Straight Arrow | SAN User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience65.6% of reviews
Neutral7.2% of reviews
Negative experience27.3% of reviews

~ Based on 488 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Straight Arrow | SAN Safe?

Straight Arrow | SAN appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Straight Arrow | SAN is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 9,797 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

93.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
2.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 9,797 App Store ratings for Straight Arrow | SAN.

Is Straight Arrow | SAN Legit?

Straight Arrow | SAN appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Straight Arrow | SAN is 88/100.

Based on 88 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Great!

I rather like SAN. The black and orange color scheme looks fantastic and reading articles doesn't feel like a chore. However, there should be more indicators of what is and is not a "premium article".

Paywall?

Now that SAN is pushing membership for all the ‘juicy’ stories, I will find my news elsewhere. I refuse to pay for it

Not user friendly

This app keeps trying to make me pay for another subscription before I can login, after I just paid for a year. Garbage!

Paying for Unbiased News

The world is screwed up and most of what is available is corrupted news sources that are FREE. Straight Arrow News isn’t really free, they want you to pay $12.99 per month or $99.99 per year to hear real, unbiased news. Kind of cynical!

Paywall

This was a good news app until they added the dreaded paywall. Now it’s trash like all the rest.

Turning into a pay per view

I have been using San for a year maybe 2. I liked it allot.
However it always locks out asking you to start a paid membership.
If this continues I’m going to send San down the road.

Pay for news that should be free

I was a really big fan of this app, the features it has, and the valuable information with credible resources to back it up is exactly what people need and deserve. But then they started doing “premium” news articles where you have to pay a subscription to read the articles. While you can still obviously go anywhere else to read the article that’s being monetized, it’s absolutely horrid and disgusting that they would place a dollar value on news that should always be free. Subscriptions are so normalized that most people won’t bat an eye, but you should remember that everyone is entitled to FREE, HONEST, and UNBIASED news without the need for a subscription.
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Response from developer

Thank you for your feedback. We understand the frustration with moving to a premium membership. Even with this change, there are ways to stay connected without paying. Our daily Unbiased Updates show and breaking news continue to be free to access, and you can read additional articles per month at no cost if you register for a free account. We know a subscription isn’t going to be the right fit for everyone, and that’s okay. We hope you’ll still drop in from time to time for the free coverage that’s most useful to you.

Glitches and fees

I really liked SAN initially but now every time I click on an article I am told to join and given options but if I want to back out there is no way. I have to completely shut down the app. A bit frustrating. Not worth it to me.

There can only be one.

or something I’ve never watched Highlander anyways now that I’m out of the hell that was high school I might as well take with me the best discovery I made in AP U.S. Gov, these guys! Startin’ off my uni years right 👍

Heres the facts Jack!

I appreciate reading all sides of a story I’m interested in. Reporting is accurate as other places I explore…..

No pay wall please

Excellent source of current news until you went to a pay format. No longer interested, cancel me.

Unfortunately Unistalling

Unfortunately with the new paid version I can’t see any articles per day. Sad, because this was my favorite news app. You all should really have ads for those who don’t want premium.

Death by Subscription

So you had to go and ruin a very nice news app by going to a subscription model. And you think $13.00 a month is fair to read a news article? See ya! Deleted.

Great unbiased news

Highly recommend

Just went greedy

Forget it, now they want a C note a year for their news.
News generated by an AI.
They protested and said it's not AI. I call bull. Even other AI has determined that it is AI generated.

Now updated and useless!

The recent switch to a subscription model makes this app too much of a pain to use further - deletion is the way forward for it now.

It was good while it lasted…

I used SAN for a while as my primary source of news, even over sources like AP and CNN. However, now that the app is moving over to subscription based content, I can no longer use it easily. Paying for the same news I could get from the Associated Press or Reuters is not an option for me.

That said, I do hope that SAN continues to provide quality news with actual facts and information rather than some slop that certain legacy media outlets do.
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Can’t open any articles anymore

They added a premium tier which is fine but now all three articles I clicked on can’t be opened unless I pay. Really hoping this is a bug with the launch and not the new normal.

Would have given 5 stars

Would have given 5 stars but now they want 13$ a month. Nope. Not to mention their articles are starting to show clear biases in a platform that is supposed to be non biased.

Not worth paying for

Not worth it. They claim it’s free. But Then you to subscribe !