2023-10-08
No longer worth it
Used to be a great app. Now it is unusable and annoying. (Oct 2023)
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Description
The brand-new Jerusalem Post mobile app is the most comprehensive, accurate, and content-rich source of news from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World!
Here are just a few of the many features of our new app:
Brand-new UX layout for ease of use
Improved push notifications for Breaking News/Article Linked Push Notification
Convenient sharing capabilities
Frequent updates to ensure the latest news is always at your disposal
Commenting
Bookmarking (Online and Offline Capability)
Swipe Navigation for Article and Section Views
Continued Improvement to Load Time and Stability
Support for iOS 8
Connect to our $5 Premium Plus subscription to receive exclusive content and an ad-free browsing experience. The service will automatically renew each month unless you choose to cancel it.
Send your comments, questions, and suggestions to support@jpost.com
Our terms of service: https://www.jpost.com/landedpages/termsofservice.aspx
What's New in Version 7.7.6
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Jerusalem Post
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Categories
Version
7.7.6
Size
79.3 MB
Game Center
No
VPP Device Licensing
Yes
Rating
Rated: 4+
Compatibility
iOS 9.0 or later
Devices
iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone SE (3rd generation), iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPad 2 (Wi-Fi), iPad 2 (3G), iPad (3rd Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad (3rd Generation) (4G), iPad (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad (4th Generation) (4G), iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air, iPad Air (Cellular), iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (Wi-Fi), iPad mini (4G), iPad mini Retina, iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 (Cellular), iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi + Cellular), iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (9th Generation), iPad (9th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (6th Generation), iPad mini (6th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (5th generation), iPad Air (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (10th generation), iPad (10th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPod touch (5th generation), iPod touch (6th Generation), iPod touch (7th generation), Apple Watch Series 4, Apple Watch Series 5, Apple Watch Series 6 (GPS), Apple Watch Series 6 (GPS + Cellular), Apple Watch Series SE (GPS), Apple Watch Series SE (GPS + Cellular), Apple Watch Series 7 (GPS), Apple Watch Series 7 (GPS + Cellular), Apple Watch Series 8 (GPS), Apple Watch Series 8 (GPS + Cellular), Apple Watch SE (2nd generation) (GPS), Apple Watch SE (2nd generation) (GPS + Cellular), Apple Watch Ultra, Apple Watch Series 9 (GPS), Apple Watch Series 9 (GPS + Cellular), Apple Watch Ultra 2
Languages
English
App Store: Customer Ratings
Ratings & Reviews
2.0 of 5 (168 Ratings)
App Store: Customer Reviews
2023-10-07
Can’t close ad!
It would be helpful if you could reposition the X to close the ad when you open the app. Can’t click on it so your app is useless.
2023-10-07
Useless news app
The app is basically blocked by all the advertisements which start when I try to open the app and can’t X them out.
2023-10-07
jpost
i cant open this app in the apple store! Temu is hijacking it repeatedly!
2023-10-06
This app is now currently unusable
It is hitting you with an ad the moment you open the app, and it is impossible to exit the ad to get to the news. I already tried uninstalling and reinstalling. This isn’t the first time you’ve had the problem, and it was fixed for a while, but now it’s worse than it ever was. You might as well not even have it if you can’t fix this problem.
Again, this app is currently essentially inactive with an ad that is impossible to get out of.
2023-09-21
JPost continues to not address complaints
For quite a while, people have been complaining that the ads presented by Jpost do not allow an exit. The “X“ which is used to close the ad is not accessible because it is too close to the corner.
I have decided that from now on, any day that I open Jpost and am unable to close the presented ad, I will leave Jpost and not try to access it for another day.
Jpost will not receive ad revenue from me, because of multiple attempts to bypass their ad.
I encourage others to do the same, and encourage you to post that here in the comments.
2023-08-28
Hard to use
While I really appreciate Jpost and the news they report, their app is extremely difficult to use.
Trying to find specific articles in the app is extremely hard, as they’re all over the place in many different folders, and they’re not organized logically. The main feed page doesn’t display every article either, and it does it in a very confusing way.
Trying to change anything about your personal account is near impossible as they don’t have an option to edit your settings.
And finally the reason I’m writing this review is that Jpost has started using ads that won’t close on an iPhone. The little x button at the top is so far near the top that it’s impossible to press, making it so that I can’t even get into the app so that it’s pretty much useless.
Jpost please fix this!
