“Too many ads, too many pop ups — Just started trial subscription. More time searching for news content than reading stories. Ads veiled as feature content. Videos requiring you to view 2 or 3 ads prior to the news video. Need to do better.”
Public review signal · 150 reviews scanned · scope limited to review patterns.
4.3 ★2,889 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
198 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
From critically acclaimed storytelling to powerful photography to engaging videos — the Des Moines Register app delivers the local news that matters most to your community.
APP FEATURES: • Access all of our in-depth journalism, including things to do around town, sports coverage from high school to the pros, and much more. • Enjoy a streamlined, fast-loading experience that makes it easy to view the stories, photos, and videos that matter to you. • Get breaking news, sports scores, and weather alerts with real-time notifications tailored to your interests. • Customize your experience by saving your favorite stories, adjusting text size, using night mode, or reading offline. • eNewspaper: Just like our print edition but accessible on your mobile devices. And access to USA TODAY and 200+ local eNewspapers.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 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
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
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
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Aggressive ad load6 reviews · user report
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Terrible — Very unfriendly to users. Hard to read, navigate, too many advertisements”
“Could be worse — I use an iPad to read the Des Moines Register…at least I try. I/we’ve subscribed to the paper more than 30 years continuously. I understand the need to control cost and compete with other digital media for breaking news…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 8.11.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown3
Lowest$19.99
Highest$69.99
Monthly Digital Rate$24.99
Des Moines Register Annual Digital Subscription$69.99
Des Moines Register Digital Subscription$19.99