# Fosters Daily Democrat — user reviews > 42 indexed App Store user reviews of Fosters Daily Democrat by Gannett, rated 4.20/5 from 237 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fosters-daily-democrat/id1038092658/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fosters-daily-democrat/id1038092658.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 151 · 4★ 42 · 3★ 12 · 2★ 10 · 1★ 22 ## What do users think of Fosters Daily Democrat? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 📰 Great local news coverage - 👍 Easy to use and navigate (mostly) - 📱 Good app for staying informed - 📰 Informative for local area - 📰 Great for local news - 📰 Great local paper - 👍 Clear and functional app - 📰 Hometown news online - 📰 Well organized and simple **Cons** - 🐛 Obituaries link to wrong state - 👎 Not user friendly - 👎 App never works - 👎 Subscription not recognized - 👎 Same stories day after day - 👎 Notifications not showing - 👎 Can't find community events/obituaries - 🐛 App tends to bring up prior stories - 👎 Payment methods outdated - 👎 Layout cumbersome on non-Apple - 🐛 App crashes constantly - 🐛 Photos off scale - 👎 Too little news, hard to find **Commonly reported bugs** - Obituaries link to Providence Journal (RI) instead of local - App crashes constantly on Apple devices - Photos are off scale - Unable to update credit card info - App brings up prior news stories - Never recognizes subscription - Notifications not showing up upon launching app - Fixing online digital subscription issues requires calling 800# - App is difficult to find news in **Most requested features** - Update payment methods - Correct obituary location - More coverage on UNH sports - Improve local town news coverage - More detailed local sporting event coverage ## Newest reviews (14 of 42) ### 4/5 — Great local news *2025-09-20, version 8.5.0* Have enjoyed reading my morning Foster Daily for more than 40 years. How else would I get such in-depth local news? ### 3/5 — Great App *2024-03-07, version 7.6.1* Great app but needs payment methods updated. Tried to update credit card info but unable. Please correct! ### 3/5 — Bill Cormier *2023-12-07, version 7.5.1* The app works fairly well but tends to bring up prior news stories as I click forward. Annoying but not the end of life as we know it!!! ### 2/5 — Never can find what I am looking for *2023-11-23, version 7.3.3* I pay for this site, but can never find the community events or obituaries that are current. It really stinks ### 2/5 — Not user friendly even for subscribers! *2023-11-10* I had fix all the 800# to to get helpwith my online digital subscription ### 3/5 — Not like it used to be. *2023-09-06, version 7.1.2* I understand the plight of the newspaper industry and Fosters is hanging in. Local news is nothing like it was. Would love to see more coverage on UNH, especially FB and basketball. High school sports coverage may have improved somewhat from few years ago. Most local town news is nonexistent. Miss the paper but can’t afford it, getting used to digital somewhat. Bottom line, glad you are still here. ### 3/5 — Not user friendly even for subscribers! *2023-06-22* I had fix all the 800# to to get helpwith my online digital subscription ### 4/5 — Overall easy to navigate *2023-02-15, version 7.0.3* Layout is cumbersome in non Apple products such as Kindle. I am glad I have both options. ### 3/5 — Not user friendly even for subscribers! *2021-12-14, version 6.8.1* I had fix all the 800# to to get helpwith my online digital subscription ### 2/5 — Review *2021-02-07, version 6.3.0* I liked the previous version of the Foster’s “app” much better than this app. It appears that the content isn’t updated as often as the other “app” was. But my biggest problem with this app is that every time I try to look at the obituaries posted for Foster’s I get the Providence Journal which has nothing to do with obituaries in NH. I hope you will be able to fix that. Thank you ### 4/5 — Check almost daily *2021-02-03, version 6.3.0* I like your feed, particularly for local news. The new version of your app is a DRAMATIC improvement over the previous one! ### 2/5 — Link to Obituaries has been wrong *2021-02-01, version 6.3.0* Since the update of this app, the obituaries link to the Providence Journal, not Fosters Daily Democrat. ### 2/5 — Local news is a plus , local obits a minus *2021-01-27, version 6.3.0* The app is great for finding out what is going on locally but unfortunately, the obituaries listed are all from another state ( RI) . It would be helpful to get notices of people from our area ! ### 4/5 — Foster obituaries *2021-01-24, version 6.3.0* If you want to see Rhode Island obituaries this is your place How about letting us see Dover NH obituaries. That’s where Fosters is based out of ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Junk *2025-09-02, version 8.1.0* Junk ### 1/5 — Not user friendly even for subscribers! *2024-12-28, version 7.14.0* I had fix all the 800# to to get helpwith my online digital subscription ### 1/5 — I wish I could give it zero stars *2022-07-29, version 6.12.5* Never works. Never recognizes my subscription and there's no way to get it fixed. ### 1/5 — Disappointed *2021-03-28, version 6.4.0* I don’t look forward to using this app. Same stories day after day. When I follow notifications I receive, they end up not showing up upon launching the app. I’m actually going to cancel my subscription. ### 1/5 — Subscribe if you want to see the info from Providence! *2021-02-17, version 6.3.0* Because you will only see part of the local news and NONE of the local obituaries. I was getting news from Providence and Delaware. So I signed up for their $1 offer for 6 months, 7.99 after that. Guess what? STILL PROVIDENCE! Save YOUR money! ### 1/5 — What??? *2021-02-16, version 6.3.0* Obituaries are from the Providence RI Journal. ??? ### 1/5 — Obits wrong *2021-01-28, version 6.3.0* Obituaries are not local ### 1/5 — Obituaries *2021-01-24, version 6.3.0* Why are my obituaries from another state ### 1/5 — Doesn’t know what town it’s supposed to be *2021-01-24, version 6.3.0* This used to be the local paper for Dover NH, and now they don’t even notice that the Obituary notices are from Providence RI.... ### 1/5 — Can’t get local obits *2021-01-23, version 6.3.0* Ur obits come up as RI ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great reading *2025-08-09, version 8.1.0* Thanks ### 5/5 — Fosters *2021-02-15, version 6.3.0* I love reading this newspaper. It gives me the news of the tri-city area. It keeps me informed of what’s happening in our area ### 5/5 — Love the Fosters! *2021-02-13, version 6.3.0* The Fosters is the best way to know what's going on in our beautiful city! ### 5/5 — Great for local news *2021-02-12, version 6.3.0* Great for local news ### 5/5 — Great local paper for the Seacoast and beyond. *2021-02-10, version 6.3.0* Great paper! ### 5/5 — App has wrong obituaries *2021-01-24, version 6.3.0* App is great and easy to use but the obituaries are for Rhode Island and not sea coast New Hampshire. Doesn’t apply to us and we can’t change locations. ### 5/5 — Great Content / Easy to Use *2018-01-12, version 4.27.850033559* Foster’s app has great content. The only thing I’d like to see more of is more detailed coverage of local sporting events. Otherwise I think the app is easy to use and navigate. ### 5/5 — Fosters *2017-07-26, version 4.24.210030135* I love seeing a news paper go online as an app this is better it's my hometown news ### 5/5 — Fosters *2016-12-12, version 4.21.280024541* This is a great local newspaper,and being out of town a lot with this app I can stay informed , easy to use & no problem's great app ### 5/5 — Great local news app *2016-09-18, version 4.20.140021827* One of my work friends showed me the Fosters website several years ago. I got in the habit of checking it for breaking news. When I saw they had an app, I jumped on the smartphone train. Whoo whoo! --- *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 2026-08-26.*