# The Acadiana Advocate — user reviews > 39 indexed App Store user reviews of The Acadiana Advocate by Capital City Press, LLC, rated 4.50/5 from 446 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-acadiana-advocate/id883836893/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-acadiana-advocate/id883836893.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 338 · 4★ 62 · 3★ 19 · 2★ 7 · 1★ 20 ## What do users think of The Acadiana Advocate? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Great local coverage - 👍 Informative and timely news - 👍 Fills an important media gap - 👍 Positive stories and sports coverage - 👍 Easy to navigate - 👍 Fast and smooth app - 👍 Good for older users - 👍 Ability to enlarge print - 👍 App arrives when desired - 👍 Wonderful reporting - 👍 Great improvements **Cons** - 🐛 App is harder to navigate - 🐛 Cannot crop or print selected items - 🐛 Ads are intrusive - 🐛 Video ads are disruptive - 🐛 Cannot access e-edition offline - 🐛 New e-format splits articles - 🐛 Difficulty accessing specific sections **Commonly reported bugs** - Cannot crop or print selected items - Cannot see dates of previous issues on iPhone - Difficulty accessing specific sections - Cannot access e-edition offline due to ads **Most requested features** - Allow cropping and printing of selected items - Improve navigation to specific sections - Enable offline access to e-edition - Fix issue with dates of previous issues on iPhone - Allow adding headlines ## Newest reviews (10 of 39) ### 4/5 — The best Acadiana coverage *2022-03-29* My morning go to reading for area up dates. ### 5/5 — Retired administrator *2022-02-11, version 3.5.16* Great paper with pride! ### 5/5 — Best at getting news *2021-12-18* Simply the best ### 5/5 — John George is The Universe’s Gift to Louisiana *2021-07-15, version 3.2.38* John George and I first met when he ran for Governor. I was managing a campaign for a longtime friend who ran for the state senate in Acadiana. Though I could tell he would come up short in that race, his personality was winning me over. I then ran into his brother in SUCRE, a sweet shop on Magazine in New Orleans. He told stories of the olive harvest in Greece. The George family was interesting. So when John announced he would buy The Morning Advocate and then the Times-Picayune, and then aggressively competed in Acadiana, I knew that we who love local journalism were in for a treat. I was right. THANK YOU, Mr George, for having the confidence and faith to stick with your plan of providing quality local journalism to all of south Louisiana. As a former television news journalist and college teacher of broadcast journalism, I am convinced that the future of producing news video to post on your websites is in your future as well. Thank You, and do not hesitate to call on me if I may ever be of help to you in any way; that would be my pleasure. A grateful subscriber, Joe Paris 311 Marilyn Drive Lafayette, Louisiana 70503 (903) 480-4610 ### 5/5 — Good news *2021-06-09* It’s a great app, I thoroughly enjoy reading here. ### 5/5 — Excellent *2021-04-02* I'm a subscriber. I still enjoy the app to get a quick view of what's been happening. Well done app of the best local daily in the state. ### 5/5 — Excellent Ap *2021-01-17* Easy to navigate and content is great on local, state and national level. ### 5/5 — Acadiana Advocate *2020-11-19, version 3.2.38* Love the sports page with the local teams. ### 5/5 — Great app *2020-11-16, version 3.2.38* Great news and sports information. Very timely. ### 5/5 — Retired *2020-11-14, version 3.2.38* Very good app. Easy to navigate even for an 86 year old retiree ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Lafayette is basically a conservative city *2025-04-24* The Advocate, on the other hand, is very biased against republicans. The paper seems much more interested in political activism against Republicans than it does in simply reporting the news in a fair and impartial manner. ### 1/5 — Advocate app *2025-03-30* Today (Sunday) I received only part of the Advocate. No problem - just get on my computer and print the puzzles. But now I have to use the app. Can’t seem to get anywhere trying to do what I want. The E-Edition was much easier to navigate when it wasn’t the app. Jerry Winston ### 1/5 — Update removed good functions the old version had *2025-01-31* Sorry update! Can no longer crop or print selected items like puzzle or jumble ### 1/5 — I didn't think it could be done *2024-12-23* Congratulations. The developers successfully took a mediocre app and made it much worse. I pay for a subscription and now I have to watch and listen to video game adds to get to my content. Bad, bad!! Also, I can't by default go directly to the e-edition any more. And it is hard to get to the newspaper section I want to see. It used to be easy. Old editions aren't even labeled as to the date. Correct it or I'm out!! Get rid of the ads. ### 2/5 — New format *2023-01-16* I don’t care for the new e-format. I prefer the old one where when you click on an article you see the whole article rather than it being split into two parts ### 3/5 — No offline viewing *2022-02-14* Works great when you are online, but you cannot access the e-edition when offline even after downloading it. It is blocked by the annoying advertisement. ### 4/5 — Thanks for the fixes *2025-01-07, version 4.1.0* Update 1/7/2024 I have upgraded my previous review. The response to many of my issues was fast. The majority of ads were removed and video ads were completely removed. Thank you. I still can't see the dates of previous issues on my iPhone. It is particular to the Lafayette version of the Acadiana advocate since it works for other regional papers. Also, direct access to sections of the paper is still harder than in the previous app because you have to scroll through the little images at the bottom to get to the end - e.g. the comics section. But I'm still happier now that the ad burden has decreased with my paid subscription. Original review: I didn't think it could be done 1 star Congratulations. The developers successfully took a mediocre app and made it much worse. I pay for a subscription and now I have to watch and listen to video game adds to get to my content. Bad, bad!! Also, I can't by default go directly to the e-edition any more. And it is hard to get to the newspaper section I want to see. It used to be easy. Old editions aren't even labeled as to the date. Correct it or I'm out!! Get rid of the ads. ### 4/5 — Love online paper *2023-11-30, version 3.9.09* Lately lost ability to add headlines on Acadiana Advocate. Please fix ### 4/5 — Newspaper Reading *2022-07-26, version 3.6.03* It is very nice to enlarge the print and forward an article ### 4/5 — Oky donkey *2022-04-11, version 3.6.03* Good ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Getting the depth in details *2025-01-23* This journalism is filling a gap in our media by reporting details that can’t be delivered in tweets or other websites. It’s a source for learning the bigger picture and is filling an important need. ### 5/5 — My news source *2024-03-15* I live in New Iberia. The Iberian is published 2 days a week. The Advocate provides coverage for Iberia Parish and all of Acadiana every day and with updates. Thank you! ### 5/5 — My Go-To news source *2023-09-25* Accurate and timely news articles. ### 5/5 — Lynx *2023-09-13* I really enjoy the news on this app for the positive stories they write. If you’re into sports there is plenty of that as well. Thanks for positive stories! ### 5/5 — Great app *2023-06-25* The app is very informative and easy to use. ### 5/5 — Top notch Acadiana paper *2023-05-07, version 3.8.06* One of the best in the state. Great coverage of the Acadiana area. ### 5/5 — My Go-To news source *2023-04-14* Accurate and timely news articles. ### 5/5 — Real news!!! *2023-02-23* No far left or far right political commentary. Ok some in editorials!! It works for me!!! ### 5/5 — Real news!!! *2022-07-07, version 3.6.03* It works for me!!! ### 5/5 — Slick App *2022-03-20, version 3.6.03* App is fast & smooth. Great layout. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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