Seattle Times Print Replica

The Seattle Times

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About this app

Complete with comics, photos, columns and more, The Seattle Times Print Replica app lets you page through The Seattle Times exactly as it appears in print. If you have a print or digital subscription to The Seattle Times, you get free unlimited access to the Print Replica app.

- Keep up with The Seattle Times on vacation: Read the day’s paper and up to seven days of back issues.
- Easy to read and navigate: View a full table of contents and most-read stories, and easily skip to the section you want.
- Download pages to read later: Easily save pages as PDFs so you can read or print them without Wi-Fi.

Ratings and reviews

The Android app is buggy. None of the navigation controls on the iPad app actually appear, so I manually have to go page-by-page. Even the iPad app got rid of hyperlinks to the completion of an article, which makes completing stories quite tedious. The old version had serious bugs. This fixes those while creating new ones and eliminating useful features.

Developers - why have you broken this app so badly? It used to work just fine, giving the feel of reading the printed paper - seeing stories in the context of surrounding stories, and stumbling across interesting, unsearched-for stories in the process - while also being able to jump around easily within the paper. Navigation is now completely broken - "See..." text is no longer a link to article continuation on a later page, and section links go to wrong sections. Please give me back my paper.

Not terrible, but not good either. Deleting old downloaded editions now works (finally!) but causes the app to freeze for 15s. Multitasking causes the app to crash and/or lose your place frequently. Tapping articles to open them frequently fails to work. Still needs some polish, but improving. Preventing screenshots is stupid and petty so -1 star.

What's new

Improved user experience
Improved search functionality
Added filters