# The Morning Journal

> News

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id520205939](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id520205939)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id520205939`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Journal Register Company
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (79 ratings)
- **Version:** 10.0.60
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-20
- **First published:** 2012-05-02
- **Size:** 193 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-18
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-morning-journal/id520205939)
- **Website:** [https://www.morningjournal.com/](https://www.morningjournal.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.medianewsgroup.com/privacy-policy/](https://www.medianewsgroup.com/privacy-policy/)

## Description

The Morning Journal now offers a faster native app with personalized Your News, saved articles, and customizable push notifications. Users can tailor content by selecting topics of interest, enable offline reading, and enjoy a smoother top navigation.

The app includes an in-app E-News experience, swipe-driven article navigation, and topic-following to surface relevant content. After updates, you can restore subscriptions in Settings to ensure uninterrupted access; Terms of Use links are available in the app.

## Rankings

- #146,848 — Overall

## Review summary

The Morning Journal app is praised by a minority for local-news access and sports updates and potential cost savings, but the dominant feedback centers on reliability: content is often days out of date, articles won’t load or the app crashes, sections are missing, and login/subscription hurdles. The positives around formatting or convenience are outweighed by ongoing maintenance and content delivery issues.

### Pros

- Provides access to local news content, including sports updates, via the app.
- Can save money by not buying the daily newspaper.
- Formatting may be easier to read than the e-edition in a browser.

### Cons

- News content is frequently outdated or not current (days old).
- Articles fail to load or won’t open and the app crashes often.
- Content coverage is incomplete with missing sections and limited obits.
- Login/free-read limits and subscription access issues persist despite existing subscriptions.
- Overall stability and maintenance issues indicate the app needs frequent updates.

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