The Wall Street Journal. News

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R2] 1/5 · US Not free, like it says: No, you have to subscribe unless you just want to read previews.
2. [R47] 1/5 · US Everything is paywalled: Unless you’re paying for this a subscription, don’t even bother. Paywalls are around every corner and renders this app useless. Just include a subscription as part of the download price at this point lol
3. [R89] 5/5 · US Trash: If you want to read more on an. Article you need to pay up homie lol
4. [R41] 1/5 · US Keeps asking me to subscribe: I’ve been paying for a subscription but it only shows me free content a couple of times then only shows me a subscribe screen. I’ve synced the subscription multiple times but doesn’t work. Ive deleted the app and reinstalled… nothing. I’ve reached out to customer support multiple times, no response. App is a joke at this point and they are taking my money and showing
5. [R52] 1/5 · US App is not functional: Subscription via Apple and every time I access an article it forces me to login again without giving me access to the article. The app is non-functional
6. [R18] 1/5 · US Poly market ads: Get rid of them. I pay for a subscription, I don’t need to see gambling ads here as well
7. [R75] 3/5 · US Love the WSJ, don’t love Ads.: I am disappointed that the app has ads, even when offline. I am a paying member of the Wall Street journal, and I don’t find it respectable that you guys choose to have banner ads in app.
8. [R68] 3/5 · US Buggy, Ad-filled mess: The user experience and navigation have gone backwards over the past year. The issue is that there are now so many interspersed and slow loading ad blocks in each digital article that the app freezes, and causes my iPhone to overheat. True even on my 1 Gig wifi link. We get it - news is a business that requires ad revenue, but not at the expense of degrading the product.
9. [R33] 1/5 · US I'm paying $22.90 for Marketwatch and another $5.95 for the WSJ. That's very expensive!: Why do i need two different subscriptions? I thought i was getting both + IBD + Barons! Please contact me!!
10. [R56] 3/5 · US Over Priced/Dwindling Quality: As a long term subscriber, I grow increasingly disappointed. The overall quality of journalism is flagging under the weight of obvious political bias. The headlines read just like the click bait on most social media platforms. Jason Gay (sports writer) has my subscription hanging on by a thin thread!
11. [R39] 5/5 · US A rare find these days.: Really strong reporting. In a time where media is consistently biased - WSJ is committed to reporting truth over partisanship. One of the few outlets that seems to have found a way report the news, verify sources, and callout both left and right extremism. Opinion pieces are present, but clearly called out as such. We need more of this and less brands that push for engage
12. [R42] 4/5 · US Amazing Journalism: I have been subscribed to WSJ for years and I am a huge supporter of their work. Detailed, clear and comprehensive journalism and this app does a great job presenting it. The only thing that is preventing me from giving 5 stars is that I wish the articles were available for me to read in Spanish. Why are English and Japanese the only languages? Please make Spanish available, I
13. [R273] 5/5 · GB Real news, well written and timely: It’s just great to have a clear honest view.
14. [R278] 5/5 · GB WSJ is the best: The WSJ newspaper is a world-class winner. It gives unbiased reporting of world events
15. [R298] 5/5 · GB unbiased journalism: Worth every penny 👌
16. [R303] 5/5 · GB Retired surveyor: Excellent tells me what I want to know without being biased (this is from a uk perspective) Keep up the good work as what happens in US arrives in U.K. in months and years later and is a good indicator of what to expect from our friends across the the pond!!! Many Thanks Retired Surveyor with an eye on US!! Ray Lee
17. [R84] 4/5 · US Great content, but drains battery: I find the content and writing is top-notch, the app UI is intuitive and easy to use, catering to those who prefer both blog style with most recent news appearing at top as well as broadsheet like the print edition. Another plus: the ads are low-key unlike other news apps. Starting a few months ago though I’ve noticed the WSJ app seriously drains my battery. I’d
18. [R124] 5/5 · US Update made my WSJ app more readable: Live the update, it is more readable and clean , the new fonts are great to read for long time. Also the way live updates shows up for markets and economics and stocks is nicely displayed in Home Screen. Great work WSJ.
