San Francisco Chronicle 12+
San Francisco Bay Area News
Hearst Newspapers
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- #69 in Magazines & Newspapers
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Get the smart news writing, award-winning photos and columnists, second-to-none Bay Area news coverage that you expect from the San Francisco Chronicle.
San Francisco Chronicle features:
• Features from The Chronicle’s team of trusted experts and columnists
• Local news from San Francisco and the Bay Area, including updates throughout the day
• The daily funnies in a Comics section updated every day
• Dazzling photo galleries
Subscribing to the San Francisco Chronicle
• Downloading the app is free. New users can receive free content on the app for 14 days.
• If you would like to subscribe, you can select monthly ($5.99) subscription.
When purchasing through iTunes, your account will be charged at confirmation of purchase. Any unused portion of your free period will be forfeited at time of purchase.
Your subscription will auto-renew unless you turn this off 24-hours before the subscription runs out. You can turn off auto-renewal at any time from your iTunes account settings.
No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during an active subscription period.
Privacy Policy: www.sfchronicle.com/privacy_policy/
Terms of Service: www.sfchronicle.com/terms_of_use/
What's New
Version 2.3.9
- Fixed: The app will no longer crash for users on iOS 11 after first launching the app after an update is installed.
- Update: We can now identify the device type of users when leaving a review to ensure users across all devices are enjoying the same app experience
Ratings and Reviews
Quite good
I use this app five or six days a week to read the Chronicle on the ferry. Generally it works well, and navigation works extremely well in the most recent versions of the app. The only real flaw is that the “download for off-line reading” fails from time to time. The consequence is that when the Internet is unavailable while the ferry is in the middle of the bay, the app sometimes says “content unavailable” even for the text. Clicking the red “Download” bar twice while the Internet connection is still available seems to make it worse. But overall it is quite a good app for reading the newspaper. The only other thing I would criticize is that it has no button that allows one to see exactly which stories are in the printed version of the day’s Chronicle, which people sometimes refer to in discussions with me. The online version contains stories that are older, but also not all the new stories that are in the printed version of the paper, as far as I can tell.
Developer Response
We appreciate the feedback and will continue to improve the app.
SF Chron
Update on prior review (about a month ago):
After months of not being able to get through even the first section without the page freezing or closing, I have been able to read the entire paper without problems. Neither updates of the app nor recommendations from tech support were helpful until I posted my last review. Finally, a useful fix. The suggestion was to delete and reload the app. The reloaded app works smoothly and, for the first time since June or July I am getting the news I’ve been paying for. The only remaining glitch is that a few stories about half-way down the “Front Page” are usually cropped at the top so that I don’t see the headline and the top of the photo. Relatively small annoyance that doesn’t really impede my reading.
Developer Response
We apologize for the issues you are experiencing. Some readers have reported issues after updating the app to the latest version from a previous version. In several cases, deleting the app and reinstalling the app resolved the issues. Please give that a try and contact appsupport@sfchronicle.com if you continue to experience issues.
Clunky
I now read all newspapers online. The convenience compensates for whatever I miss in the newsprint version. The Chronicle app has improved some over the past year or so, but it still crashes about once a week, so I have to reload. There are some glitches that just won’t go away. One example: recently there was a cool story about the most fun restaurants in SF. Try as I might, every time I clicked on the story, the app would freeze. After four or five attempts, each beginning with deleting the app and then going through reloading it continued. I finally gave up. Guess I’ll never know the most fun restaurants :)
I also read the NYT, WSJ and once a week the London Times. I never have the issues with those apps that I do with the Chronicle. But I still want to read the Chron, so it’s like walking around with a rock in my shoe. Irritating, but I still do it. Please keep trying to make it better.
Information
- Seller
- Hearst Newspapers LLC
- Size
- 108.6 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
- Rated 12+ for the following:
- Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
- Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity
- Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information
- Copyright
- © 2015 Hearst Newspapers, LLC
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- San Francisco Chronicle for iPad $5.99
- San Francisco Chronicle for iPad $59.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.