# The Mercury News

> News

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id429774201](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id429774201)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id429774201`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** MediaNews Group
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 4.20 / 5 (901 ratings)
- **Version:** 4.0.3
- **Last updated:** 2024-05-08
- **First published:** 2011-07-28
- **Size:** 127 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-16
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-mercury-news/id429774201)
- **Website:** [https://www.bayareanewsgroup.com/](https://www.bayareanewsgroup.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.digitalfirstmedia.com/privacy-policy/](https://www.digitalfirstmedia.com/privacy-policy/)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #59,768 — Overall

## Review summary

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).

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