# Athens Banner-Herald

> Breaking News + eNewspaper

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1341122239](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1341122239)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1341122239`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Gannett
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 4.50 / 5 (216 ratings)
- **Version:** 8.11.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-23
- **First published:** 2018-03-12
- **Size:** 183 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-16
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/athens-banner-herald/id1341122239)
- **Website:** [https://www.onlineathens.com](https://www.onlineathens.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://cm.onlineathens.com/privacy](https://cm.onlineathens.com/privacy)

## Description

The Athens Banner-Herald app brings you breaking local news, sports coverage from high school to the pros, photos, and videos that matter to your community. It delivers a fast-loading, streamlined reading experience so you can stay informed wherever you are.

Customize your news with saved stories, adjustable text size, night mode, and offline reading. The eNewspaper brings the print edition to mobile, plus access to USA TODAY and 200+ local newspapers for a broader perspective.

## Rankings

- #102,511 — Overall

## Review summary

Overall, the Athens Banner-Herald app is valued for local news and convenient online access with useful article links, but is hampered by paywalls, nagging ads, and inconsistent access for subscribers. Users report crashes, slow performance, and weak search/navigation (archives, comics, puzzles). Some also want more local coverage beyond sports. Improving stability, search quality, and subscriber access would greatly improve the user experience.

### Pros

- Keeps me up-to-date on local news and events in the area.
- Provides useful links to articles and sources within the app.
- Online reading experience is convenient and accessible.

### Cons

- Paywalls and subscription gating lock most content, with nagging ads and repeated login prompts.
- Crashes frequently, slow loading, and resets reading position after idle.
- Poor search functionality and difficult navigation (archives, comics, puzzles).
- Excessive and intrusive ads and promotional nag screens disrupt reading.
- Content skewed toward sports with insufficient local news coverage.

## Similar extensions and apps

- [The Herald-Times](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1638409659) — 4.20 / 5
- [Herald Times Reporter](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id531367431) — 4.10 / 5
- [Spartanburg Herald-Journal](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id651580545) — 4.20 / 5
- [Hendersonville Times-News](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id398005655) — 4.30 / 5
- [Panama City News Herald](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id585896442) — 4.10 / 5
- [The News Leader](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id566359326) — 4.30 / 5
- [Ashland Times-Gazette](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1455424317) — 3.80 / 5
- [Times Herald](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id520581929) — 4.20 / 5
- [Columbia Daily Herald](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id964773799) — 4.10 / 5
- [Citizen Times](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id531428757) — 4.40 / 5
- [Greenville News](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id513921905) — 4.30 / 5
- [Daily News Journal](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id528350381) — 4.40 / 5

---

Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1341122239)