“SCAM!!! Don't subscribe. They make it impossible to unsubscribe. I had to cancel a credit card to get them to stop charging. Just another scam app that intentionally puts up barriers to make unsubscribing as difficult as humanly possible…”
Public review signal · 400 reviews scanned · scope limited to review patterns.
Chicago Tribune
Tribune Publishing Inc.FEATURES: • Get Chicago news, politics, sports, business, entertainment as it…
2.6 ★1,883 ratings
100K+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
FEATURES: • Get Chicago news, politics, sports, business, entertainment as it happens • Follow your favorite Chicago sports teams: Bears, Bulls, Cubs, White Sox, Blackhawks • Build a personalized news feed by selecting topics that interest you • Keep up with the ever-changing Chicago dining and nightlife scene • Enjoy exclusive videos and photo galleries • Create your own personalized news feed with One-Tap Following • Save must-read stories, photos and videos for when you have the time to enjoy them • Turn your device sideways for an entirely different visual view of the news • Get the latest breaking news from our newsroom in your notifications • Share stories easily with Twitter, Facebook or email.
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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What we measured
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Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
No theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
Under 65% five-star
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In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
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Aggressive ad load7 reviews · user report
Hard to cancel5 reviews · user report
Highlighted reviews
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“They make it impossible to cancel a subscription. Don't start. There is no option to cancel online or in the app. You must call a customer service line you have to search for, then call during the daytime when they're open, navigate a…”
“I want to cancel my subscription! There is NO option within the app that allows me to do so. I check the FAQ's, it tells me that I can cancel through the play store app. I try that, and there is no option through the play store. Tribune…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 10.0.62.
What this app sells
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