2023-06-22
An Inconvenient Truth
Having subscribed to the so-called “Premium Edition “ at the going rate of $4.99 per month, the JPost app refuses to recognize my subscription when I open it on my iPhone. I am forced to cancel whatever ad immediately appears (though I thought not having advertising was the whole point of the so-called “Premium Edition”) and go back to the page inviting subscriptions to the Premium Access and press a button which has obviously been placed at the bottom to force me to “Restore Purchase”. I have no other subscription through the App Store that does not recognize me as a paying customer. This is a pretty intolerable way of forcing me to see a few ads no matter what I have paid. Or else you have some pretty lousy software engineers. How about playing it straight with subscribers?
2023-05-25
Lame app
It’s hard to believe that in this day and age the JP has such a lame app. Why don’t they invest in an app for the 21st century. The take over ads are usually broken so you can’t even X out of it and you have to open and close the app multiple times to close the app and read the news. They also need to hire people who know how to spell and write in English.
2022-05-21
Constantly logs out
Each time I open app I have to login for my premium access. Extremely frustrating and the only one of my news apps I have to do this.
2022-05-18
Block
I keep getting blocked by the same ad and spend a lot of time trying to post your remark the refuses to let you use the nickname you had chosen
2022-03-29
The ads upon opening can’t be closed!!!!
I like the content but the ads make me despise the owners of this app. The ads upon opening typically can’t be closed & the (x) is strategically placed so that it can’t be clicked. Your forced to close the app or click on the link within the ad. That is infuriating and a horrible way to run a business!!!!
2022-03-28
THE MOST ANNOYING APP EVER
THE MOST ANNOYING APP IN THE WORLD!!!! TOO MANY ADS... WAY TOO OFTEN!!! 90% of the time, clicking the X to either does NOT close the Ads, takes you to the download anyway!!!
2022-03-24
Stuck on Ad
Ads which can’t be closed for a given period of time are annoying but I can live with that. But I have recently gotten full-page ads with an X in the corner that doesn’t work. I am uninstalling.
2022-03-23
App good ads bad
I am literally unable to access the contents of the app because the close button for the ads are on top of the battery icon every time I open the app. Otherwise it was a great app before the ads filled the entire screen.
2022-03-22
Ads are terrible
An add pops up as soon as I launch the app and the X is in the top right under my battery icon so I cannot press it! The “launch” button is just below that so I keep opening the ad! This is annoying enough to make me delete the app overall.
2022-03-21
Locked out by Ads
Unable to access for past weeks because pop up adds do not “X” out. Pressing the delete X does absolutely nothing, and readers are locked out of accessing the paper.
2022-03-15
1 bug
This is almost a 5 star app. The only current problem is when certain ads are shown. These ads put the X button (to close the ad) up in the extreme top-right of the screen, where the clock is. This part of the display does not react to touches, so you have to just close the app and start over - and hope you don’t get the same ad again.
Please correct this one small thing.
2022-03-11
Need to Fix the Bugs!!!!!
Love the news content. Hate the ads. Lately when I click a notification I am taken to the story and then greeted with a full page pop up ad that won’t disappear because the X is too high up in the corner to close it. Now whenever I open the app, it takes me back to the same full page ad. I have uninstalled and reinstalled a few times and no difference. Deleting the app for good now.
2022-03-11
Broken
FIX THESE ADS THIS APP IS LITERALLY UNUSABLE
2022-03-10
Latest version hijacks phone
The latest version on iPhone displays an ad and won’t go past it to the news content. I deleted the app and downloaded it again, and a different ad behaved the same way. iPad app seems fine but iPhone version is disastrous.
2022-03-10
Something isn’t right…
I don’t know what’s going on with the app but when I open it the only thing showing is some advert for an app called XE or something like that to send global money transfers. I even deleted and redownloaded it and it still shows the same thing. No articles no other content, just this weird advert. What is going on with that??
2022-03-07
Crap ads can't close
Was good but now add open and can't close.
Do not use!!!!
2022-02-07
content is unavailable
When you click on the app icon, advertisements pop up and block content entirely. Even removing the app and reinstalling it doesn’t help. It is impossible to use. Can developers do something about it? This is simply pathetic!
Does the editorial board not care that the JP content is inaccessible?
2022-02-06
Unusable because of ads
Literally unusable due to most intrusive ads I’ve ever seen. Ads open at the start and cannot be closed. Unfortunately this app will sink fast.
2022-02-05
Gone bad
The app used to be good but now has a crap game you can’t get past. Will get my news elsewhere
2022-02-04
Ads can’t be closed
The newest upgrade of this app has ads that once they run can’t be closed because of the location of the “x.” No longer reading the JPost because of this.
2022-02-03
JPost
Has tons of information, but if you want to forward an article to a friend, you are out of luck. It doesn’t work, and sending an email to the publisher was a waste of time. All I got back was gibberish.
2022-01-30
Goofy ads won’t let me get into news
I’ve noticed some ads that come on just after I’ve logged into your site will not quit no matter how many times I click on the small x.
