East Bay Times for Mobile User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience14.7% of reviews
Neutral6.7% of reviews
Negative experience78.7% of reviews

~ Based on 75 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is East Bay Times for Mobile Safe?

East Bay Times for Mobile appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for East Bay Times for Mobile is 89/100.

This assessment is based on 282 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.

Safety Analysis

87.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
4.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
8.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 271 App Store ratings for East Bay Times for Mobile.

Is East Bay Times for Mobile Legit?

East Bay Times for Mobile appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for East Bay Times for Mobile is 85/100.

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

Top reviews

Great SF Bay Area coverage

A family member is sharing this subscription with me. I appreciate good, accurate news. What a wild month it’s been! (November 2025)

County Assessor

I could not agree more with Willie the wonder your app and website are not user-friendly at all. I even paid for having the newspaper delivered to my office and it was only delivered one or two days a week if at all.
The reliability of Your delivery system is kind of like the Russian space program.
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Response from developer

I am sorry to hear that you are having trouble accessing your subscription through our mobile app. For Help, please go to the settings menu in the app, found under the gear icon and scroll down to the Support section. You will find several links that may be helpful, and you can email our support team directly using the Get Login Help option. You can also report print delivery issues there.

Required updates

Unnecessary required updates. Ads are too intrusive for paid subscription

Unfortunate…

A good daily with timely local and national news plus good comics and daily puzzles…but the price is getting out of hand.

What is wrong with you?

Why would you remove landscape orientation? It is a nice easy way to read the paper. You have made it more difficult to enjoy the paper.

What is wrong with you?

Why would you remove landscape orientation?
It is a nice easy way to read the paper. You have made it more difficult to enjoy the paper.

Excellent Local News Coverage.

EB Times reporters do really well at covering local news, despite constant cutbacks. These are reporters—journalists—who know how to find the facts and put them together for us. These are not neighbors on Next Door who may or may not get the facts right.

Horrible

App refuses to acknowledge account activation despite charging credit card.

Yikes!

Yikes, this app actually never works!

Terrible

So lacking I am thinking of canceling the paper

Designed by monkeys?

The login page is a third party app that will not present the keyboard. What a joke.

The apps not bad……

But the news updates are stale.

It’s AWFUL!

Sure hope you don’t expect me to PAY for this crap.

It gets an F

Very difficult to navigate. Worse than it was before they revised it. I prefer to read the newspaper edition. And you can’t get there easily.
Also requires you to log in over and over again. Ads are intrusive and annoying. Terrible!

Bad app

Please go back to prior app. This is horrible

Horrible

This is essentially unusable. I can no longer read the paper without cursing whoever designed this new version. If I could leave negative stars I would

Switched back to the regular app.

Like another commenter, I prefer to get the “newspaper “ experience. Don’t like the way this organizes news articles and didn’t realize there were 2 apps that would work with my ipad

Terrible Upgrade

Whomever designed this new edition should be fired. I’m old school and resistant to change, but this new app is impossible to navigate and won’t even update on my new iPad Air. I can only hope there will be updates to fix the bugs! And given the comments on this review page I’m not alone. Time to go back to the Chronicle!!!
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Bring back the old version!

The old version worked just fine. Please allow us to go back.

Please please bring back the original app!

I HATE the new one. It is impossible to navigate. It is cumbersome and confusing. I am seriously considering cancelling.