Sacramento Bee News App Reviews

As a former resident of the Sacto foothills and mother of residents the Bee keeps me in touch. Their political coverage of CA politics is outstanding.

Since I subscribe to the print version, I frequently find a story I’d like to share with someone who does not. With the confusing top line of types of stories, where you find duplicate entries galore and seldom any features beyond insipid sports writing (not including Joe Davidson, who is first class), you have to look through all the headings under each banner to see if the article you want might be there. I don’t understand why the website wouldn’t organize under more traditional headings: Top Stories, National News, International News, Local News, Business, Sports, Opinion, and then Features or special groups of features like Food. Nor do I understand why there is no search function to use so you don’t have to scroll through all the entries to see if your article can be found. All the stories now are in digital form. Pay some competent web designer to have the site do a far better job of mirroring the printed version. Thanks for the opportunity to comment.

Where is weather. Rainfall. Hard to navigate

Awesome love the Bee. Too many ads.

The new changes make it more difficult to see and find stories quickly. I don't use this app as much anymore, sadly because I like to read my local news first. It's a pain. The Old app was better. BBC and Foxnews have much better formats. (use on an iPad)

Too many hidden advertisement triggers. Too many advertisements covering up content. Too much advertising. I pay a subscription fee for the newspaper, not for more advertising. I’m canceling my subscription at the end of it’s term.

The bee seems committed to complicating things to the point of killing one of our areas major source of news. As a long time subscriber I also use the internet version as a source when the paper is not available. The new Bee app format is not user friendly.

The SacBee has never been my first choice for news, but I hang onto them for local news. It’s just sad that I’m a paper of the state’s capital there could not even be a hint of neutrality in their reporting.

This app could have stood out but removing the Print Addition was a terrible mistake. For those that have and do read a Newspaper this app leaves one disturbed? Why remove the only reason one would open the app in the first place? The bee has had such a problem over the years with its beliefs and tactics to influence that now it's continuing to shut out its true customers! SAD DAY FOR THE BEE, yes Newspapers are failing and they are failing on there on accord. Now I remove all of my adds! A whole new group of inexperienced reporters and the Lose of Denny Walsh and Peter Hecht just to name a few have hurt the Bee! Replacing them with young kids that are Cheap is one way to so some kind of profit? You have the opportunity to do it write with the Finest Reporters but I have yet to see fair reporting! Your down on the GOP but support Idiots that FLIP OF THE COUNTRY! The bee is a Rag Now and has been for years! Start telling the truth, our News Reports will start soon and we are building a list of media outlets that twist Facts! We will twist the outlet and Correct the truth! New Day and your old rag did not keep up! Too bad your people running this rag must have their heads in the sand!

A cluttered, clunky, disjointed app--as if they tried to get too fancy.

Crashes after reading about at least four stories. Always getting bumped off. Might have to delete app and reinstall...

Where is the search function? Why can't I access puzzles (crossword, sudoku), which can be found easily via Google through an internet browser, but are replaced by a "subscribe now" page halfway through solving the puzzle, but there's no way to log in? You need to rethink this right away. With this crummy redesign, coupled with your pink-slipping of writers Marcus Crowder, Chris Macias, and Blair Anthony Robertson (while keeping Marcos Breton employed), I am thisclose to canceling my subscription.

The content of this app is not current or to date consistently. Most of the stories are hours sometimes day old other news outlets are faster to post what’s really going on a good portion of what I read on here is stuff I already heard about hours before I see it on here

This newspaper is a shell of its former self. Once praised for their reporting, this paper is now just a liberal editorial. If it could balance things out and simply report the news, it could call itself a newspaper. It is simply a propaganda for democrat politics. It does a fine job at that, but reporting news is more than that.

I used to read this site to catch the local ’news’. Unfortunately, the Bee interjects it’s left wing bias into almost every news story. No wonder they are failing and their daily paper is only approximately 6 pages. This paper is garbage. Years ago, although they were always left, I felt they actually tried to provide the news. Unfortunately, now this rag is no better than the National Enquirer.

Once again this morning the Land Values map is like looking through a narrow slit. No way to make it usable. I really miss the old newspaper-look app of a few years ago.

Can’t find a specific article I am trying to find. Stuck with the same old headlines.

Once again this is just one of the reasons I cancelled my subscription with the bee. For what ever reason this paper doesn’t support the Sacramento republic. No mention after last nights game. What’s a joke..

