The Mercury News

Name: The Mercury News
Rating: 4.2 (902 reviews)
Author: MediaNews Group

By: MediaNews Group

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Features & Capabilities

The Mercury News e-Edition keeps The Mercury News at your fingertips, with every article and picture intact — even comics and puzzles. This browser extension delivers all the content with a faster, simpler interface, including in-depth local coverage, entertainment, and sports.

Features include razor‑sharp fidelity to print, streamlined navigation for reading on the go: flip pages, zoom on articles, rotate to landscape; tap any article to switch to full-screen text; plus archive access to every issue published in the past 30 days.

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By:

MediaNews Group

Rating:

4.20

(902)

Version:

4.0.3 Last updated: 2024-05-08

Version code:

865740923

Creation date:

2011-07-28

Compatible devices:

Size:

127.21MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-04

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# 63,608 ▲ 2

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Developed by:

MediaNews Group

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-mercury-news/id429774201

Website:

https://www.bayareanewsgroup.com/

User Reviews

Summary of common feedback: The Mercury News app suffers from stability and usability problems, including frequent crashes, flaky navigation, and intrusive ads, with audio issues and reduced offline access; users also report login and edition navigation troubles. A minority feel the app was once reliable and easier to use, but overall the consensus centers on a degraded experience since updates.

Pros

Efficient and easy to use interface.
Generally sound/reliable for long-term users.

Cons

Frequent crashes and startup failures (crashes on launch after updates, splash screen loop).
Annoying UI and navigation issues (jumps to front page on rotation, tiny tap targets, confusing flow, continue-to-next-page bug).
Intrusive ads blocking content and causing navigation resets.
Audio/text-to-speech stops when the screen dims or when leaving the page.
Offline access/readability degraded (requires network; older offline download removed).

Recent reviews

Annoying UI. Jumps around the page seemingly on its own volition. The audio is so poorly executed that unless you stay on the page and make sure it doesn’t move, or heaven forbid screen shuts it stops and can’t be restarted! I only continue my subscription because it’s my local paper. Other papers have these problems under control, why can’t they?

by Ga*****, 2025-11-13

I want to be able to listen to articles in full without having to fiddle around with the phone the whole time to make sure the display doesn’t go dark . The fact that the text to speech feature stop working as soon as the display goes dark makes the whole app much less valuable for me.

by ER*****, 2025-05-11

This app must be decades old; most of the newspaper is unreadable. First, you can’t expand the viewer window beyond its tiny dimensions. Second, some articles expand and can be read with a larger font. But, the majority of articles don’t expand at all and remain in a tiny page view. It doesn’t get much worse than this.