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

![The Sydney Morning Herald App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/cb/21/5b/cb215bfe-369f-111d-6a6e-e0839fafc48b/SMH-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:** 4.2/5 (3,007 ratings)
**Price:** Free
**Bundle ID:** au.com.fairfaxdigital.news.SMH
**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/id1411569831)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/the-sydney-morning-herald-cpp/australia](https://apptail.io/app/the-sydney-morning-herald-cpp/australia)

## The Sydney Morning Herald Description
Get straight to the stories that matter with the Herald 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'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'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 Sydney Morning Herald 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 Sydney Morning Herald app

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## The Sydney Morning Herald Screenshots
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## The Sydney Morning Herald Rating Breakdown in Australia
- 5 stars: 2,019 (67%)
- 4 stars: 420 (14%)
- 3 stars: 110 (4%)
- 2 stars: 90 (3%)
- 1 stars: 368 (12%)

## The Sydney Morning Herald Reviews in Australia

### ***** "Trustworthy Up To Date News"
Relevant articles
-- Sweedy girl, 2025-01-22

### ***-- "Ads!"
Hi! Are paid subscribers meant to see ads on the SMH app? If yes, its a terrible shame. Such a nice iPad interface spoiled by ads!
-- Niyaz Ashraf, 2025-01-19

### ***** "Great app SMH"
Really great app SMH!
-- Tim.J.H, 2025-01-08

### ***** "Thank you!"
With the alarming reduction of factual news sources and increase in subjective opinion outlets, the SMH continues to be my first read each day. The tone is neutral and specific. I thank the journalists for their time and efforts in keeping truth at the forefront!
-- Shazza AB, 2024-12-30

### ***** "Great, independent journalism"
Highly recommend
-- Sydneyboy81, 2024-12-27

### ***** "Trustworthy Up To Date News"
Relevant articles
-- Sweedy girl, 2024-12-17

### ***** "SMH online"
What a great site. Inexpensive and informative, expressing informed views. I read it every day, as my main source of information.
-- aygeejay, 2024-12-15

### *---- "SMH app"
App does not refresh the newspaper and does not give the tools to allow manual refresh even deleting the app and then restoring sometimes does not give a refresh of the app. At the moment I am currently stuck on Thursdays edition of the paper and cannot move from it it is not good enough for a subscription
-- Keen on cricket, 2024-12-13

### *---- "Can’t login after app update"
You forced me to update the app, logged me out in the process, and now I can’t login. The Subscribe/login screen pops for less than a second and promptly disappears. The app is now totally useless to me.
-- PleaseListen123, 2024-12-12

### ****- "Sydney Morning Herald"
Would be 5 star if letters and column 8 were found in the same section every day
-- mrs sippy oz, 2024-12-05

### *---- "User unfriendly app"
This has to be a best example of a poorly written app. Just have a look at all the negative reviews to get the compass of the failures of this app. I agree with them all and there’s no sense in repeating the myriad of complaints. Whoever are the senior executives responsible of over sighting the development and acceptance of this app should be fired without delay and never to be rehired by any news outlet attempting digital content. No wonder newspaper readerships are declining. And not there is the increasing lightweight and trivial content now appearing.
-- Hedware, 2024-11-27

### *---- "Ruined by latest app update"
I use this app solely for the Digital Replica of the SMH, and it used to be quite decent and serviceable. But the latest update and redesign is a disaster.

Firstly, the app has become generally more sluggish, with page turning and loading being much slower than in the previous version.

Clippings can no longer be taken from the newspaper, making it impossible to save articles or clip for printing. Most egregiously, this means that the puzzles can’t be clipped one or two at a time and printed - only a whole page can be printed. This is too small on an A4 printout to read. This now makes the print function virtually useless.

They even sent out an email addressing this claiming it was fixed, but the instructions they provided don’t actually work on the iPad version!

Meanwhile, the full-screen text-only view of articles, which used to be accessed by clicking a headline, is now triggered by tapping anywhere on the screen. This view is largely useless, as it is missing images, graphics and charts, but it just keeps popping up. Any mis-detected swipe will cause it to appear. A stray finger venturing onto the edge of the iPad will cause it to take over the screen. Want to brush some crumbs off the iPad while eating breakfast? Be prepared for that giant, useless text view to jump up and take over.

