The Citizen, Auburn, NY User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience14.3% of reviews
Neutral21.4% of reviews
Negative experience64.3% of reviews

~ Based on 14 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is The Citizen, Auburn, NY Safe?

The Citizen, Auburn, NY has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for The Citizen, Auburn, NY is 69/100.

This assessment is based on 72 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.4/5.

Safety Analysis

47.9% of ratings point to a safe experience
16.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
35.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 48 App Store ratings for The Citizen, Auburn, NY.

Is The Citizen, Auburn, NY Legit?

The Citizen, Auburn, NY appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for The Citizen, Auburn, NY is 80/100.

Based on 80 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Auburn Legacy News

The Citizen Newspaper had been a long time, reliable source of reported information for Auburn NY and is literally the voice of Auburn. There is no media that equals the representation of our small town! Thank you for your devotion to the “Citizens” of Auburn.

Response from developer

We appreciate the positive review! Thank you for taking the time to let us know you’re enjoying the app.

Reading the Citizen.

It’s frustrating not to see local high school sports on the sports page. EVERY day there is an article regarding The Bills.
I also do not like the reading format. It is not like reading a physical newspaper.

Garbage

This app is garbage. Unreliable and constantly freezes up. Not to mention the price for lazy stories.

Response from developer

I’m sorry that you aren’t satisfied with our app. I would love to help resolve any issue you are having. Please email me at csc-digital-escalations@lee.net and we can troubleshoot the issue.

25$ a month??

Please tell me that’s a joke. NYTimes isn’t even that much… not worth it at all shouldn’t even have to pay anything for it.

I Deleted the App 12/9/2021

I deleted this app. We now have to make an account to view. Why? I am done with user names and passwords! I deleted the app.

No good any more

The updates have ruined what was once a nice app. I’ve simply deleted the app and moved on because it doesn’t work anymore. I wonder if the advertisers are aware of this?

Junk

The app totally is worthless. Any time I want to read an article I get: Your request cannot be processed at this time. No content available. Has not been working for a while now. Uninstalled and will use the web based option.

Ads bring this down

Opening a written news article and then being forced to watch an ad before reading said article is ridiculous. It’s not like other news apps that shows ad before a video which is fine.

Generally awful

This app constantly opens ads in safari, and it also opens the App Store trying to get you to download garbage. It only shows 10 or so recent news stories. It won't let me comment on any articles- some kind of error. App is borderline unusable.

Update: 10 months later and the app still constantly opens the App Store, but now it has pop ups too. Lee Enterprises are you paying attention? This app is pathetic.
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Needs Work

This app has been taken over by ads. It's hard to even read the stories without being diverted to either the web browser of app store. Please fix!!!

Ads

I really enjoyed this app until recently, when you people started having ads that popped in randomly in the middle of reading an article. When you close or back out of the ad, it immediately opens it again and you have to go through the process at least once more. Utter crap.

Auburn Citizen

Obituary section does not work. Also needs to follow model of other news apps and divide content by local, state, national, etc.

Ehh

Works most of the time... But 3 times it has completely stopped working and I've had to delete it and reinstall it.. Thats crap

Good news app, But not the best

I would say that this is a decent app for looking at news (especially local Auburn news), but it's not the best. Could have improvements. Needs more visually appealing aspects added.