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Review signals only — 1 user-reported signal — from user reviews, not yet audited by Appworthy.

Review signals only — 1 user-reported signalConfidence: Medium302 reviews scannedas of 2026-10-06

Reported by users

Recurring themes across scanned reviews — a signal, not a finding. User reports
Constant upsell pressure6 reviews · 2.0% of scanned

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.

Constant upsell pressure

Every time I open a news story a pop up comes up to try to get me to pay for a subscription. I should be able to tell it no once and be done with it. The obituaries won't laod up anymore. Very frustrating. I'm done. Deleted. Going to CNY…

1★ · Google Play · 2020-04-13

For the past week, app keeps asking for me to log in repeatedly for each subscriber only article. And most times the login will not work. It generates an error message. Tried updating the app, clearing cache, but nothing works. Others are…

2★ · Google Play · 2025-07-03

App is slow, freezes and requires login everytime. Keeps telling me to log in and retry when opening subscriber exclusive stories when I'm already logged in. This app is terrible.

1★ · Google Play · 2023-03-24

What this app sells

Every purchase the store discloses. Store listing
 What this app sells
Google Play doesn’t publish per-purchase prices, so this list covers the other store only.

How a review signal works

Automated, review-derived, and always superseded by a human review.

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.

 Not yet human-reviewed

A human review replaces this review-derived signal with hands-on, recorded measurements.

Hands-on inspections are not yet open.