“Dazzling and annoying — The home page works well. Any entering stories opens windows that don’t stay open and are fairly full of ads. Search function is almost unusable as it returns wildly unrelated results. My particular peeve is…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 502 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.4 ★14,313 ratings
100K+Downloads
12+Age rating
31 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
The Star Tribune app for iPhone and iPad keeps you connected to all the Minnesota news you need. Read news from across the state from our more than 240 journalists, engage in thought-provoking conversations with our Opinion team, keep up on the latest food, home and garden trends from our features team and be the first to know when news is happening with our breaking news alerts. Free for all to download; subscribers with digital access enjoy unlimited article views. eEdition is included for those with a Premium Digital Access or eEdition subscription.
FEATURES: • MINNESOTA NEWS: From in-depth investigative reports to the latest updates, our award-winning journalists bring you all the news you need to know.…
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.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 4.7 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 4.7, updated 2025-11-13.
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 at least 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
1 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
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 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 1
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 6 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 502 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Potentially good — Super glitchy and sends you all over the place for articles. Too many ads.”
“Too many ads — Frustrating to use because of all the ads.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 4.7.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.