The Seattle Times

This app does its job; you can read the news on a very similar format to a physical newspaper, but there isn't much more to it. Limited search abilities and menu options to find articles that interest you, and often links to other articles do not work and take you to a browser article where you are not signed in and can't read the article unless you enter your Seattle times account info. If you have a Seattle times subscription and don't want the hassle of physical papers, this is a good option.

When you click a notification from this app and go to the article, the bookmark button isn't there on the article. There is also no search function and the overall navigation isn't that great. There's also way too many ads-I'm paying for this service already and I have to deal with several ads in every single little article I want to read

It doesn't work!!!!!!! We have a subscription to the paper and neither my husband or myself can get it to log on and show more the the initial articles allowed each month for nonsubscribers. And I have also called without any luck. This app is terrible! It is frustrating to get notificAtion of a good news article, but not be able to read it. I also get notified on my phone everyone I get an article from you, and haven't figured out how to turn that off.

For a while, the app worked flawlessly. Now, as a subscriber, I'm constantly told I've read my free articles for the month and asked to log in again, on a daily basis. Additionally, photographs and drawings stopped showing up in stories, and I'm forced to use dark mode because my phone is in dark mode despite preferring to read news in a light mode.

This is really lame. The stupid app has such a scrambled view of the headline that it's very difficult to read through what you want to read, not what they want you to read. They also don't publish the support at links correctly, so if you go to Google News and then click on the article, you don't go to the app. you go to the website. I wish they would get their act together, but at this rate I'm probably going to cancel my subscription pretty shortly—the hassle isn't worth the effort.

When you're reading through headlines, an ad will autoscroll you away from what you were reading. At best it jolts you off your spot, at worst the line you were on is pulled off the page. I can tolerate the ads (even though I pay for the sub), as I understand journalism is a tough business. but the autoscroll to frame the ad happens suddenly, without user input, and seemingly multiple times a minute. I've become a bit allergic to it.

I do really like having the app at all and staying connected to local news - it's way easier to get into reading news with regularity on mobile - but it still needs a lot of work. There's no search function, and I can't save articles or share them if I access them through a push notification, and finding them again can be a pain in part because of the aforementioned missing search function. For a while I couldn't see older articles at all, and when I can it doesn't load smoothly.

Crashes frequently, articles have no discernable organization, and content loads slowly on the occasions that selecting them does not crash the app. Great journalism from the Seattle Times, but that has absolutely nothing to do with the app. You'd think a Seattle company could put out better software. Update 14 May 2020: much more stable, but no way I can find to share a link to an article. Uninstalled again after testing it out for a couple of weeks. Too frustrating.

This app is bare bones. It doesn't do the basic things pretty much any other text-based app allows. No zoom on images, no text size options, and then there's the below, my biggest issues. There is no orientation lock- it's like the app thinks it knows better than me and overrides my phone's setting. I'm sorry, no. Stop. Also, there is no search. If I want to read any articles related to a specific policy or person, not possible. I have to search in a browser, then open in app. Ugh why??

The articles are great, but the app is infuriating. Sometimes, when I pause during an article, even for a few minutes, when I come back to keep reading, the article is gone. Sometimes I have to search for thebarticlenI was reading if it is no longer in the section I'm reading, i.e.. Top Stories section. The links in the articles often don't work at all. I don't think anyone checks these things. It's been that way for the few years I've been using it.

The app interface is pleasant and easy to use, but it crashes and resets me to the home screen as I read through articles. This has happened for almost every article I attempted to read except for a few of the shorter ones.. I'm guessing it's the ads that are causing it to crash. Unfortunately I can't use the application without the inconvenience of costant crashing, then I need to find my place again just to continue reading the article. If it didn't crash, it would receive 5 stars from me!

Good app for reading the Seattle Times, but I have two complaints and dinged one star for each. First, the app ignores your phone-wide auto-rotate setting. I have my phone set to never do that. This is the only app that does it anyway. Second, the app sends a few notifications a day linking to various news stories. If you click on the notification to open the article, there's no share button. You have to open the app, hunt for the article you just had open, and only then does a button appear.

I can't scroll to the bottom of articles. I start reading and get into the article, but then I can read it to the end! The most basic function of a news media app is to be able to read all of the words. What a failure. Update: it also frequently opens an article different than the one I clicked on. Update: now it crashes every 15 seconds

Basic app showing a selection of content from the Seattle Times. No bells and whistles, nothing but text really. Doesn't seem to have all the content of the newspaper. App struggles to display detailed stories from the newspaper, often cutting off the text midway through the article. Also I've noticed the app is a battery hog and drains my battery well after I have stopped viewing articles. The ST webpage works much better and I am uninstalling this app as a result, it's not worth downloading.

The app is pretty terrible. I lose whatever article I was reading and it is not possible to search. The share button doesn't appear when I open an article from a notification. I have to exit the article and find it again to have the save or share buttons appear. And the app has no way to log in, so why did I bother to pay for a subscription?

I like to to use this app to read the news on the bus. Today I discovered that my cell phone data quota was nearly exhausted. I figured it was some of my streaming apps that were the big data users, but it was the Seattle Times app. I burned through almost 4GB in 3 weeks just reading text and viewing a few images! I suspect the real data hog is the video advertisements that auto-start in the background. I understand they need to have ads, but the app should give me the ability to disable video. Also, the push notifications are very annoying. Most of the 'Breaking News' alerts aren't major news at all, so you end up having to disable all of the app's notifications. It should allow me to configure which notifications are of interest to me.

App continually kicks me back to home page from an article, not leaving enough time to read anything. Not usable. Also, no search option and autoplay video ads are disruptive and eat battery and data. Update: 2-monthas later. App now crashes before I can finish reading an article. I would call this app fundamentally unfished, failing to meet even minimum threshold of use. I would really appreciate if the developers could repair it. I am paying for it, after all...

The content is great but every time you click on an article it takes you to the wrong article. I'm assuming this is to get extra clicks registered because the second time you try it works every time. Even worse old articles are at the top of sections. I had a heart attack seeing "Bobby Wagner out for the year" at the top of the Seahawks section until I saw it was from 2 years ago. I won't be renewing my digital subscription as a result.

The app is extremely rudimentary, with a focus on displaying ads rather than on usability. It's hard to search for articles even if you know most of the headline. There's no way to share articles, even with other subscribers. The web experience is generally better, and Google searches are better at finding the right articles.

Not the best newsreader. Very cumbersome and neutered. Constant updates are okay, but I'm not sure how to limit them. Not to sound snobby but I bought the NYT news reader and subscribe to that one as well. It's fast and intuitive. Which makes since since millions of people read and utilize the times. This app will often freeze in the middle of the story. The photos won't process correctly. The ads are an eyesore and not a fan of them, but I understand their purpose. It has room for improvement