Orlando Sentinel App Reviews

I should have known better. All I wanted was yesterday's Scott Maxwell column. You would think that would be a snap... Scott you ought to write a column on the digital side of the Sentnel. No perhaps you shouldn't on second thought!

New app is awful. There is no content. Lots of pictures but no information. The paper has been deteriorating for years. Please somebody buy it and rebuild.

The app constantly goes to a white screen when you click an article. This has been an issue for months now. And then they expect you to pay for the subscription

It’s hard to express just how rude and horrible Orlando Sentinel customer support is. Install the app, have an account issue, and try to call them, and you will experience it for yourself. I signed up for a digital subscription, received my confirmation subscription email, and then tried to login. Couldn’t. Couldn’t create account because they thought it already existed. Couldn’t reset the password because they didn’t think the account existed under the same address their system said already existed. After several calls of people who wanted to talk over me without actually listening so they could close the ticket and not actually address the issue, I ended up canceling my subscription. Never again. One of the worst authentication setups and customer support organizations I have ever had to deal with.

It’s finally fixed. The app works! Thanks Tribune

This is the worst news app. It only allows you to see a couple of articles and then tries to force you to pay for more. I just go to the local TV apps and get the get there. This newspaper used to be a great paper but not anymore. I was a subscriber for over 40 years and dropped it last year.

Terrible app

This app is packed with ads and has 5 stories a month free. Then they make you pay for there news stories. The app just locks up after 5 stories . This is Just a heads up before downloading it and being very disappointed. I could not delete it fast enough

Update to reduce to 1 Star, which is one too many. Have used for about 5 months now. Constantly have to sign in, does not recognize I’m a subscriber, gets stuck in a loop of “you’ve reached your 30 pg limit, sign in or subscribe to continue”. Have to clear all website history, and start over. Calls for assistance met with crickets. I deleted this worthless app and canceling my subscription. Who needs the aggravation? I like reading the print version of the newspaper online. What this app needs: should be able to view the entire page without scrolling down so you can quickly see what’s “below the fold.” It needs a way to one-click advance through the sections. It needs the ability to “jump” to a continued article and then jump back to the page you left. The app doesn’t keep me logged in, so in my morning fog I have to type in my user name and pswd. And for some reason it highlights random word combinations, believing them to be hyperlinks. Not every “xxxxx.xxx” is a url; most frequently it’s just the end of a sentence! I guess I’m spoiled by many years of using the Tampa Bay Times’ ENewspaper, an intuitive, reliable and smooth app.

Pay as you go. Greed.

The app restricts you to 10 stories before you have to pay! It does have a provision to watch an add for the right to read the story, but alas that function doesn't work!

This app is easy to navigate and works well with the online subscription to the paper.

A listing of news items is nothing special

I read the Orlando Sentinel on the app every day. I am enjoying this arrangement a lot. It is easier to find articles and loads quickly. Nice job!

App freezes every time I try to load an article. I pay $5 a month for this?

Can't read anything unless you pay and fully subscribe to junkmail for weightloss and p**** pills. $lantinel editorializes every story until subscriptions waned. Now the $lantinel editors fap to the Orlando Weekly's backpage. The Orlando $lantinel gets five faps up. fap fap fap fap fap...FABULOUS!

Update: I've changed my rating to reflect a more optimistic outlook as the glitch seems to have been corrected today. I cancelled my subscription yesterday, which still leaves me almost a month to use it. This should give me enough time to work with it and decide if I want to renew. ***************** I wish I hadn't wasted almost $8 on this s***** app that can't even open the link I click. Still can't get it right OS? After all these years? Don't waste your money. It's the worst.

This app is sad, you get 10 article reads per month, then it becomes useless. The irony however is that a quick google search and you can read the article on safari for free! It makes the app rather pointless. Just open it up and let the ads pay for the content Orlando Sentinel...

Worst app. Plus they charge you to read.

