The Age
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2 subscriptions from $17.99
In the United States, The Age has 2 subscriptions priced $17.99 – 24.99.
| Subscription | Period | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Starter Digital | Monthly | $17.99 |
| Premium Digital | Monthly | $24.99 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rating / 5 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 3.8 | 4.7 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 3.0 |
| Reviews | 3K | 119K | 6.6K | 6.5K | 2.9K | 788 | 774 |
| Released | 2018 | 2015 | 2009 | 2020 | 2020 | 2020 | 2010 |
| Monthly price | $17.99 | — | — | $17.99 | $14.99 | — | — |
| Annual price | — | — | — | $119.99 | $129.99 | — | — |
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The Age reviews
4.0 out of 5, based on 2,971 reviews.
What people like
- Good local Melbourne news coverage
- Digital paper looks like print
- Clear separation of news and opinion
- Great to read anywhere anytime
What they complain about
- App freezes and crashes constantly
- Ads interrupt you constantly
- Support never actually helps
- Keeps asking for your password
- Downloads disappear when offline
Since last update
Digital version of paper does not fit nicely on the iPad screen in landscape mode. Works well in portrait mode but l like to have both pages on the screen. Hope you can help.
YET ANOTHER PRICE RISE…
CRIMINALS..!! 2 PRICE INCREASES IN 1 MONTH…. THATS $7:50 A PAPER.. AND EVERY HOLIDAY SEASON THIS PAPER SHRINKS BY 3 QUARTERS THE SIZE STILL FLOODED WITH FULL PAGE MINDLESS ADDS STILL RIDDLED WITH ADD WRAPS STILL POOR CHANNEL 9 JOURNALISM AND NOW JUST 10 PAGES OF RUBBISH JUST A PATHETIC SHADOW OF WHAT IT ONCE WAS… SHAME OF AUSTRALIA
Why is the app yelling at me?
The Age is great. I don’t appreciate that the app name under the icon is in all caps. At 5:38 am, I don’t want to be yelled at by THE AGE while waking up.
Too many ads - Toe nail fungi
For a apps that I pay for.. The ads I see.. Let alone the quality are appalling. Do better Fairfax
Widget not refreshing
Like the app but seems that the widget doesn’t auto-update even with background app refresh on. Not much point in a widget if you have to tap on (which opens the app) to get the latest updates 🤦🏻♂️
Subscription Issue
We resubscribed in iPhone App but status in Browse screen remained ‘Non Subscriber’. Fixed in The Age app by logging out of our account then logging back in :— Browser screen status then displayed ‘Subscriber’. Gotta love The Age.
Cookie hell!
Almost every single day that I visit Target Time, I am presented with a screen to accept cookies. You want to give OVER TWO HUNDRED vendors access to my data. I don’t want cookies. Rather than a simple “reject all” I am forced to scroll down through several pages of options, manually unselecting all the default options. Yes, I am currently in Europe. Yes, they care about data privacy, as do I. But no - making it painful to reject cookies is NOT ACCEPTABLE. As a new subscriber, I am losing patience.
Good balanced Journalusm
The Age clearly separates reporting, from opinion from editorialising, which the Murdoch press really struggles with.
Subscription through Google Terrible Experience
While this is not necessarily a comment on the Age app I didn’t have another better place to leave my feedback and I am upset so forgive my rant. I paid for a subscription through Google that was never recognised by the app. I had several back and forth messages with the Age customer service that then hand-balled me to Google and I was referred to countless unhelpful ‘help’ pages. The Age claimed they cannot resolve the issue since it is with Google and Google’s customer resolution journey has been no better to be honest. Yours sincerely, a very frustrated former Age subscriber.
Could be better
This app gives good access to the daily paper for subscribers. On my iPad, the version “Today’s Paper” is most useful. I find it annoying that on both iPad and iPhone, the list view of news stories appears to be random, not “most recent at top” or even “according to previously shown interest”. And when you click through to see an article it cannot be enlarged for easy reading, even though less than half the iPad screen is used. On the iPhone the app doesn’t rotate to Landscape, which could allow more comfortable reading with longer lines of print - and also no stretch-to-enlarge, of course. In general, the journalism at The Age is good - though notably fewer international and “non-pop” stories than there used to be. Even the local coverage seems pretty thin some days.