Very little about The Bee's website or app, either approach, is viable. Touch the arrow on a video (print people too in love with videos) and nothing works. Read a story, finish it, get suckered to another possibly interesting story under Trending, press on it, and again, nothing. The Bee was late to the party in web participation and building its website. Starting on the cheap, it's been retrenching ever since. Hard to navigate, frustrating to use.

Thats all. I like newspapers. Just don’t want all that newsprint building up around the house. And I don’t live in Sacramento but I like(d) thumbing through your paper every day for a Nor-Cal perspective on things. This new format is a turn-off.

We get home delivery but it is late every day, so I depend on the app to able to read the news by breakfast.

The internet version of the Bee is a joy to read.

I’m sick of the kinks in this app. It doesn’t recognize my login credentials, click the link to get help and it goes nowhere, click restore subscription and it cannot find it, check my subscription status and I’m in good standing, check my login credentials and they’re good. But the app still won’t let me log in.

I have been a subscriber for over 45 years and love the print edition on my iPad or lap top when I am on the go. This app is so user unfriendly and awkward. I hate it. Please bring back the print edition. I will not use this new app and now am considering canceling my subscription altogether. The cost of the subscription goes up and your service has gone down.

Worse update ever. Can’t navigate anywhere. Many ads, yes, I know you have to make money somehow. I now pay almost $40 a month for crap I can’t read. Time to cancel the subscription I guess.

This app is worthless

More raiders and sports coverage please

It's sad that The Bee can't seem to enforce user credentials without locking everyone out.

I really take this app for granted. I’ve been relying on it for far too long during which I never considered its place in my life. Turns out I love it. Great writing, relevance, coverage, and ease of use.

I loved opening the old app and looking at the newspaper just like the paper copy. The new edition is confusing and difficult to use. I dislike the font when you open an article, difficult to read. The ads are annoying and take time to close out. I have recommended the e edition to my friends I will no longer do so.

One star, only because I couldn't rate it ZERO. This is the worst, "improvement" ever. I want my newspaper back, even if it is a liberal rag...

Concise and up-to-date news flashes make the Bee app a good source of neighborhood, State Capitol, and California news. Thanks Scoopy!

Very disappointing. Without the Print Version it is no longer a news paper. It is just a limited and bias source of news. The navigation and "news paper" feeling is gone as will be your readers.

I have used a lot of news apps and the Bee has done the best. Reliable and easy to navigate

Liked the old version better.

Luv this app. Use it daily.

I use multiple news apps and this by far is the worst. Hard to search. Hard to send links. Hard to read. If I want to find an article I’ve read in the Bee I usually end up googling key words to find it after several minutes of frustration on this app.

As soon as I start clicking on articles to actually read them...every time without fail

Hey why did you feel compelled to update anything other than security issues with your previous app? It is hard to navigate and the screens are inconsistent. I often get lost trying to view the various sections of the paper. The current version of the paper often will not download despite repeated attempts to access the current news with the recent file. Additionally the pop-up adds are annoying as hell!

Were are the results? Do I have to down load another app? The SF paper post the first 10,000 in the bay to breakers.

The Bee is not a national paper like the Times or the Journal or the Post. It covers its area and California news as its primary focus. It does a good enough job although if they had more resources we could hope for more thorough coverage.

I just upgraded the app and now it won't open on my iPad.

Hard and complicated to navigate. No where to submit ‘letters to the editor’. Needs a lot of human factor engineering to make it easy to use.

This newspaper will not last long in the digital age if it can’t improve this app. It is not possible to subscribe to the digital form of the newspaper using the app. You must use a web browser instead. There is no way to log into your account once you’ve subscribed, using the app. A so-called login page under the customer service option does not have a username and password but instead a phone number and address, and is meant only for use by those with a home delivery subscription, even though it doesn’t say that. When you try to comment on an article, it rejects your attempt with a message that you are not a subscriber. I am a subscriber there is no way to tell the app that I am. To comment on an article, you must go through a social networking site to log in. The Bee does not provide a way for its own subsccribers to comment using the App and their Bee account!!! There is no search function. The app works well for reading articles, although the print edition mode is not pleasant to use and I don’t use it. The headings such as top stories, news, and latest news don’t differ very much. These app problems have been present for a year or more without being addressed. This is not a hopeful sign.

I’ve had this app for 5+ years it was an easy way to read on local sports and news. Today they locked me out of articles saying to now subscribe and pay. Well I’m good this app isn’t worth paying for was just good enough to keep free. I can find every article somewhere with no problems

While biased, this used to be a decent source of local news. Now they are locking out viewers after a number of uses. Trying to force them to pay for a subscription. I might even consider that if it did away with all the ad’s, but just not worth it either way. There a lot of other sources for news. Most free.