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.
Constant upsell pressure
Missing functions — Edited August 1: I use Chrome in Windows 11. I recently paid for an annual subscription. Sometime after July 18 the Puzzle button was restored, but every time I would click on it, a pop up asking me to pay to subscribe…
Can’t find my subscription — Even though I’m logged into the app and Apple shows my subscription is paid up and active, the app constantly blocks my access to articles and asks me to subscribe. I give up. Guess I’ll just look at the Patch…
Doesn’t show stories from today’s front page — This app constantly freezes with frequent pop-ups asking me to subscribe (even though I already do). Also, the app never shows the latest articles from the front page of the actual paper.
Aggressive ad load
Full of Ads and Broken Features — While I enjoy most of the Sun’s content, their app is pretty bad. It’s full of garbage advertising that takes up too much screen space on mobile. Several features such as their live blogs as me to login…
Pop up death. — Impossible to read anything without continuous pop up advertising videos now. Even as a subscriber to the paper version. Even if you let the as play you just get it over and over. The Sun has set. Time to finally give up…
Account holder — His persistence of ads and trying to get rid of them he’s very disconcerting when looking at my son app I’m very close to getting rid of it. It’s too frustrating and I don’t know if I ever signed up for that. I would find…
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.