Santa Cruz Sentinel User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience75.9% of reviews
Neutral9.3% of reviews
Negative experience14.8% of reviews

~ Based on 54 written reviews from the US App Store.

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

84.6% of ratings point to a safe experience
5.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
10.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ 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 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Text to speech option does not work

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.

HELP!

i can not even log in, it says there was a problem. is anybody else having this problem?😱

Mercury App

Works great for print version online

New app is NOT an improvement

If it isn’t broken, don’t 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 won’t 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

Easy to navigate

The on line App is flawless!

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.

A succinct, local mosaic.

Unique. Divergent. Troubled. Inspiring. Poetic. Pithy.

Big Improvement

The new Read/Swipe modes are a big improvement, and just what I’d 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 I’d 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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It works!

This app works great and replaces my paper paper very satisfactorily. Really, it’s even better.

Great app for Sentinel

We just need rainfall measurements added in! 😊

E-edition harder to read on phone than website version

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.

I use it every day!

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!

Courageous coverage of differing views, and great local news

Keep up the good work!

Love it!

I can get my hometown paper anywhere I want!

It’s a great way to read the Sentinel!

I’m 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 it’s 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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Great App

I like reading the Sentinel every day even when I travel. This app makes it easy.

My morning paper

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.

Really convenient

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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No more gross ads

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 it’s pretty glitchy. Sometimes articles don’t pop out correctly or don’t continue from the next page.

SC rating

Love the new format.