Billings Gazette User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience8.8% of reviews
Neutral4.4% of reviews
Negative experience86.8% of reviews

~ Based on 68 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Billings Gazette Safe?

Billings Gazette has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Billings Gazette is 57/100.

This assessment is based on 185 user ratings, with an App Store average of 2.8/5.

Safety Analysis

40.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
9.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
49.7% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 185 App Store ratings for Billings Gazette.

Is Billings Gazette Legit?

Billings Gazette appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Billings Gazette is 85/100.

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

Top reviews

Loyal gazette reader

Awesome news coverage, global, national and local.

E Subscription

Very inconsistent layout. Lot’s of duplication. Sports scores and results are often delayed at least a day.

App

App freezes up sometimes does not load at all and sometimes doesn’t reload for the next day we had to reload the app to get it to work

E Edition

The e-edition is a mess. On my iPad it keeps jumping back to full page view. It repeats the comics and other pages at least two times in each edition.

Proof reading before publication would be a plus.

Bad, very very bad

It is good at showing you advertising but terrible at showing you the news.

Gazette

How much does the paper cost???

Trash

Junk news

Used to be OK. Now unusable

I am a subscriber and pay for this but the app (and website) are junk. If I click on a story, it asks me to subscribe. I am a subscriber. No way to work around it and just log in. Even if I go and log in, still cannot read the story. Unfortunately no rating less than one star.

Use to be good.. what happened

The new update to this app is horrible!
Unorganized mess. Don’t bother.

Unreadable News App

You download the app to see the news. You go to an article and a pop up blocks you from reading it unless you subscribe. So another way to say how bad it’s become is everyone who buy’s an add through Billings Gazetee get to only subscribers. You get more by using KULR-8 or Q2 who doesn’t block people. This is an app not the newspaper! Uninstalled Forever!
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Get the app working or refund your subscribers

Have an online subscription but every time I click on a story a I get a subscription message. Mind you I’m logged in but it won’t restore purposes so I need to log out and back in. An app that is slow in delivery news, should at least work.

Ap is a joke

It used to be that this ap was somewhat usable. The last couple of stories I’ve tried to view have been bared by pop up’s telling me I have to subscribe in order to view them. When I hit the close button at the top of the subscription window it bumps me back to the home page which in turn bumps me back to the story and the annoying subscription window. There doesn’t seem to be a way to stop this other than exiting and quitting the ap. Seriously considering deleting the ap. What’s the point of getting an alert about a story when you can’t view it?
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Horrible app

If I could rate this lower than one star I would! The app constantly requires you to “log back in” to keep reading. It’s clunky and elementary. Just spend a few dollars and make it user friendly!

Junk

Can’t view anything on the app without paying a ridiculous monthly subscription. Can’t even be informed about what’s going on in your state without paying for it anymore apparently.

Horrible app and zero customer service

I want to support the Gazette as a local paper but they are making it incredibly difficult to justify paying for an online subscription. The multitude of ways this app fails are too numerous to count. I can access my account on my iPad, everything else is a no go. I’m kicked out, logged out, asked to log in when I already am and then told I need to subscribe. It’s beyond ridiculous and the only response I got from their tech support was ‘it’s a work in progress.’ But they have no problem billing me monthly.
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Inaccessible

Your site restricts almost all access.

App doesn’t remain signed in

As a paid subscriber, I am very disappointed in this app. I have to sign in multiple times during one viewing session. I have emailed their tech support and had no response. I also had hoped the ads would go away once I subscribed but they are still there. Some work needs to be done on this app.

Constantly logs me out

I subscribe to the online version of the gazette. Recently the app started logging me out after closing. It has progressed to where I am consistently logged out and asked to purchase the gazette subscription. Sometimes even when I am fully authenticated and successfully logged in I cannot read articles and the “you must subscribe” screen pops up.
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$312/year

$312 a year for a few local articles and ~70% shared articles between the Independent and Missoulian?!? I thought I’d given enough accidental ad clicks through the years due to the clunky user interface, guessed wrong.

Will uninstall now

25.99 a month for you to report on Wyoming more than local. And nothing but covid reports. You are out of your mind. Don’t waste your time for this not worth it. Was barley worth the space on my phone when it was free.