The Independent
By Independent Digital News & Media Limited
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Description
Free from political bias, The Independent newspaper is proud to live up to its name, with clear and forthright writing covering the whole range of UK and international news and opinion.
The Independent iPad app captures all these values, together with the title's acknowledged respect for the best in daily news, current affairs, sport and arts photography.
Follow our award-winning writers, including Robert Fisk on the Middle East, Michael McCarthy on environment issues, Steve Connor on science, Jeremy Laurance on health and James Lawton on sport.
Follow our renowned columnists, including Steve Richards, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Adrian Hamilton and Christina Patterson.
And follow our top feature writers, including the acclaimed Simon Calder on Travel, Mark Hix on food and Rhodri Marsden on gadgets and technology.
The print edition has celebrated its 25th anniversary. Now, along with an ever-growing website, the app is another generation for everyone who takes their reading seriously. (Even the fun bits.)
The Independent iPad edition is free for a limited period then the subscription options are as follows:
- The Independent digital subscription for £9.99 per month
- Your subscription will automatically renew each month and your credit card will be charged through your iTunes account
- You can turn off auto-renew at any time from your iTunes account settings
- Your subscription will renew automatically unless you turn off auto-renew in your account settings at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period
- Any cancellation request will be processed at the end of the current billing period. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription to this publication
What's New in Version 2.1
- Improved purchase and registration flows for ease of access.
iPad Screenshots
Customer Reviews
Wasted opportunity
This is a good paper and a well designed app but is very badly let down on two fronts...
1. The constant pop up ( and repetitive) adverts that completely cover the page.....They have no place on an paid for app and destroy the reading experience
2. The terrible lack of content. The Front Page may have a dozen articles on it. But then the UK News and World News pages will perhaps have ten articles each, most of which are just repeats of the Front Page. To make matters worse these are often shuffled along the page over a course of a few days with little actual new content added. The amount of actual original news on these three (primary) pages takes about five minutes to read. That is not my idea of a broadsheet
Unless there us a massive change during this free trial period there is no way i'd pay 9.99 for this app.
Please sort it out as the actual newspaper is a quality product
Ruined by ads.
Never get to read much of the paper. Put off by ads popping up all the time. Will be cancelling!
Ads worse than ever. Now an adpaper not a newspaper!
Intrusive adverts
So far, this is free. I doubt if I would pay £9.99 a month for it. My negative comments are the same as others have written about: doesn't download a full issue; articles missing; links don't work; no attempt to show 'related articles'; and, worst of all, a full page advert pops up while you're reading, completely destroying your concentration and enjoyment of the writing.
The good points are excellent content from the newspaper and very good layout.
The above issues need to be addressed before I would pay for this.
- Free
- Category: News
- Updated: 04 January 2013
- Version: 2.1
- Size: 4.1 MB
- Language: English
- Developer: Independent Digital News & Media Limited
- © 2012 Independent Digital News & Media Limited
Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
Top In-App Purchases
- The Independent digital subscription.£9.99