“Articles are great, the main issue is that I can't always read them. The ads and photos load fine, but the text doesn't load until I press randomly near where the text should be. This often presses an ad instead, so that's incredibly…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 390 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.6 ★19,185 ratings
50K+Downloads
17+Age rating
229 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Staying on top of award-winning Philadelphia news is now faster and easier than ever with The Philadelphia Inquirer’s iPhone and iPad app — the official iOS news app for The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News.
With The Philadelphia Inquirer App you can: Discover the latest breaking news and important updates with our intuitive news feed and uncluttered reading experience. Explore the news topics you care about, from sports teams like the Eagles and Phillies to local news and insights, with our seamless section navigation. Remember the stories that matter to you with quick action buttons for bookmarking and sharing. Never miss a story with Basic and Premium digital all-access subscriptions, available as an in-app purchase.
Additional Features: Alerts and Notifications — Be the first to know with verified breaking news.…
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 29.0.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 29.0.1, updated 2026-09-15.
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
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 9 distinct reviewers (2.3% of 390 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“I subscribe and stay logged in and try to curate my news; the ads on this app are frequent and relentless. I expect some ads due to legacy newspaper practice but when I choose to see fewer sports betting stories and I get five or six in a…”
“Subscription with Ads? — I’m paying monthly for a subscription yet still get obnoxious full screen ads that take over the screen and article I’m reading. Really unfortunate. I won’t be renewing my subscription.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 29.0.1.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown2
Lowest$19.99
Highest$27.99
Inquirer Digital Subscription$19.99
Premium Digital Access$27.99
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.