Updated app will not open

Constantly crashes. And when you're finished reading an article, the rest of the articles won't load so you have to exit the app and restart it. Ridiculous

I really enjoy this app I get all of my national and vacation news they have good coverage.

This limits the number of stories you get. Navigation is terrible.

I will be deleting this one. They can't seem to make up their minds. Now we get access to 20 articles a month then they shut you off. I think I will download one of the TV channel apps for my local news.

After signing up for subscription last week, each time I try to access the Sentinel receive message used up articles. I go through the time wasting check subscription process with reply I am a subscriber. Beautiful Sentinel and Apple-amazing technology! Also a beautiful thing you must rate app before sending comments-Where are the minus 5 stars that is my rating

So this app used to get 5 stars from me, now it has dropped to 1 since I updated it recently (I guess if something works NEVER update it!). Now you can only read 10 stories a month before they want you to pay for a subscription at $5-$10/month! That is absolutely ridiculous! I have no use for it anymore in this way and will be deleting it soon. Come on Sentinel!

Now only 20 articles a month if you don't pay. To many other options for free news with the same quality.

About three weeks ago, the app stopped working. The initial screen with the list of articles appears, but once you select an article, you get a blank screen with a spinning pinwheel of death. The article never appears. Eventually the app crashes. I’ve deleted and re-download the app numerous times. But, it did not resolve the problem. I’m using on an iPhone X. I see on the App Store that the app was updated about three weeks ago. So, I’m hoping a future update resolved the above issue. Until then, I have pinwheels to look at.

This app could be great if many of the stories were not so old. I just read 2 stories about Romney Election spending and how much the rich pay in taxes from 2012! Why would I be interested in 3 year old stories?

They have reduced the number of free stories a month from 10 to 5.

Tribune and Tronc apps are almost universally bad, but this has to be the worst of the worst. It is full of bugs, takes forever to open and then freezes repeatedly. Almost as bad is the fact that the Sentinel is terrible at updating it. The lead story could be at the top for 36 hours, regardless of what is going on. Newer stories are sprinkled haphazardly throughout the page with no rhyme or reason. Looking for the "latest" news is useless. And big stories that are in the print edition or the digital print edition are hard to find, if they're in the app at all. I keep hoping Tronc will be taken over by another media company, just so this tragic app would be replaced.

Expect your mailbox to suddenly fill with spam, junk mail and adds for prostitution. Never had that stuff until the day after we subscribed. Thanks, Orlando Sentinel, for doing your part to support s** trafficking!

Does nothing

10 articles and then you have to pay ? What a joke.. Delete

This app is not reliable. When you click on an article, nothing happens. It won’t load. Tried deleting and reinstalling too. Easier to just go to a browser and use it there.

You get 10 free articles a month. After that, you have to PAY to read the news. Ridiculous and frustrating, considering I browse quickly through 10 stories in 10 MINUTES and reach my limit for the MONTH. Waste of time to have this app. Uninstalling.

Worst app ever! It's all about money. Have to pay to to read any articles but it's FREE to read through Google News. Uninstall useless app

I want it to look like a newspaper! I don't like this format at all!

The content is good, not even close to great, but certainly does not justify a $4.99 per month subscription (the cheapest available). If the articles were written better, with fewer grammatical and spelling errors, it would be worth paying up to $1.99 a month. As it is now, they are charging premium pricing for average content. I wasn't a business major, but I know that's a horrible model.

This app is ridiculous. It's comprised of almost all 'premium' stories which require a subscription but are shared for free on Facebook or found through a simple Google search. Don't waste your time. Orlando sentinel should be embarrassed. I'll get my news elsewhere. App Version: 3.7.2 iOS Version: 9.2.1 Device Name: iPhone - Stephen Bender

I thought I would be able to read the paper by paying for a subscription in this app. Well, I can't. It only allows access to the website. If I wanted to search for my news I could do that in my browser with better results. I tried to search for an article in today's paper and the search returned a list of videos several years old. Worthless. Why do I have to pay for a physical paper delivered to my home. Then I am able to read the paper electronically and the physical version just goes into recycling. It is such a waste I refuse to do it.

