PennLive User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience17.4% of reviews
Neutral8.7% of reviews
Negative experience73.9% of reviews

~ Based on 69 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is PennLive Safe?

PennLive appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for PennLive is 90/100.

This assessment is based on 3,184 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.

Safety Analysis

87.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
6.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
6.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 3,185 App Store ratings for PennLive.

Is PennLive Legit?

PennLive appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for PennLive is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Garbage

Covered in ads and requires a subscription for 99% of the articles.

Not friendly app, especially for blind person using screen reader with voiceover

It’s only giving me a short most recent version of stories in all the categories News sports and so forth I can’t find stuff from two or three days ago like I can in most apps. No change by September I will probably cancel thank you.

PA

Too expensive to pay for, not enough original content. Too much borrowed from other news outlets

Poor redesign.

New website application is difficult to navigate and notify the same level of resources.

App freezes constantly

Great new coverage, however, the app freezes after about 10 minutes of being open. Seems like it’s trying to download too many ads when this happens. Very annoying though when you can only read 3 articles before it freezes.

Freeze and Bounce

No one likes an article that bounces around while you’re trying to read it. Worse is when an app freezes while reading a bouncing article, so it needs force closed. Fix yourself.

Click bait app

Poor performing app that is riddled with click bait misroutes for apps. Very, very difficult to use this app without numerous misroutes for sales, apps, & more. I am going to delete the app and just use a browser. Shame on PennLive for shoving blatant and unwanted sales in our faces.

Sad

This is as good as it gets for the HARRISBURG area for news. Old dated news stories show up in various sections. Crashes. Very odd navigation that’s not intuitive. Renewing a subscription is a nightmare. Various pricing in Ap vs Web site. Ap and website don’t interact. Charged multiple times for subscription. Doesn’t keep you logged in. Tap on story in Tweeter (X) and you need to relight in or worse Penn Live asks you to subscribe but goes no no log in option!
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Can’t keep quite

Google adds override and play their sound track even when muted. Some articles have the same add multiple times and as you scroll to read it restarts at each instance. So if you don’t want Google noise you need to turn the volume down to zero. I understand the reason for advertising but let the sound mute mean no sound.
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Poor APP update again!!!

Again the App developers have failed to support older IPhones! Both the regular and football app no longer work on my IPhone 6 with the latest allowed IOS update. I don’t think they realize that not everyone upgrades their phones every couple of years. My IPhone works great except when trying to use the PennLive apps.
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PennLive doesn’t work

After updating my PennLive doesn’t work at all

Opinionated garbage

Penn live is nothing more than liberal Democratic garbage

Bring back the old app

Don’t know why they screwed this app up so. It used to provide local news in a decent manner. Now it’s a hot mess! I’m deleting it!
I’ll have to try elsewhere I guess. Sad.

App Not Working

I enjoy this APP however after the last update the app won’t open on my iPhone. I attempted to reload it and have had no luck even with a digital subscription.

Not great

New app is not an improvement. They removed half the sections, such as ”politics”.

Now Requires a Subscription

I was fine with the excessive ads supporting this app in the past years I’ve been using it, but now they are charging $15/month to read articles. No thanks, definitely not worth it.

Good but

I actually like Pennlive and would give them a five. I just don’t like the idea of having to be continually coerced/bombarded into buying a subscription. They should sell a subscription when you download it.

App keeps asking to subscribe

I have a valid subscription. I can’t view articles because it keeps asking me to subscribe. I have restored purchases and verified I have a subscription and still doesn’t work. Terrible app right now.

It’s a news app

It really doesn’t do anything special. It’s a news app and it works pretty well.

Deleted

I have used this app for many years and they just started charging 15$ a month to look at any articles. I liked the news from here but not willing to pay that so it is now deleted