# The Wichita Eagle | Local News

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Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id393190450](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id393190450)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id393190450`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** The McClatchy Company
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 4.30 / 5 (1,991 ratings)
- **Version:** 11.1.18
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-08
- **First published:** 2010-09-25
- **Size:** 145 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-18
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-wichita-eagle-local-news/id393190450)
- **Website:** [https://www.kansas.com/](https://www.kansas.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://mcclatchy.com/privacy-policy](https://mcclatchy.com/privacy-policy)

## Description

The Wichita Eagle News delivers fast local coverage for Wichita and nearby communities (Wichita, Newton, Hutchinson, and Wellington). Read or watch daily local news, investigations, crime, sports, national headlines, and more, with live video and a digital edition that mirrors the day’s reporting.

Stay in control with personalization: follow topics, save favorites, search across articles and videos, and bookmark items for later. Browse by category, share stories, comment, download previous issues, and enjoy dark or light mode, plus puzzles and games to unwind.

## Rankings

- #41,968 — Overall
- #71 — article

## Review summary

User reviews largely describe a problematic app: frequent crashes and failure to load stories, login blocks for paid subscribers, intrusive ads and banner coverage, and a digital edition that feels more like a poorly designed web app than a newspaper. Content access is inconsistent, with many articles behind a paywall and features like obituaries or today's edition sometimes missing. A few updates improved readability and navigation and restored the PDF print layout, but overall support and reliability remain major concerns.

### Pros

- Improvements in readability and navigation after updates, with some users able to read articles without crashes.
- PDF/digital print edition restoration, returning to a newspaper-like layout.
- Some updates allow reading articles and comics more smoothly, avoiding unintended story modes.

### Cons

- Frequent crashes and content loading failures (white screens, app not opening, stuck on editions).
- Login/subscription access problems (won’t let me login, blocked from reading articles, credentials rejected).
- Ads are intrusive, with banner ads and content covering the screen, hindering reading.
- Digital edition UX/navigation is poor (not like a real newspaper; cluttered, not full-screen, hard to navigate).
- Content access inconsistencies and paywall frustration (not all articles accessible, today’s edition missing, obituary content sometimes unavailable).

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