Gulf News
The Gulf News app: up to the minute business, sports, lifestyle and general news
Total ratings
3.77
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Pros
- New user interface is appreciated by some users
- Scroll issue has been improved in the latest update
- Font size and picture quality are praised
- Ability to mute or disable notifications and alerts
Cons
- App is slow to respond and often crashes
- Issues with saved articles and subscription access frequently reported
- Scrolling behavior is frustrating and not functioning properly
- Overwhelming notifications interrupt reading
- Too many ads and poor layout detract from user experience
Most mentioned
- Persistent subscription prompts despite having an active subscription
- Problems with scrolling articles accidentally navigating to other topics
- Frequent redirects to other websites instead of content
- Invasive notifications interrupting current reading
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User reviews
Recent rating average:
1.90
All time rating average:
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-04 |  | | New layout is nice but the app is really slow to respond. A number of times when you click on an article you have to wait a long time before the article appears and many times you just have a blank screen and have to close the app and start over. |
| 2024-12-31 |  | | New updated app. Pros New ui good, scroll issue solved Cons Saved article removed Not able to go to my account Notification does not give me the news through the app sometimes opens chrome??? 31,Dec,24 |
| 2024-08-25 |  | | There is a scroll issue. When I scroll an article, the page stops scrolling and swipes to the previous/next article. This behaviour is too annoying. Please fix this. Happens on samsung s23.; 25/08/2024 - This issue is fixed on the latest update 🙌 |
| 2024-08-25 |  | | So many people are complaining about the scroll issue. Nothing being done. The app has been faulty in scrolling for the past 3 updates. I'm forced to use old version. 6.7.0 is working fine. The scrolling with finger, makes the topics change! Instead of just scrolling through the page, it changes topic. Kindly fix it asap. The page keeps turning with the natural flow of finger scrolling to read more, instead of scrolling vertically, it's scrolling horizontally. Needs fix! |
| 2024-08-16 |  | | Since last few days, while reading any news, i scroll down to continue reading it but it takes me to previous or next news. What the hell? |
| 2024-08-03 |  | | I regularly subscribe for e paper of Gulf news but each time I click on any online media article it keeps directing me to subscribe and no where I can see an option to sign on to my account & continue to read. It is very frustrating, and with my bussy schedule I am forced to drop my interest to read that topic and surf to other topics by other sources. |
| 2023-04-24 |  | | App is buggy after recent updates. in spite of a valid subscription, news items when clicked do not open and get redirected to strange websites with alert warnings. Another irritating issue is same news article appearing under different headings or groups. |
| 2022-08-27 |  | | The app crashes most of the time, it does not payment options and we need to go to website...the developers need to review and need urgent update. The credit card info is saved and cannot be deleted till expiry. No otp request and security is sceptical. Would not recommend digital subscription till changes in their system. |
| 2021-08-17 |  | | It's been a while since the last time I opened up Gulf News and this time it asked me to subscribe because I have used up the free articles, it said. So, I subscribed anyway, and still could not logged in to read any news. It is still asking to subscribe to the app for me to be able to read any articles in it. Then I read others' review with the same experience. I felt like being scammed by the app. After the subscription, uninstall the app then reinstall it back, and relogin to make it work. |
| 2021-05-20 |  | | Like everyone else's in the reviews below,, I was an avid reader and really loved the app,, been on 3 Android devices and an apple, for almost 7 years now. Tolerated the subscribe nuisance at the beginning of this year, and now they asked for paid subscription. Sry m not buying it, Uninstalled your app and downloaded the national and khaleej times, bye bye. |
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