The age
Pretty good but I really want to read the paper
Awful new version
In addition to the ongoing frustrations with the over-sensitive pages going immediately to text-only, we now have the added freezing and slow-to-open problem. I suggest the designers of the app try and read it as a paper, and see for themselves, which is surely the idea, to experience how clunky it has become, rather than keep making changes for the worse. Why on earth was the old version changed, a year or two ago, when it was performing perfectly well. And why doesn’t anyone respond to my questions when I send in feedback? Edit: when is this disastrous app going to be fixed??? I have been told the app team are “actively resolving this …”, but still nothing. Just bring back the old app; it was just fine, thank you. The new Age app is a a step backwards, and that is saying something. Pages jump around, slower to advance, doesn’t take you back to the last page you were reading, “continued on page…” takes you away from the actual paper. Does anyone check these things?? As others have said, I just want to read the paper from front to back. Can we just have the old app back please? (And the day & time is no longer visible at the top of the page) Edit: Still not at all user-friendly, despite multiple complaints (which are never acknowledged or attended to). I am sick of the page jumping to “read-only” version at the slightest touch anywhere in the body of the article. And “continued on page….” Is now extremely frustrating. Bring back the old version- whose idea was it to “fix” something that wasn’t broken? Edit -agai!! Still no improvement, still no response to concerns raised over and over again. PLEASE do something about the hyper-sensitive screen; I don’t want to be taken to text-only version, I just want to get to the continuation of the article. Also, as others have said, it is crazy that we have to download the paper each time we go back to it. If using my iPad away from home I can’t access it, And as others are also saying, the pages freeze a lot. Why on earth the perfectly good old app was changed for such a disastrous version is beyond me.
News delivered to my needs
Like the app and like the format of news delivery.
Quizzes
Please fix the app so that quizzes open in the app like they used to rather than taking you to the website and then offering to open in the app!!!
App is tailored for the iPad but lazy touches abound
I like this app and use it everyday but there are frustrations. The today’s paper section lets you see the paper exactly as the print version which for me is by far the best way to read the paper. Although it does expose the paper’s predilection for spreading articles and photos over more than one page as very unhelpful when only one page can be seen at a time. Perhaps the reader view should include the article’s photos rather than just text. The most annoying aspect is that downloads don’t stay downloaded. I rely on downloading at home and the being able to read the paper wherever I go. Having to use mobile data to repeat a download is unsatisfactory. Given we are now paying handsomely for this service, there are way too many Harvey Norman to skip past just to get to the next actual page.
Very poor & disappointing
As a paid subscriber, I find this app a total waste of money. The old app made reading and finding articles far more user friendly. The crossword page is frustrating to use. Seriously considering canceling my monthly subscription.
Terrible
If you are a subscriber this would have to be one of the most frustrating apps ever used. Trying to put in your credentials so you can view an article works about 20% of the time. Then you have to go and look at it in the browser which totally defeats the purpose of an app.
News Stand Whack-a-Mole
Reading the digital facsimile edition is good - not as good as the old app. You can’t read in landscape mode across two pages, and stories often cross the centre line. But the frustration of trying to delete old downloaded editions is getting WORSE. To begin with, the tiny red x was so hard to hit, i would accidentally open the paper about 3 times before i could hit the delete x. Now the delete x works ( still averaging 4th hit) on a download 2 papers later! So if the old download is at the end of the display, it can’t be deleted. What will happen next???
Login problems
Why do I need to login every time I open the app? And it doesn’t use my saved passwords. It is very frustrating.
Scrolling stops
Scrolling through an article intermittently stops, and eventually crashes the app.
Ppp
Ooo
Still no comments
Sometimes, when a journalist neglects to include pertinent information in an article, that information can be found in the comments. But this app does not display reader comments. The developers have indicated this functionality will be added at some point, but alas their priority is in breaking, then fixing, sudoku. Please leave the poor puzzles alone, and devote resources to adding comment functionality. The Guardian app has had this for a while. Just copy them. Use AI. It’s sophisticated copying!
2 years on and still can’t submit reader comments?
While the journalism is great, still cannot comment or upvote anything? Certain interactive diagrams don’t work, not and you zoom on multiple picture slides. You have to go to Traveller section which opens a browser in-app to do this?
