# Pantagraph

> News

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id372316599](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id372316599)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id372316599`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Lee Enterprises
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 3.40 / 5 (402 ratings)
- **Version:** 9.22.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-29
- **First published:** 2010-05-22
- **Size:** 98 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-16
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pantagraph/id372316599)
- **Website:** [https://pantagraph.com/ads.txt](https://pantagraph.com/ads.txt)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.pantagraph.com/privacy/](https://www.pantagraph.com/privacy/)

## Description

Pantagraph News brings Bloomington-Normal stories to your fingertips with personalized topics, breaking updates, and configurable alerts. Read, watch, and listen with a modern newsroom app built for you.

Choose between the News Feed and the E-edition, adjust text size, bookmark stories, and enjoy audio for articles. News+ offers faster loading and an ad-free experience for subscribers.

## Rankings

- #89,951 — Overall

## Review summary

User reviews for Pantagraph's iOS app skew negative overall. Some users note good local news coverage and timely updates, but the dominant complaints center on the update flow (frequently prompting for reviews rather than updating), subscription billing and login annoyances, app reliability issues (crashes, blackouts, lost saved content), intrusive ads and popups, and poor content presentation (duplicated articles, oversized images, small text). These recurring issues undermine usability and value, despite occasional praise for local coverage.

### Pros

- Good local news coverage, with some praise for ISU coverage.
- App described as timely by some users.
- Positive sentiment such as '❤️ IT!!' from a subset of users.

### Cons

- Frequent update prompts that redirect to leaving a review instead of updating the app.
- Paywall and subscription issues, including unexpected renewals and login/sign-in prompts.
- Reliability problems: crashes, blackouts, videos/ads loading, and saved articles disappearing.
- Intrusive ads and popups, including ad redirects and 'you’ve won' scam prompts.
- Content/UX issues: repeated articles, oversized photos, small fonts, and overall difficult navigation.

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