# The Morning Call

> News

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id501096172](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id501096172)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id501096172`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Tribune Publishing Company, LLC
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 4.40 / 5 (3,129 ratings)
- **Version:** 10.0.60
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-21
- **First published:** 2012-03-27
- **Size:** 193 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-16
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-morning-call/id501096172)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.tribpub.com/privacy-policy/](http://www.tribpub.com/privacy-policy/)

## Description

The Morning Call delivers Allentown's essential news, sports, business, and entertainment in a simple, elegant interface you can access anytime.

Stay informed with instant push alerts as stories break, offline reading, saved stories, exclusive photos and videos, and easy sharing with friends via Twitter, Facebook, or email.

## Rankings

- #33,742 — Overall

## Review summary

User reviews praise tablet access and some content quality, but the overall experience is soured by recurring login/subscription problems, a frustrating reading UI post-update, loss of landscape mode on iPad, intrusive ads, and missing features like games/puzzles. Key fixes would be improving login reliability, navigation, landscape support, ad management, and feature parity with the print edition to boost satisfaction.

### Pros

- Tablet/digital access to The Morning Call on iPad/tablet.
- App stabilization after years of Beta performance.
- Longstanding local coverage and informative, balanced reporting.
- Evening Call provides broad national and international coverage.

### Cons

- Frequent login/subscription/account access problems; customers report being treated as non-subscribers or wait for support.
- Cumbersome reading/navigation after the update: difficult to swipe, no page indicators, unreliable page view.
- Removal of landscape orientation on iPad; portrait-only viewing hurts usability with a keyboard.
- Ads and pop-ups clutter pages and disrupt reading experience.
- Missing features (games/puzzles/comics) and e-newspaper access/printing restrictions; customer support issues.

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