# POLITICO — user reviews > 235 indexed App Store user reviews of POLITICO by POLITICO, LLC, rated 4.70/5 from 49,025 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/politico/id358305912/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/politico/id358305912.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 39,443 · 4★ 6,104 · 3★ 1,400 · 2★ 596 · 1★ 1,482 ## What do users think of POLITICO? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Excellent news coverage - 🔍 Thorough and insightful analysis - 🗞️ Reliable and trustworthy journalism - 📊 Valuable data and metrics **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs - 🔄 Difficulty refreshing content - 📱 Poor app performance and navigation - 🔍 Biased or partisan reporting - 🔍 Lack of objectivity **Commonly reported bugs** - App freezes and crashes - Inability to refresh content - Notifications not working properly - Compatibility issues with newer devices **Most requested features** - Ability to adjust font size - Offline reading mode - Improved article organization and search - More balanced political coverage ## Newest reviews (20 of 235) ### 2/5 — Phishing? *2026-08-20, version 17.3.1* Have subscribed for many months. Suddenly I am required to add name and other personal info. ### 1/5 — Overstep *2026-03-19, version 17.3.1* When we want to read news it shouldn’t have such a verification, you guys act like it secret news. Calm down and get over yourself! ### 1/5 — Egregiously partisan and divisive rhetoric *2026-02-25, version 17.3.1* Pushes increasingly authoritarian, left wing talking points and disinformation at the expense of balance and perspectival diversity. The publication makes no effort to present the different legitimate angles of a given issue, nor does it trust the reader to come to his or her own conclusions; evidently, there is no room for the “demos” in “democratic” here. On the plus side, for anyone seeking a flavour of the corporatist ideology that prevails in today’s mainstream discourse, or of the false consciousness that pervades the so-called globalist cohort, one could do worse than read this bien pensant publication. ### 1/5 — Cannot access *2025-10-19, version 17.2.3* This App is virtually nonfunctional, with the continual bombardment of a pop requiring an email, my employer, and a job description. Really? Why? ### 2/5 — Difficult to read Politoco EU articles from the US *2025-10-01, version 17.2.3* Every time this app redirects me to an article on Politico EU it has to recheck my network connection and then forces me to sign in again. ### 1/5 — Why would you ever use this app? *2025-09-19, version 17.2.1* Every time an article is opened in this app, it wants an email address to read. Use the web based and save the harassment. Politico, this is a baffling decision. ### 1/5 — Update has ruined this *2025-09-08, version 17.2.1* The new update has made login a dystopian experience at best. Navigating is clumsy and UI unintuitive. I kept this on my phone for years because it was a quick way to check the news. Now it’s cumbersome and intrusive making checking the news a kind of information colonoscopy. I’ve deleted the app and will sadly find some other source for news. Once again “progress” has ruined something working perfectly well for the vast majority. Thanks. ### 1/5 — Genocide supporters, propaganda *2025-09-05, version 17.2.1* Zionist support, nothing belongs to America,even this newspaper is running by Zionist ### 1/5 — Paywall *2025-08-03, version 15.1.7* Greedy ### 1/5 — Broken Login *2025-07-17, version 15.1.6* Great news coverage bad code. Web and App Product Manager should be fired or... go back to school. Forgot Password emails don’t arrive (no, it’s not in Junk). Accounts are not synchronized with .eu website. Signup on app (used a different email this time) didn’t prompt for a password. If you are hiring testers, give me a call. ### 1/5 — Norton pop up & scan while reading articles *2025-07-10, version 15.1.6* While reading articles, I suddenly get a pop up and Norton appears to be scanning my phone. Deleted the app. ### 1/5 — Can’t return to main page from articles. *2025-05-16, version 15.1.6* Like title says. Useless! ### 4/5 — Decent interface, don’t know why Politico Europe isn’t directly interfaced *2025-05-08, version 15.1.5* The app is pretty decent, but it is incredibly annoying that Politico Europe is just segmented off from it. I’m guessing it’s something to do with sourcing from Axel Springer, Politico’s parent company, but it’s still annoying. ### 1/5 — ? *2025-05-02, version 15.1.4* Great news source. Was. Thank you for the years of info but I will not register just to read. ### 2/5 — New Format Frustrating *2025-04-29, version 15.1.4* As a long time Politico reader, I’m extremely frustrating at the difficulty navigating the new site. It seems to be requiring me every time to enter my email AGAIN, log back in and click on the link AGAIN, in order to get full access to stories. It very frustrating to have to take 10 mins just to read. I’ve been accessing other sites now for ease of use. ### 1/5 — Demanding personal info to read articles *2025-04-25, version 