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Last verified 31 Jul 2026

4.5 5754 ratings · App Store

1. 1/5Just Baffled

   I honestly cannot figure out what I’m paying for here. It feels like the same three ad-infested articles rearranged over and over under every category. One type of ad (seemingly, every third one) renders the article unreadable beyond the first paragraph. The free AP app provides a much less hostile environment for readers with most of the same content. Quite literally, the only thing I can see *anyone* getting from this app are the articles covering local sports… just cross your fingers those aren’t the ones you only get to read one paragraph of. I feel like I was suckered into a “premium” subscription for something I’d steer away from even if it were free. This app has all the aesthetic of a pirate streaming or AI-generated recipe website.

   spreadsheetjockey · 31 Jul 2026

2. 1/5Worst app and paper.

   The subscribers receive a daily email but if you want to see more than headlines they mention in email you have to click on story which instead of it taking you to story in app — it takes you to a weird site of the paper that looks like old fashion micro fish…and all user id and info have to be entered to read a story that was linked! The app won’t even show some of these stories that are highlighted in the email. It’s like searching for a needle in a haystack. I wonder if the app and email from the paper are even run by same company. Also the app says my experience will improve if I allow adds. Come on…. I’m a subscriber so I don’t have to see adds. Please can we get this a little updated. I know it’s baltimore but come on. We are a coastal city - we should be able to do this.

   Anybonous · 31 Jul 2026

3. 1/5Portrait Only on iPad

   Reading on a phone in portrait mode might be natural and preferred; not on an iPad though. Recently, the Baltimore Sun turned off the ability to view the app in landscape mode. The response I received from customer support was something along the lines of they couldn’t format the ads properly in landscape mode. In other words - they don’t want to invest in what it would take to accommodate their advertisers in both portrait and landscape - and/or they don’t care about the iPad user experience. Every app I use, including news platforms, can be viewed in landscape. If not, they get deleted. Can you imagine Kindle going portrait only on tablets??? They’d go out of business, no doubt. How arrogant is it of the powers that be at The Sun to think their readers are just going to roll over on this so that the advertisers can be accommodated?? I am canceling my subscription. This review is strictly on the app, not the content.

   Jhdbutdxee · 31 Jul 2026

4. 4/5Notifications

   I’ve used this app for several years with my virtual subscription. I’m used to the way it functions and find it generally ok. However, I wish there was a setting to limit the notifications. They are either off or very frequent. I leave them on because if there is truly a “breaking news” item, I want to know. Unfortunately, most notifications are just push notices for articles that are available and in many cases ones that I have already read. Please give the option for “breaking news” notifications only. I get multiple notifications each hour most days. I really only want critical news on my notifications.

   Me at the store · 31 Jul 2026

5. 1/5Missing functions

   Edited August 1: I use Chrome in Windows 11. I recently paid for an annual subscription. Sometime after July 18 the Puzzle button was restored, but every time I would click on it, a pop up asking me to pay to subscribe would appear. Logging in again would not stop this. Finally today I decided to try clearing the cache. I can now print puzzles, although not the ones I missed while on vacation when a new setup was instituted. I still cannot clip and save ads or portions of articles. This is a feature that I used in the past and hope to see restored in the near future. Edited July 18: The desktop app is still now missing the ability to print crosswords and other puzzles for ALL editions, not just those before June 30, as well as the ability to mark and clip a section of a page to print or download. Please restore these important features immediately. I sat down upon returning from vacation ready to read back issues and print out the puzzles. For a few days I could do so beginning June 30, but now the print button is entirely gone. We used to be able to mark and print portions of pages such as ads or portions of articles, but this capability is gone. Please fix this.

   Tech buyers · 31 Jul 2026

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