“The app crashes continually, and half the content is behind a paywall. It uses as much data as a streaming service. I don't watch the videos; it still uses 12 GB per month. All the ads use up your data, and monopolise your bandwidth so…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 407 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
Daily Mail: Breaking News
Daily Mail OnlineThe new and revamped Daily Mail app gives you everything you expect and love…
3.8 ★127,952 ratings
5M+Downloads
9+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
The new and revamped Daily Mail app gives you everything you expect and love from the world’s largest English-language newspaper website, and more, with new features and a refreshed design.
Feed your daily addiction with stories & photos from all our top channels: US & World News, Celebrity, TV, Showbiz, Sports, Femail, Science & Tech, Health, Money, Travel, and many more, with quick, easy, and free access on your phone or tablet – even offline.
Enjoy unlimited access to DailyMail.com and unlock even more of the brilliant journalism the Daily Mail is famous for with a DailyMail+ subscription. More world-beating showbiz and royal exclusives. More agenda-setting investigations. More astonishing real-life stories. More expert health, money and travel advice as well as more hard-hitting opinions from our unrivaled line-up of columnists.
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Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 8.1.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 8.1.0, updated 2026-09-25.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
3 or more themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
Under 65% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 3
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 8 distinct reviewers (2.0% of 407 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 16 distinct reviewers (3.9% of 407 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Hard to cancel
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Hard to cancel: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 407 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“I used to like the Daily Mail because they broke the news first. The articles were littered with typos and poorly formatted graphics. I overlooked these issues because they were funny. Now, almost every article that's pushed is behind a…”
“it's now little.more than an advertising blurb with a few news stories....and lots of stories you now have to pay for.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 8.1.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.