East Bay Times for Mobile Reviews

Performance issues

KyleH9

Layout and Navigation are ok. And the app looks good overall. But it’s very buggy! Hoping The East Bay Times comes to the Apple News app, like The Mercury News did.

Developers boast that in the new version (7.3) you can embed a “Scribble live post,” whatever that means, but God forbid you need to search for a headline that you saw in the print edition so that you can have a link to forward to a friend. There appears to be no search tool whatsoever. What kind of a text-based news app doesn’t have a search tool? A very lame one.

Yay, super excited about this app!

Celeb news lover

Can't rate too high as I just downloaded this app but after having numerous problems re-subscribing to BANG, I'm super excited to see this app available more specific to my location. My fingers are crossed that it delivers, based on my initial look though, it seems to be even better layout than BANG. Yay, thanks for providing this!

Great app

AnnaBranDylan

Im glad the cc times released this app. Its so complete. Its like having the actual newspaper with you. Very informative! A must have

Dissappointing

Willy the Wonder

There is a spat of San Francisco papers (CC times, oak trib, San Jose mercury news) that are beyond frustrating. I see a news story on safari. I try to go to it and get directed to download the app or go to story. I select go to story and I get the same message! I can't just read the story with my iPhone and safari. So I've downloaded this sorry app (same for most local papers) and guess what? The story I was interested in is not there!!!! So ditch the app. Make a mobile optional web page. I have stopped looking at these papers because the app doesn't have the stories I am interested in and the newspapers web site insists I get the app. The app doesn't have the stories. Instead of being an ad for these papers it has driven me away.

Great App

MelandMan

Great App for news in the Bay Area! I've had it since it first came out and I have never had a problem. I would definitely recommend it!

Did nothing

Antioch Golfer

I downloaded the app and opened it up only to have it do nothing! It just said Contra Costa Times and I tried touching everywhere and waiting patiently until I finally gave up and deleted! Frustrating!!

Could be better

EEEliminator

App is decent, unfortunately it doesn't want update the news sometimes. Stories are all days old and when you make it refresh it says it's still up to date. I find myself switching to other news apps often to get current events. If it was consistent I'd use it more. Also if you lose your signal it has a hard time reconnecting unlike other news apps.

Frustrating

Jimrunred

Won't even download properly Have tried and retried 3 times won't download

Bummer

EmilieClimbs

I read NPR and AP mobile to get my news, but I really enjoyed the advice columns for lighter reading before bed. After the upgrade they r gone. I no longer have a use for this app. :(