Santa Cruz Sentinel for Mobile

Name: Santa Cruz Sentinel for Mobile
Rating: 4.7 (52 reviews)
Author: MediaNews Group

By: MediaNews Group

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Features & Capabilities

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Welcome to a new app experience, we have optimized our app and giving it a facelift! This faster iOS native app now has the following new features:

Your News: Provide personalized recommendations for content based on user preferences. Users will be allowed to customize the content they want to engage with by selecting the topics they are truly interested in. By going to the “Your News” tab the user can bypass the noise of all that is published and home in on the content they want

Saved Articles: Save feature that allows users to save articles or other content they are interested in for later reading or reference.Push notifications will remind users to read their saved articles or suggest related content

Custom Push Notifications: The user can select what topics they want to be notified about which makes for a much less intrusive experience.

Top Navigation Bar: A top navigation bar lets the user switch between sections by swiping or tapping.

Enews in-app: Desire the newspaper experience? No need to open a separate app! By simply going to Settings and selecting E-News the user can browse the Digital Replica of the day’s paper.

Offline Reading: This feature allows users to enable offline reading from Settings. Offline “Reading Preferences” can also be customized for Settings.

Swipe Left: Instead of going back to the main section to find more articles, users have the option to simply swipe, immediately opening other articles in the Section.

Follow Topics: A user will be shown articles on topics they are following. To follow select “follow” at the article level and related articles will gain relevancy and be shown more frequently. Just as easily “Unfollow”

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User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

MediaNews Group

Rating:

4.70

(52)

Version:

10.0.56 Last updated: 2026-05-13

Version code:

885591853

Creation date:

2012-02-07

Compatible devices:

Size:

156.65MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-04

Compare stats and ranking:

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# 190,346 ▼ 244

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Developed by:

MediaNews Group

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/santa-cruz-sentinel-for-mobile/id499677382

Website:

https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/

User Reviews

Users value the app for local Santa Cruz Sentinel coverage, but repeatedly complain about ads, outdated content, and friction from paywalls and login. Performance and UI issues—crashes, slow loading, and navigation flaws—also degrade the experience. Overall, it provides essential local news, but significant UX and reliability problems hinder consistent use.

Pros

Provides local Santa Cruz Sentinel news and local coverage on mobile.
Content is excellent and a good way to keep up with local happenings.
Convenient to read local news on the go.

Cons

Intrusive and excessive ads that interfere with reading, including full-screen ads and problematic ad placement.
News is not updated regularly and often feels old or stale.
Paywall/login friction and subscription issues limit access to articles.
Performance and UI problems, such as crashes, slow loading, small fonts, and confusing navigation.

Recent reviews

When switching from reading the article to an embedded link and then back this darn app always takes one to the beginning of the article. Frustrating. I want to go back to the part of the article where the link was like I can do in almost all other news apps. Small town programming?

by Li*****, 2023-05-28

The phone app has many glitches and gives a less than desirable news outlet. Please consider investing some money into a full redesign to enhance the customer experience. Thank you in advance for your time.

by No*****, 2023-01-30

I am SO happy with this purchase. I HATE the “local news” online that only showed me SF, and neighboring areas for Bay Area news. Finding this app let me get the local new I WANT to read about! Best purchase! Love it!