The Scotsman for Android
The app features the following content sections, all free to read and updated throughout the day:
News - from politics, education, and health news to celebrity news and obituaries
Sport - all the sport from Scotland including rugby, golf, and the latest from the Scottish Premiership, Championship and lower leagues
Business - all the latest business news including company news, markets, and management
Lifestyle - everything from gadgets and gaming to travel, wellbeing and motoring
Heritage - historic events, people and places, and much more about the glorious heritage of Scotland
We Know Scotland - the latest facts, figures and analysis about Scotland
Future Scotland - features on the people and businesses shaping technology and innovation
Giving Back - looking into the people, companies and charities giving back to their community.
We’ll also be sending you updates via push notifications throughout the day.
All brought to you by The Scotsman, Scotland’s national newspaper.
Search for The Scotsman Newspaper app if you want to read full editions of the daily newspaper, and weekly editions of Scotland on Sunday, all brought to you in pristine clarity and updated early each morning.
The app is very slow and still has a lot of bugs (not all articles open when you select them), plus I don't understand why there is so much sports content - is there nothing else to report on in Scotland???
Hah! First time I used it I got repeated messages - "The Scotsman is not responding". Uninstalled. Can't be bothered with that kind of nonsense.
This app is full of old news. 3 or 4 days old. Don't bother.
Shame such good journalism is wasted by this clunky, still in development app that feels and looks ten years old. One to miss.
Despite multiple attempts, the app wouldn't actually start in the first place. Using a Nexus 9.
News and features
In principle this is a decent, albeit basic, app; in practice however it is immensely frustrating to use: it's often very slow to respond and is extremely prone to crashing. It's probably still the best source of serious Scottish news coverage available but that's not saying much to be frank. It would be nice to have some extra features added to make this app more interactive (e.g. customisable homepage, access to article comments etc.) but in the meantime I'd settle for them getting the basics in order.
I initially liked this app and would have given it a 4, but more or less since I installed it, it almost always fails to load. I have tried reinstalling, but the same thing happens on both Android devices I use. This makes me think it's not just me. If they fix this I'll up my rating, but an app that works so rarely doesn't deserve more than 2 stars. Looks pretty good and more than happy when it does work.
Just went and got my first android phone and was excited to download this app after having an enjoyable experience on my iphone. I am highly disappointed to not see the Scottish Independence category like iphone version has. This was one of my biggest reasons for reading the Scotsman.
Loving it in every way.
Keep up the good work!!
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A very slow app - often completely unresponsive and sometimes crashes. Also, why does football have to dominate the home/default page? I can't see any way to customise it.