Indystar App Reviews

Very good app. and works well on my I-phone.

Missing delivery reports don’t work.

The new USA Today section is impossible to read. Every screen touch results in an intrusive ad pop up.

I love being able to read stories online here, as they happen. They do a great job !

Breaking news headlines arrive, but I’m often unable to read details because app won’t update. Frustrating.

We follow several digital newspapers across US. Indy Star is one of the best organized, easy to navigate, aesthetically pleasing, and generous with the amount, quality and variety of free access articles. Great photos, too. Wish (crossword) puzzles were available on free version.

The best!!!

I am very impressed with his app. Easy to use and the news is well covered.

This app is clunky. Check out the NYTimes app for an example of a good news app. And I object to the fact that two of the most prominent articles on the app are about getting an Indy star subscription. I already have one! Get rid of them.

Great local news

Pay subscription for print copy delivery. Full USA Today only available through app. However, hard to find and get to. Not set up for daily reading.

It takes a bit of getting used to reading the news in this manner, but the content is good and the app works well.

I didn’t want to connect this app to my facebook account. After several attempts, I was able to create an account with my email address and a password. The app does not provide access to the online account you created, which can only be accessible through their website. So, creating the account was pointless. I don’t want to pay for news that I can get for free elsewhere. (Content in this app is high level and contains many of the same stories the provider shares on twitter/facebook.). This was super disappointing. Once I was in the app, and surfing around, every article I viewed had an advertisement positioned in the middle of the content, asking me to subscribe to e-access, which I thought I had just done when I agreed through iTunes to subscribe for $4.99 per month. This was the final straw, only a few hours after agreeing to subscribe. Well, after this experience, I’ve cancelled the subscription I just signed up for and am deleting the app from my phone. No thanks... I’ll find my news elsewhere.

Can’t seem to access when I want to read. Slow page turning. If it worked it would be great

One of my go-to news sites. Fair news, updated often.

I’ve used the app for a few years and it has improved but there are times when I want to go back and search for an article about a person or event and cannot seem to find a way to do this.

This is a very good app and very easy to use. The newspaper is good if not a little bit right leaning. But hey, I love the columns and the sports section.

Liked IndyStar from beginning however, new format takes some time getting used to. Not clear division of news and sports.

This web site/server has significant problems. It frequently requires registered subscribers to religious in and the gives error messages such as ‘Server unavailable’ or ‘no account identified’. IndyStar has not been responsive to comments about it.

My go-to app for daily news focused on Indianapolis and Indiana. The format is fairly intuitive and breaking news with follow-up pieces is a great benefit.

Indy Star is a great paper - app also gives access to some USA Today content.

Absolutely unequivocally the worst newspaper in America.

Quality coverage for Indiana

Love the Breaking News Updates! While traveling, I can keep abreast of the latest happenings in Indy

The best way to keep up with Indy news. It is a must have

Articles are always timely and instant to the event. Appreciate the story alerts to my phone and like the mix of text, pictures and videos on many stories. Sometimes the many ads throughout the articles are repetitive and get in the way of continuity. Since I can't always read the stories immediately, i like being able to access recent stories that I missed.

We subscribe for the local news, but with Pence as VP we get some interesting local perspective of the national stage.

I am annoyed at paying 12 $$$ per month and still have to put up with ads on the digital subscription of the IndyStar. As of May 1st. 2017, I still fill the same way about the ads annoying when I am paying for the subscription. Judy

Can't even see top news anymore. Deleted the app the morning.

App works well. Easy to use. Up to date News and nothing to recycle.

I rely on the Star to stay up to date with current events. The recent updates make this app very easy to use and track news.

The best news app out there. Easy to use and tons of information that important to Indianapolis

Good sports and news. Can always use more sports!

Love this App!

After having to flip over ads incorporated into every article Now they want eight dollars a month! Best thing is that the app has a delete X

I'm loving the updates and the writing is excellent.

Used to be able to get just the headlines for free..... now they are charging for everything. Useless app. Delete.

It has worked much better lately in navigation effort and live links. It will get you to most of all of the material unless it is not a live link. Has gotten much better with navigation with better menu selections. Has improved with time. Since it shares platform with USA Today that makes it a much easier one to work with.

Not a single story without $$$$$. Bye bye!

I understand that newspapers need to charge for their product. It costs money to pay staff and other operating expenses. However if I subscribe on one device (iPad), I should be able to also read content on my other device (iPhone). Please correct or I may cancel my digital subscription. Thanks.

Update said "bug fixes" to remove pop up adds. But didn't mention that we now have to pay $8 a month for fixing that "bug."

But why isn't there a search option in the app?

This app for the Star is great. They get the news to us fast.

New app is much better. Still occasionally buggy, but becoming less so. Sometimes stories don't refresh appropriately. Only addition I'd appreciate would be the ability to have more control over the type of 'breaking news' alerts I receive.

Your app gets one star until it learns to keep me logged in as a subscriber.

Fine Job ! One thing though, it upsets me that they seem to not support our President...and there is more negative things that are written about President Trump than Positive.

This has got to be the worst way to read the star

Bought a physical paper subscription for my grandmother, thought I would do the crossword online every morning. Crossword doesn't open on iPad.

Wouldn’t be so bad, but it’s almost impossible to scroll through an article without thumbing an advertisement and completely diverting you to a web page...it’s very annoying

Extremely bias and Never shuts up about IU

And Kravitz, Wilson, Chappell, &.Hutchens too. The Star used to have some writers

I truly dislike the way the information is organized. I can't tell which articles are new until I click on them. Hate the way you have to negotiate around the minefields of ads that you can accidentally open. Would much prefer a physical paper, but the monthly subscription went to $54, so who wants to pay that much- even to support a free press?

