Bellingham Herald News | NW WA User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience27.9% of reviews
Neutral4.9% of reviews
Negative experience67.2% of reviews

~ Based on 61 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Bellingham Herald News | NW WA Safe?

Bellingham Herald News | NW WA appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Bellingham Herald News | NW WA is 86/100.

This assessment is based on 693 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.3/5.

Safety Analysis

83.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
8.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
8.8% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 693 App Store ratings for Bellingham Herald News | NW WA.

Is Bellingham Herald News | NW WA Legit?

Bellingham Herald News | NW WA appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Bellingham Herald News | NW WA is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Trash

Trash

App is unstable

And the writers are too. This paper is only for liberals and has no problem voicing their negative views of conservatives. I’m cancelling once my promotion ends.

Bham herald website app

I thought my older iPhone was the problem. I have new phone iOS 16 now & if anything the stories load slower than before. The website is clunky and difficult to use compared to my NYT app. Why?!

Bellingham Herald app

This app is frustrating. I’ve paid for a digital edition, but frequently while I’m reading an article, the page zips to the right and is gone. Then I have to hunt for the article again, and then the same thing happens. I tried clearing my cache and that didn’t help.

New App is Terrible

Help me find the search function before I cancel my subscription!

Great Local News

I love being able to keep up on the latest in our community. The Herald is a foundational institution in Bellingham and it is great to see them continue to strive for high quality local journalism.

New app is terrible!

This redesigned app is terrible. There’s also less current articles. I’m going to unsubscribe to this useless “news” app.

No search function

Like they want you to search through old archives and resent issues to find an article from last week. This app wastes your time and raises your blood pressure.

freezing, minimal content

I miss reading the "real" newspaper. The critical difference is the old print paper perhaps 50 articles a day, weather, obituaries, births, local news. The new Herald has perhaps 1 local, new, article a day.

New App doesn’t work!

I loved the previous app! This new version freezes up constantly & I don’t like the layout at all. The previous version was much easier to go from story to story in the list on the left. Definitely NOT an improvement at all!!!

Search?

No search functionality apparent. Poor design if you have to search for “search”.

App requires frequent logins while I am trying to read articles.

Once I am logged in the app frequently logs me off when I switch articles. Annoying.

Excellent

Easy to use. $15.99 Is a bit pricy for subscription. But it’s local and I’m okay with the price.

Like the Herald. Hate the Ap

Suddenly I can no longer read the daily BH on my iPad. It opens but only as a narrow side bar. Irritating.

Broke!

Looks like the new update borked the app! I cannot even get it to fully download. 😾

Paywall lifted for COVID-19, not

If you’re saying you’ve lifted the paywall but can’t deliver on that promise then you should remove your editor's note saying so.

Poorly managed

Get rid of the pay wall! The Herald has questionable journalistic integrity as-is, there is no way a significant number of people are going to start paying $13/month for a subscription. Competing area news outlets are still free. Revamp your advertising strategy and keep the news available to the whole population, not just people that can afford $150/year for the local paper.
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Very buggy

This latest is version is impossible to use. It doesn’t work like an e-edition of the newspaper. More ads. Once you pinch open an article you can’t get back to the full page.

To glitchy compared to old app

The new app is not as user friendly as the old app was, I see no real improvement and would rather have the old one back.

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What happened? Now you have to pay for the app content... no warning?