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Permissions Required

This app may request the following permissions:

• find accounts on the device
• add or remove accounts
• read the contents of your USB storage
• modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
• view Wi-Fi connections
• view network connections
• create accounts and set passwords
• full network access
• read sync settings
• control vibration
• prevent device from sleeping
• toggle sync on and off
• read sync statistics
• receive data from Internet

Recent Reviews

A Google user

4.0★

The only thing I don't like and it is incredibly frustrating, is that if I pull up an article on Facebook, the app does not recognize me as a subscriber and it says I am out of free articles for the month. I then have to go to the app, and find the article to read instead of just clicking. I like how easy it is to pull the article off the app however. Much better than NYT.

A Google user

3.0★

The app is a fine idea and decently executed, although the dark theme interacts poorly with some headers. My issue is that saved articles often disappear while I'm reading them, which is how I'll often read them on flights with limited connectivity. I've reached out to the app team about this and they didn't have a solution. I've tried updating, re-installing, restarting, deleting chache. The error persists. Saved articles will generally stay out for 20-30 sec after I start reading them and then disappear without prompt from my saved list and kick me to the next article. It has made the app unusable for me.

Jeffrey Dunn

2.0★

Good news source, barely passable app. Offline use is very poor. I have every 'download daily/in background' option enabled, yet every time I get on an airplane, many articles say, 'connection not available.' Well, true, that's why I wanted to download the paper. Also, online or not, every time I switch apps, when i come back it loses my location. Good news source, crummy app. 2020-11-08 update No fixes appear to have been made. Was not able to read the paper during an off-grid camping trip.

Trisha

4.0★

Journalism would rate 5 stars. I was asked to review this as an APP. Displays in vertical profile only. Impossible to copy any text. No "share" or forward option other than social media that I don't care to use. Good features are the bookmarking and save for later. Photos used in the preview often disappear when reading the story, so no zooming in on pics. The post and other media should stop using euphemisms and call a lie a lie, not "misinformation."

A Google user

3.0★

Update! This only happens when pictures appear in the notifications, text-only notifications appear normally. >>>Using night mode on android pie ui. When I get notifications the preview reads normally but when I go to expand the notification to read the whole brief, the text is completely invisible. A lot of the time they put updates in the headline that haven't made it into the article they link to yet, so it's pretty useless. That said, I love The Post and hope they fix this bug soon.

A Google user

4.0★

It's one of the better newspaper apps I've used. Things can be relatively easily located, clicking on the story you want on a tablet that shows two articles next to each other, for example, brings to a larger print version of that article. This is more intuitive than most also. The menu that drops down from the upper left is well organized and leads you to a list of articles of that topic. It's shocking how many do not. The layout can vary more than one might expect though, between mobile and tablet, for example.