Diminishing value
The Age for iPad is rapidly deteriorating. It has a fraction of the stories that appear in the online or print version, and the same stories can appear 2 and sometimes 3 days in a row. This used to be a great reader format .. but not any more. The latest glitch sees the app frequently freezing. Very close to cancelling my subscription.
A trusted news source
My go-to place for news about Melbourne.
Why the change
I have been an Age reader for 41 years. The new updated format is a disaster. I use my iPad in landscape all the time and my holder is designed for that. You press on an article and it jumps to that story, not the way I would read a hard copy, then it jumps back not necessarily to where you were. It is much more difficult to navigate. Surely you can do better!
Glitchy and tedious
Two stars for the constant screen freezing creating a tedious app to negotiate. Might be time to return to using the website instead
Cat team
Tell the truth please!
The Age
Excellent App
Latest update is a giant leap towards a worse experience
Despite what it says on the tin, my user experience has gone backwards since the recent update. In particular, the image of today’s paper freezes so often, and for so long, that it’s effectively unusable. I relish browsing and sometimes discovering unexpected interesting articles in the well curated collection and arrangement of articles in the image of today’s paper. It’s so much more inviting than the crass and cliched click- bait ‘headlines’ of the full online version. I only keep subscribing to The Age because of its curated offering of the news in the facsimile version. Without that, The Age would have nothing to make it stand out compared to alternative free online news sources. But frankly the freezing of the facsimile version of the paper is now so frequent and persistent that it’s not worth persevering with trying to read it. Please please fix whatever bug got in through the recent update. (I’m on an iPad Pro second generation - getting oldish, but certainly not abandonware yet)
Freezes and zero accessibility options
Never been a nice app to use, it’s now constantly freezing, requiring force close to fix, losing your reading spot. Also terrible unless you have perfect eyesight - at least provide options for text size!
It was AGES ago
There is no doubt in my mind that this was once a proud independent quality newspaper. Those days have long gone. It is worth subscribing to but NOT at the full price they are asking. The price does not compare favourably with international newspaper subscriptions. There is too much puerile nonsense and click bait scam advertising here. For local Victorian news it is better than the alternative but it is a long way from a complete news organisation now. Predictable and shallow reporting are unfortunately there when in depth reporting by experienced writers is required. We are currently subscribed at a discount rate. I cannot see us willingly paying the full price at the end of the discount period. The value simply isn’t there.
Layout
Layout of paper online as opposed to App, is very crowded But news feeds are excellent Thank You
No good
I have stopped using this app. It freezes every 5 seconds and sometimes just closes.
Offline Viewing and Green Guide Tab
Reasonable app, but can we fix the offline viewing of downloaded editions please? Why, if I have downloaded an edition, do I need an internet connection to view the edition I have downloaded. Esp. a problem when flying and want to catch up reading. Also, given Good Food is no longer published weekly, can we have a Green Guide tab in its place so that the GG can be downloaded separately and easily accessible?
View options needed
I’m loving the stories (although the number of sports articles high in my feed is confusing as I don’t read them!). My issue is difficulty reading the font on my phone. A different or larger font would be much easier for me, but the app doesn’t allow this form of personalisation. Please consider adding it.
Great news platform
Great to read the Age anywhere at anytime
Freezing
This app freezes over and over again on both my iPads and my wife’s iPad. Infuriating! An app that accompanies a subscription of more than $30 a month should be high performance.
v5.3.0 is difficult on iPad 10
This version struggles with frequently loading something and freezing solid Previous version prioritised the reader. This version puts all its effort into doing something (who knows what) and not allowing anything to happen on screen Even closing the app and reopening is not a cure What is so important that the app will not allow the reader to even scroll? Then suddenly it flicks to open a story two or three times. It is certainly NOT a good look The content is good - but that is the editors in house not the app writers Maybe the app writers could do some real testing and focus on the reader experience
Great journalism
Very informative and good coverage of topics
Passwords suck
Why do you constantly ask for my password?
Glitchy scrolling
This app used to work as-advertised, but has recently developed a consistent issue where it regularly freezes when scrolling (either between articles or within). I use an iPad Pro to view, and have reset that back to factory and restored in the hope it would fix the issue - to no avail. The issue is isolated to the Age app, and doesn’t occur when viewing through a browser. Unfortunately it makes a good app relatively useless, and although I’ve reported the issue through the “Feedback” function multiple times, nothing has changed.