15.1.4* Every time I try to read an article, even ones they have sent push notifications for, they give you 2 paragraphs and then demand your name, your email, and your job title??? Truly bizarre to think that anyone would give out that kind of information like that. ### 1/5 — Unfortunately, I can’t copy the text to translate it. *2025-04-19, version 15.1.4* Unfortunately, I can’t copy the text to translate it. ### 1/5 — The pop ups are impossible *2025-04-03, version 15.1.4* The pop-ups on this app make it totally impossible to use. I am stuck in a circular loop where I am prompted to create an account… but never am able to make a password … so it cycles back to asking me to create an account. I’m finally at the point of deleting the app entirely. ### 1/5 — DELETED APP *2025-03-23, version 15.1.3* I will not be forced to give up personal information to read your news app. There are others with no strings attached. Good bye Politico! ### 1/5 — Nope *2025-03-23, version 15.1.3* I deleted. You don’t need my email. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Biased news, not worth reading *2026-08-05, version 17.3.1* I used to consume a lot of my news from Politico, but over the last few years they’ve become extremely biased in their reporting. Not a good source of honest news reporting anymore. I’ve written emails to them calling out particular word choices and how they describe situations. After seeing another article today, I’ve given up removed this app. ### 1/5 — Corporate dem pandering bs *2026-07-08, version 17.3.1* Corporate dem pandering bs ### 1/5 — You need my job title and company to create an account? *2026-07-06, version 17.3.1* No way am I giving you this information just to browse news on this app. ### 1/5 — News turned propaganda *2026-07-03, version 17.3.1* What used to be a well respected news outlet decided to shred any semblance of dignity or impartiality and became a mouthpiece for right wing demagogues ### 1/5 — Even the open an account link doesn’t work! *2026-06-30, version 17.3.1* I was seriously considering a switch from NYT to Politico but I can’t even determine the cost of a subscription via the app. It’s incredibly slow and, judging from overwhelming number of one-star category in ‘recent reviews’, is simply shut down. ### 1/5 — Politico is pro-Zionist *2026-06-20, version 17.3.1* I have no respect for news outlets that push Zionist propaganda. ### 1/5 — Turned into a shill for Trumpy politics *2026-05-10, version 17.3.1* Politico used to have great cutting-edge reporting, with depth and insight. Now it’s a lot of propaganda pieces for Trumpy politics. ### 1/5 — Döpnfer ruined this *2026-05-09* People read this outlet because it feels impartial and professional. I guess not anymore. ### 1/5 — Fascist organization forcing employees to back Israel or quit *2026-05-02, version 17.3.1* Yeah we don’t stand with Israel and any organization that forces employees to support the terrorist state of Israel is not worth supporting. Free Palestine ### 1/5 — News stories won’t open *2026-04-09, version 17.3.1* Politico iOS app suddenly stopped opening news stories. I can see the headline, but when I want to read further, it will not open. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Thank you *2025-01-04, version 15.1.2* For being an excellent reporters and analyst of the current events and what goes on behind the scenes Appreciate your work ### 5/5 — Politico *2023-06-17, version 14.0.3* Politico news app is great! ### 5/5 — Finally updated! *2022-10-29, version 14.0.0* The most recent update completely revamped the layout of the app. Excellent work. ### 5/5 — Love the new layout/format!! *2022-10-13, version 14.0.0* So much better. ### 5/5 — Excellent news analysis and beautiful insight. *2022-09-10, version 13.2* Excellent insight ### 5/5 — Another good independent news *2022-09-02, version 13.2* For comparative analytics to derived the truth. ### 5/5 — Politico *2022-08-31, version 13.2* Very good! ### 5/5 — Thorough review of many important issues of the day. *2022-08-03, version 13.2* I’m appreciative of this news source; and look forward to reading more information about the current and future issues of importance in the world. ### 5/5 — Trust *2022-05-15, version 13.2* I don’t trust anyone on tv, only NPR on radio and I always trust Politico because l’ve read it for more than a year and reality matches politicos reporting Recently other media have been quoting Politico to indicate the veracity of what the speaker is about to say , I.e., “According to Politco . . .” It is also easy reading however complicated. Thanks! ### 5/5 — Accurate Political News *2022-03-29, version 13.2* Reading Politico several times daily is an essential to get an accurate assessment of what is actually happening in the Capitol. Trumps news releases are very often useless. Republicans in Washington who could correct misstatements seem to be som afraid of Trump’s tweets to contradict his lack of knowledge of science or efforts to bend facts to his personal world view. Sad. I find Politico to be accurate. Thanks! --- *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 2026-09-03.*