It’s now even easier to stay expertly informed
The all-new Independent app puts breaking news and awarding-winning journalism at your fingertips, wherever you are and whenever you want. With a host of new features and our signature free-thinking reporting, the Independent app is your essential source of trusted journalism on the go.
What’s included in the Independent app?
All our journalism in one place
From up-to-the-minute breaking news to the daily digital newspaper, enjoy ad-free access to our reporting wherever you are and whenever you want.
5 things you need to know today
Streamline your morning with an essential briefing of the key stories that you need to know about that day.
Independent TV
Bring headlines to life and immerse yourself in the story with access to the latest news clips and trending videos.
Audio articles and playlists
Bring our reporting with you when on the go with audio articles and create playlists for offline listening.
The daily digital newspaper
Wake up to your digital newspaper from 5am each morning and enjoy your read of the day's biggest stories.
Daily crosswords, sudoku and puzzles
Challenge yourself with our entertaining and extensive range of brain-training puzzles.
Exclusive events and e-books
Join the debate with expert-led digital events and deepen your understanding of a topic with our curated selection of e-books.
Dark mode
Perfect for evening reads and bedtime browsing.
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The Independent app is free to download and use. Simply register to access a limited number of free articles each week and stay up to date with breaking news notifications.
To unlock all features of the app, an active subscription is required. Subscribers benefit from unlimited access to our journalism, including premium analysis and opinion articles, the daily digital newspaper, audio articles, exclusive digital events, extensive puzzles and more.
To view our latest introductory offers, please check the app.
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• Payments for in-app subscriptions will be charged to your *Apple account* upon confirmation of purchase.
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• You can manage your subscription and adjust your auto-renewal preferences by accessing your *Apple ID account settings* after purchase.
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Contains articles with information that never gets mentioned elsewhere. I should also point out, in a world where journalism seems to be denigrated at every conceivable opportunity by the powerful, the articles seem to all be very well reasoned & thoughtful. They certainly seem to go out of their way to source information that seems to be avoided by the really big corporate media outlets.
Offensively bad. An insult to all apps.
Horrendous. No search function, doesn't actually work when integrating with Apple account. It took me ages just to confirm the subscription, moving between the browser and the app and it still prompts me to link accounts. Gives me notifications for something but never shows me what they are when I open the app. I can barely believe this app is from a national newspaper, and it's even more unbelievable that they actually want paying for this.
Constantly crashes
I’ve never used this app on an iPhone (iPhone 4, 6 and now X) when it hasn’t been buggy and borderline unusable.
It constantly stalls and crashes and there is a bug in the UI when scrolling down an article which will reset to the beginning if your finger moves even slightly to the left or right - very annoying if the article is long.
Considering how long these bugs have been a mainstay of the app, it’s clear their online team have little interested in addressing any of these issues.
Appalling update
This is a terrible upgrade which foists intrusive advertising all over the content, obscuring the stories and grossly interrupting the reading experience. Reading experience buggy and slow as well. Navigation haphazard. Looks terrible on iPad.
Clean, sharp app
Excellent app - effortless to navigate, in a clean fresh font that's easy to read. Solid content, although some interesting articles appear on the short side. Some excellent long and comprehensive articles examining issues in depth. Highly recommended.
Good access overseas
Excellent app. Infinitely better than trying to read through a browser.
Excellent
Excellent truly Independent journalism.
I have read Mr. Robert Fisk's reports faithfully for years and along with his colleagues provide reliable, well researched material consistently (they are certainly not 'stenographers' for any government. Thank you to the Independent for your hard work and unwavering standards to provide the public with unfiltered NEWS. Kindest regards.
Reliable
Always online and available. Graphics and articles all good
Easy and simple
Love this app.
Well done independent.
Please fix your app!
I've had to turn to other publishers apps because this app is no longer usable.
Previous versions worked ok but now is unusable.
Surprised your sister publications apps work but you're missing out on eyeballs and therefore revenue. Why would you let this happen?