--- title: "The Mercury - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in Australia | Apple App Store" description: "The Mercury app delivers the latest news and biggest stories as they happen, from our team of award-winning journalists in Tasmania, Australia and the globe. Get a read on today with our breadth of c" --- # The Mercury — Australia > Latest Hobart & Tasmania News ![The Mercury App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/b1/71/10/b1711039-e9e0-1e53-8819-16a87a7cb8d1/AppIcon-0-0-1x_U007emarketing-0-0-0-8-0-0-sRGB-85-220.png/434x0w.png) **Developer:** [News Digital Media](https://apptail.io/developer/news-digital-media-PQD) (Australia) **Category:** News **Rating:** 2.0/5 (23 ratings) **Price:** Free **Bundle ID:** au.com.news.mercury **Store:** Apple App Store **Country:** Australia **Version:** 9.13.2 (released 2026-03-21) **Original Release:** 2016-05-10 **Languages:** English **App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/au/app/app/id1104197339) **AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/the-mercury-Hcj/australia](https://apptail.io/app/the-mercury-Hcj/australia) ## The Mercury Description The Mercury app delivers the latest news and biggest stories as they happen, from our team of award-winning journalists in Tasmania, Australia and the globe. Get a read on today with our breadth of content, award-winning journalism and trusted local perspectives. We are proud to tell the incredible stories every hour of every day with The Mercury app. Subscribers of The Mercury (other than Today's Paper digital replica subscribers) will have access to: PERSONALISE YOUR NEWS FEED Set your local news area, follow journalists and topics, plus your favourite sporting codes and teams. All of your customised preferences will appear on the home screen so you can get straight to what matters to you. CUSTOMISED NOTIFICATIONS Receive alerts on the stories that matter most as they happen. Tailor your notifications from a range of topics from breaking news, sport and entertainment to business updates and lifestyle. READ TODAY’S PAPER ON YOUR DEVICE Read the paper on the go with the digital replica of today’s newspaper. Access to the paper anytime, anywhere with the digital replica of the paper, as it’s printed. DISCOVER OUR RANGE OF PODCASTS Explore and listen to a wide range of podcasts from our team of dedicated journalists across the News+ network. The Mercury app for mobile and tablet is free to download, however to gain full access to the app's content and features simply subscribe for Member-only access. Member-only access gives you full digital access to thousands of subscriber only stories, the digital replica of the paper, puzzles and more of what you love. How to gain full access to the app's content and features: 1) Existing members of The Mercury (other than subscribers to Today's Paper digital replica) can log in to the app when prompted using their membership details; or, 2) Become a member by subscribing through the app (via iTunes) • Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal • 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 the user's Account Settings after purchase. • Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. For full Terms and Conditions please visit and our Privacy Policy, please visit preferences.news.com.au Please note: This app features Nielsen’s proprietary measurement software which will allow you to contribute to market research. Please see www.nielsen.com/digitalprivacy for more information. ## The Mercury Screenshots - [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource126/v4/8a/eb/eb/8aebebce-3bf5-1703-4733-9416b6e17bcf/32474dee-cce0-4623-8645-4891a7ebc25c_Mercury_-_App_Store_-_Apple_Phone_1.jpg/1242x2688.png) - [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource116/v4/d8/75/51/d8755177-5431-c26d-b9db-f751e7c563cb/280c1157-d56c-4fdc-9424-e718da0b1274_Mercury_-_App_Store_-_Apple_Phone_2.jpg/1242x2688.png) - [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource116/v4/88/33/4a/88334a12-925e-cdc2-f9c4-af342b6abe65/3f730398-db51-4ad0-8e5e-4bf2e71fafde_Mercury_-_App_Store_-_Apple_Phone_3.jpg/1242x2688.png) - [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource126/v4/af/d9/45/afd945f4-ca7c-8cbc-13e3-9248a407bab2/c8e2cf50-88f6-4790-85cb-5711e580d185_Mercury_-_App_Store_-_Apple_Phone_4.jpg/1242x2688.png) - [Screenshot 