19. [R176] 4/5 · US Good Design; crashes often: Good layout, easy to look for articles. But the app itself crashes pretty often and needs to be reloaded.
20. [R251] 5/5 · GB Great UI: I liked new WSJ+ concept and finally comment sections on the app
21. [R36] 4/5 · US Please Add Playback Speed Option To Audio: Love the app, love your reporting. Love listening to articles. Please add an option to adjust audio playback speed and make it so my selection is saved so I don’t have to set it for each article. Keep up the great work
22. [R115] 5/5 · US Like the app, want speed control on audio: The app is great minus one feature I really really want. Include faster audio speaking. Up to 3x minimum
23. [R280] 5/5 · GB Always On The Money: Don’t think about subscribing, just do it, you’ll never regret it! Insightful News coverage, thoughtful editorials and the superb facility of having the stories actually read themselves, what’s not to like?
24. [R34] 2/5 · US Power drain: The WSJ content is terrific, but the app is terrible. It makes my phone hot and quickly drains the battery. They need to fix the app so that it works like it used to
25. [R57] 1/5 · US Drains battery: I like the content and thus choose to tolerate the app. It is a battery HOG. Uses twice as much juice as video calls. Last night my battery declined by 50% in just an hour. Pretty much the only usable way is to download an edition and turn off network while reading. Then kill the app before it destroys your charge.
26. [R10] 3/5 · US So-called issue download doesn’t work: I tried to download the most recent issue before getting on a plane (which had no WiFi), but the so-called download let me read only about half the articles. Half the articles only showed an error message that I needed to have internet access. A far superior download capability was eliminated when the WSJ app was overhauled a couple of years ago. Pleas
27. [R26] 1/5 · US APP needs serious work: Content top notch, but the app is serious bad. 1. When I open an article, even if the content has been downloaded before, without internet connection it still refuses to load. This is terrible - internet connectivity should not affect article viewing for the articles that were already downloaded. 2. Offline mode is buggy. Today is May 10, 2026. When I am on a subway, th
28. [R58] 1/5 · US Serious lack of engineering excellence: iMessage thumbnail still doesn’t work. Can’t swipe from edge to go back. No caching, can’t read on subway. Who knows a text reading app can be so bad.
29. [R105] 3/5 · US Freezing while scrolling since recent updates: Since the last update, the app freezes while scrolling. Previously it seemed to preload content allowing for even offline reading. The previous architecture was better and never froze.
30. [R9] 3/5 · US no comments: I don’t get why this app doesn’t let you leave comments, only on the website. It’s 2024, how hard can it be to add such a basic feature to the app?
31. [R11] 5/5 · US They solved the comments issue: They finally solved seeing comments in the app. Thank goodness.
32. [R24] 4/5 · US Comments?: It’s a great read, these days, but I have to use the mobile site rather than the app because the app, inexplicably in 2026, doesn’t show reader comments.
33. [R40] 3/5 · US Can’t comment: Can’t comment or view comments on iPhone
34. [R1] 3/5 · US Crossword update: Please revert to the prior crossword format. The new format took away the ability to easily navigate to the next clue, and replaced it with a clunky interface with small arrows requiring very precise touch points. Also allow the iPad native keyboard to be utilized. It is cumbersome to have to use a WSJ developed keyboard just to complete the crossword. Also, all crosswords now di
35. [R4] 2/5 · US Crossword fan: You broke the crossword with the recent update. The keyboard is not ergonomic on iPad, clues bizarrely jump around when inputting letters and the clue being answered no longer appears as a separate line. Please fix or revert to the previous iteration.
36. [R12] 1/5 · US Please fix the Crossword puzzle!: Not sure what happened, but it’s a mess now. Put it back to the previous iteration…from a few days ago so the iOS keyboard can be used and we can preview letters, words etc. Other aspects of the app are fine.
37. [R13] 1/5 · US Crosswords are terrible!: What have you done to the Crossword section? In landscape, the print is so tiny I can barely see it. In portrait, I can’t see across and down clues at the same time. My completed puzzles don’t stay in the App so I can’t tell which puzzle I did last. Please change it back.