Additionally, in the pursuit of a “clean” UI, key functionality has been removed. When reading a front-page article that is “continued on page 8”, you used to be able to click on that continuation text as a link and jump to the rest of the article. Inexplicably, this has been removed. We now, in 2024, have a software application incapable of hyperlinking! 

Then there are the small inconveniences, like the iPad clock now being hidden when reading the digital replica. Why do this? I now need to have a separate watch next to the iPad to remind me when it’s time to stop reading and get to work.

I’ve spent the past few days trying to work out how to revert my iPad to an old backup just to get the old version of the app back. It’s that bad. I don’t know what they were thinking.

———

Update: The developer response states the issues have been addressed. They haven’t. The app is still a total disaster zone, and almost all the above points stand. There have been a few tweaks around the edges, but no substantive improvements to address the fundamentally deficiencies in the new app.

Front page links still don’t work, clipping puzzles is still unworkable (SMH support actually 
-- Aaron_J_H, 2024-11-26

### *---- "Sloppy"
Why is it so hard to make a functional app? In recent times this app has 'lost its mind' -- when you try to return to a story that you have just been reading it takes you to a completely unrelated story either backwards or forwards in the paper. How hard is it to produce a simple, easy to use app? I would suggest SMH software designers look at the New York Times for a simple, easy to use and well-behaved app. This is just sloppy work.
-- KalangBello, 2024-11-22

### ***** "*****"
*****
-- JT@S, 2024-11-15

### ***** "David"
The SMH is consistently rigorous and broad in it’s reporting. It is a world class news and information medium.
-- bailey707, 2024-11-14

### ****- "SMH rules!"
Best journos and best crosswords!
-- Rmo 27, 2024-11-05

### ***** "Easy access to news and good balance with ABC news."
Very easy to navigate. Up to date news.
-- CGH2024, 2024-11-05

### **--- "Hate it!"
I have been reading the SMH on iPad for years; first thing I look forward to early in the morning. This new version is user unfriendly, cheap and the crosswords and sudoku puzzles are frustratingly slow to fill in...no point trying to beat the clock! Enjoyment has been taken away compltetely!
Also, how about international news coverage instead of so many ads and sport?
-- J.A.M dog, 2024-11-04

### **--- "App not working"
The SMH app has suddenly stopped working on my
iPad was fine until yesterday. Have tried reinstalling and all else but nothing working. Click the app and it just flickers and not open. Still out of order today
-- NSW sydney, 2024-11-04

### ***** "SMH is a god send"
Like so many others across Australia I depend on the SMH for up to the minute, high quality news, sports, lifestyle and polemic literature. Bravo SMH!! More of the same please!
-- Mighty Eagle's Uncle, 2024-10-27

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## The Sydney Morning Herald In-App Purchases
| Item | Price |
|------|-------|
| Starter Digital | $21.49 |
| Premium Digital | $30.99 |

## The Sydney Morning Herald Store Rankings
| Chart | Country | Category | Rank |
|-------|---------|----------|------|
| Top Grossing | Australia | News | #5 |
| Top Grossing | Saudi Arabia | News | #24 |
| Top Grossing | New Zealand | News | #29 |
| Top Free | Australia | News | #29 |
| Top Grossing | Hong Kong SAR China | News | #34 |
| Top Grossing | Ireland | News | #56 |
| Top Grossing | Norway | News | #68 |
| Top Grossing | Malaysia | News | #73 |
| Top Grossing | Singapore | News | #77 |
| Top Grossing | Denmark | News | #79 |
| Top Grossing | Indonesia | News | #84 |
| Top Grossing | Pakistan | News | #91 |
| Top Grossing | Philippines | News | #91 |
| Top Free | New Zealand | News | #213 |
| Top Free | South Korea | News | #315 |

## The Sydney Morning Herald Discovered Keywords
- australian news
- financial review
- sydney morning herald
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