# Santa Cruz Sentinel for Mobile

> News

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id499677382](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id499677382)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id499677382`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** MediaNews Group
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 4.60 / 5 (55 ratings)
- **Version:** 10.0.60
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-20
- **First published:** 2012-02-07
- **Size:** 187 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-16
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/santa-cruz-sentinel-for-mobile/id499677382)
- **Website:** [https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/](https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.medianewsgroup.com/privacy-policy/](https://www.medianewsgroup.com/privacy-policy/)

## Description

To continue enjoying our app, we kindly request that you log in again after this update.

If you're a subscriber, please take a moment to restore your account to ensure uninterrupted access. You can find the “Restore Subscriptions“ button in Settings under Subscriptions.

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”

Terms of Use:
https://www.medianewsgroup.com/terms-of-use/
https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Rankings

- #169,222 — Overall

## Review summary

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.

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