_The-citizen-ipad-13-2048x2732-1.jpg/2048x2732.png)
- [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/bc/85/f9/bc85f98b-7d79-8a30-9d1c-937eccd5ccd2/8b3ad417-b820-4ab1-a4f9-e446bd94a243_The-citizen-ipad-13-2048x2732-2.jpg/2048x2732.png)
- [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/4a/11/aa/4a11aabd-dca6-3c81-7c23-3945e6638beb/b857b4cb-d47f-4fe3-820c-17cf8174b567_The-citizen-ipad-13-2048x2732-3.jpg/2048x2732.png)
- [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource221/v4/62/e7/42/62e74223-5114-726d-119a-a2153fe4e72f/94ac750e-69a0-4d56-aaff-c95f97bda695_The-citizen-ipad-13-2048x2732-4.jpg/2048x2732.png)

## The Citizen News Rating Breakdown in South Africa
- 5 stars: 203 (63%)
- 4 stars: 64 (20%)
- 3 stars: 32 (10%)
- 2 stars: 10 (3%)
- 1 stars: 15 (5%)

## The Citizen News Reviews in South Africa

### ***** "Good precise news."
Precise and easy to read.
-- Louthandi, 2024-04-29

### **--- "Adverts"
Paid subscription , buy full of adverts. Problem is some don’t allow you to exit so you have to exit the app and start all over again. Cancelling soon
-- msnagdee, 2023-08-13

### ****- "Relevant"
The topics covered are relevant to the things that interest or concern me. I like the timeous notifications. If they don’t interest me I can skip them or if they do I ca follow the report immediately.
-- G1931, 2022-09-23

### ***** "Review"
I enjoy reading the app. A wide variety of topics. For 20 years The Citizen was always part of my life. Please carry on with the good work.
Regards
Liz Jacobs
-- Jacoliz, 2021-11-18

### ***** "I love the app"
I really can’t leave without this app, they really know how to use push notification. I get daily push notifications and only tap only on interested topics.
-- maime224, 2021-09-19

### ***** "First for breaking news!"
Always first to break stories from around the world. Thank you.
-- Tornadoe40, 2021-04-24

### ***-- "Why take most of the news to subscribers?"
Are we not paying enough when we read from the APP?
-- west hamer, 2020-12-03

### ***-- "Buggy app"
The scrolling works weird. When you get to bottom of page, it scrolls sideways. Or when articles havent loaded yet, it behaves jarring.
-- Pokkelbeer, 2020-11-20

### *---- "Bug?"
Whenever I use this app, my iPhone gets hot and the battery drains fast. No other app does this
-- Taurus Almighty, 2020-11-07

### *---- "Needs a lot of work"
This app is not great if you are not a paying subscriber.
-- Stop nagging14, 2020-06-19

### ***** "Hallo citizen"
Used to be my daily morning news paper for years, went away now back.This time on my phone,i feel at home.love it. Stay independent ,be journalist ,dont repeat msm narritive. Strongs .
-- sipho.H, 2020-05-29

### **--- "Story display"
The app is not showing the full story sometimes. It shows some of it and needs to click on it if you want to continue reading. This is however not possible at times as you click and click but nothing happens. Sort it out please. Or else I’m switching to another news provider app. Using iOS
-- natsennz, 2020-02-16

### ***** "Citizen"
Excellent news coverage with minimum advert interruption
-- vzk joox, 2019-06-22

### ***** "Balanced news!!"
Up to the minute news. Good language and ethical journalism.
-- Rios1, 2018-12-28

### ****- "Opinion"
Informative and unbiased
-- Gus-Ty, 2018-11-28

### ***** "Very good source of breaking news and insight"
This news app is regularly updated with reliable news from South Africa and the rest of the world. The news alerts are also a great way to stay up to date with current affairs while not having to worry about missing anything important.
-- Scribbler1979, 2018-11-22

### ***-- "Other news"
More up to date news.
Include something interesting like Archeological finds, something other do no report on
-- foxytundra, 2018-09-01

### *---- "Citizen"
Can't comment?
-- @Oudtsies, 2017-10-04

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## The Citizen News Store Rankings
| Chart | Country | Category | Rank |
|-------|---------|----------|------|
| Top Free | South Africa | News | #164 |

## The Citizen News Discovered Keywords
- citiz


## The Citizen News Available In
- [South Africa](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/south-africa)
- [United States](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/united-states)
- [United Kingdom](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/united-kingdom)
- [Australia](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/australia)
- [Singapore](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/singapore)
- [Canada](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/canada)
- [China](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/china)
- [Malaysia](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/malaysia)
- [South Korea](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/south-korea)
- [Portugal](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/portugal)
- [Colombia](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/colombia)
- [Czechia](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/czechia)
- [Germany](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/germany)
- [Denmark](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/denmark)
- [Dominican Republic](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/dominican-republic)
- [Algeria](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/algeria)
- [Ecuador](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/ecuador)
- [Egypt](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/egypt)
- [Spain](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/spain)
- [Finland](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/finland)
- [France](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/france)
- [Greece](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/greece)
- [Hong Kong SAR China](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/hong-kong)
- [Hungary](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/hungary)
- [Ireland](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/ireland)
- [Israel](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/israel)
- [India](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/india)
- [Italy](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/italy)
- [Japan](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/japan)
- [Kazakhstan](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/kazakhstan)
- [Lebanon](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/lebanon)
- [Latvia](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/latvia)
- [Mexico](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/mexico)
- [Nigeria](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/nigeria)
- [Netherlands](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/netherlands)
- [Norway](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/norway)
- [New Zealand](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/new-zealand)
- [Philippines](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/philippines)
- [Pakistan](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/pakistan)
- [Poland](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/poland)
- [Romania](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/romania)
- [Russia](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/russia)
- [Saudi Arabia](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/saudi-arabia)
- [Thailand](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/thailand)
- [United Arab Emirates](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/united-arab-emirates)
- [Türkiye](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/turkey)
- [Taiwan](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/taiwan)
- [Ukraine](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/ukraine)
- [Uzbekistan](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/uzbekistan)
- [Vietnam](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/vietnam)
- [Tunisia](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/tunisia)
- [Argentina](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/argentina)
- [Austria](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/austria)
- [Azerbaijan](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/azerbaijan)
- [Belgium](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/belgium)
- [Bulgaria](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/bulgaria)
- [Brazil](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/brazil)
- [Belarus](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/belarus)
- [Switzerland](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/switzerland)
- [Chile](https://apptail.io/app/the-citizen-news-aife/chile)

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