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
Terrible app and newspaper. Tons of ads AND you want me to buy a monthly subscription. Get lost! Uninstalled!
Too many ads — Too many ads and need subscription
Subscription signin not working — I cant sign in even though I have a web subscription- too many ads, please fix this as I am a paying customer!
Paywall blocks the basics
Garbage after update. Most content they want you to pay for. All content was free now they want you to pay $10 a month. Uninstall
Useless app unless you pay… — Now you have to pay to read all your articles. No worries once I get a notification from the app about an article that catches my interest I just go to the internet and search and get updated that way (unless…
Sits behind a paywall — Sits behind $150 paywall it ain’t worth it. There’s other apps in the App Store that are free.
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.
Show 8 more purchases we couldn’t categorise
These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.
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.