The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Philadelphia Inquirer

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About this app

Staying on top of award-winning Philadelphia news is now faster and easier than ever with the The Philadelphia Inquirer app on both Android phones and tablets. With the official Android app for Philadelphia news, access top daily headlines and latest breaking news alerts from The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News.

With The Philadelphia Inquirer App You Can:
• Discover the latest breaking news and important updates with our intuitive news feed and uncluttered reading experience.
• Explore the news topics you care about from sports teams like the Eagles and Phillies to local news with our seamless section navigation.
• Remember the stories that matter to you with quick action buttons for bookmarking and sharing.
• Never miss a story with digital all-access subscriptions, available as an in-app purchase.

Additional Features:
• Alerts and Notifications - be the first to know with verified breaking news. Easily access breaking news articles with one tap on a notification.
• Newsletter signups - stay on top of the news in your email inbox. Sign up for the newsletters you’d like to receive to get the very best of The Inquirer.
• Frequent Updates - stay connected with 24/7 coverage and other important news throughout the day.
• Log In - use your existing inquirer.com email and password or Register for a new account.
• Customized Feed - customize the news feed to follow the topics that matter most to you. Switch between your custom feed and Latest Headlines with just a tap.
• Custom Text Size - read more comfortably with the ability to increase/decrease article font sizes.
• Dark Mode - activate from the Settings tab and the app will switch to dark mode when activated on your device for easier nighttime reading.

Be a part of the future for Philadelphia news with The Philadelphia Inquirer app.

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Ratings and reviews

The reading experience leaves a bit to be desired. The worst is its progressive loading of content: it looks like an article just ends out of nowhere until you tap around in the blank space. Next is the frequent opening full webpages within the app instead of just the article content, but that has a tradeoff: won't use phone's dark mode, and I can't easily resize text, but the whole article loads, and I don't have to click around randomly without hitting an ad to get the next paragraph.

Decent app. Almost great. Reason for 4 instead of 5 stars: 1. Some notifications are dead links. They open the app but the article is not found. 2. Swiping through pictures is clunky. Sometimes the app will scroll up and down instead of moving to the next picture. It will also inadvertently click ads instead of going to the next picture. 3. Load time for articles is too long. Sometimes it's upwards of 10 seconds. 4. Clicking a notification results in the app opening with an article not found.

Articles are great, the main issue is that I can't always read them. The ads and photos load fine, but the text doesn't load until I press randomly near where the text should be. This often presses an ad instead, so that's incredibly annoying. I'm also not super fond of how many ads are put in the articles when I'm paying so much per month.

What's new

Performance improvements.