San Antonio Express-News

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Last verified 31 Jul 2026

4.5 7214 ratings · App Store

1. 3/5Terrible App

   The new version of the Express-News is terrible. It constantly flips back to the page where it has to reload, again and again. The reader must constantly deal with an advertising pop-up every time a reload occurs. The pages themselves do not smoothly expand, sending you off to another page of advertisements, which again you must dismiss in order to get back to where you were. With this marked decline from the paper’s prior app, these features make this a newspaper not worth reading.

   Dvjatty · 31 Jul 2026

2. 1/5EXTREMELY PREDATORY SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE

   I am very mad about the SA Express News charging me for a “past due balance.” They also refused to send me an email confirming the cancellation of my subscription. They have you call a specific number for cancellations and they do NOT send you any proof of the cancellation. Unlike a normal subscription service where you can cancel a subscription on the app or website and get a confirmation cancellation email. I begged the rep to send any sort of confirmation and she refused. The rep said “we don’t send emails ever.” I signed up using an offer for the month and didn’t make the second month’s payment. What normally happens is you don’t have access to the service anymore. However, they started calling me and said I had to pay the overdue $10 balance. They refused to cancel my subscription until the “past due” was paid.

   obsessedwpasta · 31 Jul 2026

3. 5/5Great news. Limited sports.

   Local writers make this paper and excellent source of local news in addition to covering US and world as well. Four stars instead of five because the paper closes early the night before, Limiting your news to what happens before 9 PM the day before. So the sport scores and late evening activities around the world are not reported until a day late.

   Loyal daily reader · 31 Jul 2026

4. 3/5San Antonio Express-News app

   The app has an abundant amount of features. However, about every 5 minutes or so it automatically “reloads the page” or “refreshes,” causing me to pause and wait. This process interrupts my enjoyment of reading the daily paper on my tablet. In addition, on my tablet the moving of the the e-version paper can be cumbersome; much less user friendly than a prior version of the app. When used on my phone, the same challenges don’t exist, but who wants to read the paper in tiny print on one’s smart phone when one also has a larger tablet available!

   Roscoe883 · 31 Jul 2026

5. 5/5Review

   When the printing function for the paper was sourced to Houston, we would assured we could get the content in a timely manner by viewing the on-line version. That promise was hollow. What we get instead on line is the Express News-Light. Yes, you can see MOST of the headline stories, but even those are often lacking more recent details. Details in the area of high school sports are particularly sparse. If you are trying to get out of the hard copy paper business, say so, announce the transition schedule, and force the writers to populate the on-line version with the same details they eventually put into the print copy. I am an old-school reader, who subscribes to the paper because I read it…all of it. I don’t like the Readers Digest version because it selectively excludes the details. To say they are the same just is not true. Glenn Taplin, San Antonio

   GrandPaw71 · 31 Jul 2026

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