Appworthy
App Store
Version 4.2.0 · 2026-10-06
Performance improvements and bug fixes
App Store rating4.7★230 ratings
PriceFreeIn-app $3.99–$139.99
Age9+Store age rating
Size22 MBiPhone download
CategoryLifestyle
DeveloperNS Media Group Limited
What we found
Full reportToo little checked to say Store information only. We haven’t analysed this app or read its reviews yet.
Money
- Free to download · in-app purchases $3.99–$139.99 (10 listed, the most the App Store shows). Monthly plan $11.49 (about $138 a year); yearly plan $139.99. The other purchases’ names don’t say how often they bill.
- If you subscribe through the store, cancel in iPhone Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Deleting the app doesn’t cancel a subscription.
Not yet tested.
The store currently lists version 4.2.0, updated 2026-10-06.
Preview
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
About this app
The New Statesman offers you independent, reflective, progressive, award-winning journalism, the best political reporting, and the finest literary and cultural essays from your favourite NS writers such as Stephen Bush, Adam Tooze, Sophie McBain, Tracey Thorn, Ailbhe Rea and the rest of the team.
Single issues of the magazine can be downloaded through the app (£3.99), whilst monthly (£9.99) and annual (£129.99) auto-renewable subscriptions are also available.
Alternatively, direct subscribers may log in using their customer email address to enjoy the digital version of the New Statesman.
**Important notes on auto-renewals**
. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account on confirmation of purchase.
. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the existing period.
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From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The full report
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings and evidence
Not yet tested. No analysis has been published for this app. A missing label is not a clean bill of health.
What reviewers report
No review analysis published for this app.
Measurements
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
From store data and reviews
Developer replies to reviews
Not assessed
Fewer than 50 reviews scanned — too few to state a rate
Price in the store description
The store description lists a price and how often it bills
Cancelling, in the store description
The store description says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
Not assessed
This app's reviews have not been assessed yet
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the app 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, not a finding.
Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
How we know
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
Versions and dates analysed
Not yet tested. No analysis has been run for this app, so there is no version or date to report.
Store update history
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
Assessment record
- Status
- Not yet tested
- App identifier
new-statesman-magazine- Sources used
- None recorded
- Reviews read
- None recorded
- Package examined
- No package scan
- Human inspection
- Not completed
How we know
- Measurement vocabulary
- 1.4
Store facts
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
App Store
- Store rating
- 4.69 ★ · 230 ratings
- Version
- 4.2.0
- Updated
- 6 Oct 2026
- Price
- Free · In-app purchases
- Age rating
- 9+
- Size
- 22 MB
- Developer
- NS Media Group Limited
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Listing price
- Free · In-app purchases
Purchases the store lists
What this app sells
From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.
Subscriptions4
Monthly SubscriptionMonthly$11.49
Annual SubscriptionYearly$139.99
New Statesman SubscriptionTerm not stated$9.99
New Statesman SubscriptionTerm not stated$99.99
Show 6 more purchases we couldn’t categorise
These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.
New Statesman Magazine 25-31st October 2013Term not stated$4.99
New Statesman Magazine 29th May - 4th June 2015Term not stated$3.99
New Statesman Magazine 1st - 7th November 2013Term not stated$4.99
New Statesman Magazine 1st - 7th July 2016Term not stated$3.99
New Statesman Magazine 8th - 14th July 2016Term not stated$3.99
New Statesman Magazine 28th April - 4th May 2016Term not stated$3.99
This list is cut off. Apple shows at most 10 in-app purchases, and this app is at the limit — so it very likely sells more than we can see.
Method and limits
What a missing label means
Not yet tested. No analysis has been published for this app, so there is no method to describe for it yet. A missing label is not a clean bill of health: it means nothing has been read, not that nothing is wrong.
Limits of this report
- A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
- Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
- Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
- A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A human review gives an app hands-on, recorded measurements. None has been run for this app. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.
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