Financial Times: Business News App Reviews

Please implement dark mode

Exceptional writers, provocative thoughts

I like reading the articles but the app is very unreliable. On iOS 16 I get a blank pink screen frequently until I reboot my phone. Don’t know another news app this buggy. This is an old problem that never seems to go away. The horizontally scrolling stories are a nuisance.

I hope President Trump reads the FT every morning as I have done in the past 40 years. It is one of the world’s top newspapers and source of well researched and insightful articles as well as intelligent and rational reporting.

I liked having icons a la stories at the top of the screen for topics I followed. Not sure why that was removed but it’s a negative change

The font needs to be bigger.

I am a big fan of the digital FT and its podcasts. But in the last month or so the speed of the podcasts has been increased to the point that it is hard to listen and follow.

A wise person once told me that WSJ and FT contain 90% of the same information, but it’s FT’s additional 10% that makes all of the difference. This is completely true and alone justifies the premium price. I made the switch after 18 years of WSJ and am not looking back.

I read Economist, NYT, WSJ, Washington Post, and others. The Financial Times consistently delivers the most comprehensive coverage of US and global news while also covering arts & culture topics each day. A gem of a news resource and my daily “go-to” source. Unbiased and factual. Wonderful journalism

The personalised feed could be further refined I am still getting a whole bunch of articles that are useless for what I am using FT.

App is terrific because you can select which section you prefer the app to open on, and can also follow journalists and topics of your choosing. Best of all, you can follow newsletters as well, so you can read them directly in the app without needing to clutter your inbox. FT journalism has the best unbiased reporting, best use of language for depth of understand but ease of reading, and truly the best newsletters you can possibly find.

Financial Times is worth subscribing to. They simply have excellent news articles, lifestyle coverage and opinion pieces. Their app is also fantastic. As a subscriber I can only praise their content and media. Worth every cent! A+

The iPad version of the app is going blank quite often. One has to reinstall the app to have access to the content. Considering the premium price the FT is charging, this is really not acceptable. I just hope they fix it once for all. Nothing like this happens with the apps from other leading news organisations.

$719/yr subscription has multiple ads per article.

For some reason, whenever you click any FT link or open an FT article from outside the app, it will open up in your browser and never in the app. WSJ, NYT apps do not do this—they will conveniently open the article up in the app where you’re logged in and not paywalled. Also, the app’s search functionality is terrible. So when I click on an FT link from outside and it opens up, paywalled, in the browser, I often open up the FT app to search for the article. But I type in the headline word for wo