# Dinakaran — user reviews > 176 indexed App Store user reviews of Dinakaran by Kal Publications Private Limited, rated 4.50/5 from 258 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dinakaran/id492595083/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dinakaran/id492595083.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 184 · 4★ 38 · 3★ 20 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 12 ## What do users think of Dinakaran? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Comprehensive coverage and quick dissemination - 👍 Simple and informative - 👍 Excellent design and layout - 👍 Instant news updates - 👍 Useful for overseas Tamil people **Cons** - 🔍 Annoying advertisements - 🐛 Poor touch-sensitive icons - 🐛 Incorrect or misleading news - 🐛 Repetitive content within articles - 🐛 Delayed news updates **Commonly reported bugs** - Frequent crashes - Compatibility issues with older devices - Inability to read full news content - Inconsistent news updates **Most requested features** - Dark mode option - More district-level news coverage - Reduce advertisements - Improve navigation and UI - Add more content sections (e.g., cookery) ## Newest reviews (11 of 176) ### 4/5 — Purchased E paper but not opening *2024-10-21* Dear team, I’ve paid ₹999 for 3 months subscription, but E paper is not opening. Kindly do the needful. Thank you. ### 3/5 — Most sections contains old news *2022-06-19* Except main page, most pages contains two weeks+ older news ### 3/5 — Annoying advertisements for every news read *2020-05-04, version 4.2.1* Too many advertisements..have to spend more time on ads than news ### 2/5 — Magazine section makes the app crash *2020-02-29* App crashes while opening magazine section. Hope this bug gets fixed ### 2/5 — Poor touch sensitive icons *2019-09-07, version 4.2.1* Most advertisements continue to show until end of the duration and even after that close icon doesn’t work properly. Well curated articles, can reduce repetition of content within the same article by summarizing both at the top and bottom of the article. ### 2/5 — Loading slower *2019-07-03* Application is slow ### 2/5 — Speedy notification.. *2019-02-21* Good one for Express news lovers ### 4/5 — We think you *2018-09-12* Good ### 4/5 — Very nice app *2017-02-13* I have used more than 3 apps related to the news. But I felt this was the best. Easy and simple UI.. Well done.. Can avoid some spelling mistakes ### 5/5 — Spot on! *2015-05-19, version 2.0* Lovely! Helpful app to know the back home news. ### 2/5 — Very poor *2014-11-13, version 1.20* District news is not available for most of districts. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Notification *2024-07-16* Cannot read notification messages ### 1/5 — Worst *2024-03-21* Worst performance in notifications reading ### 1/5 — Too much advertising *2021-11-17* advertising ### 1/5 — Too much of Advertising is blocking the app *2021-04-06* Full screen Advertising is popping up every now and then while other news apps having the advertising within the app so not a big issue... But this app advertises in full screen and cannot close also have to wait till the advertisement video played fully ### 1/5 — News feed is not updating and it’s 4 months old *2020-07-29* News feed is not updating and it’s 4 months old ### 1/5 — Too worse bad user experience *2020-04-30* The app opens sunnxt app while on opening and on refreshing the app. I am here to read the news and not to see something in the app store. Worst user experience. Better provide a link in the app to sunnxt instead of opening appstore every time. ### 1/5 — Navigation is good, too many ad feed kills *2020-01-09, version 4.2.1* Almost every news it pops up a ad and have to spend more time than reading news. ### 1/5 — Not much good for iphone users *2016-01-12, version 3.1* This app looks weird these days after I received couple of updates from Apple Store which looks bad in both performance and UI. Needs improvement and lots of testing has to be done before it goes live for users. Kindly take it to consideration. Thanks ### 1/5 — Upload news *2015-08-08, version 2.0* Hi can u upload the kanya kumari dist news last 10 days we can't see any new please upload as soon as possible thank you ### 1/5 — Not able to read content *2014-09-14, version 1.20* Can only read headlines of the news. On clicking headline to read full content/news, it again shows headline only. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Comprehensive Coverage & Quick Dissemination *2024-07-17, version 4.5.1* With notification turned on, Dinakaran app keeps me up-to-date.. up-to-second on latest happening on TN especially and beyond. ### 5/5 — good *2021-05-26* Nice app since i use from 2014 I get breaking news from Notifications.. ### 5/5 — Worth-reading *2021-04-10* Informative and precise ### 5/5 — Sincere prompt neweses 🙏 *2021-03-30* I like to read dinakaran Tamil news daily, And past many years I’m using this news paper only..congratulations 👍😀✌️ ### 5/5 — Customer review *2020-06-13* Dinakaran News , is covering all national & International news , etc , very well and the matters and articles are well presented to read , to it’s readers.🌷 Regards & Best Wishes.💐 ### 5/5 — Krishnagiri supplementary not attaching *2019-09-17* Now I am staying in USA Even though my feeling is living in India because I am getting updates of Tamilnadu news as well as worldwide news, Thanks, but only the drawback isKrishnagiri supplementary didn’t attach! ### 5/5 — Presentation *2018-08-03* Very good and fast updates ### 5/5 — Review online paper *2018-08-01* I am from Chennai spend part of the year with my son at Usa In absence of any newspaper here I enjoy online Dinakaran very much Varadarajan ### 5/5 — Simply superb *2018-04-04, version 3.3* Good one..!! ### 5/5 — Awesome. Love it. *2016-11-08, version 3.3* இந்த app பயன்பாட்டுக்கு மிகவும் அருமையாக உள்ளது. Particularly the scrolling news feed is impressive. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-27.*