The Age price by country
A monthly subscription costs $15.96 in the Philippines and $25.70 in Poland — 1.6× more for the same thing. Below is the going rate for each plan in every country that sells it — the middle price of what the app charges there, in the country's own currency with the dollar equivalent beneath it.
| Country | Monthly |
|---|---|
| Albania | $19.99 |
| Algeria | $17.99 |
| Angola | $17.99 |
| Anguilla | $17.99 |
| Antigua And Barbuda | $17.99 |
| Argentina | $17.99 |
| Armenia | $19.99 |
| Australia | A$25.99$18.05 |
| Austria | €19.99$22.49 |
| Azerbaijan | $19.99 |
| Bahamas | $19.99 |
| Bahrain | $19.99 |
| Barbados | $19.99 |
| Belarus | $19.99 |
| Belgium | €19.99$22.49 |
| Belize | $17.99 |
| Benin | $19.99 |
| Bermuda | $17.99 |
| Bhutan | $17.99 |
| Bolivia | $17.99 |
| Bosnia & Herzegovina | €19.99$22.49 |
| Botswana | $17.99 |
| Brazil | R$99.90$19.14 |
| British Virgin Islands | $17.99 |
| Brunei Darussalam | $17.99 |
| Bulgaria | €19.99$22.49 |
| Burkina Faso | $17.99 |
| Cambodia | $19.99 |
| Cameroon | $19.99 |
| Canada | CA$24.99$17.60 |
| Cape Verde | $17.99 |
| Cayman Islands | $17.99 |
| Chad | $17.99 |
| Chile | CLP 19,990$20.35 |
| China | CN¥128.00$19.05 |
| Colombia | COP 79,900$24.13 |
| Congo | $17.99 |
| Congo, Democratic Republic | $17.99 |
| Costa Rica | $17.99 |
| Cote Divoire | $19.99 |
| Croatia | €19.99$22.49 |
| Cyprus | €19.99$22.49 |
| Czech Republic | CZK 499.00$22.96 |
| Denmark | DKK 149.00$22.41 |
| Dominica | $17.99 |
| Dominican Republic | $17.99 |
| Ecuador | $17.99 |
| Egypt | EGP 999.99$19.15 |
| El Salvador | $17.99 |
| Estonia | €19.99$22.49 |
| Fiji | $17.99 |
| Finland | €19.99$22.49 |
| France | €19.99$22.49 |
| Gabon | $17.99 |
| Gambia | $17.99 |
| Georgia | $19.99 |
| Germany | €19.99$22.49 |
| Ghana | $19.99 |
| Greece | €19.99$22.49 |
| Grenada | $17.99 |
| Guatemala | $17.99 |
| Guinea-bissau | $17.99 |
| Guyana | $17.99 |
| Honduras | $17.99 |
| Hong Kong | HK$148.00$18.85 |
| Hungary | HUF 7,990$24.40 |
| Iceland | $19.99 |
| India | ₹1,999.00$20.75 |
| Indonesia | IDR 299,000$16.71 |
| Iraq | $17.99 |
| Ireland | €19.99$22.49 |
| Israel | ₪59.90$19.64 |
| Italy | €19.99$22.49 |
| Jamaica | $17.99 |
| Japan | ¥3,000$19.01 |
| Jordan | $17.99 |
| Kazakhstan | KZT 9,990.00$22.49 |
| Kenya | $19.99 |
| Kosovo | €19.99$22.49 |
| Kuwait | $17.99 |
| Kyrgyzstan | $19.99 |
| Lao Peoples Democratic Republic | $19.99 |
| Latvia | €19.99$22.49 |
| Lebanon | $17.99 |
| Liberia | $17.99 |
| Libya | $17.99 |
| Lithuania | €19.99$22.49 |
| Luxembourg | €19.99$22.49 |
| Macao | $17.99 |
| Macedonia | $17.99 |
| Madagascar | $17.99 |
| Malawi | $17.99 |
| Malaysia | MYR 79.90$19.58 |
| Maldives | $17.99 |
| Mali | $17.99 |
| Malta | €19.99$22.49 |
| Mauritania | $17.99 |
| Mauritius | $17.99 |
| Mexico | MX$399.00$21.91 |
| Micronesia | $17.99 |
| Moldova | $19.99 |
| Mongolia | $17.99 |
| Montenegro | €17.99$20.24 |
| Montserrat | $17.99 |
| Mozambique | $17.99 |
| Myanmar | $17.99 |
| Namibia | $17.99 |
