‎San Francisco Chronicle on the App Store

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.

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What's New

Oct 11, 2018

Version 2.3.10

Performance and general bug fixes.

4.5 out of 5

2.2K Ratings

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.

We appreciate the feedback and will continue to improve the app.

New an Improved

It better now than at it recent low point (see last paragraph)which it was like an object falling into a “black hole”. This version seems to work reliably well enough that I gone back to reading the Chronicle for local news. Who knows what the future holds?

You can read my original rating below.

The current version of the app works well, and has good functionality. Compared to the earlier versions it’s much, much better. In some ways I like it better than The NY Times app, which seems to have been driven towards mediocrity by over ambition and advertising screen real estate.

It has been a long haul for the chronicle hopefully the recent progress continues.

My original assessment continues:
The overall reading format is still clunky, but the apps reliability and usefulness has improved, ie. it doesn't crash as much. The NY Times continues to perform consistently better. Gradually, we'll arrive at a commonly shared format. This one is not quite there yet.
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Update: The app has gone in the reverse direction. One might think, that being next to Silicon Valley and being ground zero for web app development around the world, that the Chronicle app might be a show piece, but that's not the case. Using it can be a brutal experience.

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.

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.

Information

Seller: Hearst Newspapers LLC
Size: 115.8 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 Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
: Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information
: Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
: Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
: Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity
Copyright: © 2015 Hearst Newspapers, LLC
Price: Free
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San Francisco Chronicle for iPad $59.99