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The Guardian and Observer daily edition app review: newspapers optimized for the iPad

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Introduction

If The Guardian and Observer are your go-to newspapers, then you can revolutionize your morning coffee experience by grabbing The Guardian and Observer daily edition your iPad rather than a cumbersome newspaper each morning.

Placing front and center their international reporting, commentary, award-winning sports journalism, these publications employ a unique approach to culture, sciences, the environment, and more.

This app is free to download and all the content will be available to you for a limited time period before you are required to purchase a subscription. This means, you can actually try it before you buy it.

Let's find out how subbing out your regular newspaper for this app will improve your news experience.

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The Guardian and Observer daily edition

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News Content

Each day of the week, all the content from the main sections of the Guardian and Observer newspapers will be available to you on your iPad. The Archives section will also contain publications from the previous month should you need to refer back to any articles from the past.

The Saturday special edition with the Weekend Magazine, The Guide and the Sport, Cultural Review, Travel, Family, Money, as well as Work sections will be supplemented along with the main newspaper section. Sundays will feature the Observer's news sections, Sport, New Review and Magazine.

The Observer Food and Tech Monthly magazine will each be made available to you monthly. The Quick and Cryptic puzzles published everyday along with the Saturday Prize Cryptic and the Sunday Speedy and Everyman puzzles from the Observer will also be available to keep your cognition in top form.

 

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The Guardian and Observer screenshot 1
The Guardian and Observer screenshot 1

App Features

The Guardian and Observer daily edition has been developed to fully integrate with Apple's Newsstand service, ensuring that new issues are downloaded automatically as they are published, and are waiting to be read when you open up the app.

Although you need to be connected to the Internet in order to view new articles and picture content, you can download the stories that appeal to you and view them later on, such as on a long commute or anywhere that you don't have Internet access or don't wish to use up precious and expensive 3G data.

Other awesome iPad-friendly features include embedded videos in articles, related articles, that open up in the in-app browser, full-screen photos and cartoons, and interactive graphics, making this app a totally novel way to consume news.

 

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The Guardian and Observer screenshot 2
The Guardian and Observer screenshot 2

The Guardian and Observer daily edition

Free

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Receive access to The Guardian and Observer newspapers
  • Download articles and photographs to view offline
  • Share stories via Facebook, Twitter, Instapaper, and email
  • Copy and select text or look up words using Apple’s built-in dictionary

 

Cons

  • There is nothing negative to say about this app

 

The Guardian and Observer screenshot 3
The Guardian and Observer screenshot 3

Final Words

Your morning news experience will never be the same with The Guardian and Observer daily edition as this app offers a seamless and sophisticated user experience. If you like these news sources, I would highly recommend trying out this app since it doesn't require subscription immediately upon downloading and gives you a chance to try out the awesomeness that is packed within.

 

The Guardian and Observer daily edition

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Neha Sinha

Neha has been writing and editing since 2010 and has been reviewing iOS apps since early 2014. She has lived in four different countries and loves having the world at her fingertips thanks to these awesome apps.