Free to download, but uses subscription-based model of £2.99 for six months or £3.99 for a year.
UK newspaper The Guardian has launched version 2.0 of its iPhone and iPod touch app (iTunes link) on Apple's App Store.
The app shifts pricing from a one-off download fee to a subscription pricing model, with users able to pay £2.99 for six months' access, or £3.99 for a year. In the US, it will be free and ad-supported.
New features for the new app include video content over 3G or Wi-Fi, live football scores and goal alerts, automatic updates for liveblogs, integrated reader comments, and a revamped homepage design.
Users can now also use the app in landscape mode, and search the full Guardian website archive. The app was developed in-house, using The Guardian's content API.
"It’s been just over a year since we launched our first app and since then the expectations of users have understandably grown, alongside the technology itself," says editor Janine Gibson.
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"We were thrilled with the success of the original app, and over the last twelve months we’ve listened very carefully to user suggestions in order to consider how their Guardian experience on iPhone and iPod Touch can be improved."
The new app accidentally launched a few days early in the US last week, before being quickly removed from the App Store.
The Guardian says its separate mobile site attracted more than three million unique users in November 2010, with 40% of them using an iPhone. The first iPhone app has been downloaded 214,000 times so far.
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