# The Patriot-News

> News

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id489242523](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id489242523)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id489242523`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** The Patriot-News Co
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 4.50 / 5 (500 ratings)
- **Version:** 8.0.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-02-27
- **First published:** 2012-02-16
- **Size:** 32 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-16
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-patriot-news/id489242523)
- **Website:** [http://www.pennlive.com](http://www.pennlive.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.advancelocal.com/advancelocalUserAgreement/privacy-policy.html](https://www.advancelocal.com/advancelocalUserAgreement/privacy-policy.html)

## Description

The Patriot-News is your online newspaper app, delivering award-winning local news, daily features, sports updates, and entertainment highlights—available anytime, anywhere.

Enjoy an enhanced reading experience with online-only perks, bonus magazines, supplements, interactive puzzles and games, and easy article sharing with friends and family. Subscribers get full access to each edition with a simple login, and app-only subscriptions are available to unlock everything.

## Rankings

- #73,829 — Overall

## Review summary

The Patriot-News app is praised for easy navigation, robust local sports coverage, and a convenient mobile digital edition, but users frequently report reliability issues: slow performance, crashes, missing/misformatted content, wrong edition delivery, and trouble with subscriptions and support. Readability concerns on small screens are also noted.

### Pros

- Easy to navigate and customizable, making it user-friendly for older readers.
- Strong local sports coverage and broad sections (Nation & World, Life).
- Digital edition is accessible on mobile devices, enabling convenient online reading.
- Positive format and layout, with praise for content such as Ravens coverage.

### Cons

- App is slow and sluggish; loading is unreliable and crashes can occur.
- Online edition often has missing text or misformatted pages and isn6#39;t properly sized on devices.
- Subscription and login issues prevent access; prompts to subscribe despite already having one; purchases not recognized.
- Content delivery sometimes shows the wrong edition (e.g., Omaha edition) or no feed.
- Difficulty contacting customer service; support lines and circulation contacts are hard to reach.

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