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
New app terrible — I finding anyway to reach a real person at NS I’ll say that this new app is terrible with pop up ads when I pay for a subscription. Terrible and it jumps around at times with no reason. Now it won’t load the e version…
Too many ads and too many typos — I’ve been reading the News Sentinel for 60 years. It’s how I always start my day. It has gone downhill a lot in the last few years. Paper delivery got so expensive I had to start reading online. It’s a…
Pop up audio ads — Long time KNS subscriber, both paper and digital for many years. I’m canceling my subscription due to the obnoxious pop-up ads with audio. I can deal with pop up ads but not ads that wake up my wife as I’m reading the…
What this app sells
From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.
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.