The Boston Globe alternatives

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R1] The Boston Globe 1/5 · US doesn’t work: Your $1 for six months subscription doesn’t work. Signed up on May 10, now can’t get in.
2. [R3] The Boston Globe 3/5 · US Can only log on or see on phone not on PC: Even though I am a paid subscriber I cannot read articles on a PC as I get challenged to log in. However clicking the log in icon produces no response. This is a chronic problem that was temporarily resolved by Support I can access the paper on the phone however.
3. [R7] The Boston Globe 1/5 · US App doesn’t authenticate: Title says it all
4. [R9] The Boston Globe 3/5 · US Why not make it work?: The app has a weird limitation. When I click a link using Gmail and it launches a web page that makes me login and then launches the app... Why not have the authentication built into the app like others?
5. [R4] The Boston Globe 1/5 · US Format: I liked the old format much better. It was easier to get around the paper!
6. [R6] The Boston Globe 3/5 · US Search function needs more prominence: I read the hard copy BG and only use the app to share articles with others. I want the search function obvious on the Home Screen. I’m tech literate so this is not a Luddite complaint.
7. [R13] The Boston Globe 1/5 · US No Thought to UX: It refreshes and exits articles if you put the phone down for a second. Tons of articles just load the web version that then pops up a subscription pop up that you need to manually log in every time.
8. [R16] The Boston Globe 1/5 · US y: website is tgerrible
9. [R12] The Boston Globe 3/5 · US Globe app review: The functionality of the news section of the app is pretty good and intuitive. If you are interested in playing the crossword or other typical newspaper games do not bother, that section of the app is wildly out of date and almost unusable.
10. [R22] The Boston Globe 1/5 · US Games no longer work: The games no longer work after the latest update. I’ve given it months to see if they would resolve this and sadly they have not. Doing the crossword was my peace each evening. Very unfortunate.
11. [R45] The Boston Globe 3/5 · US News great games bad: Love the journalism. Games are too glitchy to play. I’d love to delete my NYT games…
12. [R10] The Boston Globe 1/5 · US No longer journalism: Sadly this has become too biased to regularly read.
13. [R28] The Boston Globe 1/5 · US Journalism?: I am shocked that the lack of objectivity in for too much of your Global reporting
14. [R29] The Boston Globe 5/5 · US Not balanced coverage: Over the top with liberal opinion throughout the paper -how can I trust what you present as news?
15. [R39] The Boston Globe 3/5 · US Anti semitism allowed: Your far to liberal and anti semitic . You leave articles on the front page for months . You put what ever Israel does as major headlines while Ukraine and others get back page small columns. And worst of all you let the anti semitic commentators insult and call those that don’t agree with them names while blocking them only if the censor is available or feels like it only
16. [R34] The Boston Globe 2/5 · US Limited ‘Town’ paper. Little sense of the world. EG Vastly different from the NYT: It’s mind boggling how little news the Globe reports. Essentially none. In fact it’s a huge source of embarrassment for Massachusetts literati who have no choice but to read the NYT for actual news. Seems that all the globe cares about is scoring points with wokies. In fact, the less rational the better. In short ,
17. [R47] The Boston Globe 4/5 · US Charity: App is fine. But the Globe has too much sports and too little metro news. I suscribe mostly to support local newspapers and Spotlight.
18. [R15] The Boston Globe 3/5 · US Can’t gift articles: Decent local coverage but I cannot share articles to people who don’t subscribe to the Globe. Most newspaper subscriptions allow for several gifts a month.
19. [R48] The Boston Globe 3/5 · US Downgraded app: The app used to take me to top of the article when I click on upper corner. When I click back it takes me back to home page if I read an article for too long. Disappointing as NYT, WSJ don’t. And Globe is a paper that I never share with non-subscribers as I can only share 1 free article within 90 days period.
