San Francisco Chronicle Reviews

Finally - a good, working Chronicle app!

DB0130

The previous app froze and crashed so much that I’d stopped using it altogether. The new one is great! Stable, fast performance, nice layout, very easy to use. Great job! I withheld one star due to lack of a search function - a must-have for a newspaper app. Hopefully that can be added before too long.

Buggy update.

bdrell

A few suggestions: 1. Don’t present articles as modals. iOS users expect to be able to use the edge swipe gesture to go back to the previous page. You are presenting articles with a cover modal presentation. Your content works best with a navigation controller. 2. Ads popping in make the content shift around a lot. 3. Loading spinners aren’t dismissed when the content finishes loading. The update certainly has potential, and is better than the web views you were using before. But these bugs are really distracting.

Still bad after all these years

golferx

I never used this app in the past because I had a much better experience just using the mobile website. In my (print) Sunday paper they were touting the “all new” app so thought I would try it out. While the app experience looks much improved, it would only allow me to see 3 articles even after linking my print subscription. When I click on the prompt for me to sign in, it says that my subscription is already linked. You would think that a company in the center of the tech world could get their **** together.

Less New Content

VamootsSM

Moving my rating to 3 stars. Over last week or so they have more regularly added new content and have reintroduced by lines for lead columnists. Headed in a better direction. From what I can tell the redesigned look and feel of the app (which I like) was accompanied by a significant reduction in the amount of new content loaded each day. The reduction in the amount of new content loaded each day coupled with the removal of several sections/features (featured columnists, games, real estate) has resulted in an app that does not justify the subscription price. I will not be renewing my subscription.

No an improvement....!

AcknBck

Developers, PLEASE read and fix the link to subscription fixture! This app is poorly designed, it consistently reminds me I only have “3 free stories left this month | get access” but I have linked this app to my subscription countless times. It has gotten so irritating that I am tempted to cancel my subscription. The new format is “OK”, but we still are unable to access prior papers and certain stories seem to linger on the Front Page for days. It would be nice to have access to an archive of the prior published papers. On a positive note, the vault is an interesting section, especially the vault photographs.

Constant need to link subscription

agderr

The new app is confusing to navigate. There are constant requests to link the subscription and sometimes to sign in. Reading on the web interface is easier and less buggy. I have given up using the app.

Why?

SquireJoseph

The app is much improved from prior versions. Thank you for that. Why tho is the news presented only a subset of what’s available in the physical paper? It’d seem for paying members, we’d get the same news.

Unable to log in

Kyle Olivo

The new app is beautiful, but I’ve been unable to log in since its release. I contacted the Chronicle three weeks ago (with multiple follow ups) and they still haven’t resolved this issue. I exclusively read the Chronicle on my iPhone, and now I’m considering canceling my subscription over the lack of support on this issue. I can forgive the bugs, but can’t forgive the lack of customer support on an open issue.

Way better

non-luddite

Finally good enough to replace energy wasting paper. Pops on a tablet.

Too many ads!

anadtoomany

I have a subscription and I can’t read the e-edition (which has the normal ads in it) without a banner ad across the top from google. Ridiculous.