Santa Cruz Sentinel User Reviews
Customer Experience
~ Based on 54 written reviews from the US App Store.
What users say
Summarized from real user reviews of Santa Cruz Sentinel. Based on 169 reviews and a 4.3/5 average, it highlights the 15 positives and 15 negatives reviewers mention most about this News app.
Positive things
- πEasy to navigate
- π°Great for local news
- π±Accessible anywhere
- πWorks great
- π‘Big improvement with new modes
- πUpdates quickly
- πApp is stable
- πConvenient for morning reading
- π°Replaces paper satisfactorily
- πClear and precise writing
- π³Environmentally friendly
- π―Reliable and intuitive app
- β¨Pictures are bright and clear
- πGood functionality
- π―Love the options of use
Negative things
- πGlitchy and cumbersome
- πFrequently hangs on loading
- πPrint highlighting issues
- πReturn arrow issues
- πE-edition hard to read on phone
- πAds are too many
- πAnnoying daily pop-up
- πBroken cross-linkage
- πLinks to nowhere
- πNews is a bit behind
- πCumbersome and unintuitive
- πDifficult to maneuver
- πLinks do not always work
- πPoorly designed
- πNews timing issues
Is Santa Cruz Sentinel Safe?
Santa Cruz Sentinel appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Santa Cruz Sentinel is 84/100.
This assessment is based on 169 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.3/5.
Safety Analysis
~ Based on 169 App Store ratings for Santa Cruz Sentinel.
Is Santa Cruz Sentinel Legit?
Santa Cruz Sentinel appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Santa Cruz Sentinel is 95/100.
Based on 95 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.
Top reviews
The text to speech option does not work hardly at all. It just reads maybe a word or two and then stops. That makes this app almost worthless to me.
i can not even log in, it says there was a problem. is anybody else having this problem?π±
Works great for print version online
If it isnβt broken, donβt fix it. New app is more cumbersome to use. Worst though is that it frequently hangs up with Loading article message and no way to get out of that except to delete app. Also, I used to be able to highlight a puzzle and send to printer. That function works about 50% of the time. Puzzle wonβt show up on screen and icons on the top highlight sequentially but nothing happens. And if I hit the return arrow to try again, it throws me back to the front page, not the previous page. Have contacted them repeatedly but no response and no resolution.
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Easy to navigate
I resisted for a long time moving from paper to on line app. But now after more than 4 years of use I love it. No more missed papers or searching in the bushes. And my IPad travels with me on vacations around the world. I can also email articles of interest to friends & family.
Unique. Divergent. Troubled. Inspiring. Poetic. Pithy.
The new Read/Swipe modes are a big improvement, and just what Iβd hoped for. Also, the app is much more stable when idle while I do other things. I can now return from another task and pick up where I left off without the long wait, the app crashing and/or needing to navigate back to where Iβd left off. Now I can love the local news AND the app. Way to go, developers! Thanks for hearing user suggestions.
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This app works great and replaces my paper paper very satisfactorily. Really, itβs even better.
We just need rainfall measurements added in! π
The Sentinels e-edition format is very frustrating and difficult to read on my small screen iPhone-though I hate this format for other documents on my desktop computer also. Maybe I am a Luddite-but give me Firefox, Safari or even a PDF instead.
This app is the first thing I open & read every morning for years now. I rather recently learned to swipe, rather than tapping arrows to move to the next page!
Keep up the good work!
I can get my hometown paper anywhere I want!
Iβm really enjoying being able to blow up the print so I can see it better, I also enjoy the reading section when the articles are very large you can click a button and follow along a little bit as itβs read out loud. Pictures are bright and clear, much better than a newspaper. I miss the tradition of going to the curb and getting my newspaper every day and having it laying around to remind me to finish reading it all day!
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I like reading the Sentinel every day even when I travel. This app makes it easy.
Reading my local paper in the format of a newspaper ( though digital) helps me start my morning right. Satisfies my nostalgia for when the morning paper delivered on your porch was a thing. And reading local news is so much better than the horror show on the big news websites.
I often awake in the early morning for a short while. The online Sentinel is there for me to read. It is really convenient to read on my iPad while in bed. I get a good start to the day before falling back asleep. I can quickly scroll through and focus on those articles of interest. I especially like the new format of the app.
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I am so relieved the gross ear wax pop up as is gone! Ad content should be better monitored. The site generally works okay but itβs pretty glitchy. Sometimes articles donβt pop out correctly or donβt continue from the next page.
Love the new format.

