# Manchester Evening News — user reviews > 166 indexed App Store user reviews of Manchester Evening News by Trinity Mirror Digital Media Limited, rated 4.60/5 from 241 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/manchester-evening-news/id334456452/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/manchester-evening-news/id334456452.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 195 · 4★ 26 · 3★ 9 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 10 ## What do users think of Manchester Evening News? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🤩 Top quality news reporting - 🌐 Keeps ex-pats up to date on local news - ⚽ Great source for Manchester United and Manchester City news **Cons** - 🤢 Filled with irrelevant ads and clickbait - 🔒 Privacy concerns with excessive data collection - 🐌 Slow performance and frequent crashes - 💰 Paywall limits access to content - 📰 Outdated and repetitive news stories **Commonly reported bugs** - Videos and interactive content not loading properly - Saved preferences not persisting between sessions - Notification links not working as expected **Most requested features** - Customizable news feed - Improved navigation and article organization - Offline reading mode - Ability to disable ads and data collection ## Newest reviews (20 of 166) ### 2/5 — Not good *2026-03-13, version 26.3.6* Slow, cumbersome website with too much going on which slows it down and thought through of the layout is awful. ### 1/5 — Subscription *2026-02-13, version 26.1.2* Just deleted this app due to them trying to force me to subscribe ### 1/5 — Used to be good, now one to avoid! *2026-02-06, version 26.1.2* When the News was free, you could put up with all the adverts, data acquisition via cookies, racist comments and frankly poor writing (spelling mistakes and weak journalism). Now they insist on charging £5 per month, it’s really not worth it. You get 10 articles ‘free’ per week but really it’s a waste of time. If you want to pay for news, this is not the place. ### 1/5 — Poor app *2026-01-24, version 9.5.14* Poor update. Articles don’t load asks to refresh but nothing happens. ### 1/5 — Useless unless you pay! *2026-01-09, version 9.5.12* Can’t even use for free anymore as you’re limited to something like 10 reads. Just put ads on & let us read for free again! ### 2/5 — Premium *2026-01-04, version 9.5.12* Will have to delete app, unfortunately unless I pay there’s not much news I can read! ### 1/5 — Not free *2025-12-19, version 9.5.12* You have to pay if you want to read full articles most is just rubbish copied from elsewhere ### 1/5 — No longer a useful app *2025-12-12, version 9.5.12* It was never brilliant as it repeated the same story time and again on the same page with different headlines. Now, even less useful as they think people will pay a premium for the same repetitive nonsense. ### 4/5 — Disappointed *2025-12-11, version 9.5.12* Disappointed that now have to subscribe to read all news articles. It was better when there was free access ### 1/5 — Money for nothing *2025-12-10, version 9.5.12* Had the MEN app for a while now everything is on premium and want £4.99 a month, total waste of money if it doesn’t change I’ll delete the app ### 1/5 — Poor reporting, no proof reading and now we have to pay to browse more than two articles. *2025-11-22, version 9.5.8* Before Reach took over Manchester had an excellent local newspaper worthy of the city. Now we have this mess. Impossible to read on the website as the ads crash safari, and now the previously free app charges for browsing more than two stories. Rest in peace MEN. ### 1/5 — Me *2025-11-21, version 9.5.8* Now made it chargeable to read the news. Uninstalling ### 1/5 — Hiding behind a paywall *2025-11-21, version 9.5.8* Deleting now as Reach have added a paywall. Ok for free local news but not paying for the substandard, error filled content, much of which is nothing more than advertising! Bye ### 1/5 — Just a cookie collector app *2025-08-12, version 9.5.6* It's taken me 25 minutes to object to all the hundreds of cookies on this app. I'd got so far that it wasn't worth giving up. Why don't they just have an Object to All button? Because they want to sell your data. ### 1/5 — City links *2025-07-31, version 9.5.5* Why do the app operators keep putting Man United links on the City page? Does my head in and makes me switch off. ### 1/5 — Men *2025-07-21, version 9.5.5* Please stop articles skipping to bottom of page half way through reading them ### 2/5 — Great app if it wasn’t just crime and accident notifications