20. [R33] The Boston Globe 3/5 · US Too expensive for retirees: Cost of digital subscription should come down for 62+. And STOP teasing $1 subscription
21. [R24] The Boston Globe 3/5 · US Hard to log into: While NYT is easy, I’m consistently asked to enter a password to get into the Globe app.
22. [R42] The Boston Globe 3/5 · US Needs work: This app has a lot of potential. Aside from the clunky UX (I.e being brought to another browsing window to read articles vs reading articles embedded in the app, there are numerous design flaws that make this app mildly frustrating. It could be a lot better and on par with NYT
23. [R55] NYTimes 5/5 · US The standard: The NY Times is so quality that even its biggest detractors read it to know exactly what is going on.
24. [R65] The Atlantic Magazine 2/5 · US $100 Subscription Contains Ads: Content aside (-4.7 bias from AllSides), which y’all probably know going into a subscription, the platform contains ads directly embedded in its articles on the app. Unsubscribing after less than 1 hour of use. Edit: dropping star rating after attempting to interact with technical support for about 40min. Never got to a human and entered multiple loops with the hel
25. [R66] The Atlantic Magazine 5/5 · US Easy: Good writing available quickly and convenient with iPhone.
26. [R67] The Atlantic Magazine 3/5 · US Give your readers text size adjustments!!!: One of, maybe THE dean of thoughtful topical writing, can’t seem to provide what virtually every half-baked news source does … give its readers the ability to adjust font size! Your average subscriber, I’d guess, is not 20 years old. Provide dynamic adjustable display sizes now please. It’s vital. The Atlantic is an outlier in its inability to keep
27. [R68] The Atlantic Magazine 1/5 · US App needs a rewrite: Great articles. Horrible app. If you see an article on Facebook you can't navigate easily to the article in the app. I tried the app search feature typing the exact name of the article and it didn't appear. I tried using the authors name and couldn't find it easily. The navigation and look up seems archaic.
28. [R79] Boston 25 News Live 1/5 · US Sucks: Sick of looking at the guy in the Ad when you open the app
29. [R80] Boston 25 News Live 5/5 · US Fox25: Great on top news
30. [R81] Boston 25 News Live 3/5 · US Too many ads: Long commercials
31. [R84] Boston 25 News Live 3/5 · US Hi: If I am using the app. It takes a while for it load Especially when I’m checking the weather 💧.
32. [R93] WCVB NewsCenter 5 1/5 · US Terrible: None of the videos play for me
33. [R94] WCVB NewsCenter 5 5/5 · US A great app for Massachusetts news: It’s a very engaging app with great coverage of all of Massachusetts. All of the anchors are lovely and affable on air.
34. [R95] WCVB NewsCenter 5 3/5 · US Like It: But the ads before the video clips are annoying.
35. [R96] WCVB NewsCenter 5 2/5 · US Too many Ads!!: Every news article starts with an Ad. It’s so annoying. Today, I was trying to watch a live broadcast of a news conference on an active shooter at a college. There should never be Ads to access this type of news. Shame on you WCVB. Do better!
36. [R107] 7 News HD 1/5 · US Update: New update doesn’t work
37. [R108] 7 News HD 5/5 · US The while cast: I love this news station. Their beautiful people that know how to smile, laugh and be serious at at the same time. Love you guys
38. [R109] 7 News HD 3/5 · US Just downloaded the App and…: So I just downloaded the App and, looking for a particular story I saw last night. Thought I’d be able to Search for it, only to find.,.NO Search option? I’m hoping I’m just having a senior moment and totally overlooked it: hence the 3 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ and not 4. Also noted the Most Recent review was Nov 2024? I love Channel 7 News and I’d love to be able to give the App a 5-⭐
39. [R110] 7 News HD 1/5 · US Almost no videos load: Tried to watch the beach closing videos and only a static view is shown. No videos will load so unusable. I can't do alerts for a special upcoming program such as America 250, and if all I'll get is static view then you've got a useless app there. Deleted.