Review signals only — 2 user-reported signals — from user reviews, not yet audited by Appworthy.
Reported by users
What reviewers said
Verbatim excerpts from public store reviews, shown as corroborating user reports. They are not Appworthy audit evidence, and a quotation is not proof of the finding it sits under.
Aggressive ad load
Flooded with ads that cover the entire screen. List of articles repeats itself. Essentially no coverage of sports outside of the state of Michigan.
Really obtrusive ads. So you pay for the subscription and get nearly full screen ads that pop in when you are scrolling through articles and stop. They shift content every time you stop scrolling. I don't mind ads in a newspaper, but this…
Duplicate articals, constant ads opening a browser while trying to read articles, articles days old in either the app or online paper, incorrect grammer and spelling, and uselesssearch functionality. Is this what passes for journalism…
Paywall blocks the basics
Done with this app. The app itself is pretty good, but now that OVER 90% of the articles are behind a paywall, I'm done. Freep already makes a profit from their current advertising. This is just a grab for more $$$.
Hate hate hate the new app update. Use to love reading articles. Now I need to pay to read articles. What's the point in an app if I need to pay to read it. Or do you want all your app users to delete the app and buy a paper. Of course…
this news site has become almost unreadable with all the pop-up and in-article advertising. not sure why I have to pay to read all these ads.
What this app sells
How a review signal works
A review signal is produced automatically from public app reviews by a classifier — never by a hands-on Appworthy test, and never by a human analyst. It exists so a real, not-yet-audited app can carry more than a blank “Not yet tested” listing, without ever being mistaken for an assessment.
A theme only appears above once at least 5 distinct reviews corroborate it — one angry review can never tag an app. These thresholds are published settings and may be tuned as coverage grows.
It carries no confirmed findings — reviews are one kind of evidence, and nothing here has been hands-on tested. The moment Appworthy publishes a full assessment of this app, it replaces this signal, permanently.
A human review replaces this review-derived signal with hands-on, recorded measurements.
Hands-on inspections are not yet open.