5](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource116/v4/9e/b1/03/9eb103f5-3e06-39ba-139e-2b258a785c72/50822f20-7da5-48d6-b2f4-6d9a82bf1b55_Mercury_-_App_Store_-_Apple_Phone_5.jpg/1242x2688.png) ## The Mercury Rating Breakdown in Australia - 5 stars: 4 (17%) - 4 stars: 0 (0%) - 3 stars: 0 (0%) - 2 stars: 8 (35%) - 1 stars: 11 (48%) ## The Mercury Reviews in Australia ### **--- "Purge cache needed." My iPad mini 6 says the mercury app has over 7 gig of documents and data. That must mean everything I have ever read has been saved. -- Davo-from-the-bush, 2024-10-24 ### **--- "App takes audio" There’s been a few updates and the audio on my phone is accessed by this app when opening it. As a result streaming (eg radio) is stopped. Most inconvenient. -- Rod146, 2024-10-14 ### *---- "At the end and last page, cant go back to main screen, so lousy" Why can’t I return to the main screen after reading the end of the last page, the back key not functioning, went to App Store to reload and takes it back to same last page, also when it comes to a few pages on it takes a long time to open the next page , can’t do the giant crossword online, download the games app and giant crossword not there, also have to pay to play other games and can only play one crossword per day, we pay for the newspaper we can play all games, so why does the digital app game we have to pay again despite paying the subscriptions for the paper, unhappy customer -- Bengpoh, 2023-05-13 ### *---- "Latest update" What’s happened with the latest update? Like others have noted the app now freezes when you click on a story. The app is no rendered pretty useless! -- Grumpy_Thoz, 2023-04-16 ### *---- "New update has a huge bug." I see you had an update to the app 5 days ago. Ever since then , if I click on a story in My News area up comes a blank white page that locks up my iPad. I have to double click on the page to close it down and reload your app again. Please fix. How about updates to your main page too. Sick of looking at the Tasman Bridge and a Ducks Bum. Surely you can update that photo monthly, with readers photos. You’ve had that photo for years. It’s not that good! -- GPTWFT, 2023-04-10 ### *---- "App crashes on some stories" This latest update makes this app terrible to use. Some stories load others crash the app. Not great considering I pay a subscription to use it! -- SimpleMulldog, 2023-04-05 ### **--- "What’s happening at the Mercury?" My first beef is with the Comments section. Of late I have been getting the message “Comments failed to load. Please try again later”. Also, when comments are indicated for an article, as soon as I click on the article the comments disappear. Very frustrating! Then, when I do respond to a comment, and it’s several comments from the top, the response can stay there as a PENDING for days sometimes. Obviously the adjudicator never looks below the top couple of comments. If this continues to occur I will cancel my subscription of five or six years! I’m not prone to wasting time in writing comments for them to never to see the light of day! -- Tata lizard, 2023-01-17 ### *---- "Clumsy and frustrating" This app is the pits. Loading problems are common. But the worst part is that even though the magazines and ad inserts are there to be opened separately they are also presented in the the course of reading the ‘paper’. This means that if they are present midway through articles you might have to scroll forward multiple pages of ads before you can continue reading. It’s obvious why they do this but I resent the fact that they, to all appearances, offer a choice which in the end is no choice at all. -- indizeke, 2023-01-09 ### *---- "As Ads as News" 26 Dec 2022 PM. Ad for Jetstar’s loooow price Headlined as news. Was this a paid news item??? Bad news: bowls club not opening next Friday. -- Tryandstoppost, 2022-12-26 ### ***-- "Reading paper online." When I read the Mercury as printed online, if I go off the page to check my mail or similar, it does not remember what page I was on. This is very annoying. It does not do this on your sister paper The Herald Sun, or even the Australian to which I also subscribe. -- alrobmal, 