Review signals only — 1 user-reported signal — 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
More ads than news — This app is really frustrating, especially since I pay for a subscription to the paper. I was hit with full-screen pop-up ads twice while reading a single article. The page is constantly broken up by ads taking up a…
Don’t like the pop up ads — I understand that ads are important but the pop up ads for the Indy Star are annoying and hard to dismiss from my tablet. I’m already a subscriber. No need to advertise yourself to me.
Annoying Pop Ups — It’s incredible how a subscription I pay $20 a month for has annoying pop up ads that interrupt me while I read the news. WHY?! I don’t care about other things in the app, let me READ THE NEWS. You know, LIKE A NEWS…
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.