I delivered this paper 61 years ago and I was proud to do so. But now the paper has got so thin. What news, or information it does have is 90% Liberal, it makes no sense for me to even take this paper twice a week. They should change their newspapers name to CNN. (Fake News)

News on the go.....keeping up with local news

I have been a fan of the Indy star for 40 years and find them to be fair minded in there reporting and enjoy the editorial section, and even though I live a thousand miles away I read it daily and follow so many things in the city that interests me everyday. Thank you, I miss my city, it's people and my wonderful friends. Captain Ray R Irvin aka Mr Greenways

Great app for our local paper! But order the print version too!

I like reading the star because I was born and raised up there. I moved from there with my parents when I was 16 so I enjoy keeping up with the news from up there.

Wish the Star had more quality writing and independence. Sadly, Gannett owns everything, and this paper is becoming more right-leaning. No complaints about the actual app.

The Indy Star app facilitates brief emails of events local, national and international. These are very current and usually brief news highlights. For those of us who appreciate timely information of current events, it is a valuable method of keeping informed.

I have to say after living in Indianapolis my entire life the Star has now gone in much different political direction. What was once an overwhelmingly 'right' leaning source it's now moved to the left.

The Star app does a great job of giving me the headlines in an easy to read format. I can quickly find the stories that interest me and move past those that do not.

Great for quick look at the news.

Transplanted West a few years ago, love being able to read Indy news and events. I'm enjoying waayy more than I expected to. I subscribe to NYT, WSJ and Silicon Valley- Mercury News but spend a lot of time on this app, much to my surprise. Don't love the leftward drift, but am very satisfied with the app. I love telling my college pals stuff they don't know is going on in their hometown.

Glad the articles aren't cut short anymore.

Too liberal for my taste. Print addition has dwindled to next to nothing. Give it up and distribute Fair news on all topics.

Very good newspaper

I travel a lot for business and having this app helps keep me connected to the happenings in my city. I find myself on it daily.

I live on the east coast so the Indianapolis Star (digital edition) is my link to what's happening in my former city. Not only does it keep me informed of all the local news, including sports, but it offers good coverage and commentary on national issues as well.

Insightful and relevant local reporting.

Now a big-league newspaper, that suffers only from having moved away to leaning Right to leaning Left.

App works great, content is always top quality. Zak Keefer, Stephen Holder and Gregg Doyel are reason enough to subscribe.

I can never check on my account or the period my payment covers; because this feature is never available!

The Star helps keep me up to date while I'm on the go. They also push stories that are of interest to me.

These day everyone wants to condemn guns as an evil force that makes people be violent and not take responsibility for their actions, yet alcohol is a more serious problem but very few complains about alcohol. Drunk drivers k*** with the same deadly force and devastating the lives of so many. I have yet to see an inanimate object do anything on its own, no matter what object, whether car, gun knife, ball bat it’s ALWAYS the person behind it. James R Fox Greenwood

Ignore the comments and cries of bias. Sure, the editorials are often left of center, but editorials are not reporting. The Star's reporting is topical, pertinent, and quality. And they excel at local human interest stories, which often intrigue and delight. I love my hometown paper.

Breaking news headlines arrive, but I’m often unable to read details because app won’t update.

Great source for local news!

I have a subscription to Thurs-Sun paper copy. This gives me the other days as needed.

Perfect

I feel very fortunate to be able to get the Indy Star.

The App is so good that I do not miss the paper version.

I enjoy keeping up with all the news and happenings in and around Indianapolis!

No search capability. Heard to find stories app keeps getting worse.

Beautiful site very informative keep up the good work!❤️😍😘😗😙

Appreciate it.

Wether looking for a complete story or a quick reading of events, Indystar keeps me connected to those things most interesting to me.

Well done app that dovetails well with the print version.

I live outside the state and have been reading the Indy Star mainly to keep me up to date with the pacers, colts and hoosiers. The amount of articles published is fantastic for a local news source. Main reasons for 3 stars: 1) Get rid of the BCS scores on the main sports page. It’s February guys, no one cares! 2) Why do I still care if Reggie Wayne is hosting an awards show? 3) I’ve seen the recommendation for the book enough times to know I don’t want it. This real estate is key! Use it to surface your great content!

This app allows direct access to all of my phone features when accessed from the notification screen. All other apps have a pause where my fingerprint is required to access them. This one goes directly to the article then can be closed and all phone features are accessible. App is decent enough but I’m not happy with the lack of phone security.

I've signed up for breaking news alerts, but I receive push alerts for sports (which I couldn't care less about!) and lifestyle and all kinds of other topics not included in the breaking news category. Also, sometimes I will accidentally swipe the alert closed and then have trouble finding the story in the app.

Really dislike the new obituary format. Please go back to alphabetical!

I like the app because it's easier to read articles on it than in the print version. Especially enjoy the advance access to Matthew Tully's column and some other articles as well. The only improvement I can think of would be to take out the ads.

New app logo is weak. Too pastel. Make it bolder.

Great way to keep up with the news and sports when I am out of town, especially over the winter in Florida.

The app reading experience is fine, but it lacks the ability to search recent articles that have fallen off the curated main pages.

The app only gives you access to some articles. For example, a headline will appear in a FB feed but I can’t find it on the app. Further, it would be nice to be able to have the article found in a newsfeed to automatically launch in the app. It doesn’t. This app functions solely as a reader which is disappointing. Could be so much more robust.

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We subscribe to this load of bulls*#! and they make you watch ads while reading articles and scrolling through articles?!? Not how it’s supposed to work. Don’t even waste your time and money on this tripe.

This app is not very user friendly. I’m very frustrated trying to get to the selection format I want to use. Once I found it, i had a very difficult time getting back to the selection feature at the bottom of one specific page. This app needs improvement.