Columbus Dispatch: Local News

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Last verified 31 Jul 2026

4.3 2481 ratings · App Store

1. 4/5Latest enewspaper section is an improvement.

   The zoom in and back out behavior is working pretty well, so now I can stay in swipe mode as I navigate through the e-edition. it can get out of sync, but I'm learning hitting the swipe button again usually gets it back in sync. I also really appreciate that if I accidentally hit a button that takes me out of the enewspaper, resuming now picks up where I left off instead reloading and taking me to back the front page.

   logician13 · 31 Jul 2026

2. 3/5Columbus Dispatch app tough to use

   I will start with a positive comment. I very much enjoy their content. As a long time resident and supporter of the Columbus region, I feel the coverage, from politics to community needs, its all good coverage. My negative is simply that their app and customer support is very lacking. Customer support is only available by phone, and then when you finally reach someone, they will tell you that they do not support the online services of the Dispatch. The app has a very limited Q&A section. Their chat feature, once you find it on the full Dispatch web site (not within the app), only deals with delivery and subscriptions for the paper deliver service, not online service! Frustrating. Anyway, I hope they figure this out. Online delivery of the news is their future, whether they want to face it or not. Good luck Dispatch!

   JerryinJAX · 31 Jul 2026

3. 1/5E-Edition is not user friendly

   The most recent version of the E-Edition is very clunky and difficult to navigate. With prior version, you just double clicked on a story, and it would pull up the story, and you could “X” out when done and it would take you back to the same page you were just on. Also, you used the back and forward arrows to turn the pages. Easy and made sense. Still can’t figure out this new version, even after reading the tutorial. Can’t figure how to view the entire story, and get back to the previous page. Also, the back and forth arrow keys take you to the home page of the app, they don’t turn the pages. Also, the pages are too small to read, or if you enlarge them, they too big and can only view part of the page at a time. Please fix this, reading the paper shouldn’t be so difficult and stressful. Can’t even imagine how it difficult it is for for those who are less computer-literate than I am.

   Used to love the Dispatch · 31 Jul 2026

4. 3/5The “Dispatch” and “the APP”

   I did not intend to write this. But, as I clicked to read the Sunday newspaper about “Elusive Green Cards’, I was bothered (not irritated) by all this “stuff’ in place of the editorial on Green Cards! Sure, you are always [slanted with DemocRAT touting] I understand, regrettable, because your Wolfe organization devoured the Citizen Journal many moons ago!! So, NOW I can look back on some previous publications and “explore”. However, the Dispatch is sooo much USA Today, we have lost local issues that make up the DAILY COLUMBUS FEED. Things we should know about human interest, and social events - especially around CHRISTMAS [not HOLIDAYS]. You can DO THIS without advertising their ‘nickel”! It’s so sad. No Joe Blundo nor other Editorials from folks that used to contribute. And, SHAME ON YOU for RAISING THE RATES AGAIN. Just, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday (you took away Saturday, or their would be NO carriers. The Price for that WAS $56 and change. NOW COMES THE DISPATCH USA TODAY WITH A REVAMPED PRICE OF $63 and change. Are you KIDDING me? Eventually, there will be no DISPATCH circulation, i predict. We’ll have to purchase USA TODAY at the newsstand! Please REMOVE THE DISPATCH WROUGT IRON DISPLAY where the real newspaper once resided! And PS cousin.. My wife delivered the Thursday paper since 1974. And, the weekend paper with the advertising added into the bag and hung these on the doorknob as required. And, YOU CANNOT even cut her a discount. We had to stop in 2020 because of the covid and my pneumonia as I still tried to deliver house-to-house with her. Keith Carey

   Irish1saxman · 31 Jul 2026

5. 3/5Not all changes are good

   The new app seems zippier, but has made some bad trade offs. Most notably, when you tap to read an article, the article only fills the bottom half of my iPad; the top shows a shrunken and largely useless image of the page. That is not what I need in that moment, let me use my full screen to read the article like the old app did. And let me read the ENTIRE article to the end, not just the part on that page! Also, you removed the ability for me to change the font size to my tastes (I prefer it larger than the default), as pretty much all e-readers have allowed forever. Restoring these features would make this a much better app, the old app had them and it was a mistake to remove them. (I also miss dynamic view a little, but that’s not a show stopper...I tended to use the standard view more anyway.)

   VulcanDragon · 31 Jul 2026

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