I hate how "Save" is an option on the lock screen view of Notification Center. I want to be able to swipe and dismiss a story, not save the s***** thing.

I can get better news for free from one of the local TV station apps. Limiting to 20 stories a month or making some stories premium etc is just petty.

I finally deleted the app because it took too long to open — 60 seconds today. Plus most of the stories are about murders and assaults. I would count the number of stories before it reached the m***** stories, and the most I ever got was 12. Finally, a lot of stories are 5 and 6 days old. I even paid for a digital subscription and I canceled it because this app is terrible.

Do not waste your time with this application. The news articles are ok and some of them provide a good read. Other than that one shred of a positive note, this application robs you of your own time and then asks you for your own money. The articles that feature pictures are just galleries full of irrelevant photos that have nothing to do with the article you are reading. To put the cherry on top of this horrible hand spun disappointing shake, they now have a 20 article limit a month. It is almost laughable how desperate the Orlando Sentinel has become. Do yourself a favor and download the News13 app.

I invite any other news outlet to produce an app. It wouldn't be hard to beat this one. Either crashes or doesn't load in the first place. Maybe if I paid for the premium version this wouldn't happen? Sorry but I'm not paying to read the news.

You are only allowed to read 10 stories a month for free? Really? All other major new agencies allow you to read all of their stories for free with adverts. What a scam.

The next update fixed and my account was restored and no longer have the limit amount of articles that I can read.

After update you can only view 20 articles without paying. Really greedy move by a greedy company. I'll get my central florida news from an actual news app from now on. Don't waste your time!

It works, but it too two days to see the grayed out menus for the sections of the paper across the top of the home page. Such a simple thing to fix. Why hasn't it been?

After updating, I realize that there is now a limit for reading anything. There used to be a little flag in the corner of the article indicating it was a premium story. I thought that was bad but stuck with it. Now there is no indication and after 20 minutes of reading I have hit my monthly limit. I could understand if there were no ads, but that is not the case. There are many places to get the news daily whether local or national that treat user better. I would definitely NOT recommend this app. I actually hope that I don't even have to rate it one star for it to count. UPDATE: I did have to rate it at least one star to review. Also, since then they have changed it from 20 stories per month to 10. UPDATE 7-11-17 They have lowered it now to 5 stories per month. Still the same amount of advertisements. All I do is delete the app and redownload and keep reading. I'm sure this is to increase the download numbers and then charge more for advertising. If they would just stop with the games this might have a better rating.

When I reach the 10 article limit, I simply search and get the full article on their web site. Why make it difficult for app users?

Waste of application space as they've gradually reduced the number of free articles per month even with ads! Can get local news from so many outlets, nothing special enough to warrant a subscription...so time to say goodbye from my devices.

I’ve subscribed to the Sentinel on this app for 6 months and have had nothing but problems. Currently, I’ve paid for the enewspaper and digital edition but am unable to access the digital version. I’ve contacted Customer Support only to get a generic reply that has nothing to do with the problems I’ve stated. Customer Support says it’s the apps problem, Apple iTunes says it’s the Sentinel’s problem. Meanwhile I’ve paid for a paper I can’t read. Definitely not worth the aggravation.

This app continues to disappoint. They have gone to a 20 article per month limit for reading without a subscription. They provided no notice and simply started to withhold the articles. Deleted the app and am using USA Today and AP News instead for quality news and good app experiences.

Seriously just google the story and you don't have to pay . The app only allows you to read ten articles a month then it FORCES you to pay. Morons!

Only 10 articles a month? And it's full of advertising. More corporate greed! This App got quickly deleted! Zero stars!

Haven't been able to open any articles for two months