Sacramento Bee News California

Name: Sacramento Bee News California
Rating: 4.2 (4867 reviews)
Author: The McClatchy Company

By: The McClatchy Company App

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Overview

Version:

11.1.18

Last updated: 2026-09-08

Ranking

#27,742 ▲ 94

Overall

Features & Capabilities

Sacramento Bee News California delivers trusted daily coverage from Sacramento, Roseville, Elk Grove, Folsom, El Dorado and surrounding communities. Read local news, investigative reporting, crime updates, business stories, opinions, editorials, national headlines and regional developments from The Sacramento Bee newsroom.

Watch live news videos, explore local photos, follow professional and college sports, and personalize your experience with favorite topics, saved articles, dark mode and article search. The app also includes AI-generated summaries reviewed by the newsroom, digital newspaper editions, comments, sharing tools, downloadable past issues, puzzles and games.

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By:

The McClatchy Company

Rating:

4.20

(4,867) 52 new ratings

Version:

11.1.18 Last updated: 2026-09-08

Version code:

890846428

Creation date:

2010-07-25

Compatible devices:

Size:

145.01MB

URLs:

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Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-09-26

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Ranking

# 27,742 ▲ 94

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Developed by:

The McClatchy Company

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sacramento-bee-news-california/id382902278

Website:

https://www.sacbee.com/

User Reviews

Users generally appreciate the Sac Bee's local news content and see the app as a go-to source for reading, especially in the morning, but the overall experience is hampered by persistent ads, frequent loading crashes, and stale editions. Many reviews cite incompatibility with older iPads, frequent updates breaking access, and poor customer support. Recurrent issues include non-closable ad banners blocking content, repeated articles, and login prompts. Improvements exist when the app is functioning, but the prevailing pattern is a reliability and UX problem that undermines a paid subscription.

Pros

Strong local news coverage and Sac Bee content.
Used as a go-to source for daily/morning news.
When the app works, reading articles is straightforward.

Cons

Intrusive ads and overlays (floating ad bar, bottom ads, pop-ups) that obstruct reading and cant be closed.
Reliability and performance problems (pages/editions not loading, crashes, slow downloads).
Compatibility/update issues on older devices (older iPads; updates break access).
Poor customer support and unresponsive service.
Recurrent content problems (duplicate articles in editions, stale content/not updated).