| Nauru | $17.99 |
| Nepal | $19.99 |
| Netherlands | €19.99$22.49 |
| New Zealand | NZ$29.99$16.85 |
| Nicaragua | $17.99 |
| Niger | $17.99 |
| Nigeria | NGN 29,900.00$22.48 |
| Norway | NOK 229.00$23.80 |
| Oman | $17.99 |
| Pakistan | PKR 4,900$17.70 |
| Palau | $17.99 |
| Panama | $17.99 |
| Papua New Guinea | $17.99 |
| Paraguay | $17.99 |
| Peru | PEN 79.90$23.23 |
| Philippines | ₱999.00$15.96 |
| Poland | PLN 99.99$25.70 |
| Portugal | €19.99$22.49 |
| Qatar | QAR 69.99$19.23 |
| Romania | RON 99.99$21.09 |
| Russia | RUB 1,490.00$17.85 |
| Rwanda | $17.99 |
| Sao Tome & Principe | $17.99 |
| Saudi Arabia | SAR 79.99$21.33 |
| Senegal | $19.99 |
| Serbia | €19.99$22.49 |
| Seychelles | $17.99 |
| Sierra Leone | $17.99 |
| Singapore | SGD 24.98$19.52 |
| Slovakia | €19.99$22.49 |
| Slovenia | €19.99$22.49 |
| Solomon Islands | $17.99 |
| South Africa | ZAR 399.99$24.01 |
| South Korea | ₩25,000$18.54 |
| Spain | €19.99$22.49 |
| Sri Lanka | $17.99 |
| St. Kitts and Nevis | $17.99 |
| St. Lucia | $17.99 |
| St. Vincent & The Grenadines | $17.99 |
| Suriname | $19.99 |
| Swaziland | $17.99 |
| Sweden | SEK 229.00$22.81 |
| Switzerland | CHF 18.00$21.71 |
| Taiwan | NT$590.00$18.52 |
| Tajikistan | $19.99 |
| Tanzania | TZS 49,900.00$18.84 |
| Thailand | THB 699.00$20.83 |
| Tonga | $17.99 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | $17.99 |
| Tunisia | $17.99 |
| Turkey | TRY 799.99$16.28 |
| Turkmenistan | $17.99 |
| Turks and Caicos | $17.99 |
| Uganda | $19.99 |
| Ukraine | $19.99 |
| United Arab Emirates | AED 69.99$19.07 |
| United Kingdom | £17.99$23.80 |
| United States | $17.99 |
| Uruguay | $17.99 |
| Uzbekistan | $19.99 |
| Vanuatu | $17.99 |
| Venezuela | $17.99 |
| Vietnam | ₫499,000$19.24 |
| Yemen | $17.99 |
| Zambia | $19.99 |
| Zimbabwe | $19.99 |
The Age FAQ
- Is The Age free?
- Yes. The app and its basic features are free, in all 173 countries it sells in. Premium features are paid: they start from $17.99 (US), across 2 subscriptions.
- How much does The Age cost per month?
- Premium Digital is $17.99 – 24.99 (US).
- Does The Age have a free trial?
- No. None of its offers (US) come with a free trial.
- Where is The Age cheapest?
- A monthly subscription costs ₱999.00 (≈$15.96) in the Philippines and PLN 99.99 (≈$25.70) in Poland, its cheapest and dearest countries.
- What are the best alternatives to The Age?
- nine.com.au (4.5 from 119,321 reviews), ABC News (3.8 from 6,643 reviews) and Nikkei Asia - Business news (4.7 from 6,534 reviews, premium from $17.99).
The Age download
Last updated 9 days ago.
The Age sells in 173 countries. It was released 7 years and 11 months ago, on 5 Nov 2018. It holds a 4.0 rating from 2,971 reviews.
Supports 1 language: English.
How much does The Age make?
Third-party estimates for the last 30 days, worldwide — not the store's own figures, which Apple publishes for nobody.
Revenue by plan
- Monthly 100%
Revenue by country
- Australia 97%
- United States 1%
- United Kingdom 0%
- New Zealand 0%