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.
Hard to cancel
Scam of an app and scam of a company. Check Shepard Express instead. Cancelling your account is effectively IMPOSSIBLE if you did it through their website. "Support" via twitter is just drafting a tweet that says "null: null". Phone…
Predatory app. Impossible to cancel subscription. The reporters are amazing but the subscription service is predatory.
Can't cancel. Keeps taking payments. Why can't I un-enroll from ez pay or simply cancel my subscription from this terrible newspaper? Scam. Doesn't even deserve 1 star.
Aggressive ad load
WAY, WAY too much advertising. Extremely annoying, distracting, and intrusive. Very close to canceling because it is so annoying. 40 year subscriber to journal, sick of all this.
Absolutely the worst reading experience available. Split View Not Available - Too Many Pop-up Ads. When viewing the E-edition and tapping on an article, the entire screen fills with the article - not in split screen view. Unable to choose…
Old news, not even from my state or area. Tons of ad content
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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.