Observer User Reviews
Customer Experience
~ Based on 69 written reviews from the US App Store.
What users say
Summarized from real user reviews of Observer. Based on 285 reviews and a 4.5/5 average, it highlights the 7 positives and 10 negatives reviewers mention most about this News app.
Positive things
- 📰Good local news coverage and content
- 🚀Fast page loading and performance
- 👍User-friendly interface and layout
- 📱Convenient mobile access to newspaper
- 🎯Well-organized categories and sections
- ✨E-edition format is appealing
- 📍Reliable source for local/regional news
Negative things
- 🐛Frequent app crashes and freezes
- 📺Excessive and intrusive advertisements
- 👁️Small text size difficult for older users
- 📄Pages don't fill screen properly
- 🔄Content not updating regularly
- ❌Poor customer service for cancellations
- 📝Grammatical errors and typos in content
- 💾App consumes excessive memory
- 🎨Confusing layout and navigation
- 🔐Paywall and subscription limitations
Is Observer Safe?
Observer-Dispatch - Utica, NY appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Observer is 89/100.
This assessment is based on 285 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.
Safety Analysis
~ Based on 286 App Store ratings for Observer.
Is Observer Legit?
Observer-Dispatch - Utica, NY appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Observer is 85/100.
Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.
Top reviews
This is a vast improvement over the last app but I really don’t like that the pages don’t fill the screen. The news items are hard to see with old eyes and I usually have to click on each article to see what it’s about. A waste of time, so you can make an improvement with that to be a close to perfect app.
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Set up nice. Pages turn quickly. Wish there was more local news coverage and definitely more local sports. Especially high school sports and college coverage too including golf.
This is a vast improvement over the last app but I really don’t like that the pages don’t fill the screen. The news items are hard to see with old eyes and I usually have to click on each article to see what it’s about. A waste of time, so you can make an improvement with that to be a close to perfect app.
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Use it daily to keep up to date on the local news
This is a vast improvement over the last app but I really don’t like that the pages don’t fill the screen. The news items are hard to see with old eyes and I usually have to click on each article to see what it’s about. A waste of time, so you can make an improvement with that to be a close to perfect app.
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E edition very cool.
FAQs on website indicate NY residents can cancel online. This option is not available on my account, and agent on phone would not accept that I wanted to cancel to the point that the call dropped
This app is a joke, just like your newspaper
The categories is expansive. Technology part is very informative. Sports news is great too. Definitely worth it
What once was a great has now been trashed by owners and sold off bit by bit…..
Great paper and app
I enjoy this app
Many years ago,I lived in. Utica,, went to school there and I think it was a great place to spend my teen years. I really like reading the OD now. How things have changed!
Not comfortable at all with this format on my iPad. Why are the articles more than a few days old? The layout is very confusing, there’s no living section, which I presume is now the Lifestyle section. Why can’t the comics be spread onto one page instead of a list of choices? Plus, no Lockhorns,, our favorite. My real question is, is there an option to go to settings to have the original format of a real newspaper? And, why does my iPhone still show the original format? Even the obits show 98 in the number available?. I don’t want to see a month’s worth when I’m a daily subscriber. I just want to see and read the daily paper. Very dissatisfied so far.
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Paper too expensive on line site does not have same content as newspaper
It’s nice to have the OD on my phone and to have the latest up to date news close at hand.
Love the OD app! Easier than getting all that paper and see the same articles, obituaries, sales, etc
Absolutely terrible! Ads take up half the screen and don’t disappear when you touch the “X” in the corner. They expect you to pay for this content??? No me!
The new format is terrific. It’s much better than the Syracuse paper.
Love the new OD format!
