--- title: "The Mercury: TAS & Hobart News - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in Australia | Apple App Store" description: "Stay ahead of news in Tasmania with The Mercury app. From award-winning local journalism to unparalleled sport, health and education coverage, The Mercury delivers the stories that matter most to help" --- # The Mercury: TAS & Hobart News — Australia > Latest Hobart & Tasmania News ![The Mercury App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple221/v4/4c/37/91/4c3791dd-5867-b697-5d27-518806c39164/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:** 2.6/5 (34 ratings) **Price:** Free **Bundle ID:** au.com.news.mercury **Store:** Apple App Store **Country:** Australia **Version:** 9.15.10 (released 2026-10-09) **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-tas-hobart-news-Hcj/australia](https://apptail.io/app/the-mercury-tas-hobart-news-Hcj/australia) ## The Mercury Description Stay ahead of news in Tasmania with The Mercury app. From award-winning local journalism to unparalleled sport, health and education coverage, The Mercury delivers the stories that matter most to help you stay ahead. With our fearless reporting and trusted local perspectives, we are proud to tell the incredible stories from your neighborhood, across the country and around the world. The Mercury app puts Tasmania’s news in your hand - from Hobart’s waterfront and northern suburbs to the Huon, East Coast, Launceston, North-West and West Coast. Follow the decisions, debates and dramas that affect life on the island: state politics, crime and courts, roads and transport, environment and climate, housing and cost-of-living pressures. Stay across local business, tourism, arts, food and real estate, plus what’s on around Hobart and the regions. Keep up with Tassie sport - AFL and local leagues, cricket, racing, basketball, sailing and grassroots competitions across the state. FOR MERCURY SUBSCRIBERS (Available to subscribers other than Today’s Paper digital replica-only subscribers.) • TASMANIA NEWS YOUR WAY Set your local area and follow Mercury journalists, topics and teams. Your home screen highlights Hobart and Tasmanian stories first so you can jump straight into the news from your community. • CUSTOMISED NOTIFICATIONS Get alerts for the updates that matter most to Tasmanians – breaking news, severe weather and flood warnings, bushfires, major crashes and road closures, big court results and political decisions – plus sport, business and entertainment. • READ TODAY’S PAPER ON YOUR DEVICE Read the full digital replica of today’s Mercury wherever you are. Turn every page exactly as it appears in print, including liftouts, weekend magazines and special features. • DISCOVER OUR RANGE OF PODCASTS Listen to podcasts from Mercury journalists – from crime and investigations to politics, culture and Tasmanian life. • NEW PUZZLES EXPERIENCE - Your puzzles experience has been refreshed, bringing your favourites together in one place with more to play. New puzzles include our new daily word challenge Wordrow and our new Jigsaw puzzle, allowing you to piece together powerful photography. • MORE FOR SUBSCRIBERS Enjoy long-form reads, special investigations, photo galleries, Kommunity TV livestreams and interactive coverage focused on Tasmania. The Mercury app for mobile and tablet is free to download. To gain full access to the app’s content and features, simply subscribe for Subscriber-only access. Subscriber-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: 1) Existing subscribers of The Mercury (other than subscribers to Today’s Paper digital replica) can log in to the app when prompted using their subscription details; or 2) Become a subscriber by subscribing through the app using your Apple ID. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION: • Payment will be charged to your Apple ID 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. • Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period at the then-current rate. • 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: For our Privacy Policy, please visit: Please note: This app features Nielsen’s proprietary measurement software which will allow you to contribute to market research. Please see 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: 10 (29%) - 4 stars: 1 (3%) - 3 stars: 1 (3%) - 2 stars: 8 (24%) - 1 stars: 14 (41%) ## 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 [View all The Mercury reviews and detailed analytics on AppTail](https://app.apptail.io/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 | #39 | | Top Free | United Arab Emirates | News | #136 | ## 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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