all day *2025-06-14, version 9.5.4* Moving to Manchester. Really wanted to support a local news app. However I’m so close to deleting it. Constantly getting crime and accident notifications and nothing else. Customise them please! ### 1/5 — Not the Greatest *2025-05-27, version 9.5.1* Poor app. Quite unstable. Pages often freezing or going down. Virtually impossible to to leave a reader’s comment without getting the obligatory “failed to send”. response. Don’t bother. ### 1/5 — Worst newspaper app ever *2025-05-01, version 9.5.1* Terrible app, stories are days and weeks old. It unbelievable how bad this app is. Very rarely can you see the stories you want to see. I’d give it a zero mark if you could. ### 3/5 — Typos *2025-01-20, version 9.4.1* Far too many typos. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Dodgy 5* *2026-06-25, version 26.6.10* How can this app have almost 5*’s when almost every recent review is 1* Somebody been buying reviews 🤔 ### 1/5 — Moons *2026-06-22, version 26.6.10* Don’t bother they are so focused on charging £4.99 a month , literally no stories available to read - just about to delete the App - absolutely pointless ### 1/5 — Poor reporting *2026-05-22, version 26.4.8* The M.E.N need to get there facts right before printing articles! The amount of poor reporting and lies are laughable, yet people still read it. ### 1/5 — Another one who’s deleting *2026-04-09, version 26.3.7* Used to be a decent app this , had its for as long as I’ve had a iPhone nearly 20 years , but now it gone , 7 articles a week and they want you to pay for it , don’t think soo , ### 1/5 — Terrible *2026-04-01, version 26.3.7* Breath or waft over an advert it’s logging straight on. Limited reads and pay for stories. Getting deleted. ### 1/5 — Only 10 ‘free’ articles a week!! *2026-03-04, version 26.2.5* Articles riddled with spelling mistakes and poor lazy journalism, yet they expect you to pay a subscription if you click on more than 10 articles a week. ### 1/5 — Premium. Premium. Premium that’s all I see now. Deleted *2026-03-04, version 26.2.5* All I see now is Premium enough is enough Deleted. ### 1/5 — App is a scam *2026-03-03, version 26.2.5* The app is soon to be uninstalled. More and more premium content . I certainly won’t be paying for premium trash on this site . What has happened to the MEN it’s gone right downhill . Shame on you MEN . Goodbye forever ### 1/5 — Worst App in the App Store *2026-02-24, version 26.2.5* Terrible app, stories are days and weeks old. Stories are covered in irrelevant adverts. Limited to 10 stories per week. I’d give it a mark of Zero if I could ### 1/5 — Ripoff *2026-02-23, version 26.2.5* Charging for something that’s free on the website, MEN SHOULD BE ASHAMED ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Terrible *2023-10-08, version 9.0.6* And now charging ### 5/5 — Top quality news *2021-11-03* Men always first with latest news it real quality reporting gives you everything thing as it happens wouldn’t want to read any other paper on line or in print a big thank you to every one working for men from main editors to trainee reporting keep on with the best reporting 👍 ### 5/5 — Very slow *2019-10-08* I find this app very slow to update to the latest news . Also the reporters are more interested in where people live ie upmarket...... so much for their houses !!!! Who cares just write the news as it happens .... I’ll probably go back to just buying the paper for the crosswords . ### 5/5 — Easy to use *2019-06-10* Great lay out, easy to use ### 5/5 — Excellent App for Man U news and opinions. *2019-05-14* My go to place to get player ratings, gossip and other Man U news. ### 5/5 — Great App! *2019-04-16* Remind me of the days when I lived in Manchester! ### 5/5 — Great App *2019-01-16* Wonderful app ... always refreshing news about my favorite sport and especially about my favorite team Man United. Keep it up ### 5/5 — Top shelf *2018-10-05* My first source for news on Manchester United from here in the United States. ### 5/5 — Man U Transfers *2018-07-12* Too much speculation and not enough facts regarding transfers. ### 5/5 — Nobody’s Perfect *2018-07-11* Granted there is the odd typo here and there , but the message is not lost and generally very informative and whilst rushing to meet a deadline errors inevitably occur. The old adage of “more haste less speed” generally applies but we are mortal and foul up from time to time. To err is human, but to truly foul things up you need a computer!!!!!😎 --- *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 2026-09-13.*