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Kansas City Star | Local News

McClatchy

The Kansas City Star local newspaper app is faster and easier to use.

2.8 ★813 ratings
50K+Downloads
9+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases

About this app

The Kansas City Star local newspaper app is faster and easier to use. Read or watch daily local news coverage, investigative reporting, national headline news, crime, sports, local business, and more from across the Kansas City metro area in Missouri and Kansas.

The Kansas City Star local news app is your trusted source for local, daily journalism serving the Kansas City metropolitan region. Our newsroom reports on local government, public safety, business, education, and community developments affecting residents in Kansas City, Lee’s Summit, Independence, Blue Springs, Belton, Parkville, Gladstone, Liberty, Grandview, Overland Park, Olathe, Lenexa, Prairie Village, and surrounding metro communities, alongside statewide coverage and national headline news.…

Preview

Real screenshots from the store listing.

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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.

Store listing and review signals

What we measured

Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.

How these are measured

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 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
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.

Methodology

No review themes cleared the reporting threshold.

Assessment & version history

App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.

Store listing updated to version 11.1.16.

What this app sells

Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.

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