Al Jazeera English

5 stars for AJ content. The app, on the other hand, even though it is stable and free of costs, does show a fair bit of ads and does not allow to rotate the screen. Reading in Portrait mode is a bit of a pain, to be honest. Will keep using the browser, that allows for landscape view and blocks out the ads.

I find Al Jazeera's content to be quite good, however the app gets docked points when attempting to use it on a NVidia Shield Android TV. There is no way to use the remote control to navigate the bottom bar (Top Stories|My Feed|Watch|Browse|More ), or for that matter it's not even possible to scroll down to select a story. Using the remote from my smartphone, I can switch it to a "touchpad" style control in order to click on one of the items on the bottom bar. Please fix this!

Update 3.17.2022 Just saw that this app won't be supported after end of month! Ugh! I downloaded the new version and quickly uninstalled it, a gutted, extremely lite version that is no comparison to this app, from what I saw. I'll enjoy this one while it lasts... +++++++ My choice over BBC for world news. Doesn't seem simply only regurgitate the mainstream stories.

Basic but does most stuff ok. One HUGE glaring failure though is the inability to share a link to articles. I get a system notification for an important article, read it and decide that yes indeed, it's important.... AND WHERE IS THE SHARE URL OPTION ??? Sure I can share to Twitter, but I don't want to. I want to share it to a friend. Al Jazeera news content is good but theirs is the absolute worst news app on my phone. It's been so long that you've not fixed this so 1 star.

Usually works well, but still often freezes and will not load selected video or live feed. Requires cache or storage to be cleared for app, or a forced reset of the Sony TV. All other apps appear to be working fine on the same device

"Download Al Jazeeras new app!" So obnoxious! I downloaded it and it's not nearly as good as this version, yet you keep throwing up a whole screen ad every time I open this app to read the news. I'm just going to uninstall both if this continues...

Unique! Entertaining and informative. Love the news crew)) hats off to the editing team as well!

The app is not displaying pictures properly and its crashing lately. My guess could be for that it could be the ad for the newer Al Jazeera app. My suggetion should be to get rid of the ad for newer version of the app or update the app with a fix.

The Chromecast app is wonderful, I couldn't ask for more. The phone/tab app needs a lot of work. Overall Al Jazeera is one of the most important and best news sources available.

Why is it that the Al Jazeera app is wanting its users to update directly from the app and the new version isn't in the Google App Store? Safety First 3/19/21 If you wish to find out what is going on in the other parts of the world Al Jazeera is a great source to use along with your other foreign (non-USA) news sources. Interesting, pertinent and timely articles with journalistic integrity, unlike some.

I have the app for more than 5 years now, It never crashed. But these days as soon as I open it suddenly closes on its own. Have a look into it!

This used to be an excellent app. Unfortunately, although the content is still informative and well written, the app itself is barely functional: it crashes regularly, notifications do not take you to the page of the notification, and the app tries to force you into a new Al Jazeera app which is very poorly put together. I recommend all users just simply go to the Al Jazeera English website for the time being, until they fix or replace the app.

Used the apo for about 2 weeks. Was great. Now al of a sudden it keeps crashing. Clear cache or delete app and reinstall did not help.

Nice app but the content sometimes is found with typographical, grammatical, and factual errors. For example today, USA pulling missile batteries out of, among others, Iran? Please fix that. There is no way (or obvious, at least) for us to send a little note to bring it to their attention for the sake of correcting it and for the improvement of the entire package.

I'm a big fan of the Al Jazeera news channel. My 2-star rating is for the app only. I see that the app needs to be improved a lot. I'm citing some of the shortcomings below: * The video player doesn't have control such as speed control, CC, fullscreen options which are a must these days on mobile apps * The video player doesn't support auto-rotate option at all. It currently supports only the portrait mode, which makes the app look very outdated * The app doesn't have an archives section.

I'd happily pay monthly for an ad-free, better functioning app. Al Jazeera is one of my favorite news sources. Unfortunately, the reading experience in app is marred with bad functionality, intrusive ads, and clunky text. This frustration is what keeps me from being a daily reader. On the positive side, the ability to tune in to live video is awesome.

2 more issues: 1) Your ads are disruptive because they cause the info to move resulting in my finger touching the wrong spot and forcing me through more steps to do what I had originally intended. 2) Once I've saved an article I have to scroll from the top (beginning) all the way down to where I left off to continue. This very annoying! Your competition is doing much better! Please improve very soon!

The app has an issue with opening a different article than the one selected by the user. After reading 1 or 2 articles without issue, the app will open whatever the current "top" story is no matter which article is actually selected. The only way to read any other article is to force the app to close and re-open it. Then, after reading another article or 2, the issue happens again.

I can't get scrolling through an article without accidentally clicking an ad! I like Al Jazeera as a news agency, and the app is fairly well organized, but the ads thing is ridiculous! I hardly touch the screen and the ad pops up and I've clicked already. It just shows up out of nowhere too! So disrespectful. I will see an ad if I have to but if it just pops up last minute as I'm scrolling, it's just rude and annoying!! Also, I'm 30, so it's not like I don't know how to operate my phone...

Good source, terrible app. This app's screen formatting on my Pixel 3XL is absolute trash. It splits the screen vertically and turns headlines into unreadable columns just a few characters wide with several screens worth of scrolling space. It has been like this for months now, since the last major update. I held on for a very long time hoping there would be a fix but it seems unimportant to the developers. Very disappointing, and now no longer part of my daily news cycle. What a waste.

Great news source, widest breadth of reporting of any international news organization, often a bit MB-aligned but generally neutral. App however has several problems. News stories interface is clunky & doesn't scroll from one story to the next (The BBC app is a good example of how this should work), & the "Watch" function for live broadcasts is terrible, does not seamlessly change from split screen to full screen, is endlessly buffering and just stops after 15 mins & not moving to next segment.

It's not the ads that are a problem, it's the erratic jumping around of the app as a whole. Also, when opening a graphic it is not able to be magnified on screen using thumb and forefinger. It lacks a level of sophistication seen in other news apps such as bbc, guardian, etc. I keep it because it often contains other points of view and has stories not well or fully covered by other news apps

Terrible. I like getting news from many different sources but the app should be logical and intuitive. When I get a notification for a story I should tap that notification whenever I have time to read it and have the app take me to that story. Instead you get taken to whatever the most recent story is and good luck finding what you were hoping for.

News is good but the app works terrible. It surely needs fixes for it to work adequately. Tap a story, wrong story comes up. Tapped two different stories and up comes up the same story on Covid in India. Images are missing. Stories are repeated on the page again and again. Stories are tapped and the next story appears below it. Keep doing that and you eventually see the story you first tapped. I like to read on my tablet. Thee app is bad. Please fix it or don't put on in Google Store!

Exceptionally! The credibility of the news (coverage) is amazing. Reporting events across the whole world, without being opinionated, makes it one of the excellent news-channels! This channel has certainly evolved to be reckoned as one of the standard global channels! Their special programs, covering an in-depth analysis of myriad topics in what makes it stand out! However, a significant limitation of the app is that, there no "search" provision (icon), to look up for any specific program!

Great app. I don't like the new version that has been created to replace this in playstore. It's interface is not a good as this. Consider improving before abandoning this...

Closes now. I guess as I don't upgrade to the new app that's why. I also don't know where that app comes from. This app has enough trackers on it it's time to find a different view of the news.