Orange County Register

MediaNews Group, Inc.

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

Welcome to a new app experience, we have optimized our app and giving it a facelift! This faster Android native app now has the following new features:

- Your News:
Provide personalized recommendations for content based on user preferences.
Users will be allowed to customize the content they want to engage with by selecting the topics they are truly interested in
By going to the “Your News” tab the user can bypass the noise of all that is published and home in on the content they want

- Saved Articles:
Save feature that allows users to save articles or other content they are interested in for later reading or reference
Push notifications will remind users to read their saved articles or suggest related content

- Custom Push Notifications:
The user can select what topics they want to be notified about which makes for a much less intrusive experience.

- Top Navigation Bar:
A top navigation bar lets the user switch between sections by swiping or tapping.

- Enews in-app:
Desire the newspaper experience? No need to open a separate app!
By simply going to Settings and selecting E-News the user can browse the Digital Replica of the day’s paper.

- Offline Reading:
This feature allows users to enable offline reading from Settings.
Offline “Reading Preferences” can also be customized for Settings.

- Swipe Left:
Instead of going back to the main section to find more articles, users have the option to simply swipe, immediately opening other articles in the Section.

- Follow Topics:
A user will be shown articles on topics they are following.
To follow select follow at the article level and related articles will gain relevancy and be shown more frequently.
Just as easily “Unfollow”

- Games:
Users can enjoy a variety of games served in app.
Games include: Sudoku, Solitaire, Jumble, Crossword, and Puzzles

Ratings and reviews

The overall process in general is rough. I like to use the Google news feed to see what headlines attract me, OC register pops up. I click, it tells me to sign in to read, I sign in, and it continuously tells me to sign in to read anyway.. I just don't get it. I do like the content, but the tech alienates me from trying. Google news feed has more visuals, maybe if they did more pictures idk.

As a subscriber, I'm surprised that ads dominate this app. LA Times and NY Times apps are so much cleaner. Also the navigation -- finding my subscription information, California news, etc.-- is horrible. I don't understand why OC Register feels that their app is good, especially when compared to their competitors.

I understand that newspapers are under extreme duress right now but this app could use a little work. The link from Google News app to the OC Register is currently not working. I imagine that is likely one of the best ways for the OC Register to get new subscribers. BTW, I am currently a subscriber. Hope they fix it quickly. Thanks for listening.

What's new

Added update time to article
Added election charts to articles
Minor bug fixes and improvements