# Deccan Chronicle News

> News

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id478674381](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id478674381)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id478674381`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 4.20 / 5 (168 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.5.7
- **Last updated:** 2024-05-13
- **First published:** 2011-11-11
- **Size:** 63 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-17
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/deccan-chronicle-news/id478674381)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.deccanchronicle.com/privacy-policy](https://www.deccanchronicle.com/privacy-policy)

## Description

Deccan Chronicle News is a free Chrome extension that brings the Deccan Chronicle and related publications to your browser, delivering top stories and city coverage with easy navigation. Features include Top News, India stories, city coverage across Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala, entertainment, science & technology, lifestyle, photo galleries, columns, Sunday Chronicle, and breaking news.

It lets you read, share, and discuss stories, with simple sharing options and push notifications for breaking news, all while keeping content accessible anytime, anywhere.

## Rankings

- #115,744 — Overall

## Review summary

The app is praised for up-to-date, relevant coverage and a positive sense of a revived publication, with content considered good. However, users repeatedly complain about intrusive ads, frequent loading crashes, navigation challenges, and outdated or slow-updating content. Overall, strong content value is overshadowed by stability, usability, and update shortcomings that many users want addressed.

### Pros

- Up-to-date/relevant news coverage
- Positive overall reception and good content
- Local Hyderabad/India/world news coverage appeal
- Content looks good; app is a nice/impressive revival of the publication

### Cons

- Excessive intrusive ads/pop-ups (some with sound) and limited ad controls
- Frequent loading crashes or the app not opening / slow performance
- Navigation issues or unclear page state / poor UI
- Content not updated promptly / outdated content (lagging sections such as movies)

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