San Francisco Chronicle Reviews

Come on

Bobw16

This just gets worse. I have written numerous reviews, correspondes with support, nada. Uninstall, reinstall all to no avail. Still loads molasses slow. Offline usage is a joke. No search function. Nyt and wsj have great apps. Use them as a model We are in the middle of app central! Why can't you make this work?

Missing features, no search

bodhibliss

UPDATE #2 Six months later none of these issues have been addressed. Reluctantly canceled my subscription on May 13. UPDATE: two months after I submitted this review, the same problems (missing features, no search function, etc.). Today I have to find these features by searching the Internet (where I end up reading Mick LaSalle’s column on the sites of competing newspapers, even though the SF Chron is his home). I still rate this app one star because there is no lower designation. (Complaints in my original post are detailed below.) Two features that regularly drew me to the previous app were the Ask Mick LaSalle column, and the horoscopes (especially Sunday’s Minerva feature). The latter might sound silly, but checking the horoscope was a fun daily ritual, followed by reading articles of interest. Now that there is no daily horoscope, I’m out of the habit and ease of visiting the Chron app at all (I’m not going to invest the extra time in looking it up and reading the paper on my laptop at work). Similarly the Ask Mick LaSalle column – if I happened to miss it, very easy to enter it in the search field, and then I’d stick around reading other items – but now it’s inaccessible, unless I happen to visit the app the day it’s published. I’m sure your intent wasn’t to shift daily readers to an occasional rare visit, but at least in my case, that’s the result.

Bad app

Cliff123456

I have been an app subscriber for 5-6 years. I don’t think I have been able to log on w/o problems more than 6 times. Frustrating

Terrible app

Mandorla2527

Still the worst news app on the internet. It takes forever to download; trying to view photos is a test to your temperament. Any other newspaper is better than this.

Can't Search App

jl_oak

I don't know of any other media apps that don't have a search feature! This is a major omission, and I hope it's designers care enough to fix this.

Password issues

happybirder

I have a subscription and yet need to constantly log back in for every story. Very tedious!

Hard to read

Frank Critic

I want to see the whole page.

Subscription doesn’t work

Eggiers

I think this is a pretty good app and I like the newspaper so I am a subscriber. But, subscribing to the app does not get you access to the website which is ridiculous. Even links in articles I read in the app are unusable bc they link out to the website which I can’t access despite paying $60 for an annual subscription. So I’ve cancelled.

No search facility

LEC dancer

A search function would be very helpful. If a story is not in the days paper, no way to read it on the app.

TIME TO CANCEL SUBSCRIPTION

Semper Paratus 333

After many fairly minor annoyances for months navigating the Comical’s e-edition, I reached the breaking point today. Attempting to open today’s SUNDAY edition, yesterday’s SATURDAY edition repeatedly opens. It’s just not worth the aggravation; I’ll be spending $10 a month on the San Jose Mercury instead.

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