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Sun Sentinel

South Florida's news source

Tribune Publishing Company, LLC
No findings published
App Store rating4.5★7K ratings
PriceFreeListed price
Age12+Store age rating
Size200 MBiPhone download
CategoryLifestyle

At a glance

Full report

Things to watch for 0

Nothing published. That is not a guarantee the app is problem-free.

Positives 0

No specific positive published.

From our automated analysis, 15 Oct 2026.

This analysis describes version 10.0.63 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-15 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 10.0.63, updated 2026-09-24.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Now there's a simple, elegant and customizable way to get all of the Sun Sentinel's exclusive, in-depth local reporting on your iPhone and iPad.

FEATURES:

• Stay informed with South Florida's best source of news, sports, business, and entertainment

• Sign up for push notifications to get the latest news from our newsroom as soon as stories break

• Enjoy exclusive videos and photo galleries

• Edit the section list to be in your preferred order

• Save must-read stories, photos and videos for when you have the time to enjoy them

• Keep track of what you've read and what you haven't with Progress Report

• Turn your device sideways for an entirely different visual view of the news (iPad only)

• Get the latest breaking news from our newsroom in your notifications

• Share stories easily with Twitter, Facebook, or email

• Offline reading: Download and read content offline

• See your progress:…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

0 published · 2 shown, not confirmed

One source only — shown, not confirmed 2

Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.

Aggressive ad load

One source only

Aggressive ad load: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (2.0% of 297 reviews scanned)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From App Store reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.

Open evidence

Paywall blocks the basics

One source only

Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.7% of 297 reviews scanned)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From App Store reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.

Open evidence

Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.

What reviewers report

297 reviews read · 2 review-based observations

297 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.

Aggressive ad load

Shown, not confirmed

Why so many intrusive ads? — This app loads ad after ad. You cannot read a page without ad auto opening. The user interface needs improvement for mobile devices.

1★ · App Store · 2024-08-05

Annoying pop up videos — When I am reading an article it is impossible due to a pop up video showing up every 3 seconds (literally). You lost a paid subscriber!

1★ · App Store · 2024-08-01

New format — I am hating this new format for my daily Sun Sentinel paper. I am on vacation and have been going in circles simply to locate the Daily puzzle page. Too many ads, too many choices have turned me off from simply trying to…

1★ · App Store · 2021-08-10

Paywall blocks the basics

Shown, not confirmed

Can’t Believe How Useless This App Is — Subscribed to read a story published yesterday. Typed in the exact headline. The site search engine can’t find the story (though Google can: the story is clearly there, behind a paywall to keep out…

1★ · App Store · 2022-02-19

Garbage — I changed my rating from 4 stars to 1 star. Article was free just like any other news app then They changed it to 5 free prime articles a month but they never reset. Now you only get to read 20 articles a month be for you have…

1★ · App Store · 2016-03-20

Worst update ever!!! — I used to prefer this app over the herald, but now you need to pay to read any stories. So not worth even $.01 a month ... I'll go back to the Herald for my South Florida news until you revert back to the old free…

1★ · App Store · 2016-03-18

A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.

Measurements

5 measured · 3 not assessed

Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, never a pass.

From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States a price and a billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Says 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
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the app 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, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app

Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 15 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 10.0.63 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-15 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 10.0.63, updated 2026-09-24.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

App Store

Version 10.0.63 · 2026-09-24
Added search feature to e-edition Bug fixes and maintenance

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
sun-sentinel-apple-402230662
Assessment date
15 Oct 2026
Sources used
3 independent signals: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure
Reviews read
297
Package examined
No package scan
Measurement vocabulary
1.4
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-15 from 297 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-15 Version analyzed: 10.0.633 independent signals297 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure. Not yet checked: SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest.

Store facts

App Store

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

App Store

Store rating
4.55 ★ · 7,029 ratings
Version
10.0.63
Updated
24 Sep 2026
Price
Free
Age rating
12+
Size
200 MB
Open in App Store
Developer
Tribune Publishing Company, LLC
Category
Lifestyle
Listing price
Free

No itemized purchase list is available for this listing.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.

No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.

There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.

Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A hands-on test can confirm or contradict a finding and adds its own measurements; it does not change a measurement row. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.

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