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The San Diego Union-Tribune · Lifestyle

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

Review signals only — 1 user-reported signalConfidence: Medium205 reviews scannedas of 2026-10-06

Reported by users

Recurring themes across scanned reviews — a signal, not a finding. User reports
Aggressive ad load13 reviews · 6.3% 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.

Aggressive ad load

Current Version is Extremely Glitchy — The UT app which has never been particularly stellar is now close to unusable. I’m a paying subscriber but am constantly bombarded by videos and pop up ads within the app. The videos are especially…

2★ · App Store · 2024-10-28

Undo everything you’ve done the last three years — Every update makes it worse. After latest “updates”, the app now — Will not allow sharing of a single article, if I try to share it sends the recipient a link to the whole paper — Will…

1★ · App Store · 2024-07-14

HORRIBLE change to this app! — In addition to the complaints about pop-up ads on a PAID subscription, difficult navigation, constantly getting kicked back to page A1, etc, this new app substantially drains the iPad battery, when compared…

1★ · App Store · 2024-06-27

What this app sells

Every purchase the store discloses. Store listing
 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.

Subscriptions1
Annual SubscriptionYearly$199.99
Show 3 more purchases we couldn’t categorise

These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.

Unlimited Digital AccessTerm not stated$19.99
Unlimited Digital AccessTerm not stated$5.99
SDUTTerm not stated$199.99

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Automated, review-derived, and always superseded by a human review.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