When this happens I move on to another site in this case Debka
2022-01-25
Too many annoying ads
I can’t get past the ads on this app. I have to close it out every time because they place the “x” for the ad in the corner where the clock is. Now the ads play music and EVEN when I close the app, the annoying music continues to play until I manually shut down the app. I think it is time for a new news outlet.
2022-01-23
Ads, Ads, Ads!!!
There are so many ads on this newspaper most of the time it gets unbearable to read articles because the ads cover the page and sometimes there is no way to close out of them so you have to exit out of the app and reboot it. This is awful, they should be putting only in page ads within their articles and none of this nonsense. No other reputable newspaper does this. Either paywall JPost or get rid of the full screen ads, this is disgraceful!
2022-01-22
Scam
The app will open with a scam add that offers 75 dollars gift card and there IS NO WAY to close the add and go to the app, in iPhone XR
2022-01-19
Fix Your Glitches
First the problem was when I clicked on a notification it would just take me to the Home Page instead of the actual article. Now when I click on the notification it takes me to the article and then an add pops up that I can’t click out of because the X is too high in the right-hand corner. I give up. Major fail. Do better and I’ll come back.
2022-01-16
Ads Ruin the App
I have had this app installed on my phone for maybe 6 months. It has always had ads during that time. At first they could be quickly closed. Then, starting maybe October or November (2021) the ads could not be closed for a about 5 seconds. Fine! But recently (early 2022), the ads have sounds and the “X” to close the ad does not work. After 10 - 15 seconds ad still covers entire screen. I am uninstalling.
2022-01-16
Glitches in ads make app almost unusable
Would be 5 stars but very difficult to use because of the way ads interfere with reading the news. Many ads can’t be dismissed. Ever.
2022-01-15
Never seen so much spam advertisement in a news app
Keep closing and restarting the app just to get out of the spam advertisements. At times it’s impossible to close the advertisement, which seems to be intentional.
2021-12-21
Issues, issues, issues
I very much like the content and reading the stories, however numerous updates have been made to the app and now I only get stuck on pages of ads, don’t let me get through to the stories or I click on the stories and I get nothing. This is pushing me to go to other sources for news. Whoever is updating this app needs to be fired and bring someone in who knows what they’re doing and allow your readers access to the content
2021-12-19
The most ad annoying app
Ads are so annoying and never ending
2021-12-11
Ad Implementation Ruins App
Whoever designed your ad implementation should be fired. Blocks screen, incompatibility or near incompatibility with curved edges of iPhone screen, making it near impossible to close ads and thus make the app useless:
Did nobody test this? Deleting the app for good.
2021-12-09
Very annoying comercials
The content is ok, although one would expect a lot more news from the entire region not only Israel and USA. The main problem by far is the super annoying pop-up comercials that makes it hard and cumbersome to navigate thd app and to enjoy it. It’s a real shame that the creators of this app allow so much crap taking over. I’m very, very dissapointed and I’m strongly considering deleting the app altogether if you guys don’t change something.
2021-12-03
Yes, annoying ads
I wanted to see what the app had to offer but was completely put off by the irremovable ads. Why bother?
2021-11-21
Ads ads and more ads - deleted it
I read the post on a browser on my phone. I fell for the ad that said “less ads” faster load. Wrong. You can’t open the app with out a full screen persistent ad, with o way to close it. Worse the ads for really cheesy garbage. I’m better off reading the post on a browser with an ad blocker running. The content is good, the amount and quality of the ads is garbage.
2021-10-18
Needs work…
News is good, ads are annoying, breaking news notices are often not tied to the story…buy a hard copy subscription & avoid all the frustration.
2021-09-27
Love JPost, but app is obnoxious
Look, the only way to really use this app (even with a premium subscription) is to keep it on at all times. Every time you close it, it logs you out…and it doesn’t save your username or password, which leads to having to painstakingly log in multiple times every day.
In addition, you get cool breaking news push notifications…but if you’re not logged in, they’re worthless and send you to ads and then the homepage.
I bought premium access because I appreciate the reporting and news of JPost. However, they need to fix this issue, because I may not stay a subscriber forever if this isn’t fixed.
2021-06-08
Annoying Ads
I wish the app would stop opening up ads on the internet while I’m scrolling through articles and reading them on the app. It’s extremely annoying.
2021-05-31
Badly designed
I have a subscription and should be able to view the daily paper without all the ad screens. Howevee I can’t access the Premium page as doing so crashes my phone
2021-03-04
Sad! Good app killer by add
Painfully painful to use this app with all the ads and no way x it out at a minimum.
2021-02-26
Horrible Ads take over your phone
ads suddenly take over your phone at high audio volume. Super bad. this severely limits my use of this app.
After using this app for some years I finally deleted it. Horrible!!
2021-02-17
The New Format 😱
This was a great app but they recently changed the format so now it’s basically unreadable on the iPhone 12 PRO
2021-02-14
Worst layout ever
It was a great app... not anymore. new layout is very bad, lived the old one, hate this new one. I shall not use it again. i24news MUCH better
2020-10-07
App is great but the ads are insufferable
Every new page I have to sit through some dumb ad it’s horrible
2020-08-16
No search function, no subscription option
For reasons that remain a mystery, the Jerusalem Post has 2 different apps. This one shows full-screen ads that can’t be skipped and stay on-screen for some fixed period of time. Want to pay and skip the ads? Sorry, there’s no way to do that in this app!
Also, I never imagined a news publisher would release an app with no search function, but here it is! Want to search for stories about the Abraham Accord between Israel and the UAE? Stories about Netanyahu? Tourism? Israeli film? Too bad: “NO SEARCH FOR YOU!”
2020-06-05
Sad
I love Jerusalem Post and I’m excited they decided to send more notifications. Sadly, clicking on the notification takes me to the home page, where the specific article can’t be found.
There are too many spam commercials that destroy the experience completely and there is no actual X button, so you click in an empty space and hope you’re not redirecting to a ransom/spam site.
its 2020 Wake up, start up nation.
2020-04-12
DONT pay!
Hate that I can’t stop the charges to my account for the add free version that I don’t get !!! But love the paper
I signed up for the paid version to not be bothered by cheep 20 sec add’s and having to hit x close after 10 sec count down
My account is being charged and app still has all the f...n add’s still!!!
Love the paper
hate that I can’t stop the charges to my account
2020-03-07
What happened to the notifications?
I’ve ever received the JPost notifications, but since december I’ve got the iphone 11Pro and it is not working.
2020-01-12
Headlines and nothing more
There is no substance, no deep information to any of their news stories. They tell you what, when and sometimes who, but that’s it. It’s like news for 15-year-olds with short attention spans who only want to say, “did you hear what happened?” Read other news sources, you’ll do yourself a favor.
2019-12-26
The app works sporadically
I get a JPost notification and more often than not get a blank screen when I click on it. If you’re using the latest version of iOS expect to have all kinds of problems.
2019-10-31
Great news, dozens of notifications
JPost has great articles and coverage of Israeli and Middle Eastern news. However, this app send WAY too many push notifications. I regularly wake up in the US with more than a dozen notifications. It seems like every time someone writes an article, they send a push notification. That number should be limited to, at most, 2-3 per day (1-2 would be better).
2019-07-13
Adequate
This is the only adequately functional Israeli news app I have found. The others are seriously flawed. This one has reasonable news coverage, it’s fairly stable, and load times are fast. The full-screen ads are annoying but usually brief. I wish it were easier to see how to dismiss them. The list of articles jumps up and down as ads are displayed inline, which is annoying.
Beware for those updating: the latest update wiped out all my saved bookmarks!
2019-05-05
Ads are so intrusive and obnoxious
The ads have become so bad I have deleted this trash. Better news sources. I get ads are needed but blocking everything each story for every building #'s of seconds is far beyond what I'm willing to put up with. Good riddance.
2019-03-23
Needed features
Just installed this for the first time. It runs fine on my iPhone XS Max. I have no complaints about how it runs. And the categories to the left and scroll bar on the top work great. But the Jerusalem post is more than just the latest news. What I’m looking for:
1) I’d rather pay for the app than be subject to ads;
2) I’m really looking for access to the archives, which again, would be worth paying for.
So, nice job on getting rid of bugs, of which I am only aware based on reviews. And, please offer ad-free, & archive access. Get those past editions online!
2019-01-21
Slow app
I just downloaded this app yesterday and I need to delete it. I have never seen an outlet so slowly onto my iPad. It's extremely frustrating and not worth the effort. Is not my Internet as I have a really high speed, end it is not my iPad because I have no problem watching movies on my iPad. Bad bad app. It's unbelievable with the advanced technological expertise that exists in Israel that they can't make this app work better.
2018-11-25
Good articles but app stinks
Love the articles but keep getting ads that pop up and will not go away.
The way they come up and stay makes me think it is a virus. Will no longer use this app. Although I love the paper.
2018-04-13
Great content. Terrible, terrible app.
Great paper that gets killed by a terrible app. Just like the Jpost website (another disgrace), the text is constantly moving as the intrusive ads load, making reading impossible. What a pity! I’d really enjoy reading it otherwise. You’d think that the people at Jpost would notice and make a change. Who reads newspapers on paper anymore?