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Application record · ID 284862083

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NYTimes: US and Global News

by The New York Times Company · News · Free

Average rating
4.8
741.4K ratings
Ratings
741.4K
On store since
2019
7 yrs 186 d
Languages
1
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Analyst summary

Last verified 4 Aug 2026

NYTimes: US and Global News is a News application published by The New York Times Company. It holds a 4.8-star average across 741,380 public ratings.

It is actively maintained: the most recent update we observed shipped 3 Aug 2026. The listing has been on the store for 7 yrs 186 d.

On the listing it is a 198 MB download, runs on iPhone 5s and newer · iPad.

A summary of the measured figures recorded on this page, kept current as the numbers change.
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Position in category

Each bar shows where NYTimes: US and Global News sits in the distribution of News apps we track. Percentiles are computed over apps with the field observed, not the whole category.

Rating volume 99th pct.
Average rating 88th pct.
Download size 96th pct.
Price 5th pct.

Distribution computed with the category report · Full category report

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Review intelligence

High confidence

Users are frustrated with recent app changes, especially to the 'You' tab, and report significant performance issues like slowness and freezing.

Computed from 188 public reviews, 8 Jul 2026–8 Aug 2026 · 152 in the last 30 days. Sentiment and themes are model-derived from the review text, not categories we imposed.

app changes Negative · 23
performance Negative · 15
content access Negative · 10
user interface Negative · 7
advertising Negative · 4
In users’ words · verbatim public App Store reviews, unedited
★★★★★
Doom scrolling is a choice
I read on my phone often. Having access to the NYT gives me an eclectic look at everything!
Suekash123 · v11.86.1 · 7 Aug 2026
★☆☆☆☆
Great company. Terrible app
I love the NYT but their app has gone from usable to terrible. Currently the nyt subscription nags all the time to upgrade to family plan if you have multiple devices and now recently it has become unusable wanting to set a cookie and the failing to do that.
Uhev1746-- · v11.86.1 · 8 Aug 2026

Trajectory: declining · recomputed when new reviews arrive · limitations

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Health timeline

A dated record of what has actually happened to this app — launch, updates, price moves and record-board milestones. Every point is a stored observation, never an estimate.

Daily rating & price tracking began 9 Aug 2026; the growth curve fills in here as observations accrue.

  1. 3 Aug 2026 Update Updated to v11.86.0 The most recent version we observed on the listing.
  2. 13 Jul 2026 Board Entered News Kings Best position observed: #8.
  3. 31 Jan 2019 Launch Launched on the App Store Original release date stated on the listing.

Dates are read from the listing and from our own daily observations; the rating curve accrues going forward. How we track.

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Listing & advisories

Download size

198 MB

Minimum iOS

18.0

Devices supported

iPhone 5s and newer · iPad

Age rating

12+

Advisories

Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity · Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence · Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References · Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes · Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information · Infrequent/Mild Contests

Screenshots

10 on the listing

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Screenshots are hotlinked from the public store listing and belong to the publisher.

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Rankings this app appears on

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Peer set

Peers are well-rated apps in News, selected by category and rating — not by similarity of description, so the comparison is like-for-like on scale.

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NYTimes: US and Global News 4.8 741.4K Free
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Questions this record can answer

How was every figure on this page produced?

Each figure is read from public App Store metadata or computed from it, dated to when we read it, and traceable to a stored row. Percentiles, cadence, longevity and sentiment are derived by us; ratings, prices, sizes and dates are taken as the store reports them.

Why can the star average and recent opinion disagree?

The star average is cumulative over the app’s whole life, so recent opinion barely moves it. Any sentiment figure we compute reads only recent review text, which is why it turns first. Treat a divergence as an early indicator, not a verdict.

What can this page not tell you?

Downloads, revenue, active users, subscription pricing inside the app, and anything about security or data handling. None of those are visible in public store metadata, so we do not estimate them.

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Provenance

Source
Public App Store listing metadata and public customer reviews.
Collection window
Last read 4 Aug 2026. Listing re-read daily; reviews re-read on a slower cadence.
Derived figures
Percentiles, update cadence, longevity and sentiment are computed by us, not supplied by the store.
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