Reviews for The Wall Street Journal. News

I like WSJ's content, but the app itself is barely functional. Clicking on a banner notification tries to open the article in a browser instead of in the app. Clicking on an article link elsewhere also opens in a browser instead of the app. Searching by byline sometimes works and sometimes doesn't, and you can't click on a byline in an article to see what else that person has written. I am also regularly unable to find articles using the app search bar, especially newer articles.

I have had an online subscription to the WSJ for fifteen years. I'm about to drop it. With every other app on my phone, I only have to log into the app ONCE, when I set up a new phone. The WSJ app consistently and persistently forgets logins, requiring me to log in over and over again. It is very annoying and unacceptable. The FT app remembers my login -- I'm about to switch to FT full time.

Updated on 10/8/18. The app now crashes every time I try to read a story. The update just made it worse! The app stopped working for me. I'm a subscriber but after the latest update the app reports that I'm logged in but will not allow me to enter a login. I called. They say they are aware of the problem. But it's been a month and no change. Just give us the old version that worked username (email)

This app is very weak. It claims it downloads overnight and keeps 7 days of issues. However, if you try to access that without WiFi you will find that they mostly don't exist. You will need a wifi connection to get most articles and virtually all pictures. Just experienced this on an international flight. Has been an issue for multiple years and many complaints from their users but they don't want to fix it for some reason, or they don't know how.

Deceptive pricing practices. Signed up for a year at a discounted rate for their bundle, after a year the same low rate continues. A few months after the year I stopped checking and a few months after that I'm suddenly hit with a nearly 9x increase in price of $50. I get alerts on my card so I request refund within an hour of the charge and they refused.

Was a good app. The May 29 update doesn't work . It logged me out and taping log in just blinks the screen and nothing happens. Haven't been able to login since. The app is a data hog compared to other papers. Another fault is it always wants to be logged in. You can't download and read off line ex. Read during a flight is not possible without a wifi connection.

They have eliminated the option to see the full paper. None of the pricing is available. This only shows the articles and, because you don't see the full paper, I have no idea if the application provides all the articles. Considering my local paper does provide that information for well under half the annual price of the WSJ I am very disappointed. However, they solve the weird thing of making you hunt down the full article which I used to have to do before the "upgrade".

The app needs a lot of improvements. The notification links don't launch the app. Instead, keep asking to sign in to the account. At times, the app launches embedded browser and requires signing again. It's annoying and painful, especially when users don't keep the cookies and passwords stored in the browser. Daily Newspaper download, and other content is good though.

Buggie, stories often don't load or open. No other app install/reinstall/clear cache/force stop as this app. And it is required multiple times of day. Also, WSJ is militant in limiting the # of logins you can have on devices, so you are constantly having to re-login. A greedy, anti-consumer company, so they make you jump thru all sorts "verification" checks when you first subscribe. For the cost of a subscription to WSJ, you would expect much better.

Updated: Had a subscription price hike and I wasn't notified until after I was charged for the first month. No way to cancel the subscription online or in-app. Have to wait until business hours to cancel via phone call. Original: Good objective news for the most part. They did a visual redesign sometime ago that made it harder to find what you want so thats inconvenient, but not unusable.

The app is well designed and easy to use. However, I need to log-in every time I click to read an article that pops up as a notification. It's a bit dumb that a news app would require you to consistently log back on. It's like if Outlook on your phone would require you to enter your log-in every time you wanted to check an email. I'm actually considering unsubscribing to be honest.

I signed up for a three month introductory offer but was charged full price after the first month. Checked my account, Surprise! There's no billing history, or plan breakdown, or indication of upcoming payment schedule. You can't even unsubscribe online, it isn't even among the menu options, you have to google to find the phone number. Also, why send notifications for an article and not have that notification bring you to the actual article?

Overall the app is good and the content is better than most. However the subscription plan is frustrating. I subscribed for one price then one year later the price doubles and I had to call (can't cancel online) and "do the dance" and threaten to cancel. Then they offered a lower price, limited time. I am tired of have to call every year and beg.

The app is alright. It scrolls well and searching by byline goes about as well as one can hope, meaning not well at all. The gripe that led to this review is that articles have a random chance of opening not in the app, but through the in-app web browser. When this happens, there's no option to save articles and sometimes I am prompted to subscribe/login to read the article, which takes me back to the app which then opens the article online and so the article remains unread. Unacceptable.

I've been subscribed for 7 months now, I love reading the finance news and find the reporting on a higher caliber. The app can still use improvement on many fronts, for instance the way it connects to the web, some articles will just take you online which sucks, I have an app because I want an app version! The search engine is pretty inaccurate, I don't get why it won't just return any keyword, simply by c/p the headline. I should be able to find anything by searching a word or 2.

The app is fine. The reporting?Inconsistent, and as biased and needlessly inflammatory at times--like all the others. Please note, I, and many others, hate when we are forced to call a sales office to cancel, suspend, or otherwise deal with a subscription bought through the app. It serves only as an intentional barrier. As soon as I learned this was the case, I made the call and cancelled. Permanently.

this app gets you the news you need, but they could do such a better job with it. the sign in is really messed up. everytime I want to read a story on my phone, I have to sign in. if I want to read another article after finishing one, it sometimes asks me to log in all over again. I have several other apps that can manage to save my login credentials without me having to login this frequently, and I wish I could say the same about the wsj app. messages to the dev team are unhelpful.

The cost for WSJ is out-of-family high compared with other quality journalism. I expect a phenomenal app, and this one isn't it. Unhappy that I receive notifications to read articles that I've already read. That's an easy one to fix. Unhappy that I can't seem to find settings to fine-tune data usage. Something that possibly only downloads the text without photos. Or downloads article intros but I can pick and choose what to load. Happy with "today's paper" and "next article" features.

STILL haven't fixed the DAILY sign-in issue. Pretty pissed. I need to sign in on the same device nearly every day. WTH? Also, when I save an article on my phone, that action does not sync to my tablet. One of my main reasons for wanting to save the article on my phone is to read it more comfortably later on my tablet! Also, what is the point of having a share button in the app if it does not unlock the article for non-subscribers to read?

WSJ is my preferred news source, but starting a few months ago, it can't seem to regularly recognize me as a subscriber. As a result, I often have to login before reading an article that I receive email and Android-driven notices about. Articles pop up with just a paragraph or two and an annoying watermark that says content isn't available right now. However, it always is after I relog in. Tech support says to uninstall and reinstall the app, but that makes no difference.