USA TODAY vs Apple News

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. [R2] USA TODAY 5/5 · US Awesome: Great Coverage
2. [R5] USA TODAY 5/5 · US Useful and helpful news: Compact and fair coverage of today's events. Especially enjoy the state-by-state headlnes
3. [R8] USA TODAY 5/5 · US USA Today is where it’s at: I receive updates on breaking news. The writers do deep analysis. Sometimes links are provided for further reading!
4. [R9] USA TODAY 3/5 · US Sports Section Dissappointing: I miss being able to select the sports league I want to follow in the sports section on the main page. Now I have to click the left side arrow through multiple leagues and individual game score to try to get to the league I want which is completely inefficient and has me looking for a new site. Please redesign.
5. [R3] USA TODAY 3/5 · US Ad Free?: I’m so tired of having to restore my iTunes purchase of my subscription. Seriously? You can’t write the program to do that automatically? In the latest release I can’t even get the restore to actually work. Advertising everywhere. BTW, in ad free I would expect that also included removing the TIPCO advertising masquerading as sports information. Right. Get rid of this type of advertisin
6. [R6] USA TODAY 3/5 · US Pop up ads: Pop up ads keep appearing. Should not happen with a subscription.
7. [R10] USA TODAY 1/5 · US Paid subscription is not worth the money…: So I subscribed to USA Today service hoping for a better experience. Yes I do get to read articles marked "For Subscribers Only" but there really weren’t that many and a majority of them were not of interest to me. So there are so many ads it’s actually hard to follow the gist of the article. You read a paragraph of news and then there is a half page
8. [R12] USA TODAY 3/5 · US Good News Source, but: Though somewhat left leaning, USA Today is a good source for news stories. Unfortunately, the app allows advertisements from known scammers offering simple cures for Alzheimer’s that doctors don’t want to tell you about. The adds attribute such amazing cures to famous physicians and TV personalities who in reality have disputed such claims. Shameful. How many people who are
9. [R4] USA TODAY 1/5 · US Poor layout: Text overflows onto itself when reading an article preventing legibility. Known issue that publisher isn’t fixing with app.
10. [R11] USA TODAY 5/5 · US SkippyAir: Excellent coverage of news from all over the world, which includes a very expansive viewpoint as well! The format is easy to navigate, very appealing, and very informative. Definitely a first rate news company!🤓
11. [R14] USA TODAY 4/5 · US Update ruined it: Forced me to update iPad version. Totally ruined this app with the update. Deleting.
12. [R18] USA TODAY 3/5 · US Great news but occasional issues with the app: I like the content for USA TODAY. I can get all the NFL sports news. I think it offers the best lifestyle content with important news, but not just all politics or negative. A concern though is I’ve had a lot of issues with the app sometimes I can’t see anything at all. you just get a blank page That’s frustrating.
13. [R7] USA TODAY 2/5 · US Subscription: I’ve been a subscriber for 8 years or so. My subscription is always without ads. About once a year I get locked out saying this section is for subscribers only. The app recognizes me but asks to restore purchases. When I click the link it doesn’t work. This is only with my iPhone. I move to my iPad and everything seems fine.
14. [R16] USA TODAY 1/5 · US Subscription problems: I find it difficult to enjoy your publication because it is driving me crazy trying to figure out my login/subscription info. I believe you are deducting $9.99 from my account each month (whatever happened to the 99c I was supposed to be charged?)….I have been paying the $9.99/mo but I get a message that I do not have an active subscription! I spend ,15 -30 minutes trying
15. [R1] USA TODAY 1/5 · US Jeopardy notifications: I had to block all notifications to get rid of annoying Jeopardy news pop-ups
16. [R29] USA TODAY 5/5 · US One of the best things…..: My favorite part is that I can voice activate all articles. Sometimes it’s more convenient for me to listen to USA Today.
17. [R30] USA TODAY 3/5 · US Too much sports: One of the last great papers for investigative reporting. However, if you’re not a sports fan, you can’t turn off the sports feed.
18. [R28] USA TODAY 1/5 · US No Ads!: I pay for no ads and that’s all I seem to have!!!… it with it.
19. [R61] Apple News 2/5 · US No subscription experience: The article selection is robust but most content is pay walled and it barely seems work keeping on my phone unless I sub. I think that is Apple’s point…make the non payers experience miserable until they pay
20. [R75] Apple News 3/5 · US Can’t read: Why is it that the important/ informative articles I can’t read. I either have to pay or google it to read it. Very frustrating.
21. [R81] Apple News 3/5 · US News with commercials: Constant upsell to News+ paid upgrade and having to wade through “premium” stories is very irritating
22. [R87] Apple News 3/5 · US Pay pay pay: There is too much news they show but to get the whole story they want money!
23. [R64] Apple News 2/5 · US Platforming entertainment as news: I’ve blocked Fox News and other trash sites more times than I can count, and his app is STILL trying to push it on me. Freaking Apple…
24. [R73] Apple News 2/5 · US Why the blocked channel still take big space: I am not sure if apple has the common sense regarding “blocked”. Or just making fun of the users.
25. [R80] Apple News 4/5 · US Needs Tweaks: Overall, this is a good app and I like reading news on it. However, it could use a couple of tweaks. Firstly, if I block a channel, don’t show it in my feed. That’s why I blocked it. Also, give me the option to block whole topics. Hitting “suggest less” doesn’t really help. For example, I don’t care about sports, yet I can’t get this app to stop suggesting sports stories to me, even
26. [R91] Apple News 2/5 · US Overall well done: Biggest issue is if I say unfollow, shoeless or block a channel don’t still show me the junk. Remove it all, what’s the point of blocking if you keep taking up space.