Kansas City Star | Local News

Name: Kansas City Star | Local News
Rating: 4.4 (5723 reviews)
Author: The McClatchy Company

By: The McClatchy Company

Latest KC articles and sports

Features & Capabilities

The Kansas City Star News app delivers fast, easy access to daily local news coverage, investigative reporting, national headlines, crime, sports, and more for the Kansas City metro. It covers communities from Lee's Summit to Prairie Village with live video and AI-generated summaries reviewed by our newsroom.

Personalize your experience with tailored feeds, bookmarks, search across articles and videos, and reader preferences such as dark or light mode. Browse by category, share stories, comment, and access previous issues, puzzles, and games to stay informed and engaged.

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By:

The McClatchy Company

Rating:

4.40

(5,723) 34 new ratings

Version:

11.1.1 Last updated: 2026-03-04

Version code:

885788558

Creation date:

2011-06-29

Compatible devices:

Size:

134.45MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-04

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 25,252 ▲ 18

Other rankings

#12 in touch keyword 7 ▲ #32 in article keyword 33 ▲ 12#88 in news keyword 36 ▲

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Developed by:

The McClatchy Company

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kansas-city-star-local-news/id445990659

Website:

https://www.kansascity.com/

User Reviews

The KC Star app is plagued by stability, navigation, device-compatibility, and access issues while readers still value the underlying journalism. Users report frequent login problems, content not loading, videos failing to play, and ads interrupting reading. Older iPads can’t update, making the edition unreadable for some. The paywall and sharing restrictions, plus perceived clunkiness, undermine value. A minority note positive points like journalism quality and privacy-related fixes. Overall, the app needs better reliability and device support to justify continued subscriptions.

Pros

Journalism quality praised by readers (KC Star journalism is seen as strong)
Readers note value in KC Star's content despite app issues
Privacy-related fixes (Apple Private Relay) noted as a positive improvement

Cons

Frequent login and subscription access problems; daily login required; login can fail on iPad
Older iPad compatibility issues; updates disable access on older devices
Clunky navigation and difficult-to-use UI in newer version
Video playback issues (videos not playing or mislinked)
Content loading issues and app instability (articles not loading; crashes)

Recent reviews

If you enjoy overwhelming ad interference and page takeovers, use this site. If you like to experience repeated page crashes, you’ve found the place. If you really enjoy click bait from sources like The Street, look no further. I want to be supportive of my local news publication, it the owners of the Star are making it very difficult.

by N2*****, 2026-05-11

Only issue with the digital copy is that on numerous occasions several pages containing articles I was interested in do not load up. I see them on my content but they won’t load up to where I can read them. Disappointed in that aspect.