Ottawa Citizen ePaper User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience45.1% of reviews
Neutral7.8% of reviews
Negative experience47.1% of reviews

~ Based on 51 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Ottawa Citizen ePaper Safe?

Ottawa Citizen ePaper appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Ottawa Citizen ePaper is 89/100.

This assessment is based on 62 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

96.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
0.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 62 App Store ratings for Ottawa Citizen ePaper.

Is Ottawa Citizen ePaper Legit?

Ottawa Citizen ePaper appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Ottawa Citizen ePaper is 80/100.

Based on 80 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Informative

Enjoy having my coffee and learning about the world. I especially like feel good local news

Subscription canceled

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Mediocre Quality

Going downhill relying on National Post articles, often a day old, and most annoyingly day old filler material from USA sources. If not for it being only print source for local news would not bother to buy. It is being used as a cash cow for money losing National Post.
Can’t believe that Monday’s paper is cancelled.
Can’t believe that you don’t report on the previous night’s Sens game even when it ends at 9:30 pm.
Poor value and dropping
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App crashes

This app consistently crashes 3 to 5 times when reading the paper. Tech Support typically blames it on the iOS. But when the iOS is updated Tech Support has no answers why it continues to crash. Very frustrating

Crashes a lot

The app can crash >5 times reading one day’s paper

Poor Service

There have been a number of times in this past months that the ePaper was not available or would not download. There was a stretch of 5 days in a row. Not dependable and disappointing service?

Ottawa Citizen ePaper

It’s been 5 days and no paper, heard nothing from the Ottawa Citizen

Battery Hog

The app works great except for the fact it eats up battery power at a fast rate.

My Morning Go To

It is how I start my mornings, on the bus when I worked and now in retirement with my morning coffee. Your writing team are accomplished and have interesting perspectives. I have been a subscriber for over 25 years, thank you all for what you do!

Great resource for travel

Having the Citizen on line is a very enjoyable feature of the newspaper. Having it on my phone is easy to use in cars and planes. Also going to my cottage I can enjoy the paper without having it physically with me.

Puzzles

I enjoy doing the daily KenKen, Sudoku and Jumble Words on my Ottawa Citizen paper copy. It would be great if those puzzles and others could be done online. Puzzles such as the daily Crossword and Sudoku, at 3 different levels, can be done online in other newspapers, for example La Presse.
DiHearts
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Review

After all these past 50 years I’ve decided that the Ottawa Citizen is fully unable to just report the news. The added spin is unwelcome, unnecessary and unprofessional.
A third rate tomb at best; sadly no longer required in physical newsprint format as my budgie bird died.

The “Tory Citizen”

I have been an Ottawa Citizen reader for many years, but am becoming more and more disenchanted with it, as it has increasingly become a solely Conservative party venue. Both views should be given if It purports to represent the people of Ottawa. If not, as another reader already said, it should change its name to the “Tory Citizen”.
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Ottawa Citizen e-Paper

Hello One little thing I would like, is to read The Obituaries first, before heading off to work.. I prefer not to open the entire paper.. Sincerely Robb Rowe Kanata Hello, My request completed, Thank-You very much.. We really enjoy the e-paper, saving our land fills sites... Congrats to Postmedia for listening... Sincerely R. Rowe Kanata
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Good Paper - Bad App

I have read this paper for years, most on the ePaper. I had to get a subscription through the National Post ePaper as the Citizen did not work. This was fine for a few years. About a month ago the National Post ePaper access stopped working. I managed to get a subscription to the Citizen ePaper to work from Oct 9 to today. Now the Citizen says my subscription has expired and it will not even let me pay for an issue, but Apple says my subscription is good until Dec 9. Interestingly, I just downloaded and installed the latest Apple update and now Citizen ePaper does not work. COME ON TECH GUYSat Citizen do your job.
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Frozen screen

Unable to read the citizen on my iPad. A month ago I called and explained this problem. From your end the problem was resolved for one week. I could read the e-paper on my iPad. Then again the frozen screen problem started.
I am considering to cancel my subscription.
Thank you.
Urmil Bhatia

It's a good news summary source.

It's reliable and inexpensive.

Ottawa Citizen

I love reading the newspaper. It is the start of my day (with a coffee). I miss Sunday’s paper but understand you guys need a day off.
Thank you,
Sandy

Terrible App

Unable to read the dam paper that I am paying for. I am constantly getting an error message stating “Service Error” “There seems to be a problem connecting online services”. Why pay for something you actually don’t receive. Recommend avoiding the electronic version of the paper if you actually want to read it.
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Great to get local news from trusted reporters

I like the Citizen on the tablet. International and local news from reporters that are working to give a balanced view. I'm willing to pay for news from trusted sources. The paper on the tablet is even better than a paper version too. I can enlarge the type and pretend I don't need glasses! No wasted paper either as I don't like cutting down trees just for a paper I read once. I want my local paper to survive, and this format works great for me.
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