2022-11-06 ### *---- "Rubbish" Paid for a subscription? Too bad you can’t use it! It’s absolute rubbish, janky formatting at best and all round utter trash. Though, considering the garbage website I suppose I shouldn’t be too shocked. -- ScammerAlert, 2022-08-30 ### *---- "Creepy app" Places heaps (5GB+) in ‘other’ data on iPad. Just lately (08/22) very slow to load. -- OnlynameIcouldget, 2022-08-04 ### *---- "VERY FRUSTRATING" I cannot open the next day edition without having to close the app and then reopen it! Also, why is the online version (via the app) not available until way after the hardcopy is delivered by the ‘man in the van!’ The Age (a much larger paper) is available by 1am, The Mercury isn't available on line until at least 5-6am! The content of the paper is parochial, has badly written articles and I don’t want to pay good money to read all the advertisements! NAHHH this is a waste of money $28 a month???? I DONT THINK SO! -- DebMoonah, 2022-01-26 ### **--- "Disgraceful update" The Mercury ought to do an article on the update, how it was designed, who reviewed it etc. The sought of article they would write if the government released a terrible update. -- Taslewis, 2021-11-12 ### **--- "Resolution" Is very poor and you can forget about detail,and the paper version even worse As a long term subscriber if this is not fixed I’ll be be cancelling -- johngxxxxxxxxx, 2021-10-30 ### **--- "Backwards app" The old app which suited the tabloid format worked well. The “new improved version “ (not) may be OK but the today’s paper option has a major fault. It is impossible to read an article when there is some advertising insert or, as with the Sunday Tasmanian, the comic section is ruined by the Escape section. This was not the case before. I do like the newer clipping and sharing function but this fault detracts. The today’s paper aspect is important has a significant amount of information that’s unavailable in the headline grabbing part. -- gurneycamel, 2021-10-16 ### *---- "So frustrating!!" Have deleted and downloaded this App so many times, and it still won't open. Just goes to the first screen for a couple of seconds then closes. Have used the App for years . This has happened only in the last few weeks. Ggrrrr!! -- Heather Bell 08, 2021-10-12 ### *---- "What a hopeless app!" Upgrade is the wrong word for what has happened to this app. - no access to previous issues, - no exit from supplementary adverts except by reloading the app. One star is over-generous! An online subscription to The Mercury via this app is definitely NOT value for money! -- JF0042, 2021-10-10 ### *---- "Improve the layout" If articles including cartoon section is spread over two pages please don’t place advertising pages between. Makes it very frustrating to then flick back and forth -- Greghhhhh, 2021-10-09 ### *---- "Downgrade not upgrade" Endorse other negative reviews You need some new app developers , its woeful The new section at the bottom of they page has been developed by someone on large screens , it reduces the room for reading on a tablet The resolution of the cartoons (the best part of the paper) is terrible and unreadable The clipping tool seems to have disappeared. All in all a pretty good app has become pretty ordinary (cr)app -- Thommotas, 2021-10-08 [View all The Mercury reviews and detailed analytics on AppTail](https://apptail.io/account/signup?utm_campaign=ai-crawl&utm_content=reviews) ## The Mercury In-App Purchases | Item | Price | |------|-------| | The Mercury | $34.99 | | Mercury Weekly Subscription | $4.49 | | The Mercury Yearly | $209.00 | ## The Mercury Store Rankings | Chart | Country | Category | Rank | |-------|---------|----------|------| | Top Grossing | Australia | News | #33 | | Top Free | Australia | News | #431 | ## The Mercury Discovered Keywords - the mercury news for mobile - the mercury ## Apps Similar to The Mercury - [The Sydney Morning Herald](https://apptail.io/app/the-sydney-morning-herald-cpp/australia) - [Canberra Times](https://apptail.io/app/canberra-times-HFcc/australia) - [The Age](https://apptail.io/app/the-age-JFcc/australia) - [Australian Financial Review](https://apptail.io/app/australian-financial-review-KFcc/australia) - 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