The Sydney Morning Herald

Name: The Sydney Morning Herald
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.615384578704834 (1582 reviews)
Author: Fairfax Media

Fairfax Media

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About this app

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.

Stay in touch with Sydney's latest news with the Herald's new app.

Updated on

Oct 21, 2026

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Location, Personal info and 3 others
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Ratings and reviews

1.2K reviews

Lindsay Smith

August 19, 2026

I mostly like the app but am frustrated that some features (eg comments on articles) aren't supported. So I open SMH in Chrome, only to find that every time I open a story in the web browser, it opens the app and opens it there. Which is the opposite of what I'm trying to do. I'd love to know whether that's modifiable. I've tried to stop it a few times... But I can't find any settings on my phone or tablet that help, nor any settings in Chrome or the SMH app that explain it/modify it.

5 people found this review helpful

Shaun Lambert

July 27, 2026

used to be only at the lower third of the app that it'd not keep your place when backing out of an article, now it takes you back to the top every single time. infuriating! it's bad enough that most of the articles (and headlines) are misleading, if it bleeds it leads garbage also, what happened to the menu to be able to open the travel or liveblog articles in web browser? can't share them anymore

8 people found this review helpful

candice cody

July 26, 2026

Ads are driving me insane. If it was a free version, sure, go for it, but not a paid subscription. The whole purpose of subscribing is to avoid the ads. Goodbye SMH, The Guardian ( ad free) is more worthy of my $$$.