Mercury v9.11.6

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About this app

Developer Description

Stay informed on the latest news and biggest stories as they happen.

The Mercury app delivers the latest news and biggest stories as they happen, from our team of award-winning journalists in Tasmania, Australia and the globe.

Get a read on today with our breadth of content, award-winning journalism and trusted local perspectives. We are proud to tell the incredible stories every hour of every day with The Mercury app.

Subscribers of The Mercury (other than Today's Paper digital replica subscribers) will have access to:

PERSONALISE YOUR NEWS FEED
Set your local news area, follow journalists and topics, plus your favourite sporting codes and teams. All of your customised preferences will appear on the home screen so you can get straight to what matters to you.

CUSTOMISED NOTIFICATIONS
Receive alerts on the stories that matter most as they happen. Tailor your notifications from a range of topics from breaking news, sport and entertainment to business updates and lifestyle.

READ TODAY’S PAPER ON YOUR DEVICE
Read the paper on the go with the digital replica of today’s newspaper. Access to the paper anytime, anywhere with the digital replica of the paper, as it’s printed.

DISCOVER OUR RANGE OF PODCASTS
Explore and listen to a wide range of podcasts from our team of dedicated journalists across the News+ network.

The Mercury app for mobile and tablet is free to download, however to gain full access to the app's content and features simply subscribe for Member-only access.

Member-only access gives you full digital access to thousands of subscriber only stories, the digital replica of the paper, puzzles and more of what you love.

How to gain full access to the app's content and features:
1) Existing members of The Mercury (other than subscribers to Today's Paper digital replica) can log in to the app when prompted using their membership details; or,
2) Become a member by subscribing through the app

For full Terms and Conditions please visit https://news-networkeditorial.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/mhr/tandcs/tcs_tc.html and our Privacy Policy, please visit preferences.news.com.au

Please note: This app features Nielsen's proprietary measurement software which will allow you to contribute to market research or audience ratings services. Please see www.nielsen.com/digitalprivacy for more information.

What's New

We've made some great improvements in this update! You'll notice a better commenting experience on videos, an improved rewards section that's easier to navigate, and we've fixed several bugs to keep everything running smoothly. Thanks for using our app!

In-app purchases

$0.49 - $174.99 per item

Version Information

Version: 9.11.6
Downloads: 10K+
Updated on: Dec 10, 2025
Released: Jan 15, 2017
Requires: Android 8.0

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#49 in Top Grossing News And Magazines in Australia

#48

The Courier

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Mercury

#50

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Mercury users say on Google Play

★★★★★

A Google user

Not many sources of local Tassy news. Mercury is okay.

★★★★

A Google user

Liked the content

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Sam Moffat

It is beyond me why you'd have a large header image above a headline that is unrelated to the story and links through to a different article. UX at its worst. It's confusing at best and dangerously misleading at worse. Don't write an article about a young offender then put someone else's mug shot in the header image...it's insane.

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A Google user

Constant notification of same breaking news. Too much irrelevant article links in the text, interrupting reading. Please include those links at the end of the article if you really want people to have a pleasant reading experience, not trying to get them shift to something else. There got to be a better to promote those articles!

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Clayton Armstrong

The most recent version of the app is almost unusable for me. The whole thing was revamped a little while ago, and it went from being pretty good to being a constant frustration. The key thing that got worse is that the app now lets my tablet go to sleep if there is no user activity within 20 seconds or something like that. My whole experience with the app now centres around trying to keep it awake while I’m just trying to read something. If I’m trying to eat breakfast while reading the paper, this is not worth the effort. Prior to the major update, the older version stopped the device from going to sleep, which was perfect. This is a huge bug in the current version, how has it not been fixed?? I’ve now resorted to instead using the app on my iPhone, as this really is unusable.