“Pop up Ads for Additional Subscriptions — As a subscriber of Epoch Times I have enjoyed and been informed by many of their articles and videos. Lately they have a pop up ad which kicks you out of whatever article you open when you close…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 511 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.9 ★266,647 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
104 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
The Epoch Times, as a thoughtful alternative to your daily news stream, puts the most recent authentic news in your hands. Using The Epoch Times app, you can stay up to date on world events wherever you are, even while driving or waiting in the most convenient way.
The Epoch Times app serves you with trusted news wherever you are. Get instant access to award-winning journalism, breaking, political, US, China, and world news, as well as stories on arts and culture, and more.
With The Epoch Times app you will have access to all of our digital content, including in-depth coverage of US politics, reporting on China. You will also get access to our premium shows such as American Thoughts Leaders, Crossroads, China in Focus, Facts Matter, The Larry Elder Show, Health Care, as well as commentaries and documentaries on issues that matter.…
Preview
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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.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 3.2.9 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 3.2.9, updated 2026-09-17.
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
2 themes 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
90% or more 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.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (1.4% of 511 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording
Declining an upgrade is written as a loss ('No thanks, I don't want to improve'), or users report being repeatedly pushed to subscribe during normal use.
What we saw: Constant upsell pressure: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 511 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Keep getting logged out — Not sure what fixed this or what happened initially, but I’m not having to log in over and over. I too was affected by dark mode but not on all ET pages so I didn’t know what the issue was but THANK YOU heartily…”
“To Many Advertisements!! — The number of advertisements has slowly become an impediment to reading the news on Epoch times! Please don’t become another Fox News”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 3.2.9.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown2
Lowest$15.99
Highest$155.99
Monthly Subscription$15.99
Annual Subscription$155.99