The Boston Globe User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience39.0% of reviews
Neutral14.3% of reviews
Negative experience46.7% of reviews

~ Based on 210 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is The Boston Globe Safe?

The Boston Globe appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for The Boston Globe is 92/100.

This assessment is based on 41,715 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

91.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
5.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 41,715 App Store ratings for The Boston Globe.

Is The Boston Globe Legit?

The Boston Globe appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for The Boston Globe is 100/100.

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

Top reviews

Bad UX / IT support

Good luck trying to send an article to someone from the app. They get a dead links

Doesn’t work

Yes, I’m logged in, yes I have an active subscription, yes I can read everything on the website. I can’t read certain articles in the app, the entire weather section is greyed out.

Still clunky

Compared to other newspaper apps this is clunky, hard to search for articles, and not intuitive.

Can’t access stories

I’ve been paying my subscription (expensive), but I’m can’t access stories. This app is terrible. Next week I’m cancelling.

Leftist Bias

The excessive leftist bias of the Globe is generally harmful to our citizens and approaching the intolerable level.

Constant struggle to login

Love the journalism, hate the login process. Click on a globe link from outside the app and prepare for frustration. The globe never can recall your login information, something all my other paid news apps do.

The Boston Globe

The Globe App vs. E-Paper

Bucket list trip

Back to visit Beantown after 60 years. Still love the town AND the Globe.
Keep up the good work.

doesn’t work

Your $1 for six months subscription doesn’t work. Signed up on May 10, now can’t get in.

Format

I liked the old format much better. It was easier to get around the paper!

Boston Globe

Very well done publication

App doesn’t authenticate

Title says it all

No longer journalism

Sadly this has become too biased to regularly read.

No Thought to UX

It refreshes and exits articles if you put the phone down for a second.

Tons of articles just load the web version that then pops up a subscription pop up that you need to manually log in every time.

Online

I love reading the Globe online and in the daily newspaper. Having both options is awesome. Such a great newspaper.

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website is tgerrible

Worst

Boston Globe digital version is by far the worst digital newspaper I know of. I subscribe to NYT, WSJ, FT, Wash Post, Japan Times, Nikkei, New York Post and The economist. Hands down the globe is the clunkiest, bugiest digital newspaper source out there. Why?? There are so many good role models. Please fix this or I will have to leave.
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Games no longer work

The games no longer work after the latest update. I’ve given it months to see if they would resolve this and sadly they have not. Doing the crossword was my peace each evening. Very unfortunate.

Terrible app experience

I’m consistently unable to get into article articles and the customer service associated with this is awful. I’ve called and they were so rude and unwilling to refund the charges. I didn’t even know we’re being charged to me. Don’t download this app.

Can only log on or see on phone not on PC

Even though I am a paid subscriber I cannot read articles on a PC as I get challenged to log in. However clicking the log in icon produces no response. This is a chronic problem that was temporarily resolved